A rudimentary script by Zach Dean, filled with expository dialogue, doesn't dare to dig deeper into this otherwise exciting conceit.

Kate Winslet is nothing short of extraordinary as the renowned scientist Mary Anning, who registers a thousand words from a single look.

All My Life was a welcome distraction with a central romance that will send you swooning before you empty a tissue box.

It may take a while to get there, but Soul captures the magic of Pixar.

This is the birth of a superstar played out like Boyhood, and Billie grows before our eyes, taking currency in her image.

Music is shrouded in controversy, but representation is only the beginning of its problems.

Falling into familiar musical biopic tropes, Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday is overlong, unfocused, yet graciously absorbing.

Rosamund Pike is deliciously cast as the evil Marla Grayson, who not just gets her comeuppance but fights until the very last moments.

It's a remarkable film about loss and the circular motion of grief. There's a sense that this woman is lost but extremely capable

Supernova is, perhaps, the most romantic film of this past year.

Wild Mountain Thyme had all the elements for a romantic comedy, but the composition, ultimately, is tonally messy.

Minari is a film about a family moving into their next chapter and the fears that come with not just a new home but a new life.

Malcolm & Marie is another example of sam Levinson's pristine visual style capturing illuminating confrontations.

The film is at once a celebration of reclaiming your power and a course correction when becoming disengaged with life.

The film's triumph is taking the single, over twenty-minute, take, expertly captured by Cinematographer Benjamin Loeb.

While the film doesn't achieve all it sets out to do, some haunting sequences are expertly staged. But The Little Things feels dated.

Sylvie's Love is unapologetically concerned with romance, and creating an old Hollywood style lusciousness for this couple.

It's a missed opportunity that this golden cast has a screenplay that doesn't dig deeper.

There is no understating the impact that this documentary has, as this is just one family going through life a day at a time.

King manages to play into the reunion of these men, and the tension from what they all know is their subsequent separation.