Aquaman (2018)

It's visually gorgeous, Momoa is charming and that Sicily action sequence is great, but overall this is a mess. Scuppered by the lead character being introduced in a previous film and yet still having a ton of origin stories, lore and Atlantean politics to get through, the narrative is all over the place. It's filled with tropey beats (in the wrong order) and characters and most of the action is either rote post-Kingsman punching or rote CG battles. Even the music can't decide what it wants to be, flitting between wailing guitar, orchestral and 80s electro.
Amusing sidenote: Nicole Kidman is digitally de-aged at the start of the movie. When she reappears in present day, she is no longer de-aged but because of all the work she's had done she still looks so uncannily smooth that they had to put a grey wig on her to age her up a bit!
Rating: Bad

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Hands down the best Spider-Man film ever. Effortlessly blends a variety of visual styles and riffs on the audience familiarity with Spidey's backstory while using all of the character's (characters') iconography to full effect. Funny, exciting, touching and intricate without being over-worked.
Rating: Great

Night of the Comet (1984)

Some cool ideas and visuals, and surprisingly solid B-movie performances, but it's let down by sluggish pacing. It never really gets out of second gear, missing the solid structure and escalation of a low-budget Romero, Rodriguez or Jackson.
Rating: Fine

Tomb Raider (2018)

Bland. Uninspired dialogue, a scattered structure and a shift from grounded action sequences to CG Lara bouncing around the place like she's in Jumanji. I didn't even find the puzzle-solving that satisfying because most of the time Lara either just knew how to instantly solve the tumbler-locks or started quoting clues that we'd never heard before.

I did like the reveal that rather than a supernatural witch queen, the corpse in the tomb was a carrier for a deadly virus, that was cool.

Nowhere near as good as National Treasure, never mind Raiders.
Rating: Bad

Assassin's Creed (2016)

Bloody terrible. It's so po-faced and convoluted, yet barely anything actually happens over the two hour runtime. The visuals are quite nice, though the action scenes are poorly directed - the camera must jump the line once every three seconds.
Much like the redesigned Animus, it may look pretty but it's overly complicated and makes little sense.
Rating: Awful

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Disappointing. It's a load of moderately interesting ideas thrown at a tired cliche of a plot, and it doesn't get going for at least the first hour - this really could have done with at least twenty minutes trimming off. As others have noted, it has touches of Idiocracy, Kaufman and Gondry about it, but the thing I was reminded most of was Gremlins 2 - that's the level of satirical sophistication it was playing at. Not necessarily a bad thing, but here the story drags too much to make up for it.
Rating: Good

Game Night (2018)

Consistently enjoyable, and regularly laugh out loud funny. Not an absolute riot, though, just very solid.
Rating: Good

The Predator (2018)

A big, awful mess - the characters are all back-story and nothing else, the story is pretty much 'there's a bigger one, and like ten macguffins', the action scenes weren't particularly interesting and the CG was poor.

This just feels like Friday The 13th Part 3 or Jaws 4 or something, another cheap rehash of the same idea. I think they really need to take some big risks if they want to rescue the franchise from stagnation. Send someone to their home planet or have them take over Earth or have a good one show up speaking fluent English and join the NYPD or *something*. Give the species something else to do beyond hunt/fight.
Rating: Bad

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Gorgeous design and animation, well-directed action, and an interesting story that unfortunately dissolves into wishy-washy metaphor for the climax.
Rating: Very Good

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Top Wes Anderson - accessible and funny without losing the quirks or simplifying the narrative.
Rating: Great

Passengers (2016)

Okay, so it's pretty shallow and it's a big jumble-bag of different genres and tropes and it's probably about 15 minutes too long, but somehow it manages to be more than the sum of its parts and come out as a charming, entertaining Castaway In Space.
Rating: Good

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Top-notch Coens: mastery of tone and pacing, looks and sounds gorgeous, full of great performances.
Rating: Very Good

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Not as good as the first film.

Sporadically entertaining, mostly whenever it plays with the body-swap comedy - Jack Black and Karen Gillan are particularly good - but overworked and empty in the action sequences, video game pastiche and character arcs.
Rating: Bad

Killing Gunther (2017)

Takes the premise and a few gags from Man Bites Dog, but not any of its consistency or dark wit. Broad and unfunny.
Rating: Awful

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

I saw the first one but I don't remember much if it. I liked it okay, I think - enough to check out the sequel anyway. That turned out to be a bad idea, as it's a clunking pile of cliches, full of supposedly competent characters with nonsense motivations and making stupid decisions. The action is badly directed too, and Tom Cruise continues to look really weird with his consistently brown hair and increasingly lumpy face.
Rating: Bad

Ready Player One (2018)

Clunky and tacky, and it has the gall to lecture us at the end about not getting lost in pop culture.
Rating: Awful

Coco (2017)

Very enjoyable if a little shallow. I could see the plot twists and developments a mile off, but it's all presented nicely enough that it was still fun getting there.
Rating: Good

Train to Busan (2016)

Exciting and inventive. By the end of it I was totally invested and my heart was pounding. Also comes up with a couple of nice additions to zombie lore, even if it does use fast zombies...
Rating: Great

Moana (2016)

This film really gets going once Moai properly shows up, but that's after over half an hour in! A lot of the songs feel very poppy and American, a very post Let It Go feel, even as they try to reflect Maori culture, and in fact there is a tangible tug of war between standard Disney storytelling and the Maori stuff. Having said that, it is refreshing to see stuff like the tattoos and mythology being put at the forefront and on the whole treated respectfully. Plus, You're Welcome and Shiny are great songs, full of character.
If this film were 20 minutes shorter and stepped out of the Disney comfort zone a little more, I would have loved it. As it is, I simply enjoyed it a lot.
Rating: Good

The Disaster Artist (2017)

Very enjoyable, funny and touching. Suffers a little from the premise - it's too narrow to achieve Ed Wood greatness, yet based on a true story and so unable to spin out to the wildness of This Is The End or Superbad - but effectively captures the film The Room and the experience of watching it.
Rating: Good

A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Pleasingly propulsive, but ultimately a mix of grimy and cheesy, with cliches on both sides, such as the elaborate and sadistic serial killers, the action-packed finale where the killers start to act like Michael Myers, and the straight-talking street kid who thaws the grizzled protagonist's heart.
Rating: Fine

High-Rise (2015)

Sumptuous production, starts off intriguing, but runs out of ideas about halfway through, substituting allegory for narrative.
Rating: Bad

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

hHd to give up after an hour of emotionless performances and dialogue. It was as if a shitty AI had made a thriller, creating the script, direction, performances and score but not understanding how any of them work. Apparently this is the director's 'style' - i.e. pointless gimmick.
Rating: Awful

The Big Short (2015)

This film is massively didactic - this is essentially edutainment - but it owns it and does so with powerful performances, sharp direction and editing and a tangible sense of outrage and terror.
Rating: Very Good

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Some very inventive action sequences and comedy setpieces. However, the narrative does feel overstuffed and characterisation suffers as a result. Also, the loose improv feel of the comedy dialogue doesn't really work - a Shane Black style polish would have really helped, I think.

I probably prefer it to the first one overall...

EDIT: on a re-watch, I think the issue is less that it's overstuffed and more that the antagonists are out of whack: Ghost has almost identical goals to the heroes and never works as a villain because the films pulls its punches to maintain the redemption ending. They should have made her an ally early on and had the Feds and crooks as stronger obstacles throughout. It didn't feel so inventive the second time round either; if I were to rate it again I'd probably knock it down by at least half a star...
Rating: Good

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Really enjoyed it, it has all the usual strong points and the final sequence literally had my palms sweating. But this is pretty much the same film as the last three. As flawed as the second film is (though I still enjoy a lot about it), I kind of miss the days when the franchise was doing something wildly different with each installment, before JJ combined everything good about the first two movies and the tv show and filed off the rough edges.
It also runs a little long. That combined with the lack of surprises makes this an MI film I'm not likely to re-watch for a few years at least.
Rating: Good

Hell or High Water (2016)

Low-key neo-western, solid all-round if a little slight and full of tropes. Mainly enjoyable for the performances.
Rating: Good

Justice League (2017)

SPOILERS BELOW

Whedon Cut:

Vapid. It's just character intro after character intro then this 2010-era video game character stealing cubes one after the other, then a big CG battle. I thought Batman looked less cool in this one, too - lots of shots when you catch him being a guy in a muscle suit doing some goofy pose. And Cyborg looked tacky as shit. A couple of good bits were bringing Supes back to life - first the debate over it, then doing it and him coming back all pissed off, built up well - and the Amazon chase to keep the cube away from Steppenwolf. But overall, crappy.

Rating: Bad

Snyder Cut:

I don't know if it's because I already saw a different version of this, or just because it's too unremarkable, but it's hard for me to form an opinion on this.
It certainly felt like it gave everything enough time to breathe, which helped with the vapidity problem. Considering it has three new heroes to introduce, 4 hours running time isn't all that crazy (even though the Flash and Aquaman stuff was so disposable and ill-fitting respectively, it felt better to have something there). It's clear to see why the theatrical release felt like such a hatchet job - this movie was built around a 4 hour runtime.

But really, this has the typical Snyder feel of a feature-length music video - there's no variety in tone or pacing, every moment is geared towards being cool and epic and super-deep and meaningful, and nothing feels real. It's hard to pick out anything specific to criticise (apart from the jarring, patchwork score perhaps), it's just all rather dull and charmless. Judging by my reaction to previous Snyder movies, I'd probably realise this is terrible if I watched it again, but for now it seems merely inoffensive.

Rating: Meh.

Wonder Woman (2017)

Mediocre at best. Meandering, with some obvious twists and so many walking tropes in place of characters. There are three villains and not one has any depth - come back Spider-Man 3 and Batman Returns, all is forgiven. I think this movie got cut a ton of slack for being a non-terrible DC movie - if it were a Marvel movie it'd be getting rated down with Thor 2.
Rating: Fine

The Tourist (2010)

It was okay. I thought Depp was pretty funny doing a Cary Grant thing and I enjoyed the espionage stuff at the start, but the romance angle takes over the movie without ever really convincing. And I twigged the ending within the first ten minutes of meeting Depp's character, although I assumed she was in on it so I started to doubt it in the last half hour.
Still, some good action and generally charming.
Rating: Fine

Incredibles 2 (2018)

SPOILERS BELOW

Some heavier-handed stating of themes and some issues with structure - mainly that it's essentially a re-run of the first movie, beat for beat, and that it's not really much fun when the Incredible parents get hypnotised. All the action sequences, acting and family dynamics are still great though. One final issue - no resolution with the Underminer! Rating: Good

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Not half as amateurish as the first JW, and it even has one legit great extended sequence (starting with meeting Blue all the way through the volcano exploding and then the escape from the island), but once that is over, it moves to a big mansion for the rest of the movie and goes through all the same tired old beats over and over - meddling scientists, greedy suits who get their gruesome comeuppance, some associate of Hammond popping out of the woodwork (the one in this film is so similar to Hammond that I was pretty sure he was going to turn out to be a clone), getting saved from one dinosaur when it gets attacked by another, and just endlessly getting chased around small rooms getting snapped at through handy clutter by raptor-type dinos.
The very ending was pretty sweet, though, even if it was pure sequel set-up.
Rating: Bad

Paddington 2 (2017)

The social commentary isn't so strongly entwined into the story (one could argue it talks about criminal rehabilitation but I'm not wholly convinced), but it is still full of wonderful slapstick, whimsy and action, and has a much better villain.
Rating: Good