Entertainment Weekly
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
B-
Ruben Brandt, Collector (2019)
It's a triumph of style over substance. But what style!
Posted Feb 15, 2019
2
B+
Isn't It Romantic (2019)
Isn't It Romantic pulls off a sweet sleight-of-hand trick as a rom-com-within-a-rom-com, mocking all of the classic rom-com tropes while still letting us indulge in them.
Posted Feb 12, 2019
3
C
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
Written and directed again by Christopher Landon, the film is just more of the same, reheated and served up over and over again until it becomes a déjà-vu endurance test.
Posted Feb 12, 2019
4
C+
Lords of Chaos (2019)
In Lords of Chaos, you never really know what these dim lost boys are rebelling against or manage to get inside of their heads... not that you'd ever want to.
Posted Feb 7, 2019
5
C+
What Men Want (2019)
6
C+
High Flying Bird (2019)
7
B
Fighting with My Family (2019)
[A] movie about as subtle as the "bowling ball to the bollocks" one hopeful grunt has to take early on, but still somehow a winning one.
Posted Feb 5, 2019
8
C
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
A better version of this movie would've kept its mind on the game. Better title: Rollerblade Runner.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
9
The Souvenir (2019)
[T]his Souvenir is one to treasure.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
10
Untouchable (2019)
[A] methodical, unmissable takedown.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
11
Knock Down the House (2019)
Try making it through Rachel Lears' documentary, about four fearless working-class women challenging powerful incumbents in the 2018 primaries, without getting fully fired up.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
12
[G]orgeously shot, keenly felt, and utterly original in both style and execution.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
13
C
Miss Bala (2019)
14
A-
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
A whip-smart comedy that manages to deliver genuinely funny uplift without ever swerving away from its own dark side.
Posted Jan 31, 2019
15
B
Big Time Adolescence (2019)
If Big Time isn't exactly a PSA for good adulting, it's still an endearingly messy portrait of boyhood and manhood and all the lessons in between.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
16
C-
Polar (2019)
A gleefully unhinged teenage-boy dream that aims only for hard, shiny surfaces, and stays there.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
17
B-
King of Thieves (2019)
There's some real, small pleasure in watching these old lions at work...
Posted Jan 30, 2019
18
B+
Arctic (2019)
When the gamble is man vs. nature, the smart bet is almost always on the house. Unless the man is Mads Mikkelsen...
Posted Jan 30, 2019
19
B-
Piercing (2019)
A sick-joke psychological cat-and-mouse game with just enough twists to keep you on your toes.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
20
B+
Blinded by the Light (2019)
A Technicolor ode to the power of music so deeply tender and heartfelt that it disarms even the most misanthropic critic's instincts.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
21
B-
Rent Live (2019)
Lots to enjoy - and yet, there was something a bit remote about this Rent.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
22
B
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Gilroy has a lot to say about money, mindless consumerism, and the soul-sucking emptiness of conflating ownership and ego-stroking with self-worth.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
23
B+
Cold Pursuit (2019)
You'd think by now, 10 years into this implausible aging-vigilante cycle, things would be getting a bit tired and rote. But you'd be wrong.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
24
A-
The Report (2019)
A sobering, supremely well-crafted procedural in the vein of Spotlight in The Post that seems designed to induce anger and catharsis in equal measure.
Posted Jan 27, 2019
25
B
Everything is still awesome. Just a little bit less so.
Posted Jan 26, 2019
26
B
Honey Boy (2019)
If Honey's arc feels stamped in an certain kind of indie template, it still builds a sneaky kind of emotional capital.
Posted Jan 26, 2019
27
B
Native Son (2019)
28
B
Tito and the Birds combines different art styles in a way that demonstrates the radical possibilities of animated storytelling.
Posted Jan 25, 2019
29
C
Serenity (2019)
It wants to be trashy, pulpy fun that toys with your mind and your expectations. Sadly, it just ends up insulting both.
Posted Jan 24, 2019
30
The Client List (2010)
In the manner of all such Lifetime productions, The Client List managed to offer cheap thrills...while offering moral uplift.
Posted Jan 23, 2019
31
A
They Shall Not Grow Old (2019)
Now, 100 years later, the dead speak to us. And finally, we can understand...to a degree.
Posted Jan 23, 2019
32
B
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
The script is good-natured and action-packed and attempts to delve into thematic territory beyond what might be normally expected from a kid's movie.
Posted Jan 22, 2019
33
A+
It's as if Borges had cast Thelma and Louise in Groundhog Day.
Posted Jan 17, 2019
34
B-
The Upside (2019)
35
B-
A Dog's Way Home (2019)
Heartwarming, mildly funny, and occasionally thrilling without ever being anything more than just fine.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
36
C+
Glass (2019)
Put into comic-book terms, Glass takes too long to get from one panel to the next.
Posted Jan 9, 2019
37
B
First Reformed (2018)
First Reformed is a bleak, punishing movie and the furthest thing imaginable from an easy crowdpleaser. But Hawke juices it with an austere sense of grace.
Posted Dec 26, 2018
38
B-
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
In the end, there's no question that what you're watching is a masterfully-made movie, albeit one that's easier to admire from afar than up close.
Posted Dec 26, 2018
39
D+
Holmes and Watson (2018)
If you choose to watch this movie, you'll be treated to an hour and a half of different versions of the same gag: what if [insert modern thing] somehow existed in Victorian times!?
Posted Dec 26, 2018
40
B+
Blaze (2018)
Dickey looks like a big, shaggy dog with a wounded paw who's been left out in the rain overnight. And he's a real revelation.
Posted Dec 26, 2018
41
B
Stan & Ollie (2019)
The film is sentimental, a bit schmaltzy, but it's an affecting behind-the-curtain look at a strained showbiz marriage that fans never got a chance to see.
Posted Dec 24, 2018
42
B
All Is True (2018)
43
A-
Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) (2018)
44
B
Second Act (2018)
[Lopez is] nothing if not a woman who knows her brand... and Second Act is perfectly tailored to it.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
45
C
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Most of the heartwarming power of Mark's stranger-than-fiction story is AWOL in its Tinseltown makeover.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
46
B+
Cold War (Zimna wojna) (2018)
Cold War resembles a waking dream. And a ravishingly romantic one at that.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
47
B
On the Basis of Sex (2019)
A suitably inspiring biopic despite its narrative unevenness and occasional reliance on schmaltz...
Posted Dec 17, 2018
48
B
Dumplin' (2018)
...there's so much willful, joyful uplift in the final scenes, it's hard not to buy into every aphorism re-upped from the classic Dolly playbook.
Posted Dec 17, 2018
49
B+
Vice (2018)
[A] slick, wildly meta, and occasionally too-clever portrait of the most influential and easily least understood figure to ever hold the nation's second-highest post.
Posted Dec 17, 2018
50
B+
Capernaum (Capharnaüm) (2018)