Marriage Story (2019) Review
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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2020sBabylon (2022) Review
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…
2020sAquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) Review
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…
2020sGhostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Review
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…
2020sAmsterdam (2022) Review
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…
1990sMan Bites Dog (1992) Review
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…
2000sZombieland (2009) Review
Zombieland (2009) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A road movie with four people, a list of survival rules rendered on screen, and Woody Harrelson looking for a Twinkie. It is very funny for eighty minutes and…
2010sWarm Bodies (2013) Review
Warm Bodies (2013) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A zombie romance narrated by the zombie, which is a better idea than it sounds and is executed with more wit than the premise deserves. It is also…
2000sShaun of the Dead (2004) Review
Shaun of the Dead (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A comedy that works as an actual zombie film, which almost no parody manages, because Edgar Wright shot the horror straight and let the jokes come…
1980sThe Return of the Living Dead (1985) Review
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Dan O'Bannon invented the brain-eating zombie, the running zombie and the talking zombie in one film, and every one of those is now so…
2010sOne Cut of the Dead (2017) Review
One Cut of the Dead (2017) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first thirty-seven minutes are a bad zombie film shot in one take, and the remaining hour explains every mistake in it. Made for about…
1990sDead Alive / Braindead (1992) Review
Dead Alive (1992) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peter Jackson made the bloodiest film ever produced, reportedly using around three hundred litres of fake blood in the last twenty minutes alone, and underneath the lawnmower it…