THE STANDOUTS (16) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.
Top Gun: Maverick ****
My Policeman ***1/2
Bros ***1/2
The Fabelmans ***1/2
She Said ***1/2
The Whale ***1/2
Stutz ***1/2
Cha Cha Real Smooth ***
Cha Cha Real Smooth ***
Thirteen Lives ***
The Inspection ***
The Good Nurse ***
All Quiet on the Western Front ***
Empire of Light ***
How to Blow Up a Pipeline ***
X ***
Sisu ***
THE GOOD (52) - These represent quality filmmaking all around.
A Man Called Otto ***
Spoiler Alert ***
Armageddon Time ***
Close ***
Avatar: The Way of Water ***
The Stranger ***
The Northman ***
Emily the Criminal ***
Palm Trees and Power Lines ***
Jackass Forever ***
Prey ***
RRR ***
Playground ***
Causeway ***
Bones and All ***
Aftersun ***
Till ***
Emancipation ***
Babylon ***
Jackass 4.5 ***
The Valet ***
Turning Red ***
The Innocents ***
Watcher ***
The Banshees of Inisherin ***
The Menu ***
Athena ***
Soft & Quiet ***
Happening ***
Sick ***
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ***
I Love My Dad ***
George Carlin's American Dream ***
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish ***
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish ***
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio ***
Taurus ***
Father of the Bride ***
Dog ***
Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul ***
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers ***
DC League of Super-Pets ***
Rise ***
Fourth of July ***
2nd Chance ***
Meet Me in the Bathroom ***
The Lost City **1/2
The Outfit **1/2
Significant Other **1/2
Fire of Love **1/2
The Redeem Team **1/2
Free Chol Soo Lee **1/2
We Are Art Through the Eyes of Annalaura **1/2
THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (45) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence, the name of this section.
The Batman ***
Everything Everywhere All at Once **1/2
Elvis **1/2
The Greatest Beer Run Ever **1/2
Resurrection **1/2
Hustle **1/2
Tar **1/2
The Woman King **1/2
Holy Spider **1/2
Triangle of Sadness **1/2
I Wanna Dance With Somebody **1/2
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story **1/2
Funny Pages **1/2
Fire Island **1/2
Smile **1/2
Orphan: First Kill **1/2
Barbarian **1/2
Devotion **1/2
The Forgiven **1/2
Ambulance **1/2
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent **1/2
Lightyear **1/2
Good Luck to You Leo Grande **1/2
Brian and Charles **1/2
God's Country **1/2
The Fallout **1/2
Speak No Evil **1/2
Do Revenge **1/2
Pearl **1/2
The Adam Project **1/2
Windfall **1/2
Confess, Fletch **1/2
Jerry and Marge Go Large **1/2
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood **1/2
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On **1/2
God's Creatures **1/2
Strange World **1/2
Alice, Darling **1/2
All the Old Knives **1/2
Navalny **1/2
Alice **1/2
Kimi **1/2
892 (aka Breaking) **1/2
V/H/S 99 **1/2
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing **1/2
THE GUILTY PLEASURES (28) - These are movies that I shouldn't like but I do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.
Clean ***
Lou ***
Deep Water ***
Home Team ***
Fall **1/2
Clerks III **1/2
The Apology **1/2
Beast **1/2
The Gray Man **1/2
The Last Victim **1/2
Samaritan **1/2
Easter Sunday **1/2
Poker Face **1/2
Terrifier 2 **1/2
Texas Chainsaw Massacre **1/2
They/Them **1/2
Low Life **1/2
The Retaliators **1/2
Last Seen Alive **1/2
The Man From Toronto **1/2
Midnight **1/2
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe **1/2
Hot Seat **1/2
Sex Appeal **1/2
Shut In **1/2
Gone in the Night **
Senior Year **
THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (56) - Chalk it up to expectations but these movies just didn't cut it for me.
Nope **1/2
The Black Phone **
Scream **
Men **
Vengeance **
Bullet Train **
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery **
Fresh **
Bodies Bodies Bodies **
Death on the Nile **
Jurassic World Dominion **
Hatching **
Nitram **
Ted K **
Gentle **
Gold **
Spiderhead **
Day Shift **
Hellraiser **
Violent Night **
Ticket to Paradise **
White Noise **
The Pale Blue Eye **
Decision to Leave **
Decision to Leave **
Three Thousand Years of Longing **
Women Talking **
The Wonder **
Nanny **
No Exit **
Barbarians **
Piggy **
Master **
Margaux **
The Infernal Machine **
Savage Salvation **
The Blackening **
Project Wolf Hunting **
A Wounded Fawn **
Memory **
I Came By **
See How They Run **
Don't Worry Darling **
Black Adam **
Goodnight Mommy **
When You Finish Saving the World **
When You Finish Saving the World **
Halloween Ends *1/2
Dark Glasses *1/2
Crimes of the Future *1/2
The Bubble *1/2
Morbius *1/2
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness *1/2
Thor: Love and Thunder *1/2
The Righteous *1/2
The Contractor *1/2
Emergency *1/2
Last Looks *1/2
After Yang *1/2
Blacklight *1/2
THE BAD (12) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.
Firestarter *1/2
My Best Friend's Exorcism *1/2
The Binge 2: It's a Wonderful Binge *1/2
Me Time *1/2
Amsterdam *1/2
On the Line *
Deadstream *
Meet Cute *
Dual *
Sharp Stick *
Something in the Dirt (zero stars)
Escape the Field (zero stars)
IN PROGRESS (10) - I started watching these but I never quite finished. Make of that what you will... but not always. Sometimes, it's just a matter of viewing circumstances.
The Bad Guys (20 minutes)
Blonde (90 minutes)
The Bob's Burgers Movie (20 minutes)
The Estate (60 minutes)
Good Night Oppy (45 minutes)
Hocus Pocus 2 (55 minutes)
Moonfall (45 minutes)
The Munsters (20 minutes)
Spirited (50 minutes)
Wendell and Wild (30 minutes)
EMBARGOED (0) - Silence is golden... for now.
DON'T FORGET (14) - I first saw these 2022 movies a while back. This list is for me, so I don't forget them.
Dear Mr. Brody ***1/2
The Worst Person in the World ***1/2
Into the Deep ***
Pleasure ***
Catch the Fair One ***
Catch the Fair One ***
Dinner in America ***
Ray Donovan: The Movie ***
A Hero ***
Sundown **1/2
On the Count of Three **1/2
The Survivor **
Saloum **
Ray Donovan: The Movie ***
A Hero ***
Sundown **1/2
On the Count of Three **1/2
The Survivor **
Saloum **
The Desperate Hour (fka Lakewood) **
Dashcam *1/2
OOPS, I MISSED (140): 9 Bullets, 32 Sounds, The 355, All That Breathes, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Alone Together, Anything's Possible, Bardo, Benediction, Big Gold Brick, Black Site, Both Sides of the Blade, Broken Soldier, Call Jane, Carmen, The Cathedral, Catherine Called Birdy, A Christmas Story Christmas, Collide, Corsage, Cow, Cursed Friends, Cyrano, Dead for a Dollar, Descendant, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Disenchanted, Don't Make Me Go, Downton Abbey: A New Era, Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, The Duke, Eight Mountains, End of the Road, Enola Holmes 2, EO, The Eternal Daughter, Facing Nolan, Falling for Christmas, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Father Stu, Fire, Flux Gourmet, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, The Girl in the Picture, The Good House, Great Freedom, Here Before, Hit the Road, Hold Your Fire, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul., Honor Society, Huda's Salon, The Immaculate Room, The Independent, The Invitation, Is That Black Enough For You?, I Want You Back, Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, Joyland, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend, The Ledge, Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, Living, A Love Song, Luck, Luckiest Girl Alive, Lyle Lyle Crocodile, Mack & Rita, Mad God, Marry Me, Medieval, Memoria, Mickey: The Story of a Mouse, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Montana Story, Moonage Daydream, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, Mr. Malcolm's List, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Murder at Yellowstone City, Murina, Neptune Frost, No Bears, Nothing Compares, Not Okay, Official Competition, Old Man, Our Father, Panama, Pennywise: The Story of It, The People We Hate at the Wedding, Persuasion, Peter von Kant, The Phantom of the Open, Pinocchio, Poser, Prey for the Devil, The Princess, Pursuit, Raymond and Ray, Retrograde, Return to Seoul, Riotsville, U.S.A., Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, Rogue Agent, Rosaline, Saint Omer, The Same Storm, The School for Good and Evil, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, The Sea Beast, Secret Headquarters, Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, Sidney, The Silent Twins, Sissy, Slumberland, Something From Tiffany's, The Son, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Spin Me Round, Sr., Stars at Noon, Studio 666, Summering, The Swimmers, Three Minutes: A Lengthening, To Leslie, Troll, Umma, Uncharted, Vortex, We're All Going to the World's Fair, What Josiah Saw, Where the Crawdads Sing, White Bird: A Wonder Story, Who Invited Them, Wyrm, You Won't Be Alone
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