Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa, 2017) -- 4.5/5
Delightful and charming with brilliant dialogue. So real and organic, and coheres much more than you'd expect.

Landline (Gillian Robespierre, 2017) -- 1.5/5
Listen... this took me...three goddamn days to finish...because it was nothing but Straight People's Nonsense: The Movie. (And yet it made me gayer?)  Generic, predictable... adds nothing to the genre. 

Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016) -- 3/5
Really had me up until the eye-rolling didactic final scene in what otherwise would have been an absorbing portrait of an actor's research project. 

Christine (Antonio Campos, 2016) -- 3/5
Straight biopic. For what it lacks in offering any insight or relevance for resurrecting Christine Chubbuck, it makes up for a great lead performance. Also liked the ending.   

Woodshock (Kate and Laura Mulleavy, 2017) -- 1/5
If I wanted to see a bunch of sad people smoke weed and be fundamentally unable to balance a coherent narrative with a frustratingly self-absorbed visual style, I'd go to film school. 

Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) -- 2/5
Irksome. The lead actor (aka Vanilla White Bread) made me want to immediately bail and never look back, but the supporting cast upheld their end (Jamie Foxx especially, he totally saved it) and really, carried the whole movie. 

Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman, 2017) -- 1/5
Derivative character study of a closeted bro. Formally and narratively unimaginative. 

Good Time (Ben and Joshua Safdie, 2017) -- 4/5
Imagine a panic attack times 100-- that's this film. Robert Pattinson is truly next-level here.

Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee, 2017) -- 3.5/5
This will make you want to have friends and trip on absinthe. Tiffany Haddish STEALS the movie. Heaven must have sent her from above...