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Monday
May282018

2018 Films, By Grade

99 films
THEATRICAL OR STREAMING
By Grade (or view alphabetically)
Last Updated 01/03/2019

A  /  A-  / B+  Favorites. Special. See Them


BlacKkKlansman  (Spike Lee) Review
Burning
 (Lee Chang-dong) Review
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
(Marielle Heller) Review
Disobedience 
(Sebastian Lelio)  Review 
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) Review
Hereditary
 (Ari Aster) Review
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson) Appropriation or HomageJapanese viewCapsule 
Roma
(Alfonso Cuarón) Review 
Shoplifters (Koreeda)
A Simple Favor
(Paul Feig) Capsule
A Star is Born
(Bradley Cooper) Review, Podcast
Support the Girls
(Andrew Bujalski)
Tully 
(Jason Reitman) ReviewScreenplay
We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar) Review 
Western (Valeska Grisebach) Capsule
Wildlife (Paul Dano) Review 

B+ | B  Also Strong. See Them.


Black Panther (Ryan Coogler) Podcast
Border (Ali Abbas)
Boy Erased
(Joel Edgerton)
The Cakemaker
(Ophir Raul Graizer)
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Crazy Rich Asians
(Jon M Chu) Review
Destroyer
(Karyn Kusama) Review 
First Man (Damien Chazelle) Review
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
I Feel Pretty (Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein) 
The Kindergarten Teacher (Sara Colangelo) Capsule
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
Love Simon
 (Greg Berlanti) ReviewScreenplay
Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall)
Museo (Alsono Ruiz Palacios) Capsule
Paddington 2 ()
Quiet Place, A
 (John Krasinski)  Review2nd OpinionScreenplay 
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Ramsey, Perischetti Jr, Rothman)
The Rider (Chloe Zhao)
What They Had (Elizabeth Chomko)
Widows (Steve McQueen) Review

B  |  B- Worth Seeing. Recommended With Reservations


1985 (Yen Tan)
Annihilation (Alex Garland)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed)
Aquaman
(James Wan)
Blame 
(Quinn Shephard) Review 
Book Club (Bill Holderman) Review 
El Angel (Luis Ortega)
Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (Jon Olb & Madeleine Parry) Review 
The Hate U Give (George Tillman, Jr) 
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (John Cameron Mitchell) 
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) Review
Incredibles 2, The (Brad Bird)
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again 
(Ol Parker) Review
Miseducation of Cameron Post, The (Desiree Akhavan) 
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie) Review 
Ruben Brandt: Collector () 
Saturday Church (Damon Cardasis)
Stan & Ollie (Jon S Baird) 
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle) Review 
Tito and the Birds (Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto)
Where is Kyra
(Andrew Domanascenu) Review 
Wife, The (Bjorn Runge) Review

B- | C+  Some good moments. See if you're in the right mood

Ben is Back (Peter Hedges)
Avengers: Infinity War (Russo Brothers) Review
Early Man
(Nick Park)
The Front Runner
(Jason Reitman)
Good Manners (Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas) 
Life of the Party (Ben Falcone)  
Mrs Hyde 
(Serge Bozon) Review
Mary Shelley (Haifaa al-Mansour) Review, Interview 
Oceans 8 (Gary Ross)
Ralph Breaks the Internet ()
Solo
 (Ron Howard) ReviewDirector Switcheroos 
Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
Under the Tree (Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson) 
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet) 

C     ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bleach (Shinsuke Sato)
Children Act, The (Richard Eyre)
Colette (Wash Westmoreland)
Dumplin' ()
Pacific Rim: Uprising (Steven S DeKnight) Capsule 
Racer and the Jailbird
(Michael R Roskam) Review 
Tito and the Birds (Bitar, Catoto, Steinberg)
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (Susan Johnson)
Zama (Lucretia Martel) Review2nd "A" opinion 

 

C- | D+  Nah, no thanks. (But sometimes "Bad movies we love")

Alex Strangelove (Craig Johnson)
Beautiful Boy
(Felix Van Groeningen)
Bird Box (Susanne Bier)
Bohemian Rhapsody
(Bryan Singer)
Deadpool 2 (David Leitch)
Endless, The 
(Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead) Review 
The Happytime Murders (Brian Henson)
On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder)
Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg) Review
Sierra Burgess is a Loser
(Ian Samuels)
Tomb Raider (Roar Uthaug)
Unsane (Steven Soderbergh) Capsule 
Vice (Adam McKay) 
A Wrinkle in Time (Ava DuVernay) Review  

D | D - | F  Oh god make it stop!


Darkest Minds, The (Jennifer Yuh Nelson)
Kings (Denis Gamze Erguven) Review 

Tuesday
Jan162018

2017 Films, By Grade

RELEASED FILMS ONLY (THEATRICAL OR VOD)
By Grade (or view alphabetically)
Last Updated 1/07/2018

A  /  A-  / B+ Favorites. Special. See Them

TOP TEN

Atomic Blonde (David Leitch) ReviewPodcast 
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
(Robin Campillo) Review
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) Review
Battle of the Sexes  (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris) PodcastCapsule
Call Me By Your Name  (Luca Guadagnino) "I'm Armie
Florida Project, The (Sean Baker) Chris's ReviewJason's Take
Get Out  (Jordan Peele) ReviewProduction Design 
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) Review2nd Opinon 
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
mother!  (Darren Aronofsky)   ReviewPodcast
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) 

other favorites

Coco (Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina)
Darkest Hour   (Joe Wright) Review (NOV 22nd)
Florida Project, The (Sean Baker) Chris's ReviewJason's Take
Frantz (François Ozon, France) ReviewProduction Design
God's Own Country  (Francis Lee)
Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)
Kedi (Ceyda Torun)
Loveless  (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Thelma (Joachim Trier)  Review 
Wedding Plan, The (Rama Burshtein) 
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins) ReviewAlamo DrafthouseTen Fav Things

unreleased but they'd fall here
Future Perfect, The (Nele Wohlatz, Argentina) Review 
Seen and Unseen, The (Kamila Andini) Review 

B+ | B Also Strong. See Them.


 

Beach Rats  (Eliza Hittman) ReviewPodcast
Big Sick, The (Michael Showalter)  Review
Boss Baby (Tom McGrath) Review 
Commune, The  (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)  Review 
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) Podcast 
Fantastic Woman, A (Sebastian Lelio) Review
Girls Trip (Malcolm D Lee) ReviewPodcast
Land of Mine (Martin Pieter Zandvliet)  Interview
Lost City of Z (James Gray) Review2nd OpinionProduction Design
Lovers, The (Azazel Jacobs) Review 
Ornithologist, The (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)  Review 
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas) Review 
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson) Podcast 
Shape of Water, The (Guillermo del Toro)  Capsule 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (Martin McDonagh) 
Wonder (Stephen Chbosky)

unreleased but they'd fall here
Ice Mother (Bohdan Sláma) 
Mademoiselle Paradis (Barbara Albert) Review  

B  |  B-
Worth Seeing. Recommended With Reservations


Beguiled, The  (Sofia Coppola)  Podcast
Blade Runner 2049  (Denis Villeneuve) CapsuleShort Films 
Bombshell: The Story of Hedy Lamarr (Alexandra Dean) 
Breadwinner, The (Nora Twomey) Review 
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie  (David Soren)
Downsizing (Alexander Payne) Review 
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (Paul McGuigan)  Capsule 
Greatest Showman, The (Michael Gracey)
Handsome Devil (Robert Butler, Ireland)  ReviewInterview 
Logan (James Mangold)  Review 
Mudbound (Dee Rees) Review
Paris 05:59 (Olivier Ducastel & Jacques MartineauReview2nd Opinion 
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Post, The (Steven Spielberg)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts) ReviewPodcast 
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)
Sweet Virginia
 (Jamie M Dagg)  Review 
War of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves) 
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan) Review
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen) 
Zookeeper's Wife, The (Niki Caro) Review

unreleased but they'd fall here
Spoor 
(Agnieska Holland) 

B- | C+  They have their moments. But make sure you're in the right mood


Abundant Acreage Available (Angus Maclachlan) Review 
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)  Review 
Catfight (Onur Tikel) Review2nd Opinion 
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) ReviewProduction Design 
Gifted (Marc Webb)
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Review 
Hero, The (Brett Haley) 
It (Andy Muschietti)
Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Menashe (Joshua Weinstein)  Review 
Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin) 
My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell) Podcast 
Novitiate (Maggie Betts)
Roman J Israel Esq (Dan Gilroy)
Sense of an Ending, The (Ritesh Batra) ReviewInterview 
Split (M Night Shyamalan)  Interview 
Tom of Finland (Dome Karukoski) 
V
ictoria and Abdul (Stephen Frears)  Capsule 
The Wound (John Trengove)

unreleased but they'd fall here
Happiness Academy
 (Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita, France) Review  
Mary Shelley (Haifaa al-Mansour) Review 
Sheikh Jackson (Amr Salama) Review 

C    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, The (David France)  Review
Detroit (Katherine Bigelow)  Podcast 
Disaster Artist (James Franco)
Ghost in the Shell
 (Rupert Sanders) 
Glass Castle, The (Destin Cretton) Review
Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)  Review 
Life (Daniel Espinosa) Review 
Murder on the Orient Express (Kenneth Branagh)
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
 
(Dash Shaw) Review
Snatched (Jonathan Levine) Review 
Wall, The (Doug Liman) 

 

C- | D+ Nah, no thanks. (But sometimes "Bad movies we love")


Beauty and the Beast  (Bill Condon) Review 
Fifty Shades Darker (James Foley) Reviewish
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie) Review 
Justice League (Zach Snyder)
Mountain Between Us (Hany Abu-Assad) Review 
Power Rangers (Dean Israelite) 

unreleased but they'd fall here
Endless, The (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead) Review
Euphoria (Lisa Langseth) Review
Sexy Durga (Sanalkumar Sasidharan) Review

 

D | D - | F Make it stop

Bad Batch, The (Ana Lily Armipour) Review
Baywatch (Seth Gordon) Reviewish 
i
Boy (Adam Randall)  

unreleased but they'd fall here
Kings (Denis Gamze Erguven) Review 

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