Foreign Score | 96 December 24, 2018 Roma Roma is Cuarón’s deeply personal magnum opus - and it’s in a different stratosphere than any other film in 2018. Congrats to everyone involved - it’s an absolute masterpiece.
Comedy Score | 91 December 22, 2018 The Favourite Lanthimos’ trademark absurdity and deadpan humor are there, and then some in The Favourite, the best piece of historical fiction since Inglorious Bastards.
superhero Score | 72 December 19, 2018 Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse As a fan of pop-art, style and animation, I’m blown away. As a fan of cohesive narrative and character development I’m left disappointed at what could have been.
drama Score | 86 December 17, 2018 Wildlife At times, Dano’s movie is a “tough sit”. But he and Kazan are so careful with their characters that Mulligan’s brilliance shines through, and the most important scenes stick in your memory.
Dramedy Score | 90 December 1, 2018 Green Book Want to feel genuinely good about yourself, humanity, and the world? Go watch Green Book, a brilliant feel-good movie that refrains from being cringey, preachy or one-noted.
Political Drama Score | 88 November 21, 2018 The Front Runner The Front Runner might ask more questions than it answers, but they’re really, really good questions. Reitman is asking us to hit pause, no matter how uncomfortable it might be, to talk about the birth of tabloid journalism.
Sports Score | 72 November 21, 2018 Creed II Creed II is as good as it needed to be, entertaining with satisfying payoffs in the fight scenes. The plot surrounding the punches inside the ring is underwhelming, but unoffensive.
tragedy Score | 76 November 12, 2018 Beautiful Boy Beautiful Boy has some gorgeous scenes in it, but falls short of it’s ambitions by throwing it’s emotional punches too early.
animated Score | 68 November 9, 2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet When an emotional conflict leads the Vanellope into an irrelevant fifteen minute meeting with every disney princess - you have to wonder why Disney is choosing to insult our intelligence so brazenly.
biopic Score | 51 November 2, 2018 Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody doesn’t do much right - but Malek as Mercury is worth the price of admission, albeit barely...
Drama Score | 88 October 29, 2018 Boy Erased Boy Erased is an expertly handled unpacking of conversion therapy, homophobia, and family relationships. Crowe and Kidman both deliver stunning performances worthy of a few shiny gold figurines if you ask me.
biopic Score | 80 October 26, 2018 First Man First Man is a sensitive, melancholy peek into the mind of the real Neil Armstrong, not shown in most history books.
drama Score | 87 October 19, 2018 The Hate U Give At a glance The Hate U Give is pretty conventional, but it’s poignant moments take you by surprise.
drama Score | 91 October 19, 2018 Mid90s Hill’s thoughtful, intimate love letter to mid-90s skate culture features a insightful deconstruction of toxic masculinity.
superhero Score | 42 October 16, 2018 Venom Deeply strange, sometimes funny, and highly confusing, Venom is a hot mess.
drama Score | 93 October 5, 2018 A Star is Born Cooper’s film starring the unmasked Lady Gaga is an agonizing, surprising, flawed but heartfelt examination of stardom.
thriller Score | 79 September 14, 2018 A Simple Favor Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are tremendously funny, and make a great yin and yang pair in A Simple Favor.
comedy Score | 86 August 27, 2018 Never Goin' Back A refreshingly simple teen comedy that for once, explores friendship earnestly instead of romance. All 17-year old dropouts Angela and Jessie wanted was a weekend at the beach.
crime Score | 85 August 26, 2018 American Animals Bart Layton invites you into a carefully stylized Kentucky heist fantasy only to shatter it, in an anxiety-inducing crescendo.
thriller Score | 88 August 25, 2018 Searching Searching actually created pavlovian feelings of dread and suspense with the simple bells and dinging sounds a computer makes. Impressive.
rom-com Score | 73 August 25, 2018 Crazy Rich Asians Henry Golding has captured the gaze of every woman on earth this summer, thanks to the success of Crazy Rich Asians. The movie is probably more important than it is good, but still deserves our attention.
rom-com Score | 60 August 24, 2018 Dog Days Cringe-worthy, and occasionally funny, Dog Days is a mixed bag of sweet moments and eye-rolls.
monster Score | 38 August 18, 2018 The Meg Monster movie diehards have been chomping at the bit for The Meg because of it’s 20 year journey to the big-screen, but somehow bigger sharks yielded less suspense.
animated Score | 69 August 16, 2018 Christopher Robin A watered-down instalment from the Hundred Acre Woods probably won’t offend anyone, but I doubt it will excite them either.
comedy Score | 79 August 13, 2018 BlacKkKlansman Lee's Klan comedy is sleek, funny, but ultimately cartoonish. BlacKkKlansman never quite achieves the impact it shoots for.
comedy Score | 40 August 8, 2018 The Spy Who Dumped Me McKinnon is excellent, but sadly the movie around her was about as uninteresting as it gets.
dramedy Score | 95 August 6, 2018 Eighth Grade Bo Burnham is 27, and he's already made a beautiful film wise beyond its years. Parents and Hollywood executives, I hope you were taking notes.
dramedy Score | 94 August 4, 2018 Blindspotting A thematically impressive feat for a pair of rappers turned screenwriters, Blindspotting is a nuanced and heartfelt loveletter to the Oakland of old.
action Score | 89 August 1, 2018 Mission Impossible: Fallout Loud, unapologetic, sleek, and sometimes gimmicky. Everything you'd want from an action movie is here and then some.
action Score | 93 August 1, 2018 Mission Impossible: Fallout A stylish, non-stop thrill-ride with plenty of twists, brawls, and cunning to make 147 minutes breeze by effortlessly. I hope it's not the last we see of Ethan Hunt. -KV
doccumentary Score | 70 July 27, 2018 Three Identical Strangers What a bizzare, fascinating, and peculiar documentary Three Identical Strangers is.
sports Score | 35 July 25, 2018 Uncle Drew I'm sure it was fun to make, I just wish it was more fun to watch.
superhero Score | 83 July 24, 2018 Ant Man and the Wasp It’s not a movie that attempts much, but Antman is good, clean, uncomplicated fun.
drama Score | 93 July 19, 2018 Leave No Trace Remember the name Thomasin McKenzie, her brilliant performance should make her a force to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future.
comedy Score | 92 July 13, 2018 Sorry to Bother You Sorry to Bother You is an endlessly creative piece of satire - and doesn't relent with it's message or its absurdity.
action Score | 86 July 8, 2018 Sicario Day of the Soldado Sicario Day of the Soldado isn't the masterpiece the original was, but it's excellent characters are enough to make it a compelling watch.
doccumentary Score | 80 July 4, 2018 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Won't You Be My Neighbor contains a rich amount of detail that helped me understand Fred Rodgers in a new way.
scary Score | 85 June 25, 2018 Hereditary Hereditary isn’t about what you think it’s about, and it shatters your expectation over and over again.
animated Score | 75 June 20, 2018 The Incredibles 2 Overall, the Incredibles 2 sequel lacks the sharpness of the original, and the writing as a whole just doesn’t compare.
Crime Score | 60 June 12, 2018 Oceans 8 For about fifteen minutes it carries the energy of the original movies - but it devolves quickly into irrelevance.
drama Score | 49 June 10, 2018 First Reformed First Reformed is egregiously mis-marketed, and badly underwritten. Religious symbols aren't enough to save this sleepy script.
doccumentary Score | 85 May 4, 2018 RBG RBG is a plesant surprise, and avoids a lot of biopic Cliches.
superhero Score | 82 April 27, 2018 Avengers: Infinity Wars Worlds collide both literally and metaphorically in Infinity Wars - a comic book nerd's wet dream.
animated Score | 89 April 23, 2018 Isle of Dogs Isle of Dogs is a beautiful, funny, and somewhat underwritten film.
biopic Score | 87 April 10, 2018 I, Tonya Why can't it just be about my skating? is a question for the ages.
scary Score | 92 April 6, 2018 A Quiet Place A Quiet Place is really impressive, and built around brilliant sound-design.
superhero Score | 82 April 1, 2018 Black Panther Well-written characters, and an interesting premise make it an entertaining watch despite some cheesiness.
thriller Score | 85 March 23, 2018 Unsane If you weren't terrified of Stalkers and Insurance companies before... Unsane will scare you straight.
sci-fi Score | 74 March 11, 2018 Ready, Player One If Jackson Pollock were a 21st century sci-fi film, it would undoubtedly be Ready Player One.
Drama Score | 92 January 5, 2018 Phantom Thread Vibrant Characters, a gorgeous score, and another addition to Paul Thomas Anderson's Mantle.
historical Score | 63 January 4, 2018 Hostiles Hostiles is deeply unplesant on purpose, but I'm unsure what that purpose is...
thriller Score | 79 January 3, 2018 Red Sparrow Well-written characters, and an interesting premise make it an entertaining watch despite some cheesiness.
sci-fi Score | 82 January 2, 2018 Annihilation Annihilation is hyper-symbolic and requires a lot of its audience, and for the most part the ideas are worth it.
rom-com Score | 57 January 1, 2018 Love, Simon Love, Simon deserves credit for breaking new ground, but that about all it deserves credit for.
sci-fi Score | 86 December 23, 2017 Star Wars the Last Jedi The Last Jedi definately gives you your money's worth action-wise, and sets up the new trilogy's conclusion.
Comedy Score | 19 December 22, 2017 Downsizing What a waste of a great premise. I could have done without the tiny gigolos.
historical Score | 79 December 20, 2017 The Post Meryl Streep’s brilliance elevates an otherwise mediocre film about the tough choices newspapers have to make regularly.
romance Score | 88 December 19, 2017 Call Me by Your Name Call Me by Your Name isn't just pretty, it's the type of pretty that lulls you into a trace as it runs.
biopic Score | 81 December 13, 2017 The Darkest Hour Gary Oldman's transformation is remarkable, and the movie around him mostly holds up.
comedy Score | 54 December 8, 2017 The Disaster Artist The Disaster Artist misses the mark, and glazes over the interesting questions we have for The Room.
animated Score | 87 November 22, 2017 Coco Coco is gorgeous to look at, and demonstrates Pixar's ability to immerse you in a foreign universe.
sci-fi Score | 90 November 21, 2017 The Shape of Water A very confusing visual masterpiece, that sticks with you after seeing it - especially the fish sex.
animated Score | 7 November 19, 2017 Olaf's Frozen Adventure I want the name and phone numbers of everyone who worked on this movie so I can ask them if they've ever seen a cartoon, or better yet a child before.
superhero Score | 79 November 17, 2017 Thor Ragnarok Funny, fast paced and well-rounded, Ragnarok is one of the stronger Marvel installments of the past few years.
Drama Score | 74 November 11, 2017 Molly's Game Sorkin's Vegas-drama left me wanting more from it's main characters - but the source material still carries it.
drama Score | 92 November 10, 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 3 Billboards is a morally ambiguous masterpiece, and Frances McDormand's performance is legendary.
dramedy Score | 93 November 3, 2017 Lady Bird Greta Gerwig is just as brilliant behind the camera as she is in front of it. The jokes feel timeless, and the excanges stick with you.
drama Score | 90 October 27, 2017 Novitiate Novitiate is sensitive, thought-provoking, and intimate. It smartly navigates both skepticism and admiration for the Catholic Church.
sports Score | 83 October 19, 2017 Battle of the Sexes Emma Stone is brilliant as Billie Jean, if only the movie around her was a little more focused.
Action Score | 69 October 17, 2017 The Foreigner Chan's action scenes deliver on the promises the trailer makes - sadly the movie around him didn't.
sci-fi Score | 96 October 6, 2017 Bladerunner: 2049 Breathtakingly beautiful to look at, sensative, and more focussed than the original - Bladerunner 2049 is my favorite movie of 2017.
Drama Score | 90 October 3, 2017 The Meyerowitz Stories Woody-Allen-esque in their structure, people will be kvelling over Baumbach's newest vignettes.
drama Score | 70 October 1, 2017 The Florida Project Cute, complicated, and deeply unpleasant. I both admire the Florida Project and at the same time never want to see it again.
scary Score | 72 September 8, 2017 It I found myself wishing It was scarier, and that Skarsgard's Pennywise character took more risks.
scary Score | 87 September 8, 2017 It It felt like a dark adventure/mystery/coming of age film with suspense sprinkled all over.
crime Score | 69 August 25, 2017 American Made Quirky editing/narration gives it flare, but I can't help but ask if Barry Seal or Tom Cruise for that matter deserves to be glorified for their deceit, decadence, and misogyny.
crime Score | 69 August 25, 2017 American Made Stylistic portrayal of a degenerate but Tom Cruise gives it a boost with his usual charisma.
crime Score | 89 August 24, 2017 Logan Lucky Logan Lucky is the funniest movie I've seen this year, and it's brimming with energy and self-parody.
crime Score | 85 August 18, 2017 Logan Lucky A great action/comedy heist film that keeps you interested throughout the whole ordeal.
crime Score | 83 August 4, 2017 Wind River Wind River navigates complicated emotional moments with nuance and skill.
crime Score | 85 August 4, 2017 Wind River It's powerfully gripping, shot beautifully, and one hell of a crime drama.
action Score | 67 August 3, 2017 Atomic Blonde Stylish fight scenes, and Charlize Theron dressed in scantily clad outfits. Check and check.
action Score | 78 August 3, 2017 Atomic Blonde This stylish movie was jam packed with great fight scenes and a surprising amount of eye candy.
war Score | 90 July 19, 2017 Dunkirk ADunkirk is the rare movie that engrosses you in a cause and a tragedy rather than a person.
rom-com Score | 90 July 14, 2017 The Big Sick There's nothing groundbreaking about The Big Sick, but it's heartfelt and hilarious.
war Score | 89 July 10, 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes In a million years I never thought anyone could make me care about CGI monkeys the way Matt Reeves and Mark Bomback did for two hours.
superhero Score | 73 July 8, 2017 Spiderman Homecoming This Spiderman is more fun than the Andrew Garfield movies, and takes itself less seriously than the Toby McGuire movies.
action Score | 72 June 21, 2017 Baby Driver Despite it's stylistic merit, Baby Driver is more like a really long, cool music video than a great movie.
revenge Score | 79 February 24, 2017 I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore One of the most dinstinct and poignant narrative voices of the past few years. Sadly at the end it doesn't amount to more than a revenge flick.
