New(ish) Films you've seen in 2019

[wba]

Super Champion Film Zone's most popular thread (by far!) is back - once more with the greatest - and not so greatest - viewings of 21st century cinema. It's no fun, but someone's gotta watch it.



Included is everything from the 21st century that I've watched throughout 2019


wooohooo!!!

[roughly between ****½ and ***** or 9/10 to 10/10]


Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno “Destiny, My Love: First Song“ (Abdellatif Kechiche, France/Italy 2017)



yummy

[roughly between ***½ and **** or 8/10]


Ad Astra (James Gray, USA/China/Brazil 2019)
Domino (Brian De Palma, Denmark/France/Italy/Belgium/Netherlands 2019)
Glass (M. Nigh Shyamalan, USA 2018)
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, USA/Japan 2019)
Joker (Todd Phillips, USA/Canada 2019)
Po feng "To the Fore" (Dante Lam, Hong Kong 2015)
SPF-18 (Alex Israel, USA 2017)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Eli Roth, USA/Canda/India 2018)
Wo ist Fred? “Where is Fred!?“ (Anno Saul, Germany 2006)



tasty

[roughly between *** and ***½ or 7/10]


Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, USA 2018)
Between Worlds (Maria Pulera, Spain 2018)
Destination Wedding (Victor Levin, USA 2018)
Dian wu bu "Weeds on Fire" (Chi-fat Chan, Hong Kong 2016)
Drive (Sabu, Japan 2002)
Game Night (John Francis Daley/Jonathan Goldstein, USA 2018)
Gangcheolbi “Steel Rain“ (Woo-suk Yang, South Korea 2017)
Green Book (Peter Farrelly, USA 2018)
Hummingbird (Steven Knight, UK/USA 2013)
Le retour du heros “Return of the Hero“ (Laurent Tirard, France/Belgium 2018)
Les freres Sisters “The Sisters Brothers“ (Jacques Audiard, France/Spain/Romania/Belgium/USA 2018)
Looking Glass (Tim Hunter, Canada/USA 2018)
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA 2015)
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, UK/USA/Germany 2008)
Meine teuflisch gute Freundin “How to Be Really Bad“ (Marco Petry, Germany 2018)
Mission Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, USA/China/France/Norway, USA 2018)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, USA/United Arab Emirates/Czech Republic/Russia/India/Canada 2011)
Moh ging "That Demon Within" (Dante Lam, Hong Kong/China 2014)
Padman "Pad Man" (R. Balki, India 2018)
Robin Hood (Otto Bathurst, USA 2018)
Serenity (Steven Knight, UK/USA 2018)
She's the Man (Andy Fickman, USA/Canada 2006)
Sommeren '92 "Summer of '92" (Kasper Barfoed, Denmark/UK 2015)
Spy (Paul Feig, USA/UK/France/Hungary/Germany 2015)
The Equalizer 2 (Antoine Fuqua, USA 2018)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach, USA 2017)
The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery, USA 2018)
The Predator (Shane Black, USA/Canada 2018)
The Week Of (Robert Smigel, USA 2018)
Vengeance: A Love Story (Johnny Martin, USA 2017)
Wild Card (Simon West, USA 2014)



from time to time

[roughly between **½ and *** or 5/10 to 6/10]


21 Jump Street (Phil Lord/Christopher Miller, USA 2012)
25 km/h (Markus Goller, Germany 2018)
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez, USA 2019)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, USA 2018)
Braven (Lin Oeding, Canada 2018)
Brice de Nice “The Brice Man“ (James Huth, France 2005)
Bridget Jones’s Baby (Sharon Maguire, UK/USA/France/China 2016)
Butter (Jim Field Smith, USA 2011)
Cha ma gu dao xi lie “Tea-Horse Road Series: Delamu“ (Zhuangzhuang Tian, China/Japan 2004)
Coach Carter (Thomas Carter, USA/Germany 2004)
Cold Pursuit (Hans Petter Moland, USA/UK/Norway/Canada/France/Germany 2019)
Crank (Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor, USA 2006)
Der goldene Handschuh "The Golden Glove" (Fatih Akin, Germany/France 2019)
Die Goldfische "The Goldfish" (Alireza Golafshan, Germany 2019)
Dumbo (Tim Burton, USA/UK/Australia/Canada 2019)
Hold the Dark (Jeremy Saulnier, USA 2018)
Hostiles (Scott Cooper, USA 2017)
Inrang “Illang: The Wolf Brigade“ (Jee-woon Kim, South Korea 2018)
Jigsaw (Michael Spierig/Peter Spierig, USA/Canada 2017)
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, USA/Belgium/UK 2018)
Murder Mystery (Kyle Newacheck, USA 2019)
Naked (Michael Tiddes, USA 2017)
Road to Paloma (Jason Momoa, USA 2014)
RocknRolla (Guy Ritchie, UK/USA/France 2008)
Shazam! (David F. Sandberg, USA/Canada 2019)
Step Up (Anne Fletcher, USA 2006)
Storks (Nicholas Stoller/Doug Sweetland, USA 2016)
Sweethearts (Karoline Herfurth, Germany 2019)
The Aftermath (James Kent, UK/USA/Germany 2019)
The Founder (John Lee Hancock, USA 2016)
The Game Plan (Andy Fickman, USA 2007)
The Highwaymen (John Lee Hancock, USA 2019)
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made? (Jörg Bauer, Germany 2002)
The Humanity Bureau (Rob W. King, Canada/USA/UK 2017)
The King (David Michod, UK/Hungary/Australia 2019)
The Mechanic (Simon West, USA 2010)
The Ridiculous 6 (Frank Coraci, USA 2015)
The Voices (Marjane Satrapi, USA/Germany 2013)
Triple Frontier (J. C. Chandor, USA 2019)



something got stuck between my teeth

[roughly between ** and **½ or 4/10 to 5/10]


100 Dinge “100 Things“ (Florian David Fitz, Germany 2018)
Aladdin (Guy Ritchie, USA 2019)
Along for the Ride (John Kaye, USA/Germany 2000)
Before I Go to Sleep (Rowan Joffe, UK/USA/France/Sweden 2014)
Der fast perfekte Mann “The Almost Perfect Man“ (Vanessa Jopp, Germany 2013)
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Gus Van Sant, USA/France 2017)
Empire State (Dito Montiel, USA 2013)
Happy Burnout (Andre Erkau, Germany 2017)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Chad Stahelski, USA 2019)
Ocean’s Eight (Gary Ross, USA 2018)
Only the Brave (Joseph Kosinski, USA 2017)
Papillon (Michael Noer, USA/Czech Republic/Spain 2017)
Parker (Taylor Hackford, USA 2012)
Pet Sematary (Kevin Kölsch/Dennis Widmyer, USA/Canada 2019)
Pralinen zum Frühstück (Marc Prill, Germany 2019)
Replicas (Jeffrey Nachmanoff, UK/China/Puerto Rico/USA 2018)
Safe (Boaz Yakin, USA 2012)
Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, UK/USA 2012)
Sex and the City (Michael Patrick King, USA 2008)
Sex and the City 2 (Michael Patrick King, USA 2010)
The Do-Over (Steven Brill, USA 2016)[/color]
The Meg (Jon Turteltaub, USA/China 2018)
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, UK/Australia 2013)
Vier gegen die Bank “Four Against the Bank“ (Wolfgang Petersen, Germany 2016)
Zeiten ändern dich “Times Change You“ (Uli Edel, Germany 2010)
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, USA 2009)



flat

[around * and *½ or 2/10 to 3/10]


Creed II (Steven Caple Jr., USA 2018)
In the Tall Grass (Vincenzo Natali, Canada 2019)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Ol Parker, UK/USA/Japan 2018)
Neue Vahr Süd (Hermine Huntgeburth, Germany 2010)
The Spy Who Dumped Me (Susanna Fogel, USA/Canada 2018)
Wuff (Detlev Buck, Germany 2018)



crummy

[below * or 1/10 to 2/10]


Left Behind (Vic Armstrong, USA/Canada 2014)
True Crimes (Alexandros Avranas , Poland/UK/USA 2016)



red: Jason Statham films
blue: Nicolas Cage films
green: Adam Sandler films
yellow: Channing Tatum films

[owen]

Mary poppins returns. It was very bland especially the songs but my daughter was transfixed (and deafened) and managed the two and a quarter hours just fine on her first real visit to the cinema and going in I wouldn’t have expected that.

The songs really are bad though. I didn’t see the original growing up but my daughter plays it constantly and o can still enjoy it but I can’t see this one having much replay value and it owes far too mich to Paddington but hopefully it will be the first step toward Broni watching better things

[kanafani]

John From (João Nicolau, 2015) - a coming-of-age story that did not quite work for me. The first half is a quite enjoyable, finely observed portrait of a teenage girl on summer vacation. Good hangout movie vibe with a distinct kaurismaki-like sensitivity (is there a scene where the girl is watching one of his movies? I think there was). It captures that languid summer feeling quite well. It gradually gets more "whimsical" and "cute" with increasing touches of magical realism or whatever it is they call it these days. As the flights of fancy (inspired by Portugal's colonial past, I guess?) got fancier, my reservoir of interest got drained to near-zero. Nicolau and I were just not in the same headspace anymore. It's well made and often charming, but I was ultimately drowned by its hard-working, smart, busy slightness. It took me a while before realizing that the mom is played by the wonderful Leonor Silveira. Always nice to meet an old friend when you don't expect it. Now that's an actress who's been in much better movies.

[kanafani]

La vida útil (Federico Veiroj, 2010) Very heartfelt movie about the last days of an Uruguayan cinematheque. The first half is a finely observed portrait of the people who run the place (director, programmer, etc), very funny and quite loving. In the second half, the middle-aged programmer, Jorge, (played by a real-life critic), now exiled from his dark safe movie shelter, has to navigate the real outside world and find a new purpose. Very touching in its depiction of a man who draws strength from all the images and sounds he's imbibed in his life. Monsieur Jorge, c'est moi.

[pabs]

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(My definition of a "Newish film" is any film listed on IMDb as having been first released between 2015-2019.)


Roma (Cuaron, 2018) 8/10
Burning (Lee, 2018) 8 in a cinema
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019) 8 in a cinema
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) 8
Capernaum (Labaki, 2018) 8
Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) 8 in a cinema

Parasite (Bong, 2019) 7.5 in a cinema
John McEnroe: In the realm of perfection (Faraut, 2018) documentary 7.5
Varda par Agnès (Varda, 2019) 7.5 documentary
Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) 7.5


The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) 7 in a cinema
The Farewell (Wang, 2019) 7 in a cinema
Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) 7
Mary Queen of Scots (Rourke, 2018) 7 in a cinema
Dogman (Garrone, 2018) 7
Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) 7
Jusqu'à la garde aka Custody (Legrand, 2017) 7
Cameraperson (Johnson, 2016) 7 documentary
Celle que vous croyez (Nebbou, 2019) 7
Under sandet (Zandvliet, 2015) 7
El Angel (Ortega, 2018) 7
Thunder Road (Cummings, 2018) 7 in a cinema
This is Bob Hope (Scheinfeld, 2017) 7 documentary
Mid90s (Hill, 2018) 7 in a cinema
Anima (PT Anderson, 2019) 7
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
Lynch (Jason S., 2017) 7 documentary
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


Widows (McQueen, 2018) 6.9
Ted - Show Me Love (Holm, 2018) 6.9

The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) 6.8

McKellen: Playing the Part (Stephenson, 2017) documentary 6.7

Rocketman (Fletcher, 2019) 6.6 in a cinema

The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015) 6.5
George Michael: Freedom (Michael, Austin, 2017) 6.5 documentary
Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell, 2018) 6.5 in a cinema
Destroyer (Kusama, 2018) 6.5 in a cinema
If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins, 2018) 6.5
Knives Out (Johnson, 2019) 6.5 in a cinema

Todos lo saben aka Everbody Knows (Farhadi, 2018) 6
Ad Astra (Gray, 2019) 6 in a cinema
The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) 6 in a cinema
Brigsby Bear (McCarey, 2017) 6
I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore (Blair, 2017) 6
The King (Michod, 2019) 6
Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 6
The Souvenir (Hogg, 2019) 6
Wild Rose (Harper, 2018) 6 in a cinema
Anthony Jeselnik: Thoughts and Prayers (Dubin, 2015) 6 *stand-up comedy performance
The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) 6
Homecoming: A film by Beyoncé (Knowles, 2019) 6 documentary
1985 (Tan, 2018) 6 in a cinema

L'amant d'un jour (Garrel, 2017) 5.8
Leaving Neverland (Reed, 2019) documentary 5.8


Animals (Hyde, 2019) 5 in a cinema
Centre of my World (Erwa, 2015) 5
Beautiful Boy (Van Groeningen, 2018) 5
The Old Man and the Gun (Lowery, 2018) 5
Mon Ket (Damiens, 2018) 5
Alita: Battle Angel (Rodriguez, 2019) 5

Mia et le lion blanc (Maistre, 2018) 4 in a cinema


A Star is Born (Cooper, 2018) 1

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[kanafani]

Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018) I've liked pretty much everything Bujalski's made. This one and Results are definitely more mainstreamish than his earlier stuff. I remember reading an interview with him shortly after Results was released where he was pretty candid about how he was now married with children, he could no longer live off some friend's couch, and he had to worry about paying the bills on time, which something like Computer Chess had no chance of achieving. But this new phase really does not feel like a sellout. His movies nowadays have the familiar sheen of "quirky/indie" Hollywood comedy, but the distinctive voice is still there. If anything it is paradoxically even more pronounced now because it is operating in surroundings where you don't usually encounter a personal touch. This one ultimately works because it genuinely cares about the human beings it portrays. I can't think of another recent American movie that so precisely conveys the experience of labor in our age, with its shitty small business tyrants and soul-sucking streamlined corporations. There is a sense of camaraderie and workers solidarity that shines through that I found quite endearing.

[pabs]

Latest newish watches:


Widows (McQueen, 2018) 6.9
Ted - Show Me Love (Holm, 2018) 6.9
L'amant d'un jour (Garrel, 2017) 5.8

[pabs]

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Latest newish watches

Cold War (Pawlikowski, 2018) 8/10 in a cinema
The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018) 7 in a cinema
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Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) 7.5/10
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Capernaum (Labaki, 2018) 8/10

Big tears shed by the end of this one, I'm not ashamed to say. These non-professional child actors were amazing.
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[Silga]

The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) 10/10
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2018) 10
Vice (Adam McKay, 2018) 9
A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2018) 9
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017) 8
Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke, 2018) 8
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018) 8
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) 6
Green Book (Peter Farrelly, 2018) 6
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez, 2019) 6
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018) 5
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, 2019) 5
Serenity (Steven Knight, 2019) 4

[pabs]

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Dogman (Garrone, 2018) 7/10
Todos lo saben aka Everbody Knows (Farhadi, 2018) 6
McKellen: Playing the Part (Stephenson, 2017) documentary 6.7
Leaving Neverland (Reed, 2019) documentary 5.8
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[pabs]

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Jusqu'à la garde aka Custody (Legrand, 2017) 7/10

Pretty harrowing finale, well-acted and directed throughout. Quite Dardenne-esque.

I was absolutely sure someone at SCFZ mentioned it a few days ago, otherwise I would never have watched it. Maybe I saw it mentioned on Letterboxd?

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[wigwam]

Glass | M. Night Shyamalan | 2019
2019-01-18 | 4K | Alamo, LHigh
LIKED

I'm all in on the Shyamalanassaince but this one was a step down just like Unbreakable felt to me back then so...




The Oath | Ike Barinholtz | 2018
2019-01-19 | VOD | Home, UES
LIKED

I laughed, I liked the satire




The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Terry Gilliam | 2018
2019-01-20 | MKV | Home, UES
PARTIAL/HATED

fate was doing Gilliam a favor keeping this from being completed, it's even more unwatchable than his terrible movies usually are




Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes | Joe Berlinger | 2019
2019-02-02 | Netflix | Rehab, WHills CA
LIKED

my rehab-mates picked this, it was dece




Roma | Alfonso Cuaron | 2018
2019-02-09 | Netflix | Rehab, WHills CA
TURNED OFF

no worse than children of men or gravity by which i mean the worst




Fyre Fraud | Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason | 2019
2019-02-10 | Hulu | Rehab, WHills CA
LIKED

this was fascinating




Fyre | Chris Smith | 2019
2019-02-10 | Netflix | Rehab, WHills CA
LOVED

this was amazing




Velvet Buzzsaw | Dan Gilroy | 2019
2019-02-13 | Netflix | Rehab, WHills CA
LOVED

i mighta liked this more than nightcrawler?




Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | 2018
2019-02-21 | pbs.com | Sober Living, Tarzana CA
WEPT THRU

stunning




Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross | 2018
2019-02-22 | pbs.com | Sober Living, Tarzana CA
INDIFFERENT

hale county this baby that baby zzzzzzzzzzz




Happy Death Day 2U | Christopher Landon | 2019
2019-02-23 | 4K | AMC Promenade 16, Woodland Hills
INDIFFERENT

didnt see the first one but liked the temporal conceit and the lead is captivating but otherwise eh




Beautiful Boy | Felix van Groeningen | 2018
2019-02-25 | Amazon | Sober Living, Tarzana CA
INDIFFERENT

rehab-mate choice, it was kinda cringey?




Nancy | Christina Choe | 2018
2019-02-27 | Amazon | Sober Living, Tarzana CA
FELL ASLEEP

was hoping it was more a thriller




Grass | Hong Sang-soo | 2018
2019-03-02 | MKV | Sober Living, Tarzana CA
LOVED

love hong hes in quite a zone lately and this was another great one idk what else to say!!!




High Flying Bird | Steven Soderbergh | 2019
2019-03-03 | Dropbox | Sober Living, Tarzana CA
LIKED

new sodey is just so-so but old sodey was so genius that so so-so-ness downgrades to pretty good still!




Greta | Neil Jordan | 2018
2019-03-08 | 4K | Valley View, Dallas
INDIFFERENT

huh???????




Five Feet Apart | Justin Baldoni | 2019
2019-03-18 | 4K | Valley View, Dallas
LIKED

nothing like spending your 40th birthday alne at a mediocre sick-teens-in-love movie




Us | Jordan Peele | 2019
2019-03-23 | 4K | Northpark, Dallas
LIKED

more original than the superior Get Out but the allegory felt muddled and kinda noncommittal or halfassed




The Beach Bum | Harmony Korine | 2019
2019-03-28 | 4K | Alamo, LHigh
LOVED

expected more hypnotic poetics but it's pretty straightforward in its comedy with gorgeous little moments of mindbending beauty like the old ones, havent stopped thinking about it since I saw it




The Dirt | Jeff Tremaine | 2019
2019-03-31 | AVI | Home, UES
INDIFFERENT

book was better and it kinda makes me wanna watch bohemian rhapsody?

[Curtis, baby]

Seeing the beach bum this Tuesday, can't wait

[pabs]

John McEnroe: In the realm of perfection (Faraut, 2018) documentary 7.5/10

Thunder Road (Cummings, 2018) 7 at the cinema
Mid90s (Hill, 2018) 7 at the cinema

Destroyer (Kusama, 2018) 6.5 at the cinema

Brigsby Bear (McCarey, 2017) 6
The Mule (Eastwood, 2018) 6
Homecoming: A film by Beyoncé (Knowles, 2019) 6
1985 (Tan, 2018) 6 at the cinema

A Star is Born (Cooper, 2018) 1

[DT.]

The Nightingale at SFF, with Jennifer Kent and cast in attendance.

Extremely violent and confronting, more so than the reviews could ever prepare you for. Several walkouts and vocal reactions. If you ask me though, it’s exactly the kind of jolt Australian cinema needs. Powerful stuff.

[rischka]

Seeing the beach bum this Tuesday, can't wait

what did you think of it? i liked it a lot probably not as good as spring breakers though

[pabs]

Rocketman (Fletcher, 2019) 6.6/10 in a cinema

[Silga]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) 10/10

One true highlight of the newish films I've seen in recent months.

The best film of the year so far, followed closely by The Beach Bum.

John Wick 3 is very good, just not as great as the 2nd film.

[pabs]

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019) 8/10 in a cinema
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) 8

Parasite (Bong, 2019) 7.5 in a cinema

The Farewell (Wang, 2019) 7 in a cinema
Under sandet (Zandvliet, 2015) 7
Celle que vous croyez (Nebbou, 2019) 7
Cameraperson (Johnson, 2016) 7 documentary
This is Bob Hope (Scheinfeld, 2017) 7 documentary
Anima (PT Anderson, 2019) 7

Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell, 2018) 6.5 in a cinema
The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015) 6.5

Baby Driver (Wright, 2017) 6
Wild Rose (Harper, 2018) 6 in a cinema
I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore (Blair, 2017) 6
Anthony Jeselnik: Thoughts and Prayers (Dubin, 2015) 6 *stand-up comedy performance

Centre of my World (Erwa, 2015) 5

[wba]

I updated my initial post with 76 21st century films watched. A lot of mediocre stuff and only a few really outstanding and worthwhile films. Still, I would have probably only watched roughly 20 of the listed films myself (at least 80% were seen with other people because other people wanted to watch them and I merely consented), and out of those 20 most were pretty good (and 3 out of my Top 6 as well as the no. 1 were of my own choosing). If you watch a lot of stuff with non-cinephile people you watch a lot of forgettable stuff. That's how it works, I guess. Sooo, this selection is of course not representative of any kind of 21st century cinema I'm actually interested in. It is, what it is.

I did watch a lot of Nicolas Cage (fan) and Adam Sandler (not a fan), so I marked them specifically. Most of the Nic Cage stuff was better than expected and some of the Sandler stuff as well.



If I had to do a Top 10 for best 2018/2019 releases out of the above list, it would look something like this:


01. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno “ Destiny, My Love: First Song“ (Abdellatif Kechiche, France/Italy 2017)
02. Glass (M. Nigh Shyamalan, USA 2018)
03. Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, USA/Japan 2019)
04. The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Eli Roth, USA/Canda/India 2018)
05. SPF-18 (Alex Israel, USA 2017)
06. The Week Of (Robert Smigel, USA 2018)
07. Between Worlds (Maria Pulera, Spain 2018)
08. Destination Wedding (Victor Levin, USA 2018)
09. Green Book (Peter Farrelly, USA 2018)
10. Les freres Sisters “The Sisters Brothers“ (Jacques Audiard, France/Spain/Romania/Belgium/USA 2018)


the first one would get something like 4 and a half stars and the last two films 3 stars out of 5.

[DT.]

The Dead Don't Die - as a political statement, it's too blunt to make an impact, and as a film, it doesn't really come together on a scene-by-scene basis. But as a pure comedy, it's exactly what you'd expect a Jim Jarmusch zombie movie to be - laidback, endearing and oddly hilarious. Never thought I'd see Adam Driver holding Selena Gomez's severed head, but that's 2019 for you.

Julia - another Tilda Swinton show-stopper, though I wonder if she becomes too much for the film to handle, because just like the title character, the film is a steaming hot mess.

Got Ad Astra and 2018's Long Day's Journey into Night lined up this weekend. High hopes for both.

[rischka]

hey i watched a newish film and lencho you might like this one!! skater boys, drug cartels



Te prometo anarquía, julio hernández cordón 2015. recommended by rodrigo and penalosa

[Lencho of the Apes]

It's on my radar, thanks. I think I downloaded a copy last year but it was glitched? I'll get around to it one of these days.

[pabs]

Alita: Battle Angel (Rodriguez, 2019) 5/10

[rischka]

It's on my radar, thanks. I think I downloaded a copy last year but it was glitched? I'll get around to it one of these days.

look at the usual place

[ofrene]

Just watched Ad Astra and it was the first disappointment with James Grey...;(

[pabs]

Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) 7/10

[DT.]

Just watched Ad Astra and it was the first disappointment with James Grey...;(

I have to agree. The emotional beats just didn't feel earned.