#174

nebraska had the odd nice moment but was pretty boring. alright overall.
winter’s bone was boring af. bad
foxcatcher: not bad, just meh

#175

11 - Our Little Sister - Too sickly sweet and whimsical, a shame as Koreeda rarely puts a foot wrong.

#176

Johnny Guitar is on Netflix too which is a must see if you’ve never seen it.

#177

Madness.

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#178

The Babadook - Delightfully creepy! It had all the right ingredients for a great horror in my book. 8/10

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#179

12 - Krisha

This is an excellent, tense 80 minutes about a woman who comes back to her family for Thanksgiving after a long period of absence for reasons that slowly become clear. I loved this and would have made my top 10 of 2016 if I had seen it in time!

#180

Interesting range of films so far this year:

  1. London Has Fallen - Aaron Eckhart’s got to be the most unlucky president ever, damn. not quite the glorious height of the first film though still entertaining. Mostly impressed they got the geography of London right films usually get this sh*t horribly wrong.

  2. Lethal Weapon 4 - better than 3, but miles off the first two - the latter films focus too much on the comedy and Riggs seems to have lost his whole depressed cop characterisation. That’s right, I’m seriously critiquing Lethal Weapon 4.

  3. Nice Guys - oh yes, loved this. Gosling and Crowe both excellent, laughed out loud at least 8 times, maybe more (actually had to pause it when they threw the body onto the dinner table).

  4. Green Room - watched this having no idea what it was about and that it was the same director as Blue Ruin (which I love). Bloody tense, eh? Great casting too. Probably shouldn’t have watched it whilst eating dinner though.

#181

did anyone else really not enjoy the nice guys?

it felt really weird and sexist - like as if it was meant to be a pastiche of old sexist films, but it just ended up being another one of them

sure it was well acted but I actually didn’t even find it that funny

dunno

#182

Shotgun Stories - One of those films that I imagine gets described as “lyrical”, which in reality means there are lots of pointless shots of fields and rivers and stuff and barely anything actually happens. Was OK, but it’s Jeff Nichols’ weakest film by some distance.

Little Men - Again, didn’t really click with this. Wasn’t sure how much I was onboard with the characters (not sure when the director last encountered living, breathing 13 year olds but they don’t own roller blades, and Leonor was implausibly mean to Greg Kinnear). That said the two leads are excellent and it has that same gentle humanity that made Love is Strange such a treat. On that note, Jacob fancied Tony right?

Men and Chicken - Fair play to Mads Mikkelsen for saying yes to this Danish oddity about two brothers who go in search of their family, who as it turns out live in an abandoned mental hospital and spend their time banging livestock. Somewhere between gross and quite sweet.

#183

THe theory of everything:
Meh/10
Felicity jones is the best thing about this, redmayne does nothing for me

#184

The least deserved Oscar since Crash.

#185

13 - The Daughter (Netflix)

Very gripping Aussie drama about a man returning to his hometown for a family wedding and catching up with an old friend and his daughter. Typically, things do not appear as they seem. Has a very sudden ending which I’m not sure works but very well played.

14 - Your name

This is so good! Saying too much would spoil it to those who haven’t seen it but this was very very moving and looks stunning.

#186

I see you posted an image if daughter with the always amazing geoffrey rush.
Rush and Redmayne for me are the complete opposite, redmayne always looks like he’s acting, rush is just effortlessley inhabiting a role.

#188

yeah I know I know, i’m not really sure how I missed it

#190

ha, i’ve only a macbook!

#191

La La Land is good and I like it

#193

manchester by the sea was decent. a lot more understated than I was expecting, thought it would be one of those films where all the actors are EMOTING hard

#194

15 - Manchester by the Sea, tremendous. I left the cinema some hours ago and it’s still playing on my mind. Surprisingly very funny, perfectly crafted and characters I could have spent another two hours with.

#195

Just want to echo what’s been said above and say that Your Name is fucking brilliant. Has really satisfying animation, framing, colouring, you name it. All done to a really high standard. Loved the look of it from the first shot. I could have done without some of the latter song choices but that’s honestly the only flaw I can find with it and that’s a minor one. The thinly veiled also has told me to write another criticism but she doesn’t have an account, so it will not grace this thread.

A seperate minor issue was that in our screening, there was a man who had what might have been one of the worst smells I’ve ever smelt on a person. He visibly hadn’t washed in some time, and the smell was so bad that me and the thinly veiled moved many seats away from him, but we could still smell it! The story was charming and engaging enough to make us forget that though, eventually.

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#196

yeah i thought The Daughter was excellent actually, wasn’t exactly groundbreaking but really gripping and well done, surprised to see it get average reviews
Paul Schneider’s gr8 and whoever played the daughter