Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This? (2025)
“Maher’s latest comes off as if such basics of the craft are beneath him, that lecturing instead of entertaining is sufficient. “Is Anyone Else Seeing This?” is foremost an exhibition of a man who considers himself to be above it all and above us all.” –
Salon.com
Jan 14, 2025
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Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall (2024)
“Her stance is heartening to anyone who’s exhausted with hacky, hateful bits failing to masquerade as edgy, transgressive ticklishness.” –
Salon.com
Jan 8, 2025
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Martha (2024)
89%
“Taking in “Martha” is as soothing as thumbing through the glossy pages of Living, with its parade of touched-up artfully arranged photographs interspersed with archival footage and illustrations serving as tasteful alternatives to reenactments.” –
Salon.com
Oct 30, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024)
80%
“Imperfect though "Romulus" may be, it’s also a solid entry in a slate of films whose original maker has taken the extended story seriously enough to petrify it. Álvarez returns us to the simple sweatiness and anxiety that made "Alien" magnificent” –
Salon.com
Aug 16, 2024
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The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024)
100%
“Compared with Reed’s previous work, which includes “Leaving Neverland” and “Four Hours at the Capitol,” “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” is more sharply targeted and careful not to entirely rely on the audience’s empathy. ” –
Salon.com
Mar 27, 2024
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Origin (2023)
81%
“In her fictionalized approach DuVernay exerts a level of craft, care and personalization that achieves something the most thoughtful and thorough non-fiction filmmaking approaches struggle to. ” –
Salon.com
Jan 26, 2024
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Superpower (2023)
47%
“Superpower may not alter that course or the downward trajectory of Ukraine's polling numbers with the public, but it might not have to. Penn has proven he has a way of getting in front of the people he needs to hear from or to be heard.” –
Salon.com
Sep 19, 2023
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Sound of Freedom (2023)
57%
“As for the losers, start with everyone who gave their money and two hours and 15 minutes of their life to a story that is at best embellished and, whether intentionally or by coincidence, profiting off conspiracy-fueled mass hysteria. ” –
Salon.com
Jul 24, 2023
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
91%
“Honor Among Thieves is about as complicated as a low-level campaign, but its immersive joy capitalizes on that simplicity, making the story vibrate with true affection for the game and its fandom.” –
Salon.com
Mar 31, 2023
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Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023)
46%
“Netflix sold the show as if it were steak when, at best, we were only ever going to get a McDonald's hamburger. Now, is that an acceptable, solid substitution for the best version of his work? ” –
Salon.com
Mar 7, 2023
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Your Place or Mine (2023)
30%
“Your Place or Mine is... fine. It does not ruin a great American rock band's catalog. But doesn't make the viewer feel much of anything, which is antithetical to the rom-com.” –
Salon.com
Feb 13, 2023
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You People (2023)
39%
“Now, there are enough thoughtful screen examinations of racial politics along with normalized visions of inclusive casting to make "You People" stand out as a gormless throwback.” –
Salon.com
Feb 4, 2023
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A Christmas… Present (2022)
“Even by retrograde Hallmark holiday movie standards, it's a blizzard of poor writing and empty schmaltz devoid of propulsive tension or profound resolution, but with 500 percent more scripture references.” –
Salon.com
Nov 28, 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
84%
“Wakanda Forever may not be the perfect Marvel movie, but [it] prove its worthiness as a bridge – not merely between Phase 4 and Phase 5... but from the bleakness of loss to a stable place from which a new generation can move forward. ” –
Salon.com
Nov 17, 2022
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
84%
“The reality of a rock star's story is often more sobering than the fantasy built around them. Whether that's true of Yankovic may be revealed in another work. He's in control of this one, and we'll happily laugh along.” –
Salon.com
Nov 4, 2022
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A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (2021)
100%
“The main takeaway from A Tree of Life is the awe-inspiring resilience of the people who lived through the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.” –
Salon.com
Oct 26, 2022
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The Woman King (2022)
94%
“If you're someone who loves action movies that use "true events" as an entry to a deeper narrative about surviving trauma, defying misogyny and overcoming personal torment in the face, along with all the ass-kicking, then The Woman King is a masterpiece.” –
Salon.com
Sep 26, 2022
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Nope (2022)
83%
“Hunting for hidden meaning within the story and the pictures deepens the complexity of our relationship with the movie, but that's also a distraction from the simple enjoyment of its popcorn flick simplicity.” –
Salon.com
Aug 1, 2022
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The Janes (2022)
100%
“Directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes permeate "The Janes" with unforced wry humor that adds a triumphant glow to a story that other filmmakers may have presented as a grim struggle. ” –
Salon.com
Jun 10, 2022
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RRR (2022)
96%
“All that's required is an appreciation for the director's aptitude for wielding visual chaos with the delight and vigor of an orchestra conductor. ” –
Salon.com
Jun 8, 2022
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The Adam Project (2022)
68%
“Reynolds' singular style, however, taps into a plausible, palpable sadness that The Adam Project capitalizes upon tremendously.” –
Salon.com
Mar 14, 2022
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The Tinder Swindler (2022)
97%
“The most compelling part of the movie isn't the crook or the nature of the scam, whose mechanics work like a well-oiled Ponzi scheme. It is the visible evidence that despite it all, these women haven't given up on finding love.” –
Salon.com
Feb 7, 2022
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
63%
“The Matrix Resurrections is a better messenger and cultural analyst than a cinematic spectacle... It may not deliver the original's thrills, but at the least it'll start some conversations.” –
Salon.com
Dec 23, 2021
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Annie Live! (2021)
100%
“[Celina Smith] proves some tomorrow needn't be permanently elusive. For once the sun is shining on her today.” –
Salon.com
Dec 3, 2021
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Passing (2021)
91%
“Hall breathes life and light into it in a way that lends a weight of beauty and honesty to its immersion into a world of purposeful pretense.” –
Salon.com
Nov 12, 2021
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