Nomadland (2020) Review
Nomadland (2020) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Frances McDormand lives in a van among real people playing themselves, and the film is at its best whenever she is listening. What it will not do is name…
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CaliforniaFive Easy Pieces (1970) Review
Five Easy Pieces (1970) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A concert pianist is working an oil rig and pretending he never had another life. The diner scene is the most quoted and the least representative thing…
AlaskaInto the Wild (2007) Review
Into the Wild (2007) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Sean Penn adapts Krakauer's account of Chris McCandless walking into Alaska and dying there, and the film admires him considerably more than the book does. Hal Holbrook…
ArizonaEasy Rider (1969) Review
Easy Rider (1969) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It invented the modern road movie and killed the counterculture's mythology in the same hundred minutes. The film is loose, self-indulgent and occasionally incoherent, and the ending is…
CaliforniaLast Action Hero (1993) Review
Last Action Hero (1993) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Columbia made a deconstruction of the action film starring the biggest action star alive, marketed it to children, and opened it one week after Jurassic Park. The…
CaliforniaBatman & Robin (1997) Review
Batman & Robin (1997) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Warner Bros. told Joel Schumacher to make it more toyetic, and he did exactly that. Schumacher later apologized publicly to fans, which is a rarer and more…
AustraliaThe Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Review
The Matrix sequels rate 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Shot back to back and released six months apart, they answer questions the first film was stronger for leaving open, and they contain two of the best action…
CaliforniaSouthland Tales (2006) Review
Southland Tales (2006) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Richard Kelly took an unfinished cut to Cannes because nobody turns down a competition slot, was booed, recut it, and watched it earn under four hundred thousand dollars.…
CaliforniaShe-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) Review
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) rates minus one out of ten on the rewatch scale. A legal comedy in a world with superhumans is a genuinely good premise and the series is not interested in it. What it is interested…
CaliforniaWandaVision (2021) Review
WandaVision (2021) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three episodes of genuine formal invention, three of increasingly conventional plot, and a finale that answers a question the audience had stopped wanting answered. The sitcom pastiche is the…
CaliforniaAgatha All Along (2024) Review
Agatha All Along (2024) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A spin-off built from a supporting character on the assumption that being enjoyable in a small part means you can carry nine episodes. Kathryn Hahn is good…
CaliforniaPoint Blank (1967) Review
Point Blank (1967) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lee Marvin threw the script in the bin, handed his script and casting approval to a British director who had never worked in Hollywood, and the result is…