10. The Disaster Artist
While ostensibly about the making of The Room, aka the worst period movie period ever exclamation point, The Disaster Artist is actually more about the strength of friendship. Dave and James Franco both do a wonderful job of taking characters that could’ve been punchlines, and presenting them as thoughtful, three dimensional creatures.
Quirk sometimes plays better in a trailer than in an actual film. A bite-size nugget of peculiarity is more palatable than an exhaustive two-hours of it, and while the trailer for Lady Bird suggests a movie full of quirk, there’s that shot from the opening scene where the titular character jumps out of a moving car to end an argument with her mother, but what is truly great about Lady Bird the film is how every single moment is played for honesty over anything else.
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Ad Astra – C
Aladdin – C-
Avengers: Endgame – A-
Booksmart – A
Brittany Runs a Marathon – B+
Captain Marvel – B-
Crawl – D-
Dark Phoenix – D
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile and Evil – C-
Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbbs and Shaw – C+
Joker – C-
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – C+
Late Night – C+
Lego Movie 2: The Second Part – C
Midsommar – C+
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood – B+
Spider-Man: Far From Home – B+
Under the Silver Lake – B-
Us – B-
Wine Country – D
10. Annihilation
09. Won’t You Be My Neighbor
08. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
07. The Quiet Place
06. Three Identical Strangers
05. Mission Impossible: Fallout
04. Roma
03. Black Panther
02. The Favourite
01. Hereditary
10. Sharp Objects
09. Sorry For Your Loss
08. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
07. Dear White People
06. The Handmaid’s Tale
05. Killing Eve
04. The Haunting of Hill House
03. The Good Place
02. Atlanta
01. Bojack Horseman
10. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
09. Bishop Briggs – Church of Scars
08. Jukebox the Ghost – Off to the Races
07. Prince – Piano and a Microphone
06. Brandi Carlisle – By the Way, I Forgive You
05. Soundtrack – Black Panther
04. Chvrches – Love is Dead
03. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
02. George Ezra – Staying at Tamara’s
01. Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
American Animals – B-
Annihilation – B+
Ant-Man and the Wasp – C+
Avengers Infinity War – C+
Bad Times at the El Royale – B
Beautiful Boy – B-
Ben is Back – B-
BlacKkKlansman – B+
Black Panther – A-
Blockers – B
Bohemian Rhapsody – C-
Boy Erased – B
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – B-
Crazy Rich Asians – C
Deadpool 2 – B
Eighth Grade – B
The Favourite – A
First Man – B+
Flower – C+
Free Solo – B
Game Night – C+
Green Book – D
The Happytime Murders – D
Hereditary – A-
I Feel Pretty – C-
If Beale Street Could Talk – B+
Incredibles 2 – B+
Isle of Dogs – B
Jurassic World: Fallen
Kingdom – C
Life of the Party – D
Love, Simon – B
Mission: Impossible –
Fallout – A-
Oceans 8 – C-
A Quiet Place – B+
Ready Player One – C+
Red Sparrow – D-
A Simple Favor – B-
Solo – C+
Sorry to Bother You – B-
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – B+
A Star is Born – C+
Suspiria – C
Tag – C+
They Shall Not Grow Old – B
Three Identical Strangers – A
Thoroughbreds – B
Tomb Raider- C-
Tully – B
Venom – D
Whitney – A-
Won’t You By My Neighbor – B+
A Wrinkle in Time – D
Alien: Covenant – C-
All the Money in the World – C
American Assassin – D
American Made – B+
Atomic Blonde – B-
Baby Driver – A-
Battle of the Sexes – A
The Beguiled – B-
Better Watch Out – D
The Big Sick – A
Blade Runner 2049 – A
Brad’s Status – C+
Call Me By Your Name – B+
Coco – B+
Colossal – B+
Darkest Hour – C+
Detroit – A
The Disaster Artist – A-
Downsizing – C
Dunkirk – A-
The Fate of the Furious – D
The Florida Project – C+
Get Out – A
Girls Trip – C+
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 – B-
Ingrid Goes West – C-
I, Tonya – A-
Justice League – C-
The Killing of a Sacred Deer – C-
Kingsman: the Golden Circle – D+
Lady Bird – A
Landline – C
Last Flag Flying – C+
The Lego Batman Movie – B+
The Lego Ninjago Movie – D
The Little Hours – D
Logan – B-
Logan Lucky – B-
Marshall – B-
Molly’s Game – A-
Mother! – F
Mudbound – B
Murder on the Orient Express – B-
Personal Shopper – B-
The Post – A
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women – C+
Rebel in the Rye – B-
Rough Night – D-
The Shape of Water – B-
Spider-Man: Homecoming – B+
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – B
Stronger – A
Suburbicon – C-
Thor: Ragnarok – B
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – A
Wind River – B+
Wonder – B
Wonder Woman – B
Wonderstruck – C+
10 Cloverfield Lane – B-
13th – A
20th Century Women – B+
Arrival – A-
Batman: The Killing Joke – C-
Batman v. Superman – D
Captain America: Civil War – A-
Deadpool – B+
Doctor Strange – B-
Don’t Think Twice – B
Everybody Wants Some – B
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – C+
Fences – B
Finding Dory – B
Fundamentals of Caring – B-
Goat – C
Ghostbusters – D
The Girl on the Train – C+
The Good Neighbor – D-
Hacksaw Ridge – C+
Hello, My Name is Doris – B
Hidden Figures – B+
The Invitation – B-
Jackie – A
Jason Bourne – C
La La Land – A
Lion – B
The Lobster – C
Manchester by the Sea – A
Moonlight – A-
The Nice Guys – B+
Nocturnal Animals – B-
OJ: Made in America – A
Patriot’s Day – B-
Popstar – C-
Rogue One – A-
Sausage Party – C
Suicide Squad – D-
Tallulah – B+
X-Men: Apocalypse – D+
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