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The Greatest Satires

September 11, 2026

Every satire reviewed on this site, ranked. Brooks, Verhoeven, Altman, Ashby and the Zuckers, and a run of films that turned out to be documentaries.

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Do the Right Thing (1989) Review

September 11, 2026

Do the Right Thing (1989) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. One block in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the year, a pizzeria, a wall of photographs, and a film that refuses to tell the audience…

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Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020-2024) Review

September 11, 2026

Star 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…

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Tom Stoppard's screenplay about Shakespeare writing Romeo and Juliet, featuring the cast of the 1998 film in period costume.1990s

Shakespeare in Love (1998) Review

September 11, 2026

Shakespeare in Love (1998) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A genuinely witty romantic comedy with a superb Tom Stoppard screenplay, which beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture through the most studied campaign in Academy history…

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Life is Beautiful (1998) Review

September 11, 2026

Life is Beautiful (1998) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roberto Benigni made a comedy about a father convincing his son that a concentration camp is a game, won Best Actor, and produced the most divisive film…

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Forrest Gump (1994) Review

September 11, 2026

Forrest Gump (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A technically remarkable film with a genuinely great performance at its center and a politics it has spent thirty years being argued about, which beat Pulp Fiction and…

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Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Review

September 11, 2026

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two superb performances inside a film that covers twenty-five years of the American South and declines to examine any of it, in the year Do the Right…

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David Niven as Phileas Fogg stands with Mario Moreno as Passepartout in a scene from the 1956 film.1950s

Around the World in 80 Days (1956) Review

September 11, 2026

Around the World in 80 Days (1956) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mike Todd shot the Verne novel in six countries with about forty recognizable faces in one-scene appearances, invented the modern cameo, and beat Giant…

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Vice (2018) Review

September 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…

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Green Book (2018) Review

September 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…

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Marriage Story (2019) Review

September 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…

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Babylon (2022) Review

September 11, 2026

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…

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