| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Green Border | 2023 | 95 | 1 | (full review) - It’s edge-of-your-seat cinema. Technically magnificent. Award-winning. Unforgettable. Devastating. |
| Lakota Nation vs. United States | 2022 | 95 | 1 | (full review) - It’s moving portrait of a resilient, hopeful, people. It’s a movie that should be shown in schools. |
| Ascension | 2021 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - What we are hearing sold is a Chinese version of the “American Dream,†in which there is a promise of wealth distribution to those who “deserve it.†But what we are seeing is the cost of that dream. |
| Beans | 2021 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - Beans is a moving coming-of-age story that depicts many strong First Nations women. |
| Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide | 2020 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - It situates Kenny in art history by tracing the evolution of art style from post-WWII abstract expressionism through to pop art/appropriation art, to graffiti art and cartoon realism. |
| Paris, 13th District | 2021 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - Like honey oozing off a comb. Like a flower unfurling. |
| Red Rocket | 2021 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) is like an ill-trained golden retriever—all smiles and charm until he starts humping your leg and pissing all over the furniture. |
| Small Time | 2020 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - Small Time isn’t an easy film to watch, but it’s a good one. |
| The Spine of Night | 2021 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - I was left feeling swaddled in nostalgia by Spine of the Night, wanting to pair it with some cozy PJs and a bowl of sugary cereal. |
| Wife of a Spy | 2020 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - Kurosawa’s film focuses on the ripple effect that these atrocities have on the lives of the everyman/woman. |
| All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997) | 2021 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - It all comes to resemble video scrapbook of the baby years of what’s become a mainstream aesthetic. |
| Coming to You | 2021 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - There’s hope and joy here, too—changes in the legal system, evolving attitudes after challenging conversations, fierce love and devotion. Support. Allyship. Love. |
| Detention | 2019 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - ell-acted, with cinematography and sound design that keep us poised for scares, Detention does a wonderful job delivering a SpooOOooOOky season movie |
| Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia | 2022 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - Impressive that the production team managed to tackle the ideas of fascism and political overreach in a low-stakes, nonviolent, way that speaks to children. |
| Fitting In | 2024 | 85 | 11 | - Fitting In is sex positive and fun and smart and silly. |
| Little Jar | 2022 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - dramatic and whimsical story that is completely absurd yet totally relatable. |
| Lost Soulz | 2024 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - It’s a joy to watch. |
| Runt | 2021 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - The tea of toxic masculinity that they are all steeping in leaves no room for apologies. |
| Servants | 2020 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - Combined with a very understated score, this illustrates how normalized the culture of censorship and menace became. |
| The Civil Dead | 2023 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - The horror comes not from the paranormal, but from the very mundane social awkwardness of someone trying to disentangle themselves from a relationship they never wanted in the first place while the other desperately clings on. |
| The Job of Songs | 2021 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - But songs also carry the often melancholy history of the Irish people and culture, allow the saying of otherwise unspeakable things, and give people permission to feel things that are not easily understood intellectually. |
| The Latent Image | 2022 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - If you are planning on a cabin trip this spooky season, consider adding this one to your watch list. |
| The Nowhere Inn | 2020 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - Ever wondered what a mock music documentary directed by David Lynch would feel like? |
| Trader | 2022 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - Overall, this movie was a winner and an inspirational example of how to get a big bang for your buck. |
| Under the Fig Trees | 2022 | 85 | 11 | (full review) - Sehiri’s background in documentary film comes through in lingering shots of the countryside that are reminiscent of the honey-hued oil paintings of agricultural workers from the 19th century. |
| Cat Daddies | 2022 | 80 | 26 | (full review) - But yeah, cats are great. And this movie lets you watch some brawny lads snuggle them. |
| Free Skate | 2022 | 80 | 26 | (full review) - Free Skate is a solid film exploring the unhealthy power dynamics and overwhelming pressures in elite sport. |
| Freud's Last Session | 2023 | 80 | 26 | (full review) - In the end, the film seems like a beautifully composed thought experiment, but it doesn’t exactly make for a satisfying story. |
| I'm an Electric Lampshade | 2021 | 80 | 26 | (full review) - Oh man, what can I say about this one? That it’s a celebration of the confidence of mediocre White men? That it’s an inspiring hero’s journey toward self-love and acceptance? It’s kinda both. |
| Materna | 2020 | 80 | 26 | (full review) - This is Gutnik’s first feature film and I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next. |
| Measure of Revenge | 2022 | 80 | 26 | (full review) - Academy Award-winner Leo (The Fighter) is magnetic, showing an incredible range. |
| Story Ave | 2023 | 80 | 26 | (full review) - But as this is Torres’s first feature, I’m excited to see more from him as he comes of age as a feature director. |
| The Seven Faces of Jane | 2023 | 75 | 33 | (full review) - The Seven Faces of Jane is a fun experiment, and a great way for Jacobs to show her range, but something that a very small audience will likely be into. |
| The Tutor | 2023 | 75 | 33 | (full review) - Hedlund becomes wonderfully unhinged as the film goes on and he plays off of Schnapp’s creepy kid-in-a-turtleneck pretty well. |
| Here Are the Young Men | 2021 | 65 | 35 | (full review) - The kids are not alright. |
| In Action | 2020 | 65 | 35 | (full review) - For an action movie with essentially no budget, it gets the job done pretty darn well. |
| Striding Into the Wind | 2021 | 65 | 35 | (full review) - In the end, it’s a solid enough entry in the manchild coming-of-age genre, even if the ending tends toward the bleaker edge of the spectrum. |
| Coast | 2022 | 50 | 38 | (full review) - Coast doesn’t exactly break new ground in the coming-of-age genre. |
| Madelines | | 50 | 38 | (full review) - It’s not a movie that can stand up to much logical scrutiny, though. And both the horrific and comedic elements could have been dialed up somewhat. |
| Queen Marie of Romania | 2019 | 50 | 38 | (full review) - But once the delight of the visual treat starts to get old, there’s not much here to hold the attention. |
| The Wolf and the Lion | 2021 | 50 | 38 | (full review) - The movie, however, seems to suffer from a lack of self-reflection. |
| Twist | 2021 | 50 | 38 | (full review) - Martin Owen’s Twist imagines Oliver as an orphaned parkour enthusiast and Banksy-esque street artist. |
| BLONDE. Purple | 2021 | 25 | 43 | (full review) - If the fun of Pulp Fiction was its post-modern remix of pop culture tropes, Blonde. Purple feels like a copy of a copy of a copy, unfocused and messy. |
