Sam's Movie Review archive
Reviews prior to 2019
*Designates academy award nominee.
Reviews for 2019 can be found here.
Reviews for 2018 can be founder here.
- 42 (2013)
- A Star is Born (2018)*
- Adrift (2018)
- All Eyez on Me (2017)
- American Sniper (2015)
- Atomic Blonde (2017)
- Avengers
- Baby Driver (2017)
- Dawn Patrol (1938)
- Bird Box (2018)
- The Big Short (2015)
- Black Panther (2018)*
- Blackkklansman (2018)*
- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)*
- Book of Henry (2017)
- Bumblebee (2018)
- Can We Take a Joke (2016, documentary)
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
- Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
- Darkest Hour (2017)
- Deepwater Horizon
- Detroit (2017)
- Divergent Series
- Dunkirk (2017)
- Equalizer 2 (2018)
- The Exception (2017)
- Eye in the Sky (2016)
- Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Them (2017)
- The Favourite (2018)*
- The Florida Project (2017)
- The Founder (2016)
- Free Solo (documentary) (331)*
- Free State of Jones (2016)
- The Great Gatsby (2013)
- Green Book (2018)*
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (2017)
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
- Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
- Hell or Highwater (2016)
- Narrative storytelling and the role of guns
- Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
- Kong: Skull Island (2017)
- Hostiles
- Hotel Artemis (2018)
- The Hunger Games
- The Hunger Games (2012)
- Catching Fire (2013)
- Mockingjay (2015)
- The Hunting Ground (2015)
- Hidden Figures (2016)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)*
- Interstellar (2014)
- Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
- Jason Bourne (2016) and visual storytelling
- Joy (2015)
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
- La La Land (2016)
- Little Pink House (2018)
- Logan (2017)
- The Lone Ranger (2013)
- Loving (2016)
- Magnificent 7 (2016)
- Man of Steel (2013)
- Manchester-by-the-Sea (2016)
- Marshall (2017)
- Mary Poppins Returns (2018)*
- Megan Leavy (2017)
- Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
- Molly's Game (2017)
- Moonlight (2016)
- Ocean's Eight (2018)
- On the Basis of Sex (2018)
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Pope Francis (documentary) (2018)
- The Post (2017)
- The Promise (2017)
- Ready Player One (2018)*
- RBG (2018, documentary)*
- Roma (2018)*
- My essay on Roma and the 2019 Oscars
- Set It Up (2018)
- The Shape of Water (2017)
- Silence (2016)
- Snowden (2016)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)*
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
- Star Trek Beyond (2016)
- Star Wars
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- Tomb Raider (2018)
- A United Kingdom (2017)
- Commentary on freedom in A United Kingdom
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
- Vice (2018)*
- Waco (2018, Netflix series)
- Listen to my syndicated radio interview on the series
- The Wife (2018)*
- Will You be My Neighbor? (2018, documentary)
- The Wolverine (2013)
- Wonder Woman (2017)
