Film Reviews

2019:

  • Beyoncé: Homecoming (dir. Beyoncé Knowles) Grade A+
  • Booksmart (dir. Olivia Wilde) Grade A+, Read Review 
  • Detective Pikachu (dir. Rob Letterman) Grade A
  • Escape Room (dir. Adam Robitel) Grade C-
  • Greta (dir. Neil Jordan) Grade B-
  • Gloria Bell (dir. Sebastián Lelio) Grade B
  • Happy Death Day 2U (dir. Christopher Landon) Grade B
  • The Haunting of Sharon Tate (dir. Daniel Farrands) Grade F
  • MA (dir. Tate Taylor) Grade D-
  • Pet Semetary (dir. Kevin Kölsch) Grade C+
  • Toy Story 4 (dir. Josh Cooley) Grade B
  • Velvet Buzzsaw (dir. Dan Gilroy) Grade F
  • Us (dir. Jordan Peele) Grade A, Read Review

2018:

  • Adrift (dir. Baltasar Kormákur) Grade B+
  • Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland) A+, Best of 2018
  • Beautiful Boy (dir. Felix van Goeningen) Grade D-
  • Bird Box (dir. Susanne Bier) Grade C-
  • BlacKKKlansman (dir. Spike Lee) Grade B
  • Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • Blockers (dir. Kay Cannon) Grade B+, Best of 2018
  • Bohemian Rhapsody (dir. Bryan Singer) Grade F
  • Book Club (dir. Bill Holderman) Grade B-
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (dir. Marielle Heller) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • Crazy Rich Asians (dir. John M. Chu) Grade B+, Best of 2018
  • Eighth Grade (dir. Bo Burnham) Grade A-, Best of 2018
  • The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • Fifty Shades Freed (dir. James Foley) Grade F
  • The First Purge (dir. Gerald McMurray) Grade F
  • First Man (dir. Damien Chazalle) Grade C
  • Game Night (dir. John Francis Dakey & Jonathan Goldstein) Grade B+, Best of 2018
  • Halloween (dir. David Gordon Green) Grade C
  • Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • Incredibles 2 (dir. Brad Bird) Grade A+
  • Love Simon (dir. Greg Berlanti) Grade B
  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (dir. Ol Parker) Grade B
  • Mary Poppins Returns (dir. Rob Marshall) Grade B
  • Private Life (dir. Tamara Jenkins) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • Ocean’s 8 (dir. Gary Ross) Grade B+
  • The Old Man and the Gun (dir. David Lowrey) Grade B-
  • A Quiet Place (dir. John Krasinski) Grade A-
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet (dir. Rich Moore & Phil Johnston) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • RBG (dir. Betsy West & Julie Cohen) Grade B-
  • Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón) Grade A, Best of 2018
  • A Simple Favor (dir. Paul Feig) Grade A, Best of 2018
  • Searching (dir. Aneesh Chaganty) Grade A
  • Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley) Grade C-
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (dir. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman) Grade A+, Best of 2018
  • A Star Is Born (dir. Bradley Cooper) Grade B, Best of 2018
  • The Strangers: Prey at Night (dir. Johannes Roberts) Grade F
  • Support the Girls (dir. Andrew Bujalski) Grade B+
  • Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino) Grade A-, Best of 2018
  • To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (dir. Susan Johnson) Grade A, Best of 2018
  • Tully (dir. Jason Reitman) Grade A, Best of 2018
  • Unfriended: Dark Web (dir. Stephen Susco) Grade B
  • Unsane (dir. Steven Soderbergh) Grade A, Best of 2018
  • Whitney (dir. Kevin McDonald) Grade B+
  • Widows (dir. Steve McQueen) Grade A, Best of 2018
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (dir. Morgan Neville) Grade A
  • The Wife (dir. Björn Runge) Grade: C-
  • Under the Silver Lake (dir. David Robert Mitchell) Grade F
  • Vice (dir. Adam McKay) Grade F
  • Vox Lux (dir. Brady Corbet) Grade F

2017:

  • Alien: Covenant (dir. Ridley Scott) Grade B, Read Review
  • Amityville: The Awakening (dir. Frank Khalfoun) Grade F
  • Atomic Blonde (dir. David Leitch) Grade A
  • Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) Grade A+
  • A Bad Mom’s Christmas (dir. John Lucas & Scott Moore) Grade B
  • Battle of the Sexes (dir. Johnathan Dayton & Valerie Faris) Grade A-
  • Beauty and the Beast (dir. Bill Condon) Grade C, Read Review
  • Beach Rats (dir. Eliza Hittman) Grade B
  • Beatriz at Dinner (dir. Mike White) Grade B
  • The Beguiled (dir. Sophia Coppola) Grade B-
  • Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Dennis Villanueve) Grade A-
  • Colossal (dir. Nacho Vigalondo) Grade A-, Read Review
  • Columbus (dir. Kogonada) Grade A+
  • A Cure For Wellness (dir. Gore Verbinski) Grade B-
  • Downsizing (dir. Alexander Payne) Grade D
  • The Disaster Artist (dir. James Franco) Grade B
  • Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan) Grade A+
  • The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker) Grade C
  • Free Fire (dir. Ben Wheatley) Grade C
  • Fifty Shades Darker (dir. James Foley) Grade F
  • Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele) Grade A+
  • A Ghost Story (dir. David Lowry) Grade F
  • Girls Trip (dir. Malcom D. Lee) Grade A
  • Good Time (dir. Ben Safdie & Joshua Safdie) Grade C-
  • Happy Death Day (dir. Christopher B. Landon), Read Review
  • It (dir. Andrés Muschietti) Grade B
  • It Comes At Night (dir. Trey Edward Schults) Grade D+
  • I, Tonya (dir. Craig Gillespie) Grade B+, Read Review
  • Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig) Grade A+, Read Review
  • Landline (dir. Gillian Robespierre) Grade B+
  • Life (dir. Daniel Espinosa) Grade B-
  • Logan (dir. James Mangold) Grade B
  • The Lost City of Z (dir. James Gray) Grade B+
  • The Killing of A Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos Grade B
  • Molly’s Game (dir. Aaron Sorkin) Grade B+
  • mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky) Grade C/D, Read Review
  • Okja (dir. Bong Joon-ho) Grade A+
  • Personal Shopper (dir. Olivier Assayas) Grade A-, Read Review
  • Rough Night (dir. Lucia Aniello) Grade F
  • The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo del Toro) Grade A+
  • Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh) Grade D
  • Song to Song (dir. Terrence Malick) Grade F
  • Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (dir. Rian Johnson) Grade A
  • The Zookeeper’s Wife (dir. Niki Caro) Grade B-

2016:

  • 13th (dir. Ava DuVernay) Grade A+
  • Amanda Knox (dir. Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn) Grade B-
  • American Honey (dir. Andrea Arnold) Grade B
  • Arrival (dir. Denis Villeneuve) Grade A+, Read Review
  • Batman Vs. Superman (dir. Zack Snyder) Grade F, Read Review
  • Blair Witch (dir. Adam Wingard) Grade C, Read Review
  • The Boss (dir. Ben Falcone) Grade B-
  • The Conjuring 2 (dir. James  Wan) Grade B+
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane (dir. Dan Trachtenberg) Grade A, Read Review
  • Deadpool (dir. Tim Miller) Grade B
  • Don’t Breathe (dir. Fede Alvarez) Grade A
  • The Edge of Seventeen (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig) Grade A-
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (dir. David Yates) Grade C-
  • Fences (dir. Denzel Washington) Grade B
  • Florence Foster Jenkins (dir. Stephen Frears) Grade B
  • Finding Dory (dir. Andrew Stanton & Agnus MacLane) Grade B+
  • The Girl On the Train (dir. Tate Taylor) Grade C, Read Review
  • Green Room (dir. Jeremy Saulnier) Grade A-
  • Ghostbusters (dir. Paul Feig) Grade B+
  • The Handmaiden (dir. Park Chan-wook) Grade A
  • Hello My Name Is Doris (dir. Michael Showalter) Grade A-
  • Hell or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie ) Grade C-
  • Hush (dir. Mike Flanagan) Grade B
  • Indignation (dir. James Schamus) Grade B+
  • Jackie (dir. Pablo Larraín) Grade A+ Read Review
  • Jane Got A Gun (dir. Gavin O’Connor) Grade B-
  • La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle) Grade C, Read Review
  • Lights Out (dir. David S. Sandberg) Grade C-
  • Lion (dir. Garth Davis) Grade B
  • The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) Grade B
  • Loving (dir. Jeff Nichols) Grade B
  • Love and Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman) Grade A+
  • Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan) Grade D, Read Review
  • The Meddler (dir. Lorene Scafaria) Grade A-
  • Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (dir. Jake Szymanski) Grade B-
  • Miss Sloan (dir. John Madden) Grade B
  • Moana (dir. Ron Clements & John Musker) Grade A-
  • Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins) Grade A+
  • Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (dir. Nicholas Stoller) Grade B-
  • The Neon Demon (dir. Nicholas Winding Refn) Grade D-, Read Review
  • Nocturnal Animals (dir. Tom Ford) Grade F
  • O.J.: Made In America (dir. Erza Edelman) Grade A
  • Other People (dir. Chris Kelly ) Grade B+
  • Queen of Katwe (dir. Mira Nair) Grade A-, Read Review
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (dir. Gareth Edwards) Grade B, Read Review
  • Silence (dir. Martin Scorsese) Grade C-
  • Suicide Squad (dir. David Ayer) Grade D, Read Review
  • Swiss Army Man (dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Grade B-
  • Things To Come (dir. Mia Hansen Løve) Grade B
  • The Witch (dir. Robert Eggers) Grade A, Read Review
  • X-Men: Apocalypse (dir. Bryan Singer) Grade C-
  • Zootopia (dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Jared Bush) Grade A+

2015:

  • The Avengers: Age of Ultron (dir. Joss Whedon) Grade C
  • Beasts of No Nation (dir. Carey Fukunaga) Grade A-
  • The Boy Next Door (dir. Rob Cohen) Grade D
  • Bridge of Spies (dir. Steven Spielberg) Grade B
  • Brooklyn (dir. John Crowley) Grade A+
  • Carol (dir. Todd Haynes) Grade A+
  • Ch-Raq (dir. Spike Lee) Grade B-
  • Cinderella (dir. Kenneth Branagh) Grade A-
  • Clouds of Sils Maria (dir. Olivier Assayas) Grade B
  • Creed (dir. Ryan Coogler) Grade B+
  • The Danish Girl (dir. Tom Hooper) Grade C-
  • Dark Places (dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner) Grade C+
  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl (dir. Marielle Heller) Grade B+
  • The End of the Tour (dir. James Ponsoldt) Grade B+
  • Ex-Machina (dir. Alex Garland) Grade A
  • Freeheld (dir. Peter Sollet) Grade C-
  • Grandma (dir. Paul Weit) Grade A
  • The Gift (dir. Joel Edgerton) Grade A-
  • The Hateful Eight (dir. Quentin Tarantino) Grade F, Read Review
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (dir. Francis Lawrence) Grade B-
  • The Hunting Ground (dir. Kirby Dick) Grade A
  • I’ll See You In My Dreams (dir. Brett Haley) Grade A
  • Inside Out (dir. Pete Doctor) Grade A+
  • It Follows (dir. David Robert Mitchell) Grade C-
  • JOY (dir. David O. Russell) Grade F, Read Review
  • Jurassic World (dir. Colin Trevorrow) Grade B-
  • Laggier (dir. Lynn Shelton) Grade B+
  • Lila & Eve (dir. Charles Stone III) Grade C-
  • Lost River (dir. Ryan Gosling) Grade F
  • Love & Mercy (dir. Bill Pohlad)
  • The Last Five Years (dir. Richard LaGravenese) Grade B-
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller) Grade A+
  • Magic Mike XXL (dir. Gregory Jacobs) Grade B
  • The Martian (dir. Ridley Scott) Grade C
  • Me And Earl And The Dying Girl (dir. Alfonso Gomez-Ramirez) Grade B+
  • Pitch Perfect 2 (dir. Elizabeth Banks) Grade D+
  • Queen of Earth (dir. Alexander Ross Perry) Grade A-
  • The Revenant (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu) Grade B/B-, Read Review
  • Room (dir. Lenny Abrahamson) Grade A+
  • Sicario (dir. Denis Villeneuve) Grade A+
  • Spotlight (dir. Tom McCarthy) Grade B
  • Spy (dir. Paul Feig) Grade A
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (dir. JJ Abrams ) Grade A-
  • Steve Jobs (dir. Danny Boyle) Grade B+
  • Tangerine (dir. Sean S. Baker) Grade A-
  • Trainwreck (dir. Judd Apatow) Grade C
  • Trumbo (dir. Jay Roach) Grade C-
  • Welcome to Me (dir. Shira Piven) Grade C
  • Youth (dir. Paolo Sortentino) Grade B-
  • 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh) Grade A-
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