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Dec252017

2017 Films, Alphabetically (with grades)

116 Films Screened
Title (Director) Grade* Review 
Last Update: 02/28/2018
Grades represented Nathaniel's take (they do not always correlate with the reviews themselves if another contributor wrote it) 

104 THEATRICAL OR STREAMING RELEASE

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

Abundant Acreage Available (Angus Maclachlan) B- Review 
Alien: Covenant
(Ridley Scott) C+ Review 
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch) B+ Review, Podcast

Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) B+ Review
Bad Batch, The (Ana Lily Armipour) C-/D+ Review
Battle of the Sexes  (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris) B+ Podcast, Capsule
Baywatch (Seth Gordon) D+ Reviewish 
Beach Rats  (Eliza Hittman) B ReviewPodcast
Beauty and the Beast
  (Bill Condon) C- Review 
Beguiled, The  (Sofia Coppola) B-  Podcast
Big Sick, The (Michael Showalter)  Review
Blade Runner 2049  (Denis Villeneuve) B Capsule, Short Films 
Bombshell: The Story of Hedy Lamarr (Alexandra Dean) B Review
Boss Baby (Tom McGrath) B Review 
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) A  Review 
Breadwinner, The  (Nora Twomey) B²  Review 


Call Me By Your Name 
 (Luca Guadagnino) B+² "I'm Armie", on intimacy
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie  (David Soren) B-
Catfight 
(Onur Tikel) C+ Review, 2nd Opinion 
Coco (Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina B+ Review, Feeling Seen
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) C+ Review, Production Design
Commune, The  (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark) B+ Review 

Darkest Hour   (Joe Wright) B+³ Review 
Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, The  (David France) C+ Review
Detroit
(Katherine Bigelow) C+  Podcast 
Disaster Artist, The (James Franco) C 
Downsizing (Alexander Payne) B Review
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) B  Podcast

Fantastic Woman, A  (Sebastian Lelio) B+  Review
Fifty Shades Darker
 (James Foley) C- Reviewish
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool  (Paul McGuigan) B²  Capsule 
Florida Project, The (Sean Baker) A- Chris's Review, Jason's Take
Frantz (François Ozon, France) B+ Review, Production Design
 

Get Out  (Jordan Peele) A-² Review, Production Design 
Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders) C+ 
Gifted (Marc Webb) B- 
Girls Trip (Malcolm D Lee) B  Review, Podcast
Glass Castle, The (Destin Cretton) C Review
God's Own Country  (Francis Lee) B+  Best Actors 
Greatest Showman, The (Michael Gracey) B² Review, Another Musical Hit
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) B- Review 
 

Handsome Devil (Robert Butler, Ireland) B Review, Interview 
Hero, The (Brett Haley) C+ 

iBoy  (Adam Randall) D-  
Ingrid Goes West
  (Matt Spicer) B+  Review, on the screenplay
It 
(Andy Muschietti) B- Review
I, Tonya 
(Craig Gillespie) C- Review 

Justice League  (Zach Snyder) C-  Review

Kedi
 (Ceyda Torun) A- Review, 2nd Opinion 
Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) B Review
Kong: Skull Island  (Jordan Vogt-Roberts) C  Review 

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) A² Review, 2nd Opinon 
Lady Macbeth
 (William Oldroyd) B+ Review
Land of Mine 
 (Martin Pieter Zandvliet) B Interview
Last Flag Flying  (Richard Linklater) C+  Capsule, Podcast
Lego Batman  (Chris McKay) B- 
Life  (Daniel Espinosa) C+  Review
Logan  (James Mangold) B Review 
Lost City of Z (James Gray) B Review, 2nd Opinion, Production Design  
Loveless  (Andrey Zvyagintsev) B+/A-  Capsule
Lovers, The (Azazel Jacobs) B+ Review 
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) D+ Review

Menashe   (Joshua Weinstein) B- Review 
Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin) C+ 
mother!
(Darren Aronofsky) ABCDF² Review, Podcast
Mountain Between Us (Hany Abu-Assad) C- Review 
Mudbound (Dee Rees) B-  CapsuleReview, 2nd Opinion 
Murder on the Orient Express (Kenneth Branagh)
My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell) B- Podcast
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw) C+ Review 

Novitiate (Maggie Betts) B-  Review

Okja (Bong Joon-ho) B- Reviewish
Ornithologist, The (Joao Pedro Rodrigues) B Review 

Paris 05:59 (Olivier Ducastel & Jacques MartineauB Review2nd Opinion 
Personal Shopper
(Olivier Assayas) B Review 
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) B 
Post, The (Steven Spielberg) B Review
Power Rangers (Dean Israelite) D+ 
Princess Cyd
(Stephen Cone) B+
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
(Angela Robinson) B Podcast

Roman J Israel Esq Dan Gilroy C+ on Denzel

Sense of an Ending, The (Ritesh Batra) C+ Review, Interview 
Shape of Water, The (Guillermo del Toro) Capsule 
Snatched (Jonathan Levine) C Review 
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts) B- Review, Podcast
Split (M Night Shyamalan) C+  Interview 
Square, The (Ruben Ostlund) B 
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) B² Review, Queer Take, Podcast, Top Box Office of the Year
Sweet Virginia (Jamie M Dagg) B Review  

Thelma (Joachim Trier) B+/A- Review 
Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi) B+ Review 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (Martin McDonagh) B Review 
Tom of Finland (Dome Karukoski) C+ 

Victoria and Abdul (Stephen Frears) B- Capsule

Wall, The (Doug Liman) C+ 
War of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves) B
Wedding Plan, The (Rama Burshtein) B+ 
Wind River
(Taylor Sheridan) B Review 
Wonder (Stephen Chbosky) B
Wonder Wheel
(Woody Allen)  Podcast 
Wonder Woman
(Patty Jenkins) B+² Review, Alamo DrafthouseTen Fav Things
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) B Review 
Wound, The (John Trengrove) C+

Zookeeper's Wife, The (Niki Caro) B  Review

11 UNRELEASED. (NO US DISTRIBUTION)

ICE MOTHER

Euphoria (Lisa Langseth) C Review Future Perfect, The (Nele Wohlatz, Argentina) A- Review (TBA) Happiness Academy (Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita, France) B- Review (TBA)  Ice Mother (Bohdan Sláma) B (TBA) Mademoiselle Paradis (Barbara Albert) B+ Review TBA, Mary Shelley (Haifaa al-Mansour) C+ Review (TBA), Seen and Unseen, The (Kamila Andini) A- Review (TBA), Sexy Durga (Sanalkumar Sasidharan) D+ Review (TBA), On Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi) B+ Review (streaming only but in 2018) Sheikh Jackson (Amr Salama) B- Review (TBA), Spoor (Agnieska Holland) B (TBA)

NATHANIEL DID NOT SEE BUT REVIEWED BY A TEAM MEMBER 

THEATRICALLY RELEASED OR STREAMING
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James) Glenn's Review 
All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott) Chris' Review
Brad's Status (Mike White) Murtada's Review
Casting Jon Benet (Kitty Green) Glenn's Review
Circle, The (James Ponsoldt) Eric's Review 
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Jason's Review 
Contemporary Color (Bill & Turner Ross) Glenn's Review
A Cure For Wellness (Gore Verbinski) Spencer's Review
Dark Tower, The (Nikolaj Arcel) Chris's Review
Death of Louis XIV, The (Albert Serra) Bill's Review
Emoji Movie, The (Tony Leondis) Sean's Review
Everything Everything (Stella Meghie) Chris's Review
Exception, The (David Leveaux) Jason's Review
Faces Places (Agnes Varda & JR) Murtada's Review
First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie) Nick's Review
Five Came Back (Laurent Bouzereau) Glenn's Review
Gaga Five Foot Two (Chris Moukarbel) Glenn's Review
God Knows Where I Am (Jed & Todd Wider) Glenn's Review
Good Time (Safdie Brothers) Spencer's Review 
Happy End (Michael Haneke) Chris's Review
Inconvenient Sequel, An (Bonnie Cohen & Jon Shenk) Glenn's Review
It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults) Chris's Review 
Jane (Brett Morgen) Glenn's Review
Last Man in Aleppo (Firas Fayyad) Glenn's Review
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Chris's Review
Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh) Chris's Review
My Friend Dahmer (Marc Meyers) Jason's Review
Obit (Vanessa Gould) Glenn's Review
One of Us (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady) Glenn's Review
The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean) Glenn's Review
Risky Business (Laura Poitras) Glenn's Review
The Snowman (Tomas Alfredson) Eric's Review
Song to Song (Terence Malick) Eric's Review 
Super Dark Times (Kevin Phillips) Jason's Review 
Strong Island (Yance Ford) Glenn's Review
Table 19 (Jeffrey Blitz) Chris's Review 
Thirst Street (Nathan Silver) Jason's Review
Thy Father's Chair (Alex Lora & Antonio Tibaldi) Glenn's Review
Unforgettable (Denise di Novi) Jorge's Review 
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Luc Besson) Dan's Review
Wilson
 (Daniel Clowes) Spencer's Review
Woodshock (Kate and Laura Mulleavy) Chris's Review

UNRELEASED
Documentaries at 2017 Slamdance 
Glenn's ReviewAll This Panic (Jenny Gage) Glenn's ReviewDeparture (Andrew Steggall) Glenn's ReviewDog Years (Adam Rifkin) Jason's ReviewHounds of Love (Ben Young) Jason's ReviewNever Steady Never Still (Kathleen Hepburn) Sean's Review), Nobody's Watching (Julia Solomonoff) Jason's Review , Pilgrimage (Brendan Muldowney) Jason's Review, Political Animals (Jonah Markowitz & Tracy Wares) Glenn's ReviewPsychopaths (Mickey Keating) Jason's Review, Revenge (Coralie Fargeat) Chris's Review,  Rock'n'Roll (Guillauime Canet) Jason's ReviewTigre (Ulises Porra & Sylvia Schnicer) Sean's ReviewUntold Tales of Armistead Maupin (Jennifer M Kroot) Glenn's Review

Thursday
Mar172016

2016 Films, Alphabetically (With Grades)

146 Films Screened | 125 Released
Title (Director) Grade Review 
Last Update: 12/20/2016

Lion is terrific. Go see it!

10 Cloverfield Lane  (Dan Trachtenberg) B  Capsule 
20th Century Women (Mike Mills) A/A-  Reviewish 

Absolutely Fabulous (Mandie Fletcher) B-  Review 
Allied  (Robert Zemeckis) B-/C+ Review
April & The Extraordinary World (Ekinci & Desmares) B  Tim's Review 
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve) A- Review 

Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (Eva Husson) B Review 
Batman v Superman
(Zach Snyder) D Review 
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened... (Lonny Price) B+ Capsule
Bigger Splash, A (Luca Guadagnino) B+ Reviewish, Podcast 
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk  (Ang Lee) C- Reviewish & Podcast 
Birth of a Nation, The (Nate Parker) C/C-  
Bleed For This  (Ben Younger) C Capsule
Boss, The (Ben Falcone) C+ Review, McCarthy Posterized 
Bridget Jones's Baby  (Sharon Maguire) C+
Bronze, The
(Bryan Buckley) C+ Capsule
 

Café Society (Woody Allen) B- Review  
Captain America: Civil War
(Russo Brothers) B² Review 
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) B+/A- Review
Clan, The (Pablo Trapero) B Capsule 
Closet Monster  (Stephen Dunn) B+ Review 
Club, The
 
(Pablo Larraín) B Capsule
Conjuring 2, The  (James Wan) B-  Production Design

Dark Horse (Louise Osmond) B- Capsule 
Deadpool (Tim Miller) C Reviewish, Production Design 
Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée) C+ Review 
Desde Allá / From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas) B Review 
Desierto (Jonas Cuaron) D+  Review 
Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson) B-² Review
Disorder (Alice Winocour) Review 
Dressmaker, The (Jocelyn Moorhouse) B²   Capsule 

Eagle Huntress, The (Otto Bell) B-/C+ Capsule
Eddie the Eagle (Dexter Fletcher) C Review 
Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig) B+  Review
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)  
Elle 
 (Paul Verhoeven) A- Review & Podcast
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) A- Review, The Furniture
Everybody Wants Some (Richard Linklater) B+ Con Review, Pro Review, Podcast, The Furniture
 

Family Fang, The  (Jason Bateman) B Review 
Fences (Denzel Washington) B+ His & Hers Triumph
Finding Dory (Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane) B-  Review
Fits, The  (Anna Rose Holmer) B+ Capsule 
Florence Foster Jenkins (Steven Frears) B²  Review, The Furniture
Founder, The (Michael Keaton) C-
Front Cover (Ray Yeung) B- 

Gayby Baby (Maya Newell) D+
Genius
(Michael Grandage) D Review, Capsule
Ghostbusters (Paul Feig) B Review, The Furniture
Girl on the Train, The (Tate Taylor) D+ 
Glassland (Gerard Barrett) B Review
Gods of Egypt (Alex Proyas) D+ Review
Gold (Stephen Gaghan) C-

Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson) C
Hail, Caesar!
(Joel & Ethan Coen) B Posterized, Interview:Score, Prod. Design
Handmaiden, The (Park Chan-Wook) A/A- Podcast 
Hell Or High Water (David Mackenzie) B+ Production Design
Hello, My Name is Doris
(Michael Showalter) B Review 
Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi) B
High-Rise
(Ben Wheatley) B Review,  Podcast
How to Be Single (Christian Ditter) B- Capsule 
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) B/B+ Review, The Furniture
Huntsman: Winter's War, The (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan) C- Review

I Saw The Light (Marc Abraham) D Review 

Jackie (Pablo Larrain) A-/B+²  Review
Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar) B Review
Jungle Book, The (Jon Favreau) B- Capsule

Keanu (Peter Atencio) C
Krisha
(Trey Edward Shults) C+ Review
Kubo and the Two Strings
(Travis Knight) B- Review 

La La Land (Damien Chazelle) A-² Capsule 
Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo Garcia) C+ Capsule 
Lazy Eye (Tim Kirkman)
Legend of Tarzan, The (David Yates) C Review
Light Between Oceans, The (Derek Cianfrance) B Capsule 
Lion (Garth Davis) B+ Review
Little Men (Ira Sachs) B+  Review 
Live By Night (Ben Affleck) C The Design Team
Lobster, The (Yorgos Lanthimos) B+ PodcastThe Furniture
Love & Friendship
(Whit Stillman) B+ Review, Podcast, The Furniture
Loving (Jeff Nichols) B/B- Review

Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) B Jason's Take, Nathaniel's Take
Midnight Special
(Jeff Nichols) C- Amir's Review 
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Jake Szymanski) C Review 
Miles Ahead (Don Cheadle) C- Review 
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Tim Burton) C+ Capsule
Miss Sloane (John Madden) B² Capsule
Moana
(Clements, Hall, Musker & Williams) B/B+² Capsule
Monster Calls, A (JA Bayona) C+  Capsule 
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) A/A-² Review
Morris From America (Chad Hartigan) B+ 
My Life as a Courgette (Claude Barras) B Review 

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Nicholas Stoller) B Podcast
Neon Demon, The
(Nicolas Winding Refn) B/D  Review 
Neruda (Pablo Larraín) B+ Review
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) D+ Review, Second Take, Podcast  

Other People (Chris Kelly) B Interview, Review

Patriot's Day (Peter Berg) C+
Pete's Dragon
(David Lowery) B Review
Phantom Boy (Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol) B+ Review 
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(Burr Steers) B- Review 

Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair) B/B+ Review

Red Turtle, The (Michael Dudok de Wit) B+ Review
Rogue One (Gareth Edwards) C+ Review
Rules Don't Apply
(Warren Beatty) C- Capsule

Salesman, The (Asghar Farhadi) B+ Review
Sand Storm (Elite Zexler) C+ Review, Interview
Shallows, The (Jaume Collet-Serra) B Capsule
Sing Street (John Carney) B+ Review, MVP?, Podcast  
Spa Night (Andrew Ahn, US) B Nathaniel's Capsule, Sean's Review
Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin)  B  Review, The Furniture
Suicide Squad (David Ayers) D Review
Sully (Clint Eastwood) B- Review
Sunset Song
(Terence Davies) C+ Interview 
Swiss Army Man (Daniels) B Capsule 

Tickled (David Farrier & Dylan Reeve) C Review
Things To Come
(Mia Hansen-Løve) B Review
Transpecos
 (Greg Kwader) B Capsule 
Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari) B Review
Viva
(Paddy Breathnach) B- 

War, A (Tobias Lindholm) B+ Pilou AsbaekInterview 
Warcraft (Duncan Jones) D+ Posterized, Six Questions
Wave, The (Roar Uthaug) C+ Review 
Witch, The (Robert Eggers) A/A-³ Nathaniel's, Michael's & Eric's Review  

X-Men Apocalypse (Bryan Singer) C- Review, Podcast

Zootopia (Howard, Moore, and Bush) B Reviewish 

See ELLE. You'll have quite the conversation thereafter

Currently No US Distributor
May be moved to next year's screening list if they find a distributor

Apprentice (Boo Junfeng, Singapore) B+ Review
The Arbalest (Adam Pinney, US) C- Capsule 
Banana (Andrea Jublin, Italy) B Capsule 
Blind Sun (Joyce A Nashawati, Greece) C  Capsule 
Death in Sarajevo (Danis Tanovic, Bosnia & Herzegovina) B+ Review 
A Decent Woman (Lukas Valenta Rinner, Argentina) C+ Review
The Fixer (Ian Olds, US) C+ Reviewish 
Mother (Kadri Kõusaar, Estonia) B+ Review 
Pyromaniac (Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Norway) B+ Review
(re)Assignment (Walter Hill, US) D- Review
Santa & Andres
(Carlos Lechuga, Cuba/Colombia) B Review
Strange Weather (Katherine Dieckmann, US) B- Review 
To Keep The Light (Erica Fae, US) C
The Wedding Ring (Rahmatou Keïta, Niger) B Review 
The Violators (Helen Walsh, Ireland) C+ Capsule 

DVD/VOD/Streaming
not theatrically released. Not counted in the total or eligible for awards here
The Blue Hour (Anucha Boonyawatana) C-
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
 (Yuen Woo-Ping) C
Fourth Man Out 
(Andrew Nackman) B-
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party
 (Stephen Cone) B
Naz & Maalik
(Jay Dockendorf) B
Those People
(Joey Kuhn) B-