Films I've Watched

This is one of my all time favorite films. It’s about music and talent and jealousy and vengeance. It’s deftly directed and emotively acted and just perfect.

I admit that I never finished this one. It’s trying to be about something, but whatever that is gets buried under the weight of endless CGI bust-em-ups and whatever spinoff origin stories the studio mandated. The MCU gets staler w.ith each new film.

An overlong movie that falls prey to many of the common pitfalls of the biopic genre, but Baz Lurmann’s signature kineticism and Butler’s portrayal of The King make it a thoroughly enjoyable film.

Subtle and emotional. Brilliantly shot by Roger Deakins and brilliantly acted by Olivia Colman. I can only guess that those who reviewed it so poorly were looking for a more ham-fisted theme than the subtle arc of three wounds mending. Not a perfect script, but thoroughly immersive.

Like most Branagh films, this one is stagey, over the top, and lacking in subtlety of any kind.

This isn’t a full review, but I will dwell on one particular gripe: Rather than letting trusting in the humor of the play itself, one of Shakespeare’s most truly funny characters, Dogberry, is ruined by wacky choices like having him ride an invisible horse, Monty Python style. All it does is distract.

Rather long and meandering, but still one of the best things Senior Spielbergo has done in a long time. It has plenty of his signature schmaltziness, some great character moments, and for once Janusz Kamiński’s cinematography doesn’t look like digitally color-corrected vomit.

Suspenseful, twisted, and a lot of fun at the same time. Not a one-hundred percent perfect script, but the directing, performances, and satirical nightmarishness more than make up for any small flaws.

So much unhinged fun. All kinds of wacky themed gremlins, all running amok… in New York!

Delightfully silly.

A little bit more formulaic than Eggers’ other films, but still deeply interested in the psychological experience of a world where myth is reality. A phantasmagoria of magic and blood.

Pretty meh

Not as streamlined, poignant, or satisfying as the first Knives Out film, but somehow a lot of fun nonetheless.

A little thriller about anxiety and surveillance. Super well directed in the Soderbergh style, but it could have been a lot more of a movie if the final act wasn’t incredibly rushed.