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Unfortunately hated ad astra too.

I seem to have had better luck with Ad Astra although I’m not sure I really ‘get’ Gray since I feel similarly undecided about it as with his last film (apart from those two, I've only seen The Immigrant and don't remember it too clearly). There's some indelible visual motifs to be had (the way Pitt's surroundings are reflected on his helmet like a double exposure, his hand passing through the moon dust, Liv Tyler and Ruth Negga striding toward the camera, etc.) and Pitt's performance is at times fairly disquieting in its steadied modulations. The ruthlessly linear structure entails that all other characters fall by the wayside in Pitt's undeterred journey (honing in on a similar characteristic to Hunnam in The Lost City of Z) and even relegates the film's supplementary ideas around globalism to the periphery. At times paradoxically absorbing in its methodical cadence (each leg of the journey peeling further back at the character's shell) yet rendered with a consuming coldness that lingers in spite of its otherwise hopeful ending.

The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015) 6.5/10
Ad Astra (Gray, 2019) 6 in a cinema
Animals (Hyde, 2019) 5 in a cinema

Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019) 3/10
Annabelle Comes Home (Gary Dauberman, 2019) 4/10
The Mule (Clint Eastwood, 2018) 5/10
Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019) 5/10 - cinema
Child’s Play (Lars Klevberg, 2019) 5/10
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016) 6/10
Ma (Tate Taylor, 2019) 6/10
Summer of 84 (François Simard, Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell, 2018) 7/10
Anna (Luc Besson, 2019) 7/10
Dealt (Luke Korem, 2017) 8/10
Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019) 8/10 - cinema
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019) 9/10 - cinema

I updated my initial post with some Jason Statham films and some other newish stuff.

I'm now up to 100+ 21st century films seen in 2019... (for good or bad)

The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015) 6.5/10
The King (Michod, 2019) 6
Lynch (Jason S., 2017) 7 documentary
If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins, 2018) 6.5
Ford v Ferrari (Mangold, 2019) 7 in a cinema
Pain and Glory (Almodovar, 2019) 7 in a cinema
Le Retour du héros (Tirard, 2018) 7
Mon Ket (Damiens, 2018) 5
Varda par Agnès (Varda, 2019) 7.5 documentary
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2019) 6
Knives Out (Johnson, 2019) 6.5 in a cinema

is there a 2020 version of this list? if there is, i can't find it.