Films released from 2020 onward, beginning with a year the theaters closed. The reviews here cover a period still deciding what it is: the franchise model showing strain, the theatrical window shortened and then partly restored, and a run of films that would not have been financed a decade earlier arriving alongside sequels nobody asked for. Judgments here are provisional in a way the older decades are not.
2010sStar 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…
2020sStar Trek: Picard rates 1 for its first two seasons and at most a 5 for its third. Awful from front to back. The first two have nothing in them worth defending, and the third, which almost everybody else rates…
2020sStar Trek: Lower Decks rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mediocre, and a good try. A genuinely clever premise, the most stable production in modern Star Trek, and a show whose comic style and comic content are…
2020sStar Trek: Prodigy carries no rating here because I have not watched it, and barely knew it existed. That turns out to be the point. Its second season holds a perfect hundred percent with critics and ninety-six with audiences, and…
2020sStar Trek: Strange New Worlds carries no rating here because I have not watched it. This page is an honest survey of what other people think, and the short version is that it is the best reviewed modern Star Trek,…
2020sStar Trek: Starfleet Academy rates minus ten thousand on the rewatch scale. It is the worst thing I have ever watched, film or television, and that includes Battlefield Earth. Pure garbage. Horseshit. Something written by small children with crayons on…
2020sElvis (2022) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Austin Butler is genuinely extraordinary and the film around him is narrated by his manager, edited at about four cuts a second for the first hour, and structured as…
2010sThe 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…
2020sThe Dahmer - Monster opener rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It is well made, Evan Peters is excellent, and it dramatizes the deaths of identifiable people whose families objected publicly and were not consulted. The craft…
2020sBlack 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…
2020sBabylon (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…
2020sAquaman 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…
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