AdventureStar Trek: Voyager rates minus 1 on the rewatch scale, with exceptions for the Borg material and the Seven of Nine seasons. Reset button television. Nothing ever mattered because they needed to be lost again next week, and the conflict…
ActionMoonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is one of…
ActionRebel Moon (2023) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Zack Snyder pitched this to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars film, was refused, and made it anyway with the names changed. It is Seven Samurai with the recruitment…
HorrorThe X-Files' third episode rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man who hibernates for thirty years, wakes, kills five people for their livers, and goes back to sleep. It invented the monster of the week and…
ActionJurassic World Dominion (2022) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The previous film ended with dinosaurs released into the world, which is the only genuinely new idea the series ever had, and this one is about locusts…
HorrorDay of the Dead (1985) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Romero's budget was cut in half and he rewrote it into a chamber piece about twelve people in a bunker who hate each other. The zombies…
ActionThe 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…
ActionThe Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred million dollars was spent on a lunar nightclub comedy that took about four and a half million in North America, which is among…
Black ComedySouthland 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.…
AdventureStar Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lucas had not directed a film in twenty-two years, owned the company outright, and answered to nobody. The result opens with a trade dispute, gives…
ActionTenet (2020) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Nolan bought a real 747 to crash because it cost less than building a model, and then mixed the film so that a substantial number of people could not…
DramaLoki 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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