Films released between 2010 and 2019, the decade the shared universe took over the top of the market and the middle of the market went to streaming. The reviews here cover both ends: the tentpoles built to support the next tentpole, and the smaller films that found audiences because distribution stopped requiring a theater. The gap between those two kinds of production is the story of the decade.
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: Discovery rates minus 10 on the rewatch scale. Every episode across five seasons rates a 1 or less. It had fifty years of lore, a guaranteed audience and an unlimited budget, and it is a pile of shit…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Judy (2019) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for a technically accomplished transformation inside a film that exists to contain it, covering Judy Garland's five-week London run five months before her death.
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
The King's Speech (2010) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A well-made two-hander about a man with a stammer and the unqualified Australian who treated him, which beat The Social Network for Best Picture and Best Director…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Roma (2018) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron wrote, directed, shot and co-edited a black and white film about the domestic worker who raised him, in Spanish and Mixtec, with a non-professional lead. It won Director,…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Vice (2018) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Christian Bale gained around forty-five pounds and disappeared into Dick Cheney, in a film whose formal tricks keep interrupting a genuinely serious subject. Bale lost Best Actor to Rami…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Green Book (2018) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two excellent performances inside a road film about a Black concert pianist and his white driver on a 1962 southern tour, which beat Roma for Best Picture and…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Marriage Story (2019) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two people who like each other are put through a divorce by a legal process neither of them wanted to use, in a film that opens with both…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Extremely Wicked (2019) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film about Ted Bundy told from his girlfriend's perspective, which is a genuinely good idea, executed by a picture that keeps forgetting she is the protagonist and…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
The Disney live action remakes rate 3 out of 10 as a body of work. Fifteen years, a dozen and a half films, several billion dollars, and a program whose governing principle is that the animated version should be reproduced…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
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