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Badlands (1973) Review

Badlands (1973) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Malick's first film takes a real killing spree and narrates it in the voice of a fifteen-year-old girl who describes murder in the vocabulary of a movie magazine. The…

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Cleopatra (1963) Review

Cleopatra (1963) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It was budgeted at around two million dollars and cost forty-four, was the highest grossing film of its year and still did not break even, and Fox sold off…

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Alexander (2004) Review

Alexander (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone spent a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on a life that has no shape, released it, and then recut it three separate times across ten years trying…

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) Review

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two superb scenes about who gets to carry a national symbol, connected by four episodes of pursuit. Carl Lumbly appears twice and gives the…

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Hawkeye (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…

Tom Hiddleston as Loki stands in a brutalist concrete office hallway of the Time Variance Authority, wearing a grey suit and

Loki Season 1 (2021) Review

Loki Season 1 (2021) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The best thing the Marvel streaming era produced, because it has a governing idea and obeys its own rules. A bureaucracy that files away every life that…

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WandaVision (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…

Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in a dark costume, looking stern or scheming against a shadowy background.

Agatha 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…

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Ironheart (2025) Review

Ironheart (2025) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The series that closed Phase 5, three years after its protagonist was installed in a film that had other business. A character handed a show on the strength of…

Tom Hiddleston as Loki stands in a corridor of the TVA, looking concerned as timelines collapse around him. TITLE: Loki

Loki Season 2 (2023) Review

Loki Season 2 (2023) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It finishes an argument the first season opened instead of starting a new one, and it ends with a decision that cannot be taken back. Almost nothing…

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The Postman (1997) Review

The Postman (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Costner turned a satirical novel about a con man into a three hour sincere epic about American institutions, and ended it with a statue of himself. It took…

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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Review

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Del Toro built two worlds with identical rules and let a child move between them, and the fascist captain is more frightening than anything in the labyrinth. It…