Three great performances, led by Rose Byrne, makes Juliet, Naked an easy, engaging film to watch, until it wrestles with eventual mediocrity.
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Hip-hop, spoken word, dramatic scenes, and unconventional storytelling lead us through the staggering My Name is Myeisha, based on a real-life police shooting of an unarmed black woman sitting in a car.
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An outright debacle of a movie, The Happytime Murders is bizarre, aimless, and impossible to recommend to anyone.
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Scotty Bowers tells all in a blistering, no holds barred, and poignant documentary about the man who arranged countless trysts for the biggest stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Crazy Rich Asians may very well be your next favorite movie. A wonderful, full-on romantic comedy offering important optics, but also delivering a smart script and charming cast.
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An important and necessary look at the lack of female directors and storytellers in Hollywood, told from the women struggling to have their voices heard.
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Ambitious, with a simple story idea people will likely warm to, Alpha is an adventure epic that seems to not quite know why it exists or who it is made for.
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Kelly Macdonald gives one of 2018’s best performances in Puzzle, starring as a housewife who finds her life turned upside down when she decides to put together a puzzle.
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Spike Lee’s best movie in years is also one of 2018’s best films. BlacKkKlansman tells an impossibly true story from the 1970’s, and informs us of our past, present, and future all at once.
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The ascendant rise and tragic fall of fashion designer Alexander McQueen gives us one of the year’s best documentaries.
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Susanna Nicchiarelli’s biopic Nico, 1988, features one of the year’s best performances from Trine Dyrholm, embodying the legendary singer in the last two years of her life.
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Dog Days is a theatrical Hallmark, or Lifetime, Movie of the Week, which has a large ensemble of actors playing characters whose lives are changed by the dogs in their lives. And it kinda won me over.
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Oh, bother: Christopher Robin is at its best when we see Winnie the Pooh and friends. When they are off screen, the movie struggles to find a spark.
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Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis make a great pair, but you cannot help but wish they were in a better movie.
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Iconic director Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man, Leon Vitali, stands front and center in documentary Filmworker, detailing the unique relationship the two men shared.
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Full of action and Tom Cruise’s amazing stunts, though weak on dialogue and dense on story, Mission: Impossible - Fallout is intense and worth experiencing.
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Teen Titans Go! To The Movies might just be, from start-to-finish, my favorite DC superhero movie so far. Is my hope for DC restored by five wise-cracking, animated superhero kids? Yes. I think it is!
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A film rich in cinematic history, you do not need to be a cinephile to enjoy the discoveries and the history uncovered by archivist Michael Zahs in documentary Saving Brinton.
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Sorry To Bother You is astonishing, provocative filmmaking that may fall victim to unrestrained ambition, but stands, almost defiantly, with and among the best films of 2018.
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Though we have few surprises in the story, The Cakemaker is a tender, compassionate look of loss, loyalty, and love, with terrific performances leading the way.
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