French/Belgium horror film Let the Corpses Tan is stylish and well-crafted, but hard to follow and convoluted.
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United Kingdom import I Am Not A Witch tells a poetic story of a young Zambian girl, wrongly accused of witchcraft, who adjusts to life in a “witch camp.”
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John Cho’s terrific performance as a dad desperate to find his missing daughter, along with a novel concept by writer/director Aneesh Chaganty, makes Searching one of the more noteworthy films of 2018.
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The Bookshop lives in a melodramatic world where a kind-hearted widow wants to open a bookshop and a town malcontent has different ideas on what the community needs.
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Regina Hall is simply wonderful in Andrew Bujalski’s Support The Girls, documenting a tumultuous day at a Hooters-like sports bar where she must make a number of important and potentially life-changing decisions for her and her girls.
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The Nun pretty much kills dead any fun and entertainment generated by The Conjuring universe.
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Earnest in approach, but suffocating in its messaging, faith-based film God Bless the Broken Road, would benefit from less affirmation and more focus on story, script, and audience.
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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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