Thrillist

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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
High Flying Bird (2019)
2
The Lego Movie 2 ups the ante on the first hit with its elaborate setup and eye-popping new characters.
Posted Feb 11, 2019
3
Cold Pursuit (2019)
The weary resignation that Neeson brings to the role imbues the story with a melancholy quality, but there's also a sense that this road has been travelled too many times before.
Posted Feb 11, 2019
4
Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)
5
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
This movie proves that, finally, Hollywood not only has the technology, but the imagination necessary to do a great story justice.
Posted Feb 4, 2019
6
Big Time Adolescence (2019)
7
The Hole in the Ground (2019)
8
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
The movie succeeds because of its deliciously catty soul. Even as it says that art should be about more than just spectacle, it relishes in the bitchiest of bon mots.
Posted Jan 29, 2019
9
Polar (2019)
Polar isn't for everyone, but you can't say it pulls any punches.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
10
Honey Boy (2019)
Honey Boy -- with its winks at Transformers and sitcom conventions -- knows why we're watching and maybe that's enough.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
11
Very little in Extremely Wicked is speculative, which is perhaps why it's strangely lacking in any sort of menace.
Posted Jan 28, 2019
12
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2019)
Anyone with even a crude understanding of the Dragon Ball extended universe could sit through the English-dubbed movie and walk out of the theater having had a great time.
Posted Jan 22, 2019
13
Io (2019)
Despite some lofty ideas and two talented lead actors, IO is more of the same: uninspired storytelling that feels designed to feed the algorithm more than it nourishes your brain.
Posted Jan 22, 2019
14
Glass (2019)
Never a particularly subtle director, Shyamalan gives you all the clues you need to figure out most of his third-act twists, provided you know what you're looking for.
Posted Jan 15, 2019
15
In the Cut (2003)
The camera explores the female body lovingly, with a gently curious eye. This fascinating approach begs for more imitation.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
16
Escape Room (2019)
17
Aquaman (2018)
18
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
The initial Mary Poppins is also somewhat unwieldy, it's just a question of how inspired these modern diversions are.
Posted Dec 20, 2018
19
20
Dumplin' (2018)
Dolly's always been a woman full of contradictions. Her honesty is coated with a thick layer of glam. Dumplin' is sort of a mess of these contradictions too.
Posted Dec 11, 2018
21
4 Little Girls (1997)
4 Little Girls is a masterpiece that needs to be seen and remembered.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
22
Unseen (2016)
This true-crime documentary offers a harrowing look at what fate unfortunately often has in store for marginalized women, and why society turns a blind eye to their wellbeing.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
23
No No: A Dockumentary (2014)
No No: A Dockumentary explores the incident, Ellis' rebellious life, and the contextual culture of the 1960s and '70s that turned the player into a low-key folk hero.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
24
Love 'em or hate 'em, when someone goes this deep, you can't help but feel absorbed.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
25
Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
26
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
This documentary, based on Baldwin's unfinished Remember This House manuscript, offers a view of the United States as disturbingly relevant today as it was in the late 1970s.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
27
Human Flow (2017)
28
Gleason (2016)
What sounds like a completely devastating tearjerker is filled with humor thanks to its subjects' candor.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
29
Gimme Danger (2016)
Like Jarmusch's movies, Gimme Danger is 100% authentic cool from beginning to end, fortified by Iggy Pop's shirtless interviews and joint-smoked memories.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
30
The Endless Summer (1966)
There's living the dream life, and then there's living the effin' dream.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
31
De Palma (2016)
Pretty much anyone with an eye for great film loves Brian De Palma.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
32
Cropsey (2010)
One of the creepiest documentaries ever made, Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio's film shows how some urban legends are based on true stories even more unsettling than the myths.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
33
City of Ghosts (2017)
Not for the faint of heart, but well worth it.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
34
The Central Park Five (2012)
35
Cartel Land (2015)
The run-and-gun style and Heineman's jaw-dropping access will keep your heart pounding through this examination of the current War on Drugs.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
36
Cameraperson (2016)
It serves as a peek behind the curtain of documentary filmmaking, exposing even more than what's usually shown in the genre.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
37
The Bomb (2015)
A kaleidoscopic montage of archival footage of military exercises, nuclear bomb tests and more unnerving material -- some of it more beautiful than you'd prefer to acknowledge.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
38
Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)
A highly compelling collage of stylish archival footage and recorded phone conversations that flesh out this notorious Catfish-like caper of the literary world.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
39
40
The Act Of Killing (2013)
It all makes sense when you submit yourself to Oppenheimer's bizarre, tragic, and eye-opening experiment.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
41
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)
It's a slice of recent history that still has yet to become a part of the collective consciousness, but Abacus aims to play a small part in rectifying that.
Posted Nov 28, 2018
42
Outlaw King (2018)
Outlaw King could be considered a part of a larger Braveheart Cinematic Universe, picking up after most of the action in that film and showing Robert's rise to power.
Posted Nov 27, 2018
43
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Let the Coens take you on funny, yet incredibly depressing, journey through a vicious land.
Posted Nov 19, 2018
44
CAM (2018)
It has the same pluck and formal dexterity as Steven Soderbergh's pharmacological mental health thriller Unsane or Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's online gaming parable Nerve.
Posted Nov 18, 2018
45
Black Christmas (1974)
46
The Night Comes For Us (2018)
47
The Hate U Give (2018)
While the film simplifies the story somewhat, it never loses its heart, the brilliant emerging of Starr into her own voice and pride in the community that lifts her up.
Posted Oct 22, 2018
48
Apostle (2018)
A grimy period piece that puts lofty, unresolvable questions about fanaticism through a creaky, hand-operated torture device.
Posted Oct 15, 2018
49
Private Life (2018)
50
Quincy (2018)