Eastwood is pro-choice.

Seems it was a victim of Warner Bros. not wanting it to get in the way of either It 2 or Joker, which were both much safer bets. 

Sandler is at least doing stuff like Uncut Gems.

I know what you mean. My three runaway favorites are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver, and Bad Education, and I guess it’s not a coincidence that all three stay safely away from both mundane territory and the kind of melodrama that would make them unintentionally absurd. His other acclaimed movies…

The reunion with the ex-lover was probably my favorite scene here (and it still made me wish the movie had actually been about the characters’ youth), but agreed with the overall mixed impression. I’m surprised by the degree to which this has been acclaimed elsewhere, it felt a lot like Almodovar coasting to me. He’s…

Excellent review! I gotta say, though, watched both this and Holiday, made by/with most of the same team, for the first time last month, and perhaps I had some unfair expectations going into this one - it doesn’t exactly operate in the same mode - but I couldn’t believe that this is the much more canonical and revered…

Tom mentions the Wounded Knee occupation of 1973 bringing increased attention to the movie so I assume it took a few years. Wiki sez it made most of its eventual money through re-releases and claims Fiddler on the Roof was the biggest movie of ‘71 on initial release.

He works for me in it because both he and Barry are out of their depth. And then closer to the end I think he pulls himself together and sells Barry’s grief, rage, and the tension of the duel scene exceptionally well.

Yeah it is slow to start but once we get to the carnage it starts firing on all cylinders.

The killer and victim silently sitting together in the car and the entire last 10 minutes were at least as good. 

Strangers Prey at Night was bizarrely good, clearly this dude would do better making slasher movies in which people get dispatched on or close to dry land.

The first time I watched 2001 at home I spent most of it struggling not to fall asleep, the second time I appreciated it more but still remained at a distance. Then last year I went to see it in IMAX and was already in tears for the second half of the prologue and the entire first Blue Danube sequence, it was one of…

I don’t see anything glamorous or sexy about Fight Club, and I don’t think the movie does either. It’s a bunch of dudes misguidedly grasping for meaning by punching each other in basements and plotting acts of terrorism in... “a cool architectural loft”? What? It’s a dilapidated shithole! And none of these guys are rea…

From your comments it sounds like you missed the entire final third of the movie where our hero realizes that he is literally insane and that the cult he created is wildly dangerous and he is now trapped in it.

I despised The Eighth Day but that last paragraph sounds encouraging.

Fight Club would make my top 3 and I’m surprised to see it in the lower half here, but I’m not gonna waste energy on complaining, it’s always nice to see these yearly tributes. Happy to see the love for Eyes Wide Shut, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Blair Witch Project, Topsy-Turvy and Bringing Out the Dead in…

One spot too low, but still gratifyingly high considering its initial reception.

Off the top of my head, Diane Keaton for Annie Hall, Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday, Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook, James Stewart for The Philadelphia Story.

Unlike The Lion King, this is a nature documentary I can get behind. 

John Wick was the highlight among the wide studio releases.