Time Out
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
Here For Life (2019)
...something special about Londoners and their relationships with drugs, violence and homelessness against the backdrop of a gentrifying city. It's not to be missed.
Posted Dec 27, 2019
2
3/5
Cats (2019)
Cats may flop but it will be found by a likeminded audience, maybe the same one that rescued The Greatest Showman. Don't be the sourpuss to tell these people they're wrong.
Posted Dec 18, 2019
3
3/5
It feels like a massive retrenchment -- privately, a rebellion seems to have been fought and lost -- and only the most loyal fans will be happy about it.
Posted Dec 18, 2019
4
2/5
Black Christmas (2019)
It's a movie made for a syllabus, not to entertain.
Posted Dec 12, 2019
5
3/5
Richard Jewell (2019)
6
3/5
Bombshell (2019)
The material is worthy, but this continuing struggle deserves a more nuanced take.
Posted Dec 9, 2019
7
4/5
The Kingmaker (2019)
The first half is a conventional biography but as it progresses, 'The Kingmaker' takes shape as an acute study of the psychology of power.
Posted Dec 9, 2019
8
3/5
This shallow but sharply performed Danish thriller scores high marks for style and zero for political commentary.
Posted Dec 9, 2019
9
4/5
Undocument (2019)
A significant addition to the growing number of urgent, timely films on the global migrant crisis.
Posted Dec 9, 2019
10
4/5
Pink Wall (2019)
What makes it stand out from the well-stocked ranks of indie relationship dramas is the way Cullen plays with traditional gender expectations.
Posted Dec 9, 2019
11
2/5
QT8: The First Eight (2019)
For all the fun clips and well-placed interviewees, this Tarantino doc has all the critical punch of a DVD extra.
Posted Dec 9, 2019
12
3/5
The plot, which heads off in some improbable directions, recalls 'The Spy Who Loved Me' in a way you suspect it's not supposed to.
Posted Nov 29, 2019
13
4/5
The Biggest Little Farm (2019)
Like a cross between 'Microcosmos' and an origin story for Old MacDonald, this wonderful doc is possibly the most joyous 90 minutes you'll spend in a cinema this year.
Posted Nov 28, 2019
14
4/5
The Cave (2019)
15
3/5
Queen & Slim (2019)
Investing their roles with a somber thoughtfulness, the leads do exquisite work, even when the situation pushes them toward bad decisions or stereotypes.
Posted Nov 27, 2019
16
4/5
The Two Popes (2019)
17
5/5
1917 (2020)
18
5/5
Little Women (2019)
If this isn't the Little Women you remember, either on page or screen, that's understandable. But it's likely the one you felt, and that's more important.
Posted Nov 25, 2019
19
3/5
Varda by Agnès (2019)
The late documentarian's final work is a literal master class: a filmed lecture during which she rambles enjoyably through her greatest hits.
Posted Nov 22, 2019
20
4/5
21 Bridges (2019)
It's the kind of role Gary Cooper used to play, albeit in a dusty Western town rather than gritty New York.
Posted Nov 22, 2019
21
Gamlet (Hamlet) (1964)
There's a genuine cinematic imagination at work here.
Posted Nov 20, 2019
22
3/5
Dark Waters (2019)
23
4/5
Frozen II (2019)
24
2/5
Charlie's Angels (2019)
25
3/5
A solid, if not quite exceptional, time-passer.
Posted Nov 12, 2019
26
3/5
The Good Liar (2019)
The big reveal of this con-man potboiler may be weapons-grade tosh, but you shouldn't let it detract too much from the enjoyable ride to that point.
Posted Nov 8, 2019
27
3/5
Final Destination 5 (2011)
28
3/5
Last Christmas (2019)
It's purpose-built for anyone who's watched 'The Holiday' maybe six times too often.
Posted Nov 7, 2019
29
3/5
Midway (2019)
30
2/5
Harriet (2019)
31
3/5
Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
32
2/5
Driven (2019)
It's like someone got hold of all the wardrobe rejects from 'Boogie Nights' and built a movie around them.
Posted Nov 1, 2019
33
2/5
A Dog Called Money (2019)
If you've ever wondered what the boredom threshold is for watching a musician tuning a hurdy-gurdy, you'll find the answer here.
Posted Nov 1, 2019
34
2/5
Luce (2019)
This earnest race drama occasionally flirts with turning into a sociopath thriller. You'll kind of wish it did.
Posted Nov 1, 2019
35
4/5
The Aeronauts (2019)
Suspend all disbelief, hold tight to the wicker basket and go along for the ride.
Posted Nov 1, 2019
36
2/5
Doctor Sleep (2019)
37
4/5
Western Stars (2019)
It's the cutaways between songs that stitch it all together with an emotional thread that charts its subject's struggles over the decades.
Posted Oct 29, 2019
38
3/5
Countdown (2019)
39
2/5
It's all a lot of effort for very little output, sadly. The Current War has lots of flashy lights and whizzy features, but it remains fatally underpowered.
Posted Oct 24, 2019
40
2/5
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Even with the original stars returning, the sequel feels weightless, disposable and hardly the stuff of Skynet nightmares.
Posted Oct 22, 2019
41
2/5
The Addams Family (2019)
Its celebration of misunderstood outsiderdom is too generic to amount to much more than a bargain-basement 'Despicable Me'.
Posted Oct 18, 2019
42
2/5
The Beach Bum (2019)
You'll need a lot of patience - or weed - to stick with Harmony Korine's paper-thin, larky portrait of a literary bum in crisis.
Posted Oct 18, 2019
43
2/5
Black and Blue (2019)
This cheesy thriller is the quattro formaggi of cop films.
Posted Oct 18, 2019
44
4/5
There's no grandstanding here; François Ozon's interest is in showing how these vile acts can warp lives before they've even got started.
Posted Oct 18, 2019
45
4/5
Official Secrets (2019)
While it'll do nothing to restore trust in the august bodies that rule the land, it's a pacy, palm-clammying watch.
Posted Oct 18, 2019
46
3/5
It's far more clean-cut than Motown's origins ever were...but if you're a sucker for the hits of the '60s and '70s, this is a nostalgic temptation you won't want to miss.
Posted Oct 17, 2019
47
3/5
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Heroically, Double Tap's new actors, rare though they are, save it from being completely brain-dead.
Posted Oct 16, 2019
48
3/5
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
As the nemesis to Angelina Jolie's red-lipped siren, Pfeiffer gives us exactly what we want -- the same hissing Catwoman attitude she heated up for Mother!
Posted Oct 15, 2019
49
4/5
Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2020)
As the tragedy unfolds, there's a strange solace in seeing this captivating enigma somehow emerging intact.
Posted Oct 11, 2019
50
3/5