3:10 to Yuma (1957) Review
3:10 to Yuma (1957) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A rancher takes two hundred dollars to hold an outlaw in a hotel room until a train arrives, and almost the entire film is the two of…
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ComedyY Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Review
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two teenagers and an older woman drive to a beach that does not exist, and a narrator keeps interrupting to tell you how everybody in the…
BiopicThe Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Review
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two medical students ride a failing motorcycle across South America in 1952 and one of them becomes Che Guevara afterward. The film's discipline is that it stops…
DramaThe Straight Story (1999) Review
The Straight Story (1999) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. David Lynch made a G-rated film about a seventy-three-year-old man driving a lawnmower three hundred miles to see his dying brother, and it is the least ironic…
DramaRain Man (1988) Review
Rain Man (1988) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Everybody remembers Hoffman and the Oscar, and the film belongs to Tom Cruise, who plays a genuinely unpleasant man for ninety minutes and earns the change without ever…
DramaParis, Texas (1984) Review
Paris, Texas (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man walks out of the desert after four years of silence and the film spends two hours working out why. The peep show scene at the end…
ComedyLittle Miss Sunshine (2006) Review
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Six people in a failing Volkswagen driving from Albuquerque to a children's beauty pageant in California. Every one of them has a private humiliation, and the film's…
DramaNomadland (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…
DramaKings of the Road (1976) Review
Kings of the Road (1976) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two men drive a repair truck along the East German border servicing dying cinemas, for a hundred and seventy-five minutes, with almost no plot. It was…
DramaFive 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…
AdventureInto 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…
DramaEasy 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…