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Inside Llewyn Davis
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Prometheus
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The Cabin in the Woods
2011:
Drive
The Sunset Limited
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2010:
The Social Network
True Grit
Life During Wartime
2009:
District 9
Up in the Air
A Serious Man
2008:
Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
Tropic Thunder
2007:
Into the Wild
Once
Sweeney Todd
2006:
The Prestige
Inland Empire
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
2005:
Serenity
The Island
A History of Violence
2004:
The Machinist
The Terminal
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2003:
21 Grams
Matchstick Men
Coffee and Cigarettes
2002:
Chicago
Punch-Drunk Love
Adaptation.
2001:
Moulin Rouge!
Ghost World
Mulholland Dr.
2000:
Almost Famous
High Fidelity
The Sixth Sense
1999:
Being John Malkovich
Man on the Moon
Magnolia
1998:
Rounders
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A Simple Plan
1997:
Lost Highway
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The Game
1996:
Primal Fear
Fargo
From Dusk Till Dawn
1995:
The Usual Suspects
Twelve Monkeys
La Haine
1994:
Forrest Gump
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1993:
Schindler's List
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1992:
Glengarry Glen Ross
Scent of a Woman
Wayne's World
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Misery
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Goodfellas
1989:
Glory
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1988:
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1987:
Predator
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1986:
Stand By Me
Labyrinth
The Mosquito Coast
Reviews
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
Most Disappointing Film of the Year
When I heard from Fantastic Fest that there was going to be a UK-based, Christmas-set comedy/horror/musical, it immediately jumped to the top of my most anticipated film list. With an idea that unique, what could possibly go wrong?
I found every minute of Anna and the Apocalypse to be cliche, tiresome and predictable. All of the jokes/gags were lowest common denominator/exactly what you would expect in any given moment from a writer with zero comedy experience. I didn't laugh once, and I'm a huge fan of UK comedy.
I found each of the songs to be unoriginal, forgettable and not nearly as witty as they clearly thought they were. I go out of my way to watch musicals, so this might have been the most disappointing aspect to me.
I understand that this film was shot in Scotland, but is it really that difficult to cast one person of color? The majority of the characters are high schoolers, and every actor in the movie, zombies included, was white (or light-skinned mixed). When I noticed that relatively early on, I had a feeling this would not be the most thoughtful film.
I don't feel the need to speak on the zombie aspect of the film as I found it to be unremarkable in every way.
Only one other time in my life have I walked out of a movie theater before the ending of the film, and the other time it was because of an insufferable audience.
This was easily the most disappointing film of the year for me, but I can totally understand why someone would enjoy it. Hearing countless people call it "A cult classic in the making" made me think that a film with such a unique melding of genres would at least have something of an original approach rather than featuring a cookie-cutter plot, characters with zero depth and cliche after cliche.
Gray House (2017)
Isolation
Gray House was beautiful and poignant, while being simultaneously patience-testing. I found it to be a meditative reflection on isolation. Good thing I have recently been watching Bela Tarr (who is clearly an influence), or I might not have been in the right mindset. It felt like half the audience was unfortunately only there to see what David Lynch's other filmmaker offspring might have to say, and clearly it wasn't to their liking as there were a couple walkouts. You can also see his father's influence in certain aspects, such as the long shots of industrial landscapes, and I have no doubt that he is also a TM practitioner as the film requires a massive amount of patience to watch, let alone to create.