2020
Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible provides a pleasant and appealing overview of Duchamp’s life and career without truly challenging the viewer.
Good Ol Girl succeeds in bringing attention where attention is due, and providing an understanding to the changes Texas ranchers must embrace if they are to survive.
Bloodshot attempts to do something “different”, but retains to many of the clichés its predecessors have befallen to.
Julia Hart’s Stargirl is a decent adaptation of the beloved young adult novel, but it’s incredibly underwhelming.
Like last year’s Academy Award-winning Parasite, Bacurau manages to turn the class struggle into inventive entertainment without its overall message losing any of its potency.
Devs continues to fascinate, pulling us into this world and its increasingly more complex characters and stories.
Young Ahmed and Corpus Christi both examine religion and its grip on the individual. Soham Gadre reviews both.
Blow the Man Down is a careful study about growing up following a tragedy, about fending for oneself, and about the oddness in towns that people inhabit.
Ordinary Love’s minimalist approach to the narrative puts a lot of pressure on the performers, but fortunately, Manville, Neeson and Wilmot shine through at nearly every instance.
The Way Back is a deeply affecting and moving redemption story anchored by an absolutely outstanding performance from Ben Affleck.
Linear as can be, D. Wade: Life Unexpected will satisfy fans of the superstar and fans of the NBA, acting more as a gloss-over and less as an in-detail retrospective.
Halina Dyrschka’s new documentary reveals the life and work of Hilma Af Klint, but fails to overcome its by-the-numbers approach.
Carried by a brilliant performance from Bennett, Swallow is a disturbingly effective psychological study focused on the extreme lengths one will go to declare independence in the face of oppression.
Well-acted, and relentlessly brutal, Hunters has the ability to garner more attention but falls short from being memorable.
The problem is not only that The Jesus Rolls doesn’t work as either a Lebowski spinoff or a Going Places remake, but that this movie barely works as anything.