PATHS TO PARADISE (Clarence Badger, USA, 1925, 8)
A bit of enjoyable nonsense about a couple of jewel thieves among the impossibly riche. Raymond Griffith and Betty Compson make an appealing couple...
Bones and All **1/2
The central conceit in director Luca Guadagnino’s film—adapted by David Kajganich from Camille DeAngelis’s 2015 novel—is clearly an allegory for something; the question of...
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths **
Plenty of classic films have been steeped in dream-logic imagery; Alejandro González Iñárritu takes that notion to a level that sometimes just doesn’t...
Armageddon Time **1/2
Over the course of nearly 30 years as a filmmaker, one of James Gray’s undeniable gifts has been creating a rich sense of place for his stories; they’re scometimes less compelling...
All Quiet on the Western Front ***1/2
More than a century after the end of the First World War, this latest adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s landmark novel demonstrates that its story is still a...
Confess, Fletch ***1/2
See feature review. Available Sept. 16 in theaters and via VOD. (R)
Do Revenge ***
In hindsight, the cutthroat world of teen social circles—exemplified in genre hits...
THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING (Bianca Stigter, Holland/Poland/USA, 2022, 9)
I learned about the death of Jean-Luc Godard shortly before I walked into the theater this afternoon, and I frequently thought...
BLUE (Krzysztof Kieslowski, France, 1993, 10 was 9) R
I’d forgotten how explicitly Christian the film becomes at the end, especially for a film made by an expressly lapsed Catholic, with the words...
DC League of Super-Pets ***
The self-seriousness in so much of the mainstream, live-action DC superhero features virtually demands a cheeky, irreverent response that began in stuff like Teen Titans...
Beavis and Butt-head Do the Universe ***
It’s been 25 years since Mike Judge’s snegroing animated adolescents last graced a screen—and God bless ’em, they’re just as stupid, immature, horny...
TOP GUN (Tony Scott, USA, 1986) 4 V
… and believe me, it’d’ve been lower without climactic dogfight, which at least pulls of the visceral thrills that are all the film even tried for. While I...
All the 2022 US-release films I've seen, from best to worst. Only films that have currently been released are here; films I've seen at fests will be added when released.
Dual The Northman Pleasure...
This was originally written at my blog here: vjmorton.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/films-of-my-life-1/
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THE BREAKFAST CLUB (John Hughes, USA, 1985, 10)
I watched THE BREAKFAST CLUB at the...
RAN (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1985, 10) R
Candidate for the bleakest movie ever, frankly. I love every minute of it.
All the 1985 films I've seen, from best to worst.
Ran The Breakfast Club 28 Up Pee-wee's Big Adventure Prizzi's Honor After Hours Witness Mask Jagged Edge The Purple Rose of Cairo...
HOUSE OF GUCCI (Ridley Scott, USA/Italy, 2021) 6
Is there anything Lady Gaga can't do? In a Grand Guignol soap opera, she's the only actor who manages to keep a humanity to what my friend Sean called...
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, Taiwan, 1991) 8 R
It's often unquestionably great and superbly directed, with details like stabbing victims in the background and the (non-)use of lighting. But...
SPENCER (Pablo Larrain, Britain, 2021) 9
Yes, it’s all over the place, especially with themes and motifs, and accordingly inconsistent. But it’s also Diana’s self-perception and about that very...
Crimes of the Future **1/2
It’s been a good 20 years since David Cronenberg has directed anything this quintessentially old-school Cronenbergian, full of bizarre world-building and unsettling body...
EMILY THE CRIMINAL (John Patton Ford, USA, 2022) 6
When the titular Emily (Aubrey Plaza) visits the mother of her partner-in-crime, Youcef (also increasingly her plain-ol’-partner), the older woman...
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