THE STANDOUTS (15) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.
I Swear ***1/2
The Invite ***1/2
The Odyssey ***1/2
Power Ballad ***1/2
Don't Say Good Luck ***1/2
#Skyking ***1/2
Spider-Man: Brand New Day ***
A Toxic Love Story ***
Send Help ***
Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea ***
Maternal Instinct ***
Toy Story 5 ***
Project Hail Mary ***
Jackass: Best and Last ***
Untold: Chess Mates ***
THE GOOD (33) - These represent quality filmmaking all around.
Primate ***
Obsession ***
The Weight ***
Motor City ***
Tony ***
Wuthering Heights ***
Facing El Chapo ***
By Any Means ***
The Dink ***
Pizza Movie ***
Roommates ***
72 Hours ***
The Crash ***
Mayday ***
Marty, Life Is Short ***
Mile End Kicks ***
Office Romance ***
The Bluff ***
The Furious ***
The Sheep Detectives ***
Wardriver ***
Apex ***
Hoppers ***
Gangland ***
We Bury the Dead ***
The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson ***
Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill ***
Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom ***
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not ***
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu **1/2
Take a Banana For the Ride **1/2
Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly **1/2
Miracle: The Boys of '80 **1/2
THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (19) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence the name of this section.
The Drama ***
Is God Is ***
Crime 101 ***
Michael **1/2
Hope **1/2
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie **1/2
Wasteman **1/2
Tuner **1/2
In Cold Light **1/2
Blue Film **1/2
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice **1/2
Fuze **1/2
Lorne **1/2
Dracula **1/2
Tow **1/2
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart **1/2
The Investigation of Lucy Letby **1/2
Untold: Jail Blazers **1/2
Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young **1/2
THE GUILTY PLEASURES (18) - These are movies that I shouldn't like but do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.
War Machine ***
The Breadwinner ***
Over Your Dead Body ***
Mutiny **1/2
The Fix **1/2
Evil Dead Burn **1/2
Normal **1/2
The Wrecking Crew **1/2
The Mummy **1/2
Soulm8te **
The Mongoose **
Citizen Vigilante **
Beast **
The Get Out **
Night Patrol **
Faces of Death **
Whistle **
Thrash **
THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (32) - Chalk it up to expectations, but these movies just didn't cut it for me.
Disclosure Day **1/2
Heel **1/2
The Rivals of Amziah King **1/2
Carolina Caroline **1/2
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die **
The End of Oak Street **
I Love Boosters **
Leviticus **
Scary Movie **
Ladies First **
Idiots **
In the Grey **
Our Hero, Balthazar **
Psycho Killer **
Backrooms **
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple **
How to Make a Killing **
Runner **
Onslaught **
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie **
Passenger **
Little Brother **
Balls Up **
The Whisper Man **
Above the Line **
The Runner *1/2
Mortal Kombat II *1/2
Driver's Ed *1/2
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass *1/2
Greenland 2: Migration *1/2
Josephine *1/2
The School Duel *1/2
THE BAD (16) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.
The Rip *1/2
The Devil's Mouth *1/2
The Bride! *1/2
Mercy *1/2
They Will Kill You *
The Strangers: Chapter 3 *
Hokum *
I Want Your Sex *
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma *
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come 1/2*
Buddy 1/2*
Ice Cream Man 1/2*
Outcome 1/2*
Scream 7 (zero stars)
Undertone (zero stars)
Her Private Hell (zero stars)
IN PROGRESS (5) - 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.
Busboys (25 minutes)
Coyote vs. Acme (50 minutes)
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (45 minutes)
Supergirl (25 minutes)
The Wizard of the Kremlin (20 minutes)
EMBARGOED (1) - I can't talk about these movies just yet. It's part of the deal.
The Widower
OOPS, I MISSED (153): All You Need Is Kill, The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act, Animal Farm, The Angry Birds Movie 3, Atonement, Bad Counselors, Ballistic, Beware Boiuna, Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft, The Birthday Party, Blood Shine, Blue Heron, Boorman and the Devil, The Brink of War, Brothers Under Fire, Bulls, Burt, California Schemin', The Christophers, Chum, Clika, Cold Storage, Corporate Retreat, Couples Weekend, Couture, Cruel Hands, The Death of Robin Hood, Deep Water, Desert Warrior, The Dog Stars, Dolly, Don't Look Back in Anger, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Enola Holmes 3, Erupjca, Exit 8, Fall 2: Deadpoint, Fantasy Life, Fatherland, Finding Emily, Forbidden Fruits, Forgotten Island, Frankie: Maniac Woman, Girls Like Girls, Ghost Soldier, GOAT, Go Deep: The DeSean Jackson Story, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty, Hamlet, H Is for Hawk, Hershey, The History of Concrete, Hive, Hot Spot, Hungry, I Can Only Imagine 2, The Incomer, Insidious: Out of the Further, In the Blink of an Eye, In the Hand of Dante, Iron Lung, Islands, The Isolate Thief, Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Jimmy, Jimpa, Just Play Dead, Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour - Live from Paris, The Kidnapping of Arabella, The Last First: Winter K2, The Last House, The Last Sunrise, Late Fame, The Love Hypothesis, Lucky Strike, Maddie's Secret, Magellan, The Magic Faraway Tree, Magic Hour, Man on the Run, Marc by Sofia, Masterplan, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox: The Movie, Melania, Mimics, Minions & Monsters, Miss You, Love You, Moana, The Moment, Moses the Black, Mother Mary, Mouse, The Musical, Namaslay, Neglected, Newborn, Nightborn, Night Nurse, Obex, O Horizon, Omaha, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, One Night Only, One Spoon of Chocolate, The Passenger, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, People We Meet on Vacation, Peter Asher: Everywhere Man, Pinocchio: Unstrung, Possible Love, The Pout-Pout Fish, Practical Magic 2, Pressure, Pretty Lethal, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore?, Redux Redux, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Reminders of Him, Return to Silent Hill, Ricky, Rosebush Pruning, Rose of Nevada, The Samurai and the Prisoner, Savage House, Sense and Sensibility, Sheep in the Box, Shelter, Solo Mio, Spa Weekend, Stop! That! Train!, The Sun Never Sets, Super Troopers 3, Swapped, A Talent for Murder, Terrestrial, This Is Not a Test, This Tempting Madness, Time of Death, Tiny Fugitives, Unidentified, Union County, Untitled Home Invasion Romance, The Uprising, Voicemails for Isabelle, Wingman, Winthrop, The Wrong Girls, The Yeti, You, Me & Tuscany, Youngblood, Young Washington
COMING SOON (78): Ali G: Who Iz I?, Animals, Artificial, Avengers: Doomsday, Bad Apples, Bad Day, Behemoth!, Being Heumann, La Bola Negra, Breeder, The Cat in the Hat, Christmas at the Kringles, Clayface, Club Kid, Crawlers, The Debut, The Devils, Digger, The Disciple, Dune: Part Three, Ebenezer, Elsinore, Everest: The Other Side, Fjord, Focker-in-Law, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, The Gallerist, Gentle Monster, Godzilla Minus Zero, Good Sex, Heartland, Heart of the Beast, Hexed, How to Rob a Bank, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Ink, I Play Rocky, Jumanji: Open World, Klara and the Sun, The Liberation, Love of Your Life, Madden, The Man with the Bag, Minotaur, Misty Green, The Mosquito Bowl, Mr. Irrelevant, Musk, Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Other Mommy, Paper Tiger, Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story, Primetime, Ray Gunn, Resident Evil, Rolling Loud, The Screener, SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of, Stiletto, Street Fighter, The Stunt Driver, Tender Loving Care, Tenzing, Unabomber, Verity, Victorian Psycho, Violent Night 2, Way of the Warrior Kid, Werwulf, Whalefall, Who Is Martin Mull?, Wicker, Wild Horse Nine, Wildwood, You Can See Everything, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
