Uncharted (2022) Review
Uncharted (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film adapted from a series of games that were already adapting films, which means it is a photocopy of a photocopy. The cargo plane sequence is lifted directly…
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Dominican RepublicZombie (1979) / Flesh Eaters Review
Zombie (1979) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lucio Fulci was hired to make an unauthorized sequel to Dawn of the Dead and made something older instead, closer to Caribbean voodoo horror than to Romero. It contains…
MoroccoIshtar (1987) Review
Ishtar (1987) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Elaine May made a screwball comedy about two men with no talent, spent fifty-one million dollars doing it in the Sahara, and the name became shorthand for disaster before…
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…
New YorkHawkeye (2021) Review
Hawkeye (2021) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A small warm Christmas crime story about a middle-aged man who wants to go home, and the modesty is the point. Hailee Steinfeld is the best new character of…
New YorkThe Dark Tower (2017) Review
The Dark Tower (2017) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Eight novels written across thirty-four years were compressed into ninety-five minutes, which is the shortest running time any studio fantasy has attempted this century. Idris Elba and…
CanadaThe Day After Tomorrow (2004) Review
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich froze the northern hemisphere in about a week, which is roughly ten thousand times faster than any climate model permits, and produced the most…
CaliforniaThe Manchurian Candidate (1962) Review
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Frankenheimer made a political thriller that is also a comedy, a nightmare and a story about a mother, released it thirteen months before Dallas, and Angela Lansbury…
BuffaloThe Natural (1984) Review
The Natural (1984) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Levinson took a bleak 1952 novel about a man who takes the bribe and inverted its ending completely, which is either the film's great betrayal or the reason…
New YorkJohn Wick (2014) Review
John Wick (2014) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two stuntmen directed it for twenty million dollars, put the camera far enough back to see the whole body, and built an entire criminal economy out of about…
New YorkKlute (1971) Review
Klute (1971) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The film is called Klute and it is not about Klute. Jane Fonda won the Academy Award for a performance built out of therapy sessions and a tape recorder,…
New YorkMidnight Cowboy (1969) Review
Midnight Cowboy (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture, and the X was self-inflicted by a nervous studio head who consulted a psychiatrist. Three million dollars, forty-five back,…