The Brown Note Movie Review

Both films have wasted the TV Show's iconic premise and the perfect star to do it justice.

As I've said, being amiable goes a long way in this kind of film and the central pair of The Rock and (a welcome return for) Neve Campbell are certainly that.

One of the most mysterious films of the decade. After the original boasted one of the greatest across the board arrays of talent assembled in a film the last decade, a drop off was to be expected - who knew it would be in the writing. Taylor Sheridan was on the imperious run of Sicario, Hell or High Water and Wind River, yet this films has the most baffling narrative choices in recent memory.

The superb debut from director Ryan Coogler nails everything it needs to without overdoing anything.

For me a massive and impressive return to form after the awful La La Land, in this underappreciated, magnificent, first man on the moon biopic.

I love Ryan Reynolds but hated the acclaimed first film and found its "edgy" humor painful, I enjoyed its sequel more.

A film I gave a reasonably good score to because of how hilariously awful it was, oh dear. Bloody entertaining though.

After savaging Da 5 Bloods a far better film from Spike Lee here.

My best and worst films of, drum roll, 2018.

Director James Wan is far better at visual storytelling than creating a coherent narrative in this exposition loaded, over-complicated and overlong film but being amiable goes an awful long way. Be interesting to see if Amber Heard ever gets a role this prominent again.

Lynne Ramsay and Joaquin Phoenix's incredibly dark drama.

For years whilst Citizen Kane was ranked the greatest film of all time, I said this was, and over the years, that's exactly where it has risen to be. This is a wonderful article about the film coupled with a shorter 10/10 review.

This utterly pointless reboot is as slight as a level in a video game.

The start of the downward spiral in the second failed attempt at rebooting the Star Wars franchise has inexplicably great reviews. I gave it even lower than here on my Star Wars special and it's still only the third worst film.

Middling effort in the Liam Neeson mutli-verse.

Sadly, far less laugh-out-loud funny than previous efforts and with deeply problematic targets (no less than three rows he's had with members of the public on Twitter and a really bad Caitlyn Jenner bit).

Even thought his output this century has been mostly bad, sci-fi used to be Spielberg's safe space. This lackluster, forgettable effort exists in a problematic 1980's boys world.

Guillermo del Toro has ruined more sequels by NOT directing them than any other director, this, sadly, has none of the magic that made his original wonderful.

The godawful Jurassic series has so far given one classic and five duds. What on earth was I smoking here to give this such a good review?

A lot to enjoy with this board game movie sequel and it sure looks pretty, even if it over-eggs much.

One of my favorite comedians this century's lesser stand-up works.

I've been a fan of Jason Batemen since It's Your Move (look it up) and Rachel McAdams is his worthy co-star in the often hysterical comedy.

This heart soaring Mexican effort from the Pixar team, sits just shy of WALL-E, Inside Out and UP in their all time hall of fame. (as a side note, on my mixcloud page is a recent 8 episode, 8 hour travelogue on Mexico).

Superior teen-adult comedy finds, improbably, that John Cena - alongside The Rock and Dave Bautista - is as good a comedic actor as wrestler.

This huge cultural event - the first black superhero movie - was, whisper it, a mediocre film and more a 6.5/10 than the 7.5/10 I begrudge it here.