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