6.5
JIM & ANDY: THE GREAT BEYOND Review
A fascinating but sparse documentary that combines talking-head interviews with a plethora of archival footage.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6.5
6
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Review
Murder on the Orient Express winds up on that mid-level ground: mixing vivid visuals with a obligated script, quick line readings with sluggish storytelling, and a crackerjack caper with an uninspired mood.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
7
MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND Review
Most Beautiful Island has many illusions to perform, nerves to rattle and setpieces to conjure up.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6.5
NOVITIATE Review
Novitiate is a movie of allusions, as the characters in its story become pieces with which we can examine the bigger changes outside the convent walls.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
2
GEOSTORM Review
I stand in awe at Geostorm, a film so ludicrously broken, so haphazardly smashed together, so unrepentantly clichéd, so brutally incoherent, so hilariously self-serious, that it crosses the boundaries of terrible, smashes through the meager definitions of good and bad or right and wrong, transforms itself in the interim, and becomes phenomenal.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
7
SYLVIO Review
Sylvio becomes a fascinating individual, managing to escape the cornering of what could have been a single-joke idea and instead anchoring a sly and effective comedy.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
7
TRAGEDY GIRLS Review
Tragedy Girls digs into the commodification of mass grief and hysteria that marks the town’s usable reactions to the deaths.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6.5
BATTLE OF THE SEXES Review
Battle of the Sexes plays like its own outline, dutifully moving from scene to scene under the most workmanlike of precisions.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6
SOY NERO Review
The first half of Soy Nero is a good movie about a young, undocumented immigrant who navigates a labyrinthine system in a quest to achieve citizenship. The second half is an efficient, bracing war film about a small band of soldiers who are ambushed and have to navigate a desolate, dangerous desert.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
4.5
LITERALLY, RIGHT BEFORE AARON Review
Here is a movie begging to be edited, boiled down to its essence, relieved from the languid cross it must bear running at feature length.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
5
LAST RAMPAGE Review
With such a clunky script, it’s all window-dressing for a rather empty interior.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
3.5
ENGLAND IS MINE Review
England is Mine is an uncharacteristically prescient and upfront name for a movie that isn’t even a fraction as bold.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6
CLASH Review
CLASH clears away ideological nitpicking in favor of a constrained character study.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6
CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER Review
California Typewriter lives and dies on the visible passion of its interviewees, and the implied passion of its director.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
7.5
GOOK Review
Justin Chon's GOOK presents a consistent and well developed creative vision
Posted by: Ken Bakely
