Yesterday (2019)
63%
2/4
“It's perfectly charming...until Jack gets an easy out featuring a seismically reductive and wrongheaded surprise appearance that will polarize viewers. After this, Yesterday falls back on its more standard romantic subplot.” –
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Jun 28, 2019
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Late Night (2019)
80%
3/5
“Accepting (and excepting) one dumb contrivance, it's funny and perceptive, embracing unique points of view from Molly and Katherine, which mines lots of fertile ground for hard truths and big laughs” –
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Jun 7, 2019
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John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum (2019)
89%
2/4
“A total contradiction. It sets a new bar for action in the moment, but suffers cumulatively for it. As its universe grows larger, it gets less compelling, and the screenplay creates all kinds of problems for Wick that it can't satisfactorily resolve.” –
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May 16, 2019
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Her Smell (2018)
83%
3/4
“One strength, besides nailing the vibe of the '90s alternative rock boom, is that it doesn't try to replicate the rock biopic formula. Rather, it presents five defining scenes in Becky's life, played out in virtual real-time.” –
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May 9, 2019
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Stockholm (2018)
70%
2.5/4
“Few actors do quiet desperation quite as effectively as Hawke, and his performance anchors the movie in that feeling, making it an entertaining flick that works on a couple different levels, even if there's not a big, overarching theme.” –
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Apr 26, 2019
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)
94%
4/5
“Affirmation of Marvel's storytelling strategy of connecting films in a shared universe, but maybe more significantly, it's proof that the franchise's consistent release schedule gives the viewer better short-term recall and deeper emotional investment.” –
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Apr 24, 2019
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
66%
3/5
“It begs us to let go. And when you do, you realize that Gilliam's vision coalesces more as the movie progresses. Filmmakers are dreamers, after all, and reality sucks, so who wouldn't want to be caught up in delusions of grandeur every now and then?” –
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Apr 19, 2019
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High Life (2018)
83%
3.5/4
“Denis is a confident, assured storyteller who specializes in provocative cinema. It asks its audience for a constant renegotiation with adult-themed material, and it rewards with near-constant engagement with its themes.” –
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Apr 19, 2019
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Detour (1945)
98%
4/5
“Ulmer brings an enormous amount of impressionistic creativity and (what are now considered) infamous noir tropes into the project without spending more money.” –
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Apr 5, 2019
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The Hummingbird Project (2018)
57%
2.5/4
“An interesting enough, if predictable, rumination on the state of the American dream. High-frequency trading isn't something everybody can relate to, but the idea of living up to a potential that's weaved into the fabric of your country's myth is.” –
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Mar 29, 2019
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The Dirt (2019)
38%
1/4
“The authentic, rule-breaking storytelling strategy would have been to portray Mötley Crüe as the children they were, instead of some teenage wish-fulfillment fantasy that retro-cons their history and sugarcoats their bad deeds.” –
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Mar 25, 2019
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Us (2019)
93%
4/5
“As you might expect with a horror film about dopplegangers: the terror lies within, we are our own worst enemies, etc. But Peele's allegory goes beyond that into a fable about crippling self-doubt and class struggles.” –
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Mar 21, 2019
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Climax (2018)
69%
3.5/4
“It is a powerful and unique experience that showcases all the external beauty, wonder, and hope that new opportunity can bring, and how those concepts are always just one thin wire away from chaos and madness.” –
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Mar 8, 2019
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Capernaum (2018)
90%
4/5
“Capernaum illustrates not just an indifferent world, but a hypocritical one as well. And it answers over and over again the question of why forgotten people are so rarely able to play by society's rules.” –
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Feb 15, 2019
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Donnybrook (2018)
39%
3/5
“The best movies walk the line between having something compelling to say and just being exploitative. It swerves maniacally between those lines like a tweaker on a three-day bender, convinced that its characters have no other choice.” –
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Feb 15, 2019
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Piercing (2018)
71%
3/5
“It's like an unholy melding of giallo horror with disturbing mondo literary adaptations by David Cronenberg, such as Naked Lunch and Crash.” –
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Jan 31, 2019
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Glass (2019)
37%
1/4
“The bigger his thematic ambition, the more Shyamalan seems to lose control. If Sarah Paulson's Dr. Staple is looking for a character with delusions of grandeur in this film, she might not have to look further than the director himself.” –
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Jan 17, 2019
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Bird Box (2018)
64%
1/4
“With unintentionally funny scenes featuring its characters hurtling themselves head-first through windows to commit suicide, Bird Box sadly has more in common with the M. Night Shyamalan disasterpiece The Happening than anything else.” –
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Dec 28, 2018
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Private Life (2018)
94%
4/5
“It understands that the struggle for fertility can make monsters of anyone, and it doesn't judge its characters. It doesn't let them off the hook either, and it avoids offering easy outs. In other words, it feels about as real as movies get.” –
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Nov 21, 2018
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22 July (2018)
80%
3/4
“Anchored by powerful, honest performances by Danielsen and Gravli, who play two people at opposite ends of a rifle, 22 July is a powerful reminder that democracies are fragile and must be protected with scrutiny and resolve, not bullets.” –
The Pitch
Nov 21, 2018
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
60%
1/4
“...a surface-level extended music video that has zero interest in honestly examining its characters' inner lives, distorts timelines for cheap dramatic shortcuts, and exists to prop up a new soundtrack featuring unearthed live material.” –
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Nov 15, 2018
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Widows (2018)
91%
3/4
“Because it spends more time with husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons - families who deal with injustice as a calibrated normal - it rings truer than its contemporaries.” –
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Nov 15, 2018
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Suspiria (2018)
65%
3.5/5
“However lopsided Suspiria is, it builds to a satisfyingly nutso conclusion with lots of righteous fury. And it sticks with you, demanding you reckon with its themes at least one more time.” –
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Nov 15, 2018
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Halloween (2018)
79%
3/5
“It evokes the original and takes into consideration how audiences have changed since then, which is a minor miracle, I suppose, and it is light years better than the nine films in between.” –
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Oct 18, 2018
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First Man (2018)
87%
4/5
“It ejects typical mythologizing to remind us that this extraordinary millennial-defining moment happened to an individual, a person just like you and me.” –
Scene-Stealers.com
Oct 11, 2018
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