Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever

I hadn't heard of this feature until it got prominently advertised recently on Netflix. It turns out to have been a sleeper hit. Not sur...

After a drama whose visuals failed to grab me , I felt like seeing a fanciful animation. Alas, it's getting hard to think of promising o...

The main reason I kept putting off this Academy Best Picture nominee is director Paul Thomas Anderson. I hadn't enjoyed There Will Be Bl...

This relatively inexpensive flick still suffered a net loss at the box office, and both critics and general audiences had mixed opinions of ...

I previously expressed a minor interest in this picture, but I kept putting it off because it looked dark. I'd also learned that it had...

I finally decided to give Damien Chazelle another shot. Perhaps the lack of jazz would help my appreciation. And the fact that he only direc...

So much for my prediction that I wouldn't watch another action crime flick right away. A friend suggested we see this together. Since i...

Despite its fair popularity, I wasn't particularly eager to see this. Perhaps a brief clip intrigued me; more likely, I added it to my N...

This doesn't seem to have been talked about much since it was brand new. If any aspect stands out, it's the fact that Clint Eastwood...

I knew almost nothing going in, except that Netflix recommended it when I asked for a yet-unavailable Oscar nominee. It has a higher IMDb ra...