Sideways (2004) Review
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…
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2010sThe Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) Review
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…
1980sCaddyshack (1980) Review
Caddyshack (1980) rates 8.5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The plot was abandoned during production and the film assembled itself out of whatever four comedians did in front of the camera. It should not work. It made sixty…
1970sBlazing Saddles (1974) Review
Blazing Saddles (1974) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mel Brooks made an anti-racist film by putting the ugliest language available in the mouths of idiots and letting the sheriff outthink them. Made for two point six…
1950sGrease (1978) Review
Grease (1978) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A six million dollar musical that took close to four hundred million and never stopped playing. The songs are permanent, the leads are twenty-nine and twenty-three playing seventeen, and…
1990sThelma & Louise (1991) Review
Thelma & Louise (1991) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Callie Khouri wrote it in six months as her first screenplay and took the Academy Award for it. Two women leave for a fishing weekend and never…
1990sThe Big Lebowski (1998) Review
The Big Lebowski (1998) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A Raymond Chandler plot handed to a man with no interest in solving it. Failed on release, found its people later, and now has a festival and…
1950sGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Review
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two women on a transatlantic crossing, one openly interested in money and honest about it. Sharper about the economics of marriage than any film of 1953 had…
2020sGlass Onion (2022) Review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A tech billionaire's private island weekend where the solution is that the clever man has nothing inside. Better as satire than as a puzzle.
2000sThe Life Aquatic (2004) Review
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Anderson's least loved film and his saddest. A failing documentarian on a converted research vessel, hunting a shark that may not exist, and the…
1990sOut to Sea (1997) Review
Out to Sea (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lemmon and Matthau as dance hosts on a cruise ship, in the last decent film the pair made together. Slight, warm, and carried entirely by forty years…
1970sThe Love Boat (1977-1987) Review
The Love Boat (1977-1987) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Nine seasons of guest stars falling in love on the Pacific Princess. Artistically negligible, structurally brilliant, and it rebuilt an entire industry.