2000sSeptember 10, 2026
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two teenagers and an older woman drive to a beach that does not exist, and a narrator keeps interrupting to tell you how everybody in the…
1930sSeptember 10, 2026
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The Coens claimed to be adapting the Odyssey without having read it, which is either a joke or the most useful thing anybody has said…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Six people in a failing Volkswagen driving from Albuquerque to a children's beauty pageant in California. Every one of them has a private humiliation, and the film's…
1980sSeptember 10, 2026
Ishtar (1987) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Elaine May made a screwball comedy about two men with no talent, spent fifty-one million dollars doing it in the Sahara, and the name became shorthand for disaster before…
1990sSeptember 10, 2026
Last Action Hero (1993) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Columbia made a deconstruction of the action film starring the biggest action star alive, marketed it to children, and opened it one week after Jurassic Park. The…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred million dollars was spent on a lunar nightclub comedy that took about four and a half million worldwide, which is among the worst…
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
Hawkeye (2021) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A small warm Christmas crime story about a middle-aged man who wants to go home, and the modesty is the point. Hailee Steinfeld is the best new character of…
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
Ms. Marvel (2022) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The family material and the Partition episode belong to a genuinely good show, and they are surrounded by a superhero origin whose purpose is to place a character…
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) rates minus one out of ten on the rewatch scale. A legal comedy in a world with superhumans is a genuinely good premise and the series is not interested in it. What it is interested…
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
WandaVision (2021) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three episodes of genuine formal invention, three of increasingly conventional plot, and a finale that answers a question the audience had stopped wanting answered. The sitcom pastiche is the…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
Sideways (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two middle-aged men drive north for a week of wine tasting before one of them gets married, and both of them are worse people than the film initially lets…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A three hundred page children's book became nearly eight hours of film at a reported seven hundred and forty-five million dollars. Guillermo del Toro spent two years…
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