Reviews

2022 Reviews

18 1/2 (Review) 3.5
The 355 2.0
The Adam Project (Review) 3.0
After Yang 3.5
Aftersun 4.0
Alice 2.0
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 4.5
All the Old Knives (Review) 3.0
All Quiet on the Western Front (Review) 4.5
Ambulance (Review) 2.5
Babylon (Review) 3.5
The Bad Guys (Review) 3.0
The Banshees of Inisherin (Review) 5.0 – (Piecing It Together Podcast Episode)
The Batman 3.5
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 3.5
Blonde (Review) 4.0
Bones and All (Review) 3.5
Breaking 3.5
Bullet Train (Review) 3.5
Call Jane (Review) 3.5
The Cathedral 2.0
Causeway (Review) 3.5
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Review) 4.5
Confess, Fletch 3.0
Corsage 3.5
DC League of Super-Pets 3.0
Death on the Nile 2.0
Decision to Leave (Review) 4.5
Descendant 4.0
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Review) 3.0
Elvis 3.0
Emancipation (Review) 2.5
Emergency (Review) 3.5
Emily the Criminal (Review) 4.0
Empire of Light (Review) 3.5
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Review) 4.5
The Fabelmans (Review) 3.0
Family Squares (Review) 3.0
Father Stu (Review) 2.5
Fire Island (Review) 3.5
Fire of Love 4.0
FRESH (Review) 4.0
Girl Picture 4.5
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Review) 4.5 – (The Film Critic & The Common Man Podcast Episode)
God’s Country 3.0
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Review) 4.5
Good Night Oppy (Review) 3.5
Goodnight Mommy (Review) 2.0
The Gray Man 2.5 – (The Film Critic & The Common Man Podcast Episode)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Review) 3.0
GDT’s Pinocchio (Review) 4.0
Hellraiser (Review) 2.0
Holy Spider 4.0
Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul 3.0
Hustle (Review) 3.5
I Didn’t See You There 2.5
I Want You Back 3.5
Infinite Storm (Review) 3.0
The Inspection 4.0
Jackass Forever 3.0
The Janes 3.5
Jerry and Marge Go Large 3.0
Jurassic World Dominion (Review) 2.0 – (Film Code Podcast Episode)
Kimi (Review) 4.0
Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Review) 3.0
Lightyear (Review) 3.0
Living (Review) 4.0
The Lost City (Review) 3.0
A Love Song 3.5
Luck (Review) 2.5
Lucy and Desi (Review) 3.5
A Man Called Otto 3.5
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Review) 4.0
The Menu 4.0
Morbius (Review) 2.0
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Review) 4.0
My Dead Dad (Review) 2.5
Nanny 4.0
Navalny 4.0
Nitram (Review) 4.5
Nope (Review) 4.0
The Northman (Review) 4.0
Operation Mincemeat (Review) 3.0
Our Father (Review) 3.5
Piggy 3.0
Pleasure 3.5
Prey (Review) 4.0
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 3.5
Resurrection (Review) 4.0
Rosaline (Review) 3.0
RRR 4.0
Saint Omer (Review) 4.0
See How They Run 3.0
Sharp Stick 1.5
She Said (Review) 4.0
The Son (Review) 2.0
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2.5
Spirited 3.0
Sundown (Review) 3.0
TÁR (Review) 4.0
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1.0
Thor: Love and Thunder (Review) 3.0
Ticket to Paradise 3.0
Till (Review) 4.0
Top Gun: Maverick (Review) 4.0
Triangle of Sadness 4.0
Turning Red (Review) 4.0
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 3.5
Uncharted (Review) 2.0
The Whale (Review) 3.0
White Noise (Review) 2.5
Windfall (Review) 3.5
The Woman King 4.0
Women Talking (Review) 4.5
The Wonder (Review) 4.0
X 2.5
You Won’t Be Alone 3.5

2022 Sundance Film Festival

892 (Review) 3.5
After Yang (Review) 3.5
Alice (Review) 2.0
Call Jane (Review) 3.5
The Cathedral (Review) 2.0
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Review) 4.5
Descendant (Review) 4.0
Emergency (Review) 3.5
Emily the Criminal (Review) 4.0
Fire of Love (Review) 4.0
FRESH (Review) 4.0
Girl Picture (Review) 4.5
God’s Country (Review) 3.0
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Review) 4.5
Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul (Review) 3.0
I Didn’t See You There (Review) 2.5
The Janes (Review) 3.5
A Love Song (Review) 3.5
Nanny (Review) 4.0
Navalny (Review) 4.0
PIGGY (Review) 3.0
Resurrection (Review) 4.0
Sharp Stick (Review) 1.5
Short Term 12 (Review) 3.5
We Need to Talk About Cosby (Review) 4.5
When You Finish Saving the World (Review) 2.5
You Won’t Be Alone (Review) 3.5

2021 Reviews

Annette (Review) 2.0
Army of the Dead (Review) 2.0
Ascension 3.5
Attica 4.0
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 3.0
Being the Ricardos (Review) 3.0
Belfast (Review) 3.0
Benedetta 3.0
Bergman Island (Review) 4.5
Black Widow (Review) 3.5
Boiling Point (Review) 4.0
Boss Baby: Family Business 2.5
Boss Level (Review) 3.0
C’mon C’mon 4.5
The Card Counter 3.5
Clifford the Big Red Dog 2.0
CODA (Review) 4.0
Coming 2 America 2.5
The Courier (Review) 3.0
Cruella (Review) 3.0
Cyrano (Review) 4.0
Don’t Look Up (Review) 2.0
Drive My Car (Review) 4.5
Dune (Review) 4.0
Encanto 4.0
Eternals 3.5
The Eyes of Tammy Faye 3.0
False Positive (Review) 3.0
Finch (Review) 3.5
Flee 4.5
Four Good Days 2.0
Free Guy (Review) 3.0
The French Dispatch 4.0
Godzilla vs. Kong 3.0
The Green Knight (Review) 4.0
Gunpowder Milkshake (Review) 3.0
The Hand of God (Review) 3.5
The Harder They Fall 4.0
A Hero (Review) 4.5
Holler (Review) 3.5
House of Gucci 2.5
The Humans 3.0
I’m Your Man 3.5
In the Heights (Review) 4.0
Jockey (Review) 3.5
Jungle Cruise 2.5
King Richard (Review) 4.0
Language Lessons (Review) 3.5
The Last Duel 3.5
Licorice Pizza 4.0
The Lost Daughter (Review) 3.5
Luca 4.0
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Review) 3.5
Malignant 2.5
Mass (Review) 4.5
Mayday (Review) 4.0
The Mitchells vs. The Machines 3.5
Monster (Review) 3.5
Mortal Kombat (Review) 1.5
Moxie 3.0
Nightmare Alley 2.0
Nine Days (Review) 5.0
No Sudden Move (Review) 3.5
No Time to Die (Review) 4.0
Nobody (Review) 2.5
The Novice 4.0
Parallel Mothers 4.0
Passing (Review) 4.0
Paw Patrol: The Movie 3.0
Petite Maman 4.5
Pig (Review) 4.5
Plan B (Review) 4.0
The Power of the Dog (Review) 5.0
Prisoners of the Ghostland (Review) 1.5
Procession 4.0
Profile (Review) 2.5
Raya and the Last Dragon 3.5
Red Notice 2.0
Red Rocket (Review) 4.0
Reminiscence (Review) 2.5
The Rescue 4.5
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 3.5
Shiva Baby (Review) 4.0
Silent Night (Review) 3.5
Sing 2 3.5
Space Jam: A New Legacy 1.0
Spencer (Review) 4.5
Spider-Man: No Way Home 4.0
Stowaway (Review) 3.5
The Suicide Squad (Review) 3.5
Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 4.5
Swan Song (Review) 3.5
The Tender Bar 3.0
Those Who Wish Me Dead (Review) 2.5
Thunder Force 2.0
Tick, Tick…BOOM! (Review) 4.0
Titane (Review) 4.5
Together Together (Review) 4.0
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (Review) 2.5
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Review) 4.5
Vivo (Review) 3.5
The Water Man (Review) 2.5
West Side Story 3.0
The Woman in the Window (Review) 3.0
The Worst Person in the World (Review) 5.0
Worth (Review) 4.0
Writing with Fire (Review) 4.0
Zola (Review) 4.0

2020 Reviews

Another Round 4.0
The Assistant (Review) 4.5
Bad Boys for Life 2.0
Better Days 3.5
Birds of Prey 3.0
Collective (Review) 4.5
Crip Camp (Review) 4.0
Da 5 Bloods 4.0
Dolittle 1.5
Downhill 3.5
Emma. 4.0
Enola Holmes 3.0
Eurovision 3.0
Extraction 3.0
The Father (Review) 4.5
First Cow 4.0
French Exit (Review) 4.0
Greyhound 3.5
Happiest Season 3.5
Hillbilly Elegy 1.5
I Care A Lot (Review) 3.5
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Review) 2.5
Irresistible 3.0
The Invisible Man 3.5
Judas and the Black Messiah (Review) 4.5
The Life Ahead 3.5
The Little Things (Review) 2.0
Love and Monsters (Review) 3.5
The Lovebirds 2.5
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 3.5
Malcolm & Marie (Review) 2.5
The Man Who Sold His Skin (Review) 3.5
Mank 3.5
The Midnight Sky 2.0
Minari (Review) 4.5
The Mauritanian (Review) 3.0
The Mole Agent (Review) 4.0
Mulan 2.5
My Octopus Teacher (Review) 3.0
The Nest 4.0
Never Rarely Sometimes Always 5.0
News of the World (Review) 4.5
Nomadland (Review) 5.0
The Old Guard 3.5
The Way Back  4.0
On the Rocks 3.5
One Night in Miami 4.0
Onward 3.0
Palm Springs 4.5
Pieces of a Woman (Review) 2.0
Promising Young Woman 4.5
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Review) 4.5
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon 3.0
Sonic the Hedgehog 3.0
Soul (Review) 4.5
Sound of Metal 4.5
Swallow 4.0
Tenet 2.5
Time (Review) 3.0
Tom and Jerry 1.5
The Trial of the Chicago 7  2.5
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Review) 2.0
The Way Back  4.0
The White Tiger (Review) 4.0
Wolfwalkers 4.5
Wonder Woman 1984 3.0
Yes, God, Yes 4.0