Cerebral… Movie #16 2020: Joker (2019) 17 Feb 202017 Feb 2020 Welp. What a performance. No one was surprised when Joaquin Phoenix took the Oscar for Best Actor, and nor was I. He absolutely deserved it, even in a year when…
Drama… Movie #15 2020: Identity (2003) 17 Feb 2020 John Cusack as Ed and Amanda Peet as Paris This is a movie that has been on my watchlist for so many years. And then I watched Ford v Ferrari…
Uncategorized Movie #14 2020: Eighth Grade (2018) 14 Feb 202014 Feb 2020 Elsie Fisher as Kayla I watched Eighth Grade because I'd heard great things, and I've enjoyed Bo Burnham's comedy in the past. I'm not saying this was a letdown for…
Comedy… Movie #13 2020: The Terminal (2004) 14 Feb 202013 Feb 2020 Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski After the mind-bending, overwhelmingly complex task of attempting to review Parasite... YAY! It's Tom Hanks in the lovingly corny The Terminal from 2004. Honestly, I…
Drama… Movie #12 2020: Parasite (2019) 13 Feb 202013 Feb 2020 The cast of Parasite, starring Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek Out of all the movies I've watched so far this year, this is the review I was most nervous about…
Comedy… Movie #11 2020: Knives Out (2019) 11 Feb 202011 Feb 2020 Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc When I wrote my last review (Looper), I had no idea that I'd unintentionally watched two Rian Johnson movies in a row. (Remember, I've already…
Action… Movie #10 2020: Looper (2012) 11 Feb 2020 Joseph Gordon Levitt as Joe and Bruce Willis as Old Joe This is a new one for me in that it's probably the first review I've written for TQR that…
Comedy… Movie #8 2020: Shazam! (2019) 7 Feb 20207 Feb 2020 Zachary Levi as Shazam Is this the end of mediocre DC movies? Honestly, I expected much less from Shazam! The fact that I watched this in complete silence with my…
Comedy… Movie #7 2020: Lady Bird (2017) 5 Feb 20205 Feb 2020 Lucas Hedges as Danny and Saoirse Ronan as Lady Bird Do you ever have that weird thing with a movie when it gets released and you just have no desire…
Action… Movie #6 2020: Fighting With My Family (2019) 4 Feb 2020 I'll start this off by posing one question: what can't Florence Pugh do? Although I'm yet to see her in Little Women, her performance in Fighting With My Family is…
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