Film Dictionary

March 3, 2022

Stanley Tucci Searching For Italy: Season 2 (2022) ***

The White Lotus: Season 2 (2022) ***

Love And Anarchy: Season 2 (2022) ***

Better Call Saul: Season 6 (2022) ***

Bill Burr: Live At Red Rocks (2022) ***

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel: Season 4 (2022) ***

L'Horizon de Khéops (2022) *****

45 minutes.

All That Remains (2022) ***

Surrealistic short virtual reality film from Taiwan. Directed by Craig Quintero.

The Man Who Couldn't Leave (2022) ***

Well-directed virtual reality documentary short about the political persecution in Taiwan in the 1950's. Considering the subject matter, one would have expected this film to be made in Communist China, but no, this is actually a Taiwanese production, a proof positive of how far this remarkable country has come in terms of honestly dealing with its controversial past.

Red Tail (2022) ***

A short animated horror virtual reality movie from Taiwan.

The Crown: Season 5 (2022) ***

Ancient Apocalypse (2022) ***

Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (2022) ***

1923: Season 1 (2022) ***

Christina P Mom Genes (2022) ***

Hilarious stand-up comedy special from Christina Pazsitzky.

My Brilliant Friend: Season 3 (2022) ***

Evil: Season 3 (2022) ***

Wednesday (2022) ****

Swimming With Sharks (2022) ***

Bridgerton: Season 2 (2022) *

Grinders (2022) ***

Severance: Season 1 (2022) ***

Euphoria: Season 2 (2022) ****

Best episode: E05 "Stand Still Like The Hummingbird" with Zendaya in a bravura performance as she runs away from home, stealing from friends and breaking into homes.

February 2, 2022

The Inspection (2022) **

Master Gardener (2022) **

All That Breathes (2022) **

Visually stunning documentary set in India.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) **

Curiously uneven film with some memorable scenes, but many unpleasant ones as well. Worst of all is the destruction of Mona Lisa, which is in a particularly bad taste.

Inu-Oh (2022) **

Holy Spider (2022) **

A superb and mesmerizing first 10 minutes, but then the film completely changes its point-of-view and becomes a very conventional crime drama about a hunt for a serial killer.

The Martha Mitchell Effect (2022) **

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) **

Broker (2022) **

Road movie about newborn babies being sold. South Korean drama made by a Japanese director, Hirokazu Koreeda ("Shoplifters").

February 1, 2022

Causeway (2022) **

January 1, 2022

The Woman King (2022) *

Confusing film set in an African kingdom. Set on an intersectional collision course between feminism and slavery, the film tries to highlight the former in order to explain the latter, but fails to tell a coherent or exciting story. Compared to this, "Black Panther" looks like a well-researched and accurate historical drama...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) *

The Northman (2022) *

Good Luck To You Leo Grande (2022) *

Very boring film starring Emma Thompson.

RRR (2022) *

Don't Worry Darling (2022) *

Even Florence Pugh's excellent performance cannot save this pretentious and cliché-ridden variation on "The Stepford Wives", poorly directed by Olivia Wilde.

The Elephant Whisperers (2022) *

40 min.

Strange World (2022) *

The worst Disney animated feature film ever. Dull, slow, and very predictable. An embarrassing disaster of epic proportions. While many have blamed its alleged "wokeness" to explain its pathetic performance at the box office, the excessive political correctness is the least of its problems.

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2022) *

As one reviewer on imdb has put it: "If you're over the age of eight and you use pronouns like he and him, then this movie is probably not for you. Note the liberal use of the words cute and adorable and heartwarming in most reviews. It should give you a pretty good hint about the target audience."