American Utopia has been billed a successor to the Talking Heads’ masterful Stop Making Sense, but while the music is good as always, this show doesn’t quite live up to its promise.
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Director Michael Almereyda confronts the notion of objective biography head-on in his off-kilter biopic of Nikola Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke.
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Aaron Sorkin’s dramatic retelling of the famous show trial distorts history in order to champion blandly-liberal American values.
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Gavin O’Connor’s inspirational sports and addiction drama succeeds on the strength of Ben Affleck’s intimate performance.
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is the funniest film of the year and doubles down on the absurdity of 2020.
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The Social Dilemma is hardly nuanced and its narrative dramatizations are lame, but it makes a compelling argument that social media is harming our culture.
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Shane Black’s latest entry to the Predator franchise has Black’s trademark humour, but is undone by sloppy narrative structure and preposterous attempts at timeliness.
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Extraction is just as humourless and imperialistic as most modern American action movies, but at least it has good action.
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The fight scenes are as impressive as ever, but the story crumbles under the weight of its propaganda messaging.
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Cory Finley’s Bad Education contains a great Hugh Jackman performance and gets at the heart of bad people who think they’re doing good.
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Josh Trank’s comeback is a deeply messy deconstruction of Al Capone, featuring a bizarre Tom Hardy as the dying gangster.
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The newest film from the Dardenne Brothers, Young Ahmed, tells the story of a young teenager in Belgium who has been radicalized by fundamentalist Islam and how that affects his relationship with his community and society.
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Beastie Boys Story is an inspiring look back on the journey of the band, as told by two of the guys who lived it.
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With Yesterday, Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis craft a serviceable romantic comedy around the idea of a world where only one man can remember the Beatles, but never take its high-concept to the next level.
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Albert Shin’s neo-noir set in Niagara Falls is a perceptive look at Canadian rot.
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Marriage Story is the gentlest film Noah Baumbach has made.
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David Gordon Green revives the Halloween films with this satisfying horror sequel that returns to the original’s strengths.
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A remarkable documentary that gets at the inherent tensions of a globalized economy.
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The Great Hack is an addictive primer on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but it avoids delving into the muddier waters of its subject matter.
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John Lee Hancock’s revisionist take on Bonnie and Clyde leans into Western conventions while flirting with a deeper take on the mythology of American violence.
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