Below is the list of movies I’ve seen this year, very roughly sorted by how much I enjoyed them (least favorite at the top, favorite at the bottom). Commentary included for select movies.
- 8½ (1963)
- Moneyball
- Asteroid City
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The Limey A few truly inspired scenes (taking out the gangsters, crashing the party), the latter of which was only possible due to the frenetic editing. Overall, I found it distracting, despite the novel way of keeping up the pace of expositional scenes.
- Goldfinger
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Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage Not nearly as charming as the first. Lots of callbacks to jokes that were done better the first time around.
- The Disruptors
- Fantastic Four (1994)
- Soul Music
- But I’m a Cheerleader
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (rewatch) Not nearly as good as I remember, and not nearly as tightly scripted as the first one.
- The Goldfinch
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- American Beauty
- The 40 Year Old Virgin
- All the President’s Men
- From Russia with Love
- Thank You For Smoking
- North By Northwest
- Frost/Nixon
- Love Actually
- Terminator (rewatch)
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21 Jump Street (2012) (rewatch) *Brie Larson can act! Turns out her wooden Captain Marvel was a directorial decision.
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking barrels Basically a game of Fiasco with a baller soundtrack. Unusual cinematography at times.
- Game Night
- The Mighty Ducks
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
- The Italian Job
- Memento
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Haywire An instant classic in the spy genre. Simple plot, with enough elements to keep things interesting an suspenseful. Adding another genre to Soderbergh’s repertoire. And the score positively rules.
- Panic Room
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Really fun adventure movie, in the style of The Mummy. The tiefling design was cowardice, but fun all around.
- His Girl Friday