Potentially Intelligent Movie Reviews & the Occasional Bit of Genuine Film Criticism (since 2002).
We're moving!
Our new location will be
http://foxtrot-sierra.livejournal.com/
With the impending demise of GeoCities Free - which I'm sure will involve fiery explosions, collapsing girders, and men in jumpsuits fleeing with their arms folded over their heads - I've begun to migrate all my movie reviews to LiveJournal. Some of them are as old as 2002 and fairly lame, with way too much time devoted to plot summary, but posterity is posterity.
Coming soon:
The Best Movies of the 2000s
The 20 Best English-Language Movies of the 1990s
Monday, August 25ht, 2008
Favorite Films of 2007
1) No Country for Old Men
2) Into Great Silence
3) There Will Be Blood
4) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5 - 6) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
The Simpsons Movie
7) Exiled
8) The Host
9 - 14) American Gangster
Gone Baby Gone
Hot Fuzz
Michael Clayton
Persepolis
Zodiac
Most Overrated Films of 2007
1) Juno
2) Transformers
3) Ratatouille
4) The Bourne Ultimatum
5) 300
6) Away from Her
It's been a very busy year! The F&SN Critic has been working on his own movie! He will return to movie reviews eventually!
Until then he recommends Art School Confidential (***), Breakfast on Pluto (***), Charlie Wilson's War (***), The Company (***), Crying Game (***), Dark Knight (***1/2), Days of Being Wild (***1/2), Diving Bell and the Butterfly (***), Eraserhead (****), Exiled (***1/2), The Fall (***), Farewell My Lovely (***1/2), French Connection (***1/2), Friends with Money (***), Gone Baby Gone (***), Hard Boiled (***1/2), Harold & Kumar 2 (***), Hollywoodland (***), Host (***), Husbands and Wives (****), I Confess (***1/2), In Bruges (***), Into Great Silence (****), La Strada (***1/2), Lagaan (***), Last Year at Marienbad (****), Magnolia (***), Murder! (***), Now Voyager (***), Once (***), Persepolis (***), Pineapple Express (***1/2), Play It Again Sam (***), Redbelt (***1/2), Rescue Dawn (***), Shadow of a Doubt (***1/2), Shoot the Piano Player (****), Stalker (****), Strictly Ballroom (***), Superbad (***), Suspiria (****), Sweet Smell of Success (****), There Will Be Blood (****), and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (***),
Kind-of liked, sort of liked, or had mixed feelings about
Road House (**1/2), For Your Consideration (**1/2), Torn Curtain (**1/2), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (**1/2), Dead Man Walking (**1/2), Iron Man (**1/2), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (**1/2), Speed Racer (**1/2), Redacted (**1/2), La Vie en Rose (**1/2), Savages (**1/2), and Valmont and Dangerous Liaisons (**1/2)
Monday, December 17th, 2007
You Cant Stop Whats Comin
No Country for Old Men (**** )
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (***1/2)
Juno (**)
The Seven Samurai (****)
Elizabeth (1998) (***1/2 )
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (**1/2 )
Across the Universe (**1/2)
Frida (2002) (***)
Transformers (2007) (**)
Transformers: The Movie (1986) (**)
Reviews in a Hurry for Winter 2007
3:10 to Yuma (**1/2)
American Gangster (***)
Double Indemnity (****)
Event Horizon (**1/2)
The Forgotten (**1/2)
The Kingdom (**1/2)
Michael Clayton (***)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (****)
Ratatouille (**1/2)
Shoot ‘Em Up (**1/2)
Spider-man 3 (**)
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**** - Excellent
***1/2 - Very Good
*** - Good
**1/2 - Flawed but possibly worthwhile or entertaining.
** - Mediocre.
*1/2 - A bad film with a few redeeming features.
* - Bad.
1/2* - Lowest rating; for use only in the case of extreme technical incompetence or in a film that openly espouses views that are undebatably evil.
There are also some films which can be considered Beyond Criticism. Read of them here.
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The Simpsons Movie (***1/2)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (**)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (**1/2)
Live Free or Die Hard (**1/2)
Ocean's Thirteen (***)
Bubble (2005) (***)
The Merchant of Venice (2004) (***)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 & 1956) (*** & **1/2)
Marnie (1964) (***)
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
28 Days Later... (***)
28 Weeks Later (**)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (***1/2)
Grindhouse (***)
300 (**1/2)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (***1/2)
Bobby (2006) (*1/2)
Shooter (2007) (**1/2)
Zodiac (2007) (***)
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) (****)
and The Arabian Nights (1974) (***1/2)
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