The note books informed Batman that the ramp would drop via walkie talkie from The Riddler's house as a favour after Bruce dropped them off.

I quite liked Batman but I thought one of the weaker elements was the police procedural side of it. Just wasn't as engaging a mystery as it needed to be. Plus whichever company did the trailer should be banned from making trailers ever again. Literally showed scenes from near the end in the first teaser as well as clips from every action sequence, which for a movie that unfolds as it fits along means you know how certain things are going to play out when you watch it. Mind boggling.


150. The Green Knight
A rewatch because it kind of is Christmas movie. Still really great. Beautifully shot and acted and designed and just a nicely told story.
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Glass Onion
Daniel Craig’s the ringmaster, but Janelle Monae is the star, bossing it over a cast of a hundred cameos. It’s not as good as Knives Out, but it is amusing anyway.

Raz will love you for the last review. Great film, terrible ending.

Amsterdam
An ensemble piece led by Christian Bale and Margot Robbie with a stellar back-up cast and some top-flight cameos. Made by the bloke behind American Hustle and it lands somewhere between that and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. It’s kooky. I can’t think of a better word. Kooky. Set between the World Wars, with some bad luck putting three friends in the wrong place at the wrong time and ratcheting up to a based-on-real-history attempt to launch National Socialism in the US.

Dark Soldier wrote:

Raz will love you for the last review. Great film, terrible ending.

Ending is fine, the rest of the film racks up masses of 'go with it' points.

151. Glass Onion
I had fun with this but felt all the cameos that littered the early part of the film made it feel fairly smug and I think I liked the smaller or simpler feel of the first one. The main middle mystery part was the funnest part I thought.
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Ooh sounds good. Hopefully will come to NetPrimeDis soon so I can watch it.

That last five minutes though lad

The Lost City
Light entertainment. A budget Indiana Jones with Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock’s immobile botox face. It does have a few genuine laughs, thankfully.

85. Ghostbusters 2
Hadn't seen this since it was first released, because I didn't like it at the time as it was so obviously inferior to the original. However, this isn't as actively bad as I remember it being - there's some pretty funny stuff in there but also a fair amount of cringe, including some scenes in which Sigourney Weaver appears in various states of undress for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Very odd. Some of the music is absolutely horrific too - the worst of the 80s from terrible novelty rap to ghastly synth-soul. 6

60. Glass Onion - 26/12
I enjoyed this, Craig plays a brilliant character. It was all a bit too obvious though for a murder mystery, and the final act was a weaker than the rest of the film, but overall it does the job and does it well.
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61. The Banshees of Inisherin - 27/12
Another cracker from Martin McDonagh. Gleeson and Farrell are brilliant and the supporting cast are great too. Ireland is shot beautifully and the music is wonderful. Witty and melancholic, funny and sad and somewhat ambiguous, it’s a great piece of cinema.
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62. John Wick - 27/12
Pure unadulterated action fun is presumably all that this sets out to do and it does with punch and oomph and style galore.
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Dark Soldier wrote:

That last five minutes though lad

Yeah, do love a film that ends on a crescendo.

153. Banshees of Inirsherin
He's rather good at writing a fillum oh yes he is. I think it's a testament to his ability to come up with compelling new stories that means his style never feels redone with each new project even though it they hit similar beats in terms of tone swings.
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While I'm on the subject of underappreciated second films, why does Temple of Doom get the scofflol treatment so often? It was absolutely amazing when we were young enough to call ourselves the target audience.