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Mystic Pizza

Mystic Pizza

This so-so prelude to the 90s indie movement has many great performances all trying to save a mediocre script.

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

A simpler, subtler take on the machinations of planning a wedding (in the 1950s) that offers plenty of light and frothy comedy to accompany its sweet and sentimental core.

10

10

A decent but dated precursor to much better films about childish men who learn it’s about time for them to grow up.

Greyhound

Greyhound

This excellent naval thriller skimps on frills and is all the better for it.

Grapes of Wrath

Grapes of Wrath

This famous adaptation of an equally famous book offers a powerful punch, but one that wallows in its characters’ misery a bit too much for my liking.

Titanic

Titanic

A modern epic that absolutely lives up to its stellar reputation.

Police Story

Police Story

An almost unbelievable amount of career defining action more than compensates for the flimsy story and hit or miss comedy.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

This anthology of Western genre short films, all by the Coen brothers, wastes jaw dropping cinematography on six plodding, predictably ironic tales of human cruelty.