The Net (1995)

Was hoping it would be hilariously outdated but actually it was just a bit dull and overlong.
Rating: Bad

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

I gave up an hour in. Unfunny and slow, filled with pampered arrogant vindictive arseholes. The lead male character isn't much more likeable with all his dishonesty.
The positive reviews have mistaken extravagance for style, and noise for comedy.
Rating: Awful

Avengement (2019)

Funny, brutal, slick fight film. Loads of great fight scenes, lean narrative and an hilarious, intense performance by Adkins with solid support all round.
Rating: Very Good

Charlie's Angels (2019)

Full of irritating inconsistencies, non-sequiturs and bizarre over-complications of lore. Action is underwhelming. Rather drab-looking. Bland music choices.
There are attempts at progressiveness but they fall flat. In theory, these Angels are a spy organisation devoid of toxic masculinity but still able to get the job done. In practice, they spend a lot of time talking about fashion, dating and diets. Even worse, they're grossly incompetent (but then so are the villains so it evens out). Also, Kirsten Stewart's character is gay, but it's only ever brought up for a couple of 'lol she found a lady attractive' moments.
Rating: Awful

Horns (2013)

A clumsy mix of emo drama, murder mystery and dark comedy fantasy, and not very good at any of them. Dialogue is clunky, big visual moments fall flat, characters float in for a scene or two then disappear, disappointing resolution.
Rating: Bad

Freaks (2018)

Fantastic! Great performances, creepy atmosphere, perfectly paced slow-drip of information, and a great use of budget. Would make a good double-bill with Chronicle.
Warning: stars Emile Hirsch.
Rating: Great

Thoroughbreds (2017)

Sharp, witty and well-acted, but the ending is a damp squib.
Rating: Good

Your Name. (2016)

Looks gorgeous, a cool spin on the swap concept, and masterfully moves between tones and genres. Funny, sweet and touching.
Rating: Great

Leave No Trace (2018)

Looks gorgeous, powerful subtle performances and a thematically strong narrative about the comforts and dangers in nature and society.
Rating: Very Good

The Old Guard (2020)

Takes a relatively intriguing concept and makes a hash of it. It looks nice enough and the action is okay, but the dialogue is perfunctory and the tone is needlessly dour. Worst of all, the structure is a busy unsatisfying mess - it feels like the last few episodes of a tv season compacted down into a movie, changing a status quo we never get to see and setting up a new status quo for a sequel that will probably never happen.
Best case scenario, a sequel does get made and turns out to be strong, and this will be thought of as the 'not too bad first film that you may as well watch to get the full story'.
Rating: Bad

Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020)

Touching and gentle, but it back away from any character or story resolution.
Rating: Good

Tully (2018)

Nicely crafted, but slight to the point where it doesn't really stand out.
Rating: Fine

Disclosure (2020)

Educational, interesting and touching.
(It does occasionally feel a little unstructured, and despite being a relatively introductory, '101' look at trans representation in film and tv, it sometimes will leave a work's current perception by the trans community unclear. That latter issue may be simply a wish to avoid oversimplifying, or treating the trans community as a single-opinioned monolith, or it may be an inability on my part to extrapolate.)
Rating: Very Good

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

An impressive cast of character actors and a relatively solid budget of 12mil or so (a lot more than, say, the far superior The Prophecy's 8mil in the same year) are wasted on this mostly unimaginative slog, made up of long swathes of drudgery, siege tropes and the occasional small burst of energy. Could probably have been cut down into a decent 40 minute episode for the show.
Rating: Bad

Hereditary (2018)

Note to horror movie makers and critics - stretching out what would be the first half hour of most horrors to your entire two hour movie does not make it classy, it makes it borrrrring.
Rating: Bad

Bordello of Blood (1996)

The only good thing about this cheap, tacky, meandering flat dull-ass movie is that it's illustrative of just how much the other 1996 vampire whorehouse movie did with its premise. (Granted, BoB had 17ish million less to play with, but I'm guessing the other movie could have chopped a lot of its budget by losing the big cast names and still been far superior on similar money.)
Rating: Awful

Catfight (2016)

Really funny, dark, nearly surreal, biting look at modern America, driven by some fantastic performances (it is great to see Heche, Oh and Silverstone at full power). Would make a great double-bill with Death Becomes Her.
Rating: Great

The Limey (1999)

Very stylish but a little empty.
Rating: Good

Swiss Army Man (2016)

Like a fever dream Cast Away. Funny, touching, inventive.
Rating: Very Good

VFW (2019)

Nails the 80s exploitation vibe pretty well, and has some good performances (especially Lang and Sadler) and fun gore, but there's little specificity to the genre pastiche, characterisation or setting, the dialogue is clunky, the story gets stuck looping the same beats over and over for most of the movie, and the action seems to have been choreographed on the day.
Rating: Bad

Cheap Thrills (2013)

Solid dark comedy thriller that doesn't quite escalate high enough soon enough, leading to a deflated ending.
Rating: Good

The Day Shall Come (2019)

This all feels very first draft - the FBI office politics, the religious satire, the character work, the farce, none of it has the bite or subtlety of any given Veep episode. I got more out of Morris' interview on Adam Buxton's podcast about it than I did the actual film.
Rating: Bad

Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)

The most predictable, unimaginative take on this idea possible, clumsily executed. The only time it shows any energy at all is when it occasionally rips something off from Edgar Wright or Joe Cornish.
Rating: Awful

Prevenge (2016)

Relatively standard revenge slasher story-wise, but very stylish, darkly funny and the pregnancy element is used effectively to create a creepy atmosphere. Stretched a little thin even at 87 minutes but manages to avoid drag. A couple of good performances from Lowe and Hartley, too.
Rating: Good

A Serious Man (2009)

Didn't work for me. Being a Coen Bros movie, it's well directed, acted, scored, shot etc, but there's nothing to it. Here's a guy who is put upon and weak, the universe is messy and confusing, that's it. Maybe I'd appreciate it more if I were Jewish.
Rating: Bad