I cannot help but feel like a purposely contrarian hipster putting Boogie Nights (almost everybody's favorite PTA movie) that low despite the fact that I love it so much. This guy needs to make a bad movie once in a while so it can move up in the rankings.

I haven't seen it, so I can't say.

Did you know that Peter Strickland directed a Bjork concert film?

Looking at my "official" rankings, it's dead in the middle, behind Magnolia, The Master, and Punch-Drunk Love, and ahead of There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, and Hard Eight.

It technically was in theaters late last year, but given that it was released on literally the last day of the year, it's close enough to not really matter.

Hint: It's not the guy who plays Mike Love in it.

Magic Mike XXL
Mistress America
Phoenix
Love & Mercy
Irrational Man

Most of it just washed over me like a wave of painful mediocrity, but what really stood out was how it mangled one joke in particular that could be funny, the one where Robert Redford says "That map can't be to scale!", followed by the punchline of "MAP TO SCALE". This could be funny if it cut from Redford to a shot…

I saw this trailer twice in one day of theater-going and yes, they do use "Walk of Life".

???

"Although I know there's been some critical griping"

Also, I just listened to How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb to prepare my comment on it for when The Solute covers U2's catalog for their Record Club. It's truly amazing in its blandness.

1. Joe
2. Shark
3. Timcop
4. washington
5. Michael DeNight

I watched Glengarry Glen Ross. It was an excellent motion-picture, and it made a surprisingly good (separated) combo with another film I watched over the weekend.

They could have found a homeless man jacking off in the studio lot, told him to direct it, and the result would be worthy of the books and would still make a metric shitton of money.

I don't know what's sadder, that they're making these movies in the first place or that they're not hiring complete hacks to make them.

He directed the ones where the Southern man looks at the camera and says things.

Actually, going further than that, Gotham would have gotten much better reviews if Shannon had played Penguin Jr., preferably conveying the character's youth by wearing a propeller hat and licking a comically oversized lollipop.

Everyone would have recognized Batman Returns's excellence at the time as opposed to later if he had time-traveled and played the Penguin in that.

There's speculation that he's going to be Doomsday.