Zombi Child (2019)
85%
“Haiti's rich history of revolution and rebirth is still in want of filmmakers willing to take it seriously. But at least this one returns the undead to their roots, before they themselves were colonized.” –
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Jan 23, 2020
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Just Mercy (2019)
85%
“With all this weighted context, the fact that Just Mercy works is a pleasant surprise.” –
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Dec 28, 2019
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Uncut Gems (2019)
91%
“It's the right movie for the right person at the right time, a thing of strange beauty forged under a mountain of heat, pressure, and irritation.” –
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Dec 12, 2019
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
97%
“It's a relic out of time, creating a lush, erotic world out of glances and small movements; yet it's also very much of our time.” –
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Dec 5, 2019
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Last Christmas (2019)
46%
“Feig gets too lost in the messy material to put his usual irreverent spin on it, and there's a big, silly twist in the middle of this thing that doesn't really work, but none of it can harsh the rest of the movie's good-natured vibe.” –
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Nov 7, 2019
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American Son (2019)
48%
“The next time Netflix goes sniffing around Broadway, it should bring back something with brains to match heart.” –
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Oct 31, 2019
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By the Grace of God (2018)
96%
“The immediacy of the story (the film was shot, with the permission of survivors, even before the verdicts could be delivered) gives it tremendous power. Imagine if All The President's Men came out before Nixon's resignation.” –
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Oct 17, 2019
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Jexi (2019)
23%
“The stranded DeVine, for all his goofy charms as an actor, quickly exhausts our patience; he's in nearly every frame of this movie, and his screen partner is a phone, which means a hell of a lot of mugging for the camera.” –
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Oct 14, 2019
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The Death of Dick Long (2019)
75%
“Dick Long often doesn't seem to know what it's doing from scene to scene, and it's hard to say if that's by design.” –
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Sep 26, 2019
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Hustlers (2019)
88%
“It's an astute commentary on the money moves we all need to make to survive.” –
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Sep 13, 2019
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Official Secrets (2019)
82%
“As the Iraq War recedes into our rear-view mirror and our current news cycle spins blindly from one world crisis to another, films like Official Secrets, bland as they may seem, will serve as crucial efforts to keep our past mistakes in our minds.” –
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Aug 29, 2019
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Give Me Liberty (2019)
89%
“There are precious few victories to be found in Give Me Liberty, and yet the film feels victorious all the same.” –
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Aug 22, 2019
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
78%
“Above all, the film celebrates storytelling as both a healing and a harming force, a way for us to put a face on something as unknowable as death.” –
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Aug 8, 2019
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The Nightingale (2018)
87%
“Yes, the film is grim, but it builds a space where that darkness can serve a purpose.” –
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Aug 1, 2019
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The Mountain (2018)
63%
“You can sense Alverson barely containing his laughter from behind the camera.” –
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Jul 26, 2019
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Ray & Liz (2018)
94%
“We often say art "cuts close to the bone," but in its depiction of clinking liquor bottles and drawers of unopened rent notices soaked in dog urine, Ray & Liz slices clean through that bone.” –
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Jul 12, 2019
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
97%
“A fitting tribute, breaking up heady discussion of Morrison's major works with jazzy digressions about her family's Great Migration journey from the South to her cherished multiethnic suburb of Lorain, Ohio.” –
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Jun 20, 2019
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The Dead Don't Die (2019)
54%
“[A]s The Dead Don't Die smirks through its ironic corpse pile-up, dispatching a parade of beloved actors like rancid meat and playing the same original Sturgill Simpson tune on loop, it's hard not to wonder if the joke is on us for watching it.” –
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Jun 13, 2019
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Ma (2019)
55%
“Ma is not an especially well-made movie: It suffers from poor pacing, overly broad comedy, some truly ugly camerawork, and an empty script.” –
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May 30, 2019
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)
84%
“Passon makes the creepy stuff too low-key, less a case of building dread than growing impatience.” –
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May 16, 2019
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Wine Country (2019)
66%
“Wine Country is basically Poehler's version of Adam Sandler's Netflix-funded vacations, but with some introspect in place of Sandler's crass gags.” –
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May 9, 2019
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
54%
“Bundy is really a shrewd role for Efron... It takes a guy like him, a former teen idol who hasn't totally shed his boyish qualities, to embody the kind of peculiar hold Bundy had on his partners.” –
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May 2, 2019
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J.T. LeRoy (2018)
55%
“The new film smartly illuminates what's been missing from other accounts: Why someone like Knoop would agree to, and even enjoy, taking part in someone else's hoax.” –
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Apr 26, 2019
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High Life (2018)
83%
“High Life is strange and wondrous, less a traditional sci-fi film than it is a seductive journey into the long, black night of death.” –
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Apr 4, 2019
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Out of Blue (2018)
37%
“It's bold and occasionally maddening, but there's not much other genre fare like it right now.” –
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Mar 21, 2019
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