The Brown Note Movie Review

Although its screenplay is a mess and it's a bit of a fail, for fans of grimey, hard-boiled, Training Day-esque cop pot-boilers, there's just far too much on offer here for it not to be worthwhile. The often brilliant Aussie-director John Hillcoat and an insane cast for a start.

High concept, high art, trangressive horror movies have been the vanguard of filmaking for me these last ten years and Robert Eggers medieval-puritan debut is alongside the likes of Hereditary at the very top of that list.

This riotous Danish crime flick has nothing in common with the expected Nordic-Noir and is instead interested in going completely nuts, to winning effect.

Like its title, it is actually very funny often, if not much of a film.

Ever since the amazing debut of director Jeff Nichols, Shotgun Stories, it's been a story of disappointment for me, especially the awful Mud (watch Joe instead). This is better but still an atmospheric big fat nothing of a film.

I preferred White House Down over Olympus Has Fallen but it was still a guilty pleasure. Not so this time around for an almost heroically terrible effort that isn't even made to a releasable standard.

Prolific and mostly good horror director, Mike Flanagan's entry into the small but notable sensory horror genre. Here we have a deaf and mute heroin to face off against a killer.

I don't know what I was smoking here to give this only mild abuse, it's truly and in every way godawful. Rivals the likes of Burn After Reading as the worst ever Cohen brother film.

A look at the man baby freak out that greeted the all-female Ghostbusters reboot.

The fascinating filmography of South African Gavin Hood follows Good Kill with a look at the morality of drone warfare and diminished responsibilities.

Nearly a worthy follow up to the superb Winter Soldier, though with a tiny bit too much franchise building. And just sod off Spiderman. And Ant Man.

It is indeed a Marvel how badly the DC movie universe faltered and in a myriad of different ways. Here we get turgid, muddy and humorless and at 4/10 a surprisingly high score from me.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead & John Goodman  elevate this paranoid follow up to the found footage original.

Argentine Damián Szifron , directed one of my films of the entire decade and a seemingly underappreciated one too. One of the best short story anthologies ever made and brilliant filmaking in every direction, including the best wedding scene ever.

No doubt just moaning about who won as they are always terrible.

I've gone on at length praising Aussie actor-auteur Joel Edgerton and he does pretty much everything here, in this twisted psych-drama, including star, write and direct.

Allegedly shot on an iPhone, even the cinematography is superb in this magnificent, zero budget, transgender vignette. Director Sean Baker will obviously go on to greatness.

You never know what's next director Danny Boyle. Here a pure biopic based around set moments. Terrific acting from Fassbender in the lead and the heavyweight writing of Aaron Sorkin but as always, Boyles choices can be perplexing. I think I was a little kind here.

The "kidnapped child kept in a basement" horror motif that so enthralls and upsets us, gets arguably its purest treatment and an acting Oscar for a Brie Larson who seems to have been vacuumed up into franchise land since. Best in its most disquieting moments.

Only just shy of being completely worthy of its exalted subject and brilliant director.

A wonderful biopic of not just the Beach Boy Brian Wilson but the whole Pet Sounds era too.

A great example of how what was special about a person can be ignored by documentary makers in favour of their graphic death. Did not enjoy.

I will have to re-watch this as I cannot work out how this isn't the Christian Bale starring Moses cinematic disaster.

I'm a big fan of Ryan Reynolds but this wildly overrated adult comic book adaption isn't much better than the Green Hornet.

I must've been on a mission here, full top ten worst films and most underrated.