The central conflict in Dawn is between Caesar and Kubo, which is more interesting than Woody Harrelson’s ersatz Colonel Kurtz. That character makes no sense and just reminds the audience of how much better of a movie is Apocalypse Now. Since you mentioned the great prison-break aspect of Rise, isn’t the…

I was surprised how much I liked his remake. I don’t actually like the original Evil Dead that much, so I actually preferred his, although Raimi’s sequels are better.

Yeah, they use the stupid Back to the Future version of it, which only works for comedy. They also try to handwave it while having important plot elements depend on it.

I seem to be alone in preferring Rise. The human characters are dull in the sequels, and Caesar’s Jesus-of-the-Apes schtick isn’t that interesting. At least Dawn is better than War.

Thoroughbreds was my favorite theatrical experience of that year, even though as a work originally conceived for the stage, it’s not especially “cinematic”.

I don’t remember Dano being in Looper, which at best is a movie I didn’t hate quite as much as Brick.

The scifi is ok, not enough to overcome everything else in the film.

I would what? The only verb I used was “is”. I can only assume you meant to write “You would say that”, but for some reason didn’t. You even could have added, “wouldn’t you” a la Mandy Rice-Davies.

The “hook” of riding a plane next to a screaming infant might not be the screaming infant, but said infant can definitely make the overall experience much worse.

Cabin is ABOUT horror movies, but it’s not a very good horror movie itself, which is often the case with horror comedies (You’re Next does the best job of blending the two without undermining the horror). Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is a cheaper take on that sort of meta-commentary, but it actually…

There just aren’t that many Nazis in real life, but they do make for fun movie villains.

Fury Road is great regardless of any “depth”. I just ignore a clunker of a line like “Who broke the world?” when the rest of the movie is so damn good.

I remember when AV Club let viewers vote on their favorite movie of the year, and Bird People was an option but Birdman was not.

Green Room is really good, but Blue Ruin is much better.

I’m actually not that big a fan of The Road Warrior. I’d rank it below the nasty original Mad Max but above Beyond Thunderdome. Fury Road is basically Road Warrior done right.

The Babadook is my pick for best horror film of the decade. Hereditary was good, but it didn’t have the titular Babdook.

I didn’t care for Strickland’s “Berberian Sound Studio”, which was heavy on style but light on actual horror. Duke of Burgundy, on the other hand, was very funny and got me interested in seeing his other work.

She wants a divorce so she can leave Iran with their daughter, because she doesn’t think it’s a good place for a girl to grow up. Her husband refuses to leave because his own father still needs help.

Does The Lobster need to have a “coherent thesis”? I just found it funny. On the other hand, if I had watched Dogtooth first I might have been deterred from checking out his later English-language features.

I’ve seen it and would not recommend it. I just hated spending time with those characters.