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First Reformed
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
This formalist approach to the narrative takes a hard right into more stylized imagery in the third act which is as breathtaking as it is surprising.
5/5
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Glass
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
As mixed quality as this movie is, I still respect that it tries to do something different with comic book mythology, and even with its flaws it is still worth watching--just to see M. Night finish his 19-year-long journey with these characters.
3/5
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
While there are exciting moments to be had, the underwritten human characters and murky fight scenes add up to an underwhelming experience.
2.5/5
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Mandy
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
Mandy is a triumph of both genre film-making and art, an unfiltered glimpse into the mind of an artist.
5/5
5
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Midsommar
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
Midsommar is a mind-blowing trip into complete lunacy that hides a positive message about empathy and self-actualization.
5/5
5
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Overlord
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
While both zombie movies and WWII period films are overdone, Overlord still manages to have some fun left in it even though it doesn't attempt to subvert any of the tropes inherent in either one of those genres.
3/5
5
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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
Horror hounds looking for some old fashioned bloody fun will have a blast with this flick, and the open ending leaves room for many more releases to come.
4/5
5
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Sorry to Bother You
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
Sorry to Bother You is a mind-blowing, frenetic, visual trip that will have you silently mouthing "what the fuck" several times during its run-time and it's one of the most original films to come out in 2018.
4/5
5
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Suspiria
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria remake is an outlandishly theatrical and grotesque take on the cult classic original film. Kinetic body horror mixed with surprisingly feminist undertones make for a fresh interpretation of the source material.
4/5
5
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The Endless
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
The Endless is a film that requires extra effort put into understanding its themes and it rewards the viewer that puts in the time with an incredible and bone-chilling journey into the abyss.
4/5
5
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The House That Jack Built
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
The House That Jack Built is messy and imperfect at times and breathtaking and gorgeous at others. If that isn't an accurate representation of what it is to be a human, I don't know what is.
5/5
5
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The Predator
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
There are a few entertaining and amusing moments to be had with this film, but overall it's a messy and overlong attempt at recapturing what made the franchise fun in the first place.
2/5
5
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Uncut Gems
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
Uncut Gems should be lauded for its commitment to embracing nihilism and chaos.
5/5
5
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You Were Never Really Here
The Movie Sleuth
Michelle Kisner
You Were Never Really Here is a deep dive into the suffocating world of someone's personal hell.
5/5
5
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Cold Comfort Farm
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
[A] mischievous send-up of D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and assorted other high-toned practitioners of grimly serious rural romances.
3/4
4
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The Pledge
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
[Penn] sustains a mesmerizing intensity while relentlessly building toward an emotionally wrenching climax.
4/4
4
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Pinocchio
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly.
0.5/4
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The Rape of Europa
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
[C]ompels attention and sustains interest as an examination of Adolf Hitler's obsession with claiming Europe's art masterworks for the "master race."
3/4
4
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25th Hour
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Spike Lee's furiously melancholy drama about life and dread in post-9/11 New York City.
4/4
4
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Proceeding with a blunt and sometimes brutal relentlessness, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days impresses and engrosses as a work of stark, spare naturalism.
3/4
4
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8 Mile
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Even [Eminem's] most devoted admirers likely will be surprised by his ability to keenly render and compellingly sustain a character throughout a feature-length film.
3/4
4
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About a Boy
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
It's all the more amusing and affecting because of the spot-on perfect casting of Hugh Grant and newcomer Nicholas Hoult.
3.5/4
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
May be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since Town and Country.
2.5/4
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2.5
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
A boldly challenging and abundantly rewarding masterwork.
4/4
4
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Analyze That
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
With Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal back in the mix ... the warmed-over goulash is tasty more often than not.
2.5/4
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Blood Work
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
It's one of the better cops-and-killers melodramas to hit theaters this year.
3/4
4
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Bowling for Columbine
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought. Better still, he does all of this, and more, while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of Jonathan Swift.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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Chicago
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
This is the sleekest and sexiest movie musical to slither, shake and scintillate on-screen since Cabaret.
4/4
4
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City by the Sea
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
The burden falls upon the exceptionally fine cast to infuse the familiar material with emotional truth and a sense of urgency.
3/4
4
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Clay Pigeons
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Call this one Fargo Lite, and you won't be far off the mark.
2.5/4
4
2.5
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Clockers
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Clockers leaves you with a sense of aching sadness, a regretful melancholy for the lives that have been blasted and the wrong decisions that have been made. Once again, Spike Lee has done the right thing.
4/4
4
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Die Another Day
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
[T]he movie as a whole suggests the 40-year-old franchise is finally showing its age.
1/4
4
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Do the Right Thing
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
[A] movie that gives us the vitality of urban street life and the viciousness of racism in a single, brightly bedecked, booby-trapped package.
4/4
4
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Double Dragon
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
There is a genial exuberance to the lead performances of Wolf and Dacascos, who behave as though the Lee brothers aren't too many rungs above Beavis and Butt-Head on the evolutionary ladder.
2.5/4
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2.5
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Eyes Wide Shut
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
And you can't help thinking that, somewhere beyond the grave, the most cerebral of celebrity filmmakers is enjoying the most satisfying of last laughs
4/4
4
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Gangs of New York
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
A blood-and-thunder American epic, audacious in its ambition and awesome in its achievement.
4/4
4
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Half Past Dead
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
I'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers B-flick with just a suspension of disbelief. Rather, you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief.
2.5/4
4
2.5
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The Hours
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
A quietly and methodically devastating masterwork.
4/4
4
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Just Married
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
There's nothing wrong with Just Married that a major script rewrite, several fresh plot twists and maybe a couple of tranquilizer darts couldn't fix.
1.5/4
4
1.5
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Lakeboat
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
If you're an admirer of [Mamet's] work, or if you're willing to be as patiently observant as Dale, you will find much that is fascinating and illuminating.
3/4
4
3
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Life Itself
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
A smart and moving tribute to an irreplaceable critic and a singular human being.
4/4
4
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Magnolia
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Go see it for yourself. And don't be surprised if you want to see it again and again.
4/4
4
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Maid in Manhattan
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
An undemandingly agreeable trifle that should satisfy anyone in search of an old-fashioned Cinderella story at the megaplex.
3/4
4
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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
Each individual, self-contained segment serves as testament to Miller's strengths as a storyteller.
3/4
4
3
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Spring Forward
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
While seeming to be about nothing in particular, it gradually builds toward a deeply affecting emotional impact by actually being about everything that's important.
4/4
4
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Starting Out in the Evening
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
It's an intimate drama -- a chamber piece, really -- that deals intelligently with intriguing themes and provocative ideas regarding the ambiguous motives and borrowed-from-life material that fuel the creative process.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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The Dead
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
The film is a masterpiece, both a worthy translation of James Joyce's story and a wonderful summation of John Huston's career.
4/4
4
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The Grey Zone
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
[A] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid Holocaust drama.
4/4
4
4
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8
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2,343
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
At once intriguingly allusive and rigorously precise, very much like an anthology of well-crafted short stories.
2.5/4
4
2.5
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Thirteen Days
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
[A]ll the more gripping for being written, directed and acted with such scrupulous restraint.
4/4
4
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Two Weeks Notice
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
This is an old-fashioned, frankly formulaic star vehicle built for two, and it brings out the best, or at least the most appealing, in its pampered passengers.
3/4
4
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Vanilla Sky
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
A brazenly challenging and richly rewarding fable about actions and consequences, dreams and realities.
4/4
4
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With a Friend like Harry...
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
All the hallmarks of a classic Hitchcock thriller. The master would certainly approve.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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Hustlers
The Music
Debbie Zhou
Writer-director Lorene Scafaria confidently conjures up a high-end crime flick that's a joy to watch.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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Gone
The National (UAE)
Ed Gibbs
There's little to recommend this B-grade, formulaic affair. The plot is tosh, the dialogue hackneyed at best.
1/10
10
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Code 8
The National Interest
Stephen Silver
It isn't groundbreaking, but it does skillfully combine several genres, including sci-fi, superheroes, and even heist movies, while getting quite creative at certain points
3.5/5
5
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Submarine
The Ooh Tray
Ed Whitfield
Submarine is a closed world like the best stories, a complete movie in every sense.
5/5
5
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Star Trek
The Patriot Ledger
Al Alexander
Abrams also avoids the pitfalls of the three Star Wars prequels, by making it a thrill to meet these familiar characters before they became the stars of the stars.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
The Patriot Ledger
Dana Barbuto
Director Bill Condon ("Gods and Monsters," "Dreamgirls") and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (she wrote the last one, too) finally get the joke and have crafted a movie that possesses an iota of entertainment value.
2/4
4
2
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
The Patriot Ledger
Dana Barbuto
Even the addition of an Oscar-winning director in Bill Condon ("Kinsey," "Gods and Monsters") fails to save what is essentially a padded-out tale of all-consuming love and loyalty.
0.5/5
5
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11
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Benjamin
The People's Movies
Amelia Harvey
There is more to this film than a portrait of a navel-gazing, painfully awkward and tortured artist but sadly not quite enough..
3/5
5
3
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Blinded by the Light
The People's Movies
Freda Cooper
A wonderful experience, it makes your heart sing and you'll want to listen to Springsteen for ever more.
4/5
5
4
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J.T. LeRoy
The People's Movies
Freda Cooper
This female-led tale of identity is a low key but high calibre watch.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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The Angry Birds Movie 2
The People's Movies
Freda Cooper
More fun than you might expect, and likeably entertaining, but it never really takes flight.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
The People's Movies
Freda Cooper
Much more at home as a mid-afternoon TV movie, accompanied by a cup of tea and a digestive, it's contrived, leaden and deeply dull.
1/5
5
1
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Tucked
The People's Movies
Amelia Harvey
Tucked could have been oversentimental in the wrong hand, but the natural dialogue and understated performances give audiences a sharp sense of the real people beneath the personas and make us feel included in their community.
4/5
5
4
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A Cool Dry Place
The Pitch
Dan Lybarger
While the movie deals with the issues of single parenthood in a believable manner, director John N. Smith's handling borders on pedestrian.
5/10
10
5
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Dinosaur
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
Dinosaur mixes state-of-the-art visuals with bottom-of-the-barrel scripting.
2/4
4
2
4
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2
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2,352
Shaft
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
Despite a fairly intriguing first hour that captures the original film's leisurely pace and street-smart mood, what finally conks Shaft's afro is a third act that lacks a compelling, forward-moving plot.
2/4
4
2
4
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22 July
The Pitch
Eric Melin
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.
3/4
4
3
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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
For the most part, the film succeeds, with predictable complaints stemming from the stretch marks that plague all features based on TV/animated shows.
2/4
4
2
4
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Alien: Covenant
The Pitch
Eric Melin
It's not a complete failure, but there's something sadly inevitable about Alien: Covenant. It feels more like an exercise than it does a movie.
1.5/4
4
1.5
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Allied
The Pitch
Eric Melin
There are many unintentionally funny moments in a movie that wants to be taken seriously but is derailed by listless direction, tired acting, and a corny script.
1/4
4
1
4
false
0
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American Animals
The Pitch
Eric Melin
American Animals doesn't need an "easy out" to explain its characters' poor decisions. The propulsive energy of the movie, once it starts to take shape, mirrors the inevitability of them seeing their bad idea all the way through.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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3
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2,352
American Honey
The Pitch
Eric Melin
Their freedom on the open road is a ramble, and so American Honey rambles, too. As it should. The movie's cumulative effect is what makes it such a stunning piece of work.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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American Movie
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
Like Ed Wood, this is the story of a man with debatable talent who is so artistically driven that his raw enthusiasm keeps him afloat when finances and ability conspire against him.
4/4
4
4
4
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6
7
2
2,352
Baby Driver
The Pitch
Eric Melin
It sounds like every noir-tinged crime movie since the 40s, but its a canny reconfiguration of boilerplate elements, made special by the way it taps into our music-saturated culture, using iPods and earbuds to fashion a seductive fantasy world.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
2,352
BlacKkKlansman
The Pitch
Eric Melin
Even as he is careening from one extreme to the next, Lee is able to ratchet up the tension and release it in hilariously satisfying ways, never quite letting anyone off the hook. Nobody in the film achieves anything that looks like a real victory.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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5
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2,352
Blade Runner 2049
The Pitch
Eric Melin
In whatever category you file it, 2049 is some kind of miracle: Its submersion in Blade Runner's themes and ambiguities, in its essential mystery, feels both familiar and new. And then it somehow goes even deeper.
4/4
4
4
4
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6
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2,352
Blair Witch
The Pitch
Eric Melin
... lightning doesn't strike twice in movies, and, paradoxically, the best audience this Blair Witch can hope for is one that its predecessor ensured doesn't exist anymore: people who have never seen a found-footage horror flick.
2/4
4
2
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2,352
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Pitch
Eric Melin
...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.
1/4
4
1
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Call Me by Your Name
The Pitch
Eric Melin
Anyone who has experienced the flush of first love will relate, but the fact that the film is specific and detailed both emotionally and physically in its portrayal of a gay relationship makes it a standout.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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2,352
Deadpool 2
The Pitch
Eric Melin
You can only be first once and Reynolds' solution is more of everything. Deadpool 2 is everything you'd expect from a sequel. It's longer, has a bigger budget, bigger action scenes, more violence, more rudeness, more cameos - and dare I say - more heart.
3/4
4
3
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2,352
The Filth and the Fury
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
Unlike most rock documentaries that rely on abundant concert imagery and studio outtakes, Filth is less concerned with the music than the setting that produced it.
3/4
4
3
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7
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2,352
Genghis Blues
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
The film, like the music it spotlights, begins to drone.
2/4
4
2
4
false
2
7
2
2,352
Ghost in the Shell
The Pitch
Eric Melin
It reduces the philosophical quest for understanding of what it means to be human to a very familiar trope: the search for a former identity. Essentially, the Major is now Jason Bourne - or, more precisely, Robocop, by way of Frankenstein's monster.
2/4
4
2
4
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2
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2,352
Gossip
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
Though it is reasonably effective as a morality tale on the dangers of spreading a rumor, it is even more pertinent to the perils of burying a worthy screenplay under layers of big-budget gloss.
2/4
4
2
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High Life
The Pitch
Eric Melin
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.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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I, Tonya
The Pitch
Eric Melin
... asks a lot of tough questions about class in America, even as it takes the same mocking tone that it accuses the media of taking as the scandal unfolded.
3/4
4
3
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2,352
It Comes At Night
The Pitch
Eric Melin
More than a big-picture, end-of-the-world drama, it succeeds as a grave - and highly confined - journey through desperate emotional states.
3/4
4
3
4
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7
2
2,352
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
The Pitch
Eric Melin
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.
2/4
4
2
4
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2
7
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2,352
Kong: Skull Island
The Pitch
Eric Melin
It embodies that American Barnum impulse the original satirized, hoping that a heavy dose of violence and a familiar entity in the title will be enough to pack 'em in. Behold the sad, cynical Kong: First Blood Part II.
1.5/4
4
1.5
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Live By Night
The Pitch
Eric Melin
A handsome production shot in gorgeous fashion. But like Affleck's Joe Coughlin - the empty center of this soulless film - it never commits to its most promising elements, never stays in one place, never develops a rhythm.
1/4
4
1
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2,352
Manchester by the Sea
The Pitch
Eric Melin
The most textured, emotionally complex screenplay of the year, by some distance. Lonergan's filmmaking redefines epic. He has found something big and universal in the small, specific characters he shows us at hauntingly close proximity.
4/4
4
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My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski)
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
The pairing of the director and actor invariably resulted in extraordinary creative collaborations. These men -- arrogant, ambitious, sadistic, fanatical, and in Kinski's case, probably insane -- certainly deserved each other.
2.5/4
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Pacific Rim Uprising
The Pitch
Eric Melin
Everyone is equally blunted by blandness. All the kids who undergo military training are constantly reminded they need to act like a family, but the script never affords them the opportunity.
1.5/4
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The Perfect Storm
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
The movie itself is like a raging storm: impossible to ignore while it's happening but easy to forget when the weather has died down.
2.5/4
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Phantom Thread
The Pitch
Eric Melin
At first, it looks like just another safe, crowd-pleasing period drama aimed at the NPR crowd. Rather, it's a fascinating slow-burn character study that's not afraid to embrace a little darkness, with a wry sense of humor.
3.5/4
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Ready Player One
The Pitch
Eric Melin
Approximately 15 parts fun escapism and one part reflection. In a culture that's obsessed with unearthing obscure references, it will be interesting to see how the movie's fans-and I think there will be many-process the conflicting messages, if at all.
2.5/4
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Rules of Engagement
The Pitch
Jon Niccum
Whereas a TV version of the same material might flounder, this slick, big-budget film works because there is legitimate doubt as to both the level of guilt of the accused and the outcome of the trial.
2.5/4
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