I think pretty much everything in those cartoon movies is bad except for Mark Ruffalo.

Fantastic movie and one of my top 100 of the decade.

The Babadook Damn kids'll drive you crazy sometimes.

Agreed. Great movie and I'm not a fan of Spike Lee at all

Nice. Those are my favorites

Finally went out to watch Star Trek Beyond. I didn't want to as I didn't liked 09 that much and hated Into Darkness, but ST Beyond was amazing!

It was the first great Star Trek movie since ST VI (First contact was just ok IMO). ST 09 was a good movie, but not a good Star Trek movie, just a generic sci fi action yarn, but Beyond was great as a movie and as part of the ST Film series. 100% Recommended if you haven't seen it yet.

City of Tiny Lights. Riz Ahmed plays a private investigator in London in a noir crime drama. The film has an interesting style but I found some of the camera work to be more distracting than unique. It has a decent story following the Pakistani community in London but was a bit too predictable. 6/10.

LBJ. Rob Reiner's biopic of the former president (Woody Harrelson in a lot of prosthetics). It's interesting that there were two biopics so closely related (this and Jackie). Whereas Jackie was unique and ambitious as a film, this is much more straightforward. It's vanilla and generic and average. 5/10.

Loving. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga play the Mr. and Mrs. Loving, an interracial couple in 1950's Virginia who ended up challenging the law against interracial marriages in the Supreme Court. The movie is very understated. Edgerton especially gives a very quiet performance which is a nice change for a movie in this genre. 7/10.

All The Way was quite good if you're interested in a LBJ biopic

Most people...was that unclear?

^lol i think he meant 25th hour isn't really rated by many. Just a few people here

Nora Ephron: Everything is Copy

Great doc by her son Jacob on the life of the writer/director. You really get the feeling that Ephron was a one-of-a-kind person....sort of the last great characters of the 20th Century....certainly of New York. She belongs with the likes of Dorothy Parker, etc.

Don't think people who only know her movies even know what a great writer she was.

After she died, Mike Nichols is in the hospital elevator with another Ephron confident, going up to her room. They are both obviously sad. Nichols turns the other man and says, "Who's going to tell us what to do now?"

ARQ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5640450/

Really good sci-fi thriller. Two people get stuck in a time loop and every time it restarts they have to change what they did to try to survive against mercenaries who are trying to steal a new energy device.

sweet thanks for the heads up this is right up my alley.

If you are talking aboutARQ, you should check out Triangle http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/
Equally as good imo.

I just watched Flight, pretty good. I was entertained, my interest was held. Denzel is pretty much always compelling up on that silver screen.

I was entertained by Flight and enjoyed it, despite its imposed-campy-sentiment (considering the subject), but preferred Smashed that year. Or the more recent I Smile Back. I also have a hard time with a movie that pushes its Christian morality upon you.

Re-watched The Warriors for like the 9th time on Netflix yesterday. Such a good movie that holds up to repeated viewings. Manages to realistically capture the grimy feel of crime-ridden NYC in the 70s, while still having the fantasy/sci-fi feeling of a graphic novel.

Was reading an oral history of the shoot online, and I did not realize that the director Walter Hill had one of the lead characters killed off (Fox, played by Thomas Waites - he falls in front of an oncoming subway train) because the actor was such a pain in the ass to deal with on set. The original script had Fox getting the girl but it was rewritten with Swan (Michael Beck) as the leader. The Fox character was never even mentioned onscreen by the other Warriors after he died, and the actor's name doesn't even appear in the credits.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is so great, highly recommended that you guys seek this one out. Does have top notch reviews, but even still, the quality of the acting/jokes/filmmaking caught me by surprise.

Talked about it in a different thread, who has seen Enemy with Jake Gyllenhall? Really hard for me to judge it, I think it was really good- JG was great and it was a pretty clever & unique idea. That being said it was an enormous mind**** and so, like I said, I really just don't know what to think. Curious what others thought.

Snowden

I thought this was pretty poorly done. The documentary is far superior and a must watch. This can be skipped. Stone adds too much heavy-handed symbolism and for some inexplicable reason decided the most important story of the decade wasn't high stakes enough, so he felt the need to add a boring love story. I never cared at all about the girlfriend.

Nicholas Cage needs to retire.

Grade: C

phenomenal movie....

If by amazing you mean that the story and the villain were amazingly ridiculous, then I wholeheartedly agree.

Allow me to offer a rebuttal. I was supremely disappointed in this movie. And the reason I was so disappointed was that I had read reviews such as yours that called it amazing, so I went in with high expectations.

It is by no means terrible, and it certainly isn't as bad as Into Darkness; but it is far from a great Star Trek movie. I wouldn't even call it a good Star Trek movie.

Batman - Nowhere near as weak as I thought it would be overall, however the Nicholson Joker is one of the worst things ever put on screen. It doesn't belong here, at all. Nicholson is so transparently thrilled with his own performance, and it's sickening. It improves slightly towards the end, but the way the character is written and the casting is just unbelievably bad. He's too old and pudgy for the role as written.

I was surprised at how strong and funny the Bruce Wayne scenes were, and the overall atmosphere is great. It's a shame the Joker so brutally mars the film.

Sunset Blvd. - Lots going on here in terms of real history and context, such as Swanson actually having been a silent film star (and being a poor live action actor in this case, basically playing herself) and Cecil B. DeMille playing himself. Found it a bit long.

The Star - A very similar story that to me is stronger in many ways, though with a ridiculous ending.

Days of Heaven - So good. So heartbreaking, but almost subtly so (that final line). One of the most visually beautiful films ever, maybe the best child performance ever, maybe the best voiceover ever.

Knight of Cups (also Terrence Malick) - Yea I don't need more movies that are "visual poetry" composed of shots of depressed middle-aged men on the beach, thanks tho Terrence.

A lot of surreal or poetic films are going to come down to how they affect you at a particular time, so I can't completely write it off, but bleh.

The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky) - See above paragraph (minus the "bleh"). It was my first Jodorowsky.

Zardoz - Campy 70s acid-trip sci-fi with Sean Connery in a Barbarella outfit. Didn't think a lot of it either way.

The Big Parade (silent) - Silent dramas tend to not hold up as well as the comedies. No real reason to recommend this above many other silent options.

Remains of the Day - Pretty strong period drama with Anthony Hopkins in the Downton Abbey times.

Howard's End - A slightly earlier film with much of the same cast and crew as the above. Not as strong imo, and has the "oh here comes wild and kooky Helena Bonham Carter!" type of jokes that pander to older audiences.

The Seven-Year Itch - Words words words and Marilyn Monroe. Sexist (I hissed when the main character "humorously" gestured that his secretary should have a lower cut dress), but mostly not towards Marilyn.

I get annoyed imagining these playwrights who think their words are more important than other elements of a film.

Lord Love a Duck - Fantastic, one of my new favorite movies. Funny and weird and surreal with some excellent performances. Does the "1950s vs. 1960s cultural change" thing better than any of the many works I've seen that try to do that.

Great title song, and Tuesday Weld is incredible. Dat sweater scene with the dad, wow.

Surprised this isn't more popular to be honest, I think it should be a pretty solid standard "top 100" choice.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (written by Ebert) - Was a bit drunk for this cult film and it didn't do anything for me.

Multiple Maniacs (John Waters) - Was less drunk and liked this a lot. Anarchic nonsense.

Paprika (anime) - Nolan stole a bunch of stuff from this for Inception (including set-pieces). It's better here, though I didn't think it was that great. Some fantastic elements. You feel like you're dropped into a television series that you didn't watch the first few episodes of. Even the opening credits sequence feels like a TV show.

Ghost in the Shell (1995 anime) - Very good. There are some random slow montages of future Tokyo (?) that are outstanding. Many elements feel like what most anime and Japanese role-playing games try to do, but in this case it's actually done well. Good companion piece for Blade Runner.

Haha, was going to make a post like this after the AHX talk. I wouldn't have included Requiem because I didn't think of it, but it definitely belongs.

Saw Hell or High Water today. Great movie. Don't hear a lot of buzz around this but it has to be a best pic Oscar contender. Jeff Bridges is a lock to be a nominee and would not be surprised to see Pine nominated as well. Script, direction also were great. Just an all-around fantastic old-school movie. Everyone should see it imo.

Top 5 of the year so far for me.