The Henry Darius crossover rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two episodes on two shows across two nights, bridged by a killer whose defining trait is that he moves. The premise is genuinely well engineered and the…
Black Adam (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Dwayne Johnson spent fifteen years getting this made, declared that the hierarchy of power in the DC universe was about to change, and the studio he was in…
Babylon (2022) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It does not belong on a page called Modern Movie Slop and I am reviewing it here because that is where it was ranked. It is a three-hour failure…
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The last film of a continuity that had already been cancelled, released into an audience that knew it, with a villain whose plan is to…
Fast X (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The tenth entry in a series that began with a film about stealing DVD players, costing around three hundred and forty million dollars, ending on a cliffhanger, and…
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Jason Reitman made a film about his father's film, cast a girl who is genuinely good in it, and then spent the last twenty minutes reconstructing 1984 shot…
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Made for around a hundred thousand dollars, shelved for four years over its rating, and still the film that other films about this subject…
Hannibal's pilot rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Bryan Fuller made a network procedural about a man who reconstructs murders in his head and put it on NBC at ten o'clock, where it lasted three seasons and…
Killing Eve's pilot rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Phoebe Waller-Bridge adapted a set of novellas into an hour that is genuinely funny about an assassin and genuinely serious about a bored woman who has been waiting…
Amsterdam (2022) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. David O. Russell assembled one of the largest casts of the decade to tell a true story about a 1933 plot against the American government, and buried it under…
Mindhunter's pilot rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Fincher directs an hour about a hostage negotiation failing and a man discovering that the vocabulary he has been given is inadequate. Almost nothing happens, there is no killer…
Man Bites Dog (1992) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A Belgian film crew follows a serial killer, films his work, and gradually starts helping. Made by three film students for almost nothing, and it is the…
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