Has Emmet seen this?

An intentionally vague, gritty but beautiful retelling of a poem? Sign me right up.I had to think about this for a bit after watching, which felt very deliberate. There are very few clear lessons to take, encouraging us to dig around for meaning in this old story... which rings true for how those old tales have been told for a long time, changing innumerable times to mean something different by each tongue and to each ear.Ultimately, the idea that we must give back everything we have taken - including our very lives - is powerful and real to me.

Were child actors better when I was a kid, or was I just... a child? Probably the latter.This movie is weird, man. It feels in some ways too scary for young kids, but far too goofy for adults. A lot of that comes from the direction of the film. JJ, what the heck.I'm glad there are movies doing some cool dinosaur action that doesn't require us "going back to the island," at least.

This review may contain spoilers. This movie gave me so many chills. I think this is the best web swinging we've ever seen on screen, and it's such a delight to see such an acrobatic Spider-Man cutting loose in Manhattan. I'm moving to NYC myself very soon, so I really enjoyed seeing the city play an important role in the story, which is something I think the Sam Raimi series did so well. I'm also very much a fan of the darker, more mature Peter, and I was thrilled to be done with the high-school, friendly neighborhood version who would rather kiss a girl than try to save the world.I'm also so, so glad to see true, angry Hulk again! And God did he look great.Basically my only complaint about this movie was how irredeemable they made Jean. She kills and maims without care, and tortures Peter out-right. Should we really be letting her just... Run away? Damage-control is nearly justified after all of her actions, when they should be the true villain.Crazy how Sony's Spider-Man games are influencing the movies now, instead of the other way around.

Bro even Kingdom Hearts doesn't understand this numbering convention. What the heck are you going to call the sequel? I love how Godzilla still kind of seems like someone in a rubber suit. Like actually it's a really cool choice. The way it mindlessly continues forward is a unique kind of horror.And of course, the sound design is incredible. This is the best sounding monster I've ever heard.

This review may contain spoilers. One of my favorite MCU movies, despite all of its hate. This movie is just so damn visually cool. The horrifying witchcraft, how magic looks different in other universes, how everything looks is so well thought out and interesting. Music is great too, I love the X-Men theme that plays when Charles wheels out. And thankfully, no Kang nonsense!

Turns out you don't need much of a plot if you just go BONKERS with your animation. What style! What pure, unbridled fun!

This review may contain spoilers. I think I could talk about this movie for hours, but I'll just say the way that all of the Spider-men treat each other with such respect and love is a subtle and brilliant move that makes this movie work so well.And yeah, first Spider-man or MCU movie to make me cry in a long time.

Pretty, but didn't grip me the way I want my spider-mans to. I found myself caring about these characters less than I normally do... likely because Peter kind of comes off as a selfish twerp. It is central to his character to battle between his super problems and his personal problems, but "I'd rather go on a date than literally clearly save the world" just didn't land for me.Mysterio was pretty damn great though.

We ride......after IHOP.

What an interesting trip, man.Incredible and interesting cinematography really makes this movie. Beautiful and provocative shots paired with long periods of ambience made my brain constantly consider different theories on what the hell this movie is trying to say. Like how when I close my eyes hard and see shapes, my mind makes meaning out of the abstract squiggles. I had the pleasure of viewing this film at the Metrograph in NYC, which added grainy film and some shake. I think this really added to the experience for me... in fact I fully believed that's how the movie was intended to be seen.

It's hard to not give this one five stars, but I just don't feel the emotional weight I want to feel from this material. Does Odysseus show any remorse for the sacking of Troy until he confesses to it? Perhaps it relies on us knowing the story, and focuses on the beauty. Maybe the director's cut will get the five stars from me. But hot damn is this movie gorgeous. The cave scene alone is one of the most impressive film making I've seen in a long time. If you tell me you watched this on a plane, I will never talk to you about movies again.

This review may contain spoilers. So like... Superman had to get shot off of Krypton because it was very suddenly collapsing and they didn't have time to make a big spaceship to save many people...?But there was also a plan to do basically that, except take a bunch of the panet with them... Which is bad because it started irradiating them with Kryptonite and killing them. But like... Why couldn't they send a bunch of people if this infection took so long to kill them?This, and many more annoying plot contrivances. Why does bad guy not take the girl at the beginning of their cult's whole thing is stealing girls? Why does he poison the dog instead of shooting him? Why can't they just fly the dog to a yellow star? Why are they singing earth jazz standards on a random dying planet??Whatever I guess, it was a pretty good time. Nice looking effects, emotionally grounded leads.I loved the scene where Kara flew into space to scream silently for a bit. This movie definitely has some great moments.

After the disaster of a script that was "The Way of Water," I came in expecting a gorgeous movie and a below average script. I was certainly not disappointed in the visuals - new awesome creatures, simply incredible fire and water effects - and the script was... fine. I don't remember the character we're supposed to care about who died, and oh boy does the film wish I did. Our new villain is actually quite cool, I'm glad we have some more interesting Navi interactions. It is so incredibly bold to have a full human actor alongside constant cgi. I can't say the blue people seem 100% real to me yet, and seeing Spider walk next to them can take me out of it at times. But it's soooo close, I have to give it to them. There's a fight inside of an electrical field storm on floating islands with fire from ships exploding... I mean hell yeah.3 star story, 6 star digital effects -- 4 star movie?

This didn't have to be so bad. This novel that an eleven year old can read, and a fifty year old can still greatly appreciate should have been a slam dunk.Ender's character is consistently portrayed differently than the book, but still uses his most revealing line as the opening quote. Instead of being a deeply compassionate, empathetic child who makes tough decisions to hurt out of logical self-protection, this Ender never shows remorse for his actions (except for the end, and even then it was more anger than self reflection and sadness. His motivations are so foreign to his book counterpart, and in a way that makes him far less interesting.In fact, nearly every character is deeply Flanderized, making a bland soup sprinkled with a few great ideas but never realizing what makes the novel great.I don't blame the child actors for some pretty flat performances, given their uninspired script. Even Harrison Ford couldn't make his character (Graff) memorable.

This review may contain spoilers. Julia turned to me half-way through and asked if I knew how it was going to end. I said "no, but I bet it won't be happy and won't make much sense."Making this set must have been a blast.

Adorable, gorgeous, and fun!Getting my girlfriend to go see this with me was as easy as saying "it has that cute little baby Yoda guy! You like him!" as I'm sure thousands and thousands of other nerds told their girlfriends and wives.There was oodles to appreciate as a star wars fanatic, but none that felt shoehorned as blatant fan-service. When Zeb is there, the movie wastes no time saying "hey look! It's that guy you know from that one show!" It just works with the universe that they've made. My favorite bit of that in this movie we're all of the Separatist droids used by the Hutts. A very fun watch!

Adorable, gorgeous, and fun!Getting my girlfriend to go see this with me was as easy as saying "it has that cute little baby Yoda guy! You like him!" as I'm sure thousands and thousands of other nerds told their girlfriends and wives.There was oodles to appreciate as a star wars fanatic, but none that felt shoehorned as blatant fan-service. When Zeb is there, the movie wastes no time saying "hey look! It's that guy you know from that one show!" It just works with the universe that they've made. My favorite bit of that in this movie we're all of the Separatist droids used by the Hutts. A very fun watch!

An odd mix of brilliance and dullness. The music and drawing are both simply phenomenal, with a few trippy scenes that are incredible and inspired. And then the dialogue is mostly so terrible! Could they not hire a writer? Did the script get pushed to the last minute?How is this not a cult classic?

Such a genuine portrayal of a man who loses his hearing.How often we focus on fixing an unfixable problem instead of fixing ourselves.

The original Captain Jack Sparrow

Delightful and charming! A whodunnit starring a flock of adorable CGI sheep. It's light, surprisingly funny, and just the right amount of strange. The grounded performance of Jackman really sold the fantastical (sheepy) elements, along with great voice acting from Brian Cranston and Julia Lous-Dreyfus and even Patrick Stewart! Goated sheep casting ;)I must admit I shed a tear, even.

A political drama dressed up as a fashion show!We return to characters after two decades to find them so true to their past selves. I'm quite impressed at how each character feels more realized and has a completed arc. The plot "rhymed" quite well with the first, while still being fresh and giving us new insight into the characters.The fashion is fun and great, the music is again centered so well in the time. I really enjoyed some of the more subtle references to the previous film, like when people in the background considered two cerulean belts... but unfortunately there was far too much overt reference. "Do you remember when we did X? This is so much fun!"The real devil is the prada we met along the way.

What a knockout cast. As always, Meryl Streep was perfect and divine. The fashion and contemporary song choices really center it in the 2000s... I'm looking forward to seeing a fresh take with these characters two decades later!

What a strange little film! Who are we rooting for? What do we want to happen? Don't worry about it!

I think I would get over that drama pretty fast tbhReally fun cinematography and perfect pacing. I was agog, I was aghast!

Why was the random snake guy so much funnier than Jack Black and Paul Rudd?

I felt the faint whisperings of having maybe watched this before. There's so much empty, thoughtful space and interesting cinematography. A really gorgeous piece.A little too much of the main character just... Saying how he feels for me. Plot also wasn't the most surprising.A sarcastic little rock man really would have pulled the whole thing together, though.

Well it was a whole lot better than the book, but then again the book would have been a lot better if it were the length of a movie too.The movie did look gorgeous, I really want to know how they did Rocky! Gosling was perfectly cast and managed to make the character interesting and funny in a way the book simply wasn't. I really loved the Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind homage!!Crazy pacing in this movie... It practically felt like a montage half the time. Nothing wrong with enjoying some science smut!

I don't think there was a fundamental understanding with what plot elements make a good heist movie here...Fun music, good dialogue, and great acting though!

Julia and I were sad to miss this in theaters, so we finally got to this gem today. A wonderful blend of intense and hysterical, with characters you just can't help root for and against. It feels so surreal to have a sanctuary city be a main setting and plot point. This movie does feel in parts like what the right might call a leftie Hollywood circle-jerk... but oh how fun it is. I would tell those people to go watch 'Honey Don't!' and see if they can take it.The main antagonist is so strange and horrible and hateable, Sean Penn just kills it. This role also feels like it was written explicitly for Leo to be perfectly odd and loud and loveable. I had no idea Benicio Del Toro was going to be in this, and he just felt like a wonderful mix of Wes Anderson's style is sprinkled in. All in all, very fun watch!

Watching this in 2026 makes it feel like a period piece

Well that was ...sexy.Was anyone acting reasonably? No. But they were hot as hell and it was quite a fun ride!

This review may contain spoilers. When this came out, everyone begged me to watch it. I think they thought I would love the puzzles.But oh my God I could not stand how dumb all of the characters were, especially our detective!! Well I know it turns out he was faking it, but I was still mad at it for most of the movie....which is why I very much enjoyed this rewatch.The least emotionally resonant of the trilogy, but just some good fun.

Beautiful food shots!So goofy and anxious, but shot with such seriousness. I always have a hard time connecting with a main character who acts so ridiculously.

Chris and Jack are truly hilarious. It was a joy to see one of their bits extended to a feature film!

Mostly flat performances from a knockout cast. I can't blame them, with a story and dialogue like this. Doubly disappointing with such great potential for effects and story-telling.

"But I don't want to make a film where they show up, they sit down, they jack off, and they get up and they get out before the story ends. It is my dream, it is my goal, it is my idea to make a film where the story just sucks them in. And when they spurt out that joy juice, they've got to just sit in it. They can't move before the story ends. You know, I want to make a film like that."

Very charming. Perhaps simple story writing with a very fun idea. I wanted much more from the music side.

Gorgeously shot Asian fairy-tale

The long walk but sci-fi and more edgy.And with horrible dialogue.I can't tell if the movie was trying to be camp, but oh boy was it cheesy.I enjoyed the world and found myself having a good time all the way through.

I watched Smile and its sequel yesterday and I had to turn my light on and read for an hour at 4am to unfreak myself

Scariest movie I've seen in quite a long time. This movie made me feel intensely upset in a way that I'm not sure a movie has ever done for me before. I wanted to scream at every character. I wanted to cry for every character. I wanted to be a billion miles away from every character. Don't ever ask me to talk to spirits, I won't do it.

This review may contain spoilers. TLDR: But like why?Victor Frankenstein is the real monster. We get it. But in most tellings,you can still empathize with him... Not so in this film. And yet the Creature forgives him? Why??At many points during the movie I asked myself who this movie is for. It's quite gory and seems to take itself very seriously, but also fails to really lean into the deeper more horrifying ideas suggested by the plot.

Weird, wacky, and wonderful.I heard that Peele fired someone over not getting to direct this movie... And I wish I lived in the timeline where he was involved with it.The horrifying sub-text of this being like a school shooting gives the film a deeper feeling of real horror. Many of the characters act out their grief in real, human ways, struggling to get on with their lives after the loss of their kids.I was just beginning to believe the movie was going to be entirely fantastical, without explaining anything when we started getting some juicy answers...What a time we live in for whacky, well done elevated horror!

A fantastically well done piece of candy. Superb dialogue and acting from our leads keep the movie interesting, with the suspension of knowing something is horribly wrong eating at you in perfect amount. A psychological thriller at heart, with just the right touch of horror elements.The only thing keeping this movie from five stars for me is the fairly predictable plot. Each of the adult characters felt fully realized and complete as people, especially the true hero of the film, the mother. What a badass!

A charming tale of two brothers trying to find their way home through strange and enchanted woods. Each episode tells a brief serial with new characters and setting, keeping each feeling fresh. Accompanied by a truly fantastic old-timey big band Dixie style score, the whole show is dripping with charm and character.I know many people that make this a yearly October viewing, and I get it. Personally I found it quite charming, but I don't think I'll be itching to see it again. I was searching for some deeper meaning to this land, like Oz, but I failed to find one (maybe I'll read some more reviews and feel dumb for not seeing something). That's okay, it was still fun!

Anyone story can build suspense by making the audience wonder "what's going to happen!?"That's not what you get with this movie. You know almost exactly what's going to happen, and it's horrifying. It is suspense in a way that Steven King has perfected. I felt like I was on the Long Walk with the characters, knowing that another death was always right around the corner... I just wish the "twist" of the characters dying would have been an actual twist, not a clear part of the advertising. I suppose advertising it otherwise would have been too difficult.There are quite a few metaphors about capitalism I had rolling about my head while watching. The world feltOrwellian, and I wanted quite a bit more world building than the very little given. The boys start walking a few minutes in... And they go until the end. You know what you're getting with this one.How did I just sit through a whole movie with just some guys walking?? I guess it was done quite well!

It's hard not to read all of the negative reviews before writing mine... Because I really enjoyed this movie. It's dripping with style and has Peele's visual influence all over it. It addresses legitimate concerns about how we as a culture idolize football - we love to watch men hit each other! It may be the first time many viewers have though of football players essentially being gladiators, and I imagine it is a hard pill to swallow for many Americans. The way the movie blends ideas of satanism, capitalism, paganism, and this gladiator idea could feel confusing - but that's very much intended. Our lead character is also realizing how messed up the whole system is, and is heavily drugged for many scenes. I would not recommend this movie to everyone, especially not people who need everything in their movies to make complete sense to them by the time the credits roll. But to those who are willing to go along for the ride, this movie is a blast.

I'd say "the movie that started it all," but apparently this franchise is based on an old show. This movie is the most "spy" movie of the series, forcing you to always wonder who you can trust. All characters are compelling, and the action is gripping. No other entries in the series has made me feel as nervous, excited, or curious. Fantastic.Also, young Tom Cruise is so fun!

Okay, maybe I wasn't completely sober.But I had SUCH a fun time watching this movie. I didn't know I needed a lesbian noir. The acting is superb (not to mention incredibly sexy), and the setting is eclectic and wonderful.I could see a slightly different version of this movie that just hates on men, but I genuinely found this take hilarious.Truly a ~vibes~ movie as well, which I am always into (but I'm still arguing that point to most, so the negative reviews are a shame, but not a surprise).