The Brown Note Movie Review

I have as yet not given a perfect 10/10 score to a new release film, solely a few retrospective reviews, so this is as close as it comes. Maybe the pinnacle of David Lynch's career, this jawdropping, arthouse, challenging eighteen-hour movie redefined what both a movie and television could be or even aspire to be. It was also my "movie" of the year.

A half-way look at the most memorable TV event of the decade.

Director Michael Winterbottom and stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's nearly real foodie travelogues have been a uniform, hilarious delight, best seen in their TV format than the truncated film versions, that overwhelm with impersonations.

An astonishingly inept and awful attempt to boot off a franchise.

Who knew how much better the maligned third film would be, compared to anything that followed? Making absolutely the right decision to bring back Arnie and Linda but then destroying what followed, with atrocious writing and ridiculous narrative choices. Worth watching for the fantastic visual effects alone.

Martin Scorcese has avoided heavyweight personal projects for most of this century, so I was disappointed by his deeply felt yet quite boring religious epic. Things finally pick up in the final third with the arrival of Liam Neeson.

Fresh off bagging one of my go to targets, Charlie Hunnam, for the awe-inducingly terrible King Arthur film, he only goes and turns in an excellent performance in this wonderful, underappreacted, James Gray directed biopic of lost Amazon adventurer Percy Fawcett.

Korean Maestro Bong Joon-ho had quite the decade, for me I gave all three films 9/10 and all three were my second favorite film of each respective year.

Netflix's Narcos franchise has been fantastic across all five seasons, and though we lost the Pablo Escobar story for the Cali cartel here, it's still a perfectly made, high quality and thrilling drama.

I always had a soft spot for the previous, stand alone Wolverine films and unlike the main X-Men reboot, they improved and ended on a massive high.

Ignoring the most unexplainable decision in modern cinema, giving someone with Guy Ritchie's track record $200 million to make a King Arthur film, this should be taught at film school. Not only is it mind-blowingly terrible but across the board in editing, shot framing, dialogue, screenplay, characterisation. It ended up my worst film of the year.

Even the weakest link in the Keanu Reeves starring, Chad Stahelski helmed action trilogy is up there with the best its kind.

A perfectly good, yet slightly less inspired, original and dynamic second volume.

I massively overrated Christopher Nolan's stunningly produced war film here, a bit of a misfire in retrospect.

Though travel and cooking shows are cat nip to me and barbecue shows the crack cocaine of cat nip, this laudable Australian documentary on the practice globally has a few flaws and is very uneven.

For me its three awful films in a row for director Edgar Wright, including this inexplicably lauded sub-Guy Ritchie twaddle.

I'm always amazed how many of these overseas vanity projects can spend tens of millions of dollars without getting a half decent screenplay, not awful though.

At least this entry into the cinematic disaster that is the DC universe has a watchable cast but not much else, passable compared to most of the others.

After the stunning first reboot and the wasted second film, a slight improvement.

A big fat zero out of ten for this competently but cynically made epitome of will-this-do ambition free cinema, that aims squarely for the ground and falls to it, with not one single ounce of inspiration or interest. Very boring, reductive, bad performances and characters, no real plot. The movie equivalent of the back of a cereal box and it made me angry how little effort they made here.

Positive reviews for this trash are proof there is no God, as it's one of the worst films I've ever seen. I like Seth Rogen but he has been responsible for some serious crimes against humanity.

If they had stuck with the wildly controversial premise, of Chris Pratt waking up Jennifer Lawrence on an interstellar flight, thus consigning her to a lonely death, just so he could have some company, this beautiful film could have been brilliant - sadly turning it into an action adventure film ruined it.

Fasion designer Tom Ford's second feature is a second nearly great film. This time a fascinating and flawed, very dark, neo-noir with a great cast.

It was beautiful to look at and listen to and intermittently powerful but director Barry Jenkins' "gay-black" drama was a wildly overrated and frankly quite dull film.

Before the stunning Manchester by the Sea, writer director, Kenneth Lonergan, spent years in the wilderness trying to bring this almost uniquely, deeply flawed and brilliant film about nearly being an adult but not being able to handle the responsibility, to the screen. A great cast is centered by Anna Paquin, who creates one of the most grating and abrasive teenagers in history.