Shin Godzilla (2016)

As someone who has barely seen any Godzilla movie, this was fantastic. A geopolitical thriller with pertinent modern themes, that happens to revolve around a titanic nuclear lizard trashing Tokyo. Looks great, pacey despite mostly being set in big empty rooms and good performances. Also, a really weird but cool re-design/re-interpretation of Gojira himself.
Rating: Very Good

I, Tonya (2017)

Strong performances, and effectively portrays the abuse and pain beneath a clusterfuck of arseholes and liars.
Rating: Good

Room (2015)

Brilliant, heartbreaking film. Full of really strong performances, perfectly paced, and intimately directed.
Rating: Great

Molly's Game (2017)

Prime Sorkin - everything feels a little too neat, but it's exhilarating, witty, propulsive, rousing, fuelled by great performances and subtle, solid direction.
Rating: Very Good

Blood and Bone (2009)

Typically impressive fight moves from Michael Jai White, and a fun performance from Eamonn Walker. But the flat, pedestrian direction, production design and cinematography are on a level with the average Buffy episode (though not with the good ones), and the script is a mess. There is one interesting element that comes in and out of the movie, which is that even the powerful city-running crime-lord has to grit his teeth through meetings with racist white arseholes as he makes power moves, though this is compromised by two things: firstly that when we meet this big racist consortium, the extras hired are more like a United Colors Of Benetton ad, and secondly what is also the biggest issue with the entire movie: White's character is never in jeopardy, never makes a wrong move, inside or outside the ring. When you're rooting for the psychopathic crime-lord, the movie's doing something wrong. (The notably humourless, brutal 'ha ha he's getting prison raped' credits scene doesn't help matters either.)
Rating: Bad

The Post (2017)

Stirring and propulsive, with some great performances. Spielberg does Sorkin.
Rating: Good

Robot and Frank (2012)

Touching and funny, with a great performance by Langella.
Rating: Good

Boy (2010)

Sweet and charming if a little one-note.
Rating: Good

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

Similar issues to the first two movies - both the story and the fights have good ideas but are too ill-defined to make good use of them. The story has the cool lore, but flubs it at every turn with characters who love or hate John for no particular reason, often flipping between them for no reason too, bizarre plot-holes and lack of logic to anyone's actions. The fights have some cool ideas, moreso than in the previous movies (super-trained assassin dogs! A multi-storey glass penthouse fight area! Horses as weapons!) but don't make use of them, or else insist on long single takes with Reeves, Berry et al, leading to everything feeling half-speed and opponents waiting for their cues, like we're watching the rehearsals. Assorted silly things complete the insubstantial nonsense feeling, like CG blood, massacres going unnoticed in busy public areas, horses' super-kick action being activated with a pat on the rump, people jumping from their own motorbike to a fellow attacker's for no reason yet getting three of them killed in the process, and people managing to do that disappearing by panning behind something trick in a *room made of glass*.
Action movies don't need to have complex plots or realistic action - Desperado is magnificent without either - but the John Wick movies aim for them and fail at both.
Rating: Bad

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Lots of atmosphere and strong, understated performances (acting and music). Not much of a story - another entry in the 'follow a sad person around' sub-genre.
Rating: Good

31 (2016)

Pretty much the least imaginative film that Zombie could have made at this point, or indeed that anyone could have made with the concept 'some people are kidnapped and forced to play a survival in a compound full of crazy killers'.
Rating: Bad

3 from Hell (2019)

Very disappointing - it feels like one of those direct-to-video sequels by a different creative team who copy all the wrong stuff from the original. It's just more of the same, but with none of the wit. The victims act stupid, the quips are thuddingly awful, the plot drags and meanders, instead of Michael Berryman playing a regular guy with no mention of his dysplasia there's Richard Edson browning up as a Mexican, and instead of making the Fireflys sympathetic this movie makes them dull. It even tries to recapture the standout Free Bird sequence from Devil's Rejects, but ends up taking 'In A Gadda Da Vida' from Manhunter and putting it over a standard shootout scene.
Although it was apparently unavoidable due to health issues, I suspect the heavily reduced role of Sid Haig plays a large part in how anonymous this movie feels.
It's a shame this didn't jump style again, perhaps to more of a Suspiria feel - there's a glimmer of what could have been when Baby hallucinates a ballerina cat through a crack in her prison cell wall, but sadly Zombie brings no more of his Halloween II/Lords Of Salem weirdness into play.
Rating: Bad

Afternoon Delight (2013)

A well put-together drama - well-acted, directed - but it boils down to 'a privileged couple realise they need to connect a bit more', which they do at the expense of a 22 year old homeless sex worker (we see her laughing with a bouncer outside a strip club so apparently she's fine), and the film doesn't address the fact that the men all get to do what they want and the husband is almost totally absent - a muttered half-apology is all he's held to account for.
Rating: Fine

Shazam! (2019)

Atrocious.
Hugely derivative (Jon Glover as the villain's arsehole dad from Heroes and Smallville, the punk song/school book doodles end credits from Spider-Man Homecoming, the 'test out powers on home camera with a friend' from Heroes, a Don't Stop Me Now montage from every film since Shaun Of The Dead), an utterly bland villain, a structure that crams as much backstory as it can into the first half hour then spends 90 minutes doing nothing, and a dour, depressing tone that jars massively with Zach Levi's mugging and the occasional 'comedy' scene.
Rating: Awful

Brad's Status (2017)

Subtle performances, and an effective portrayal of mid-life, middle-class, middle-success angst, but it was so interior and uneventful as to feel like it might have worked just as well or better as a short story.
Rating: Fine

Fighting with My Family (2019)

Solid performances, but a very simplistic story full of tropes and clunky writing. Plus, for the last ten minutes, the movie suddenly forgets that wrestling is fixed.
Rating: Fine