You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2018): 2/5

We Need to Talk about Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011): 2/5

Violent, poetic, depressing, pointless.

The Girl with All the Gifts (Com McCarthy, 2016): 2.5/5

Delivers genre thrills but is only pretending temporarily to have more on its mind.

* A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018): 3/5

Super-tense but subtext free.

Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977): 2.5/5

Two Weeks in Another Town, rw (Vincente Minnelli, 1962): 3/5

Self-dramatizing and self-congratulating. Actors: what would we do without them? Two Weeks gets an extra half point for having one of greatest car scenes in the history of cinema.

Michael Clayton, rw (Tony Gilroy, 2007): 3/5

Peak Clooney.

* Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, 2018): 1/5

Not my Iron Giant. Not my Shining. “Only a great filmmaker could piss me off so much”—that’s bullshit, right?

The Little Foxes (William Wyler, 1941): 3/5

My least favorite of the Wyler/Davis collabs. Nasty but a bit stage-bound.

Ponyo, rw (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008): 5/5

Maybe the best ever movie made for kindergartners (or younger).

Suspiria, rw (Dario Argento, 1977): 3/5

Extreme style as substance.

The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2016): 5/5

Just keeps getting weirder, more mysterious and more powerful as it goes.

Atlanta, Season 2/“This is America” (Donald Glover/Hiro Murai, 2018): 5/5

Messy, complicated and strange. New.

Barry, Season 1 (Alec Berg/Bill Hader): 3/5

Some clichés and some good stuff. Hader is charismatic.

Silicon Valley, Season 5 (Mike Judge, et. al, 2018): 3.5/5

Continues to amuse.

The Fallen Idol, rw (Carol Reed, 1948): 4/5

Maybe the best ever movie about the tragic cluelessness of childhood. Richardson is great.

Creep 2 (Patrick Brice, 2017): 3/5

Almost spoiled by self-consciousness, but the last third delivers.

* Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, 2018): 2/5
A boring adventure from an utterly skill-less director. Certainly the worst of new Star Wars movies.