Watch-List 04/24

A list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen in July and August of 2024.

★★★★★ – Favourite / Classic / Masterpiece
★★★★½ – Excellent
★★★★ – Great
★★★½ – Very Good (Minor Flawed Elements)
★★★ – Good (Flawed Elements)
★★½ – Interesting (Major Flaws)
★★ – Disappointing

Kinds of Kindness
★★★½
dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Absurdist Anthology
[Ireland / UK / USA / Greece, 2024]
Budget: $15 million

Rambo: First Blood Part II
★★★
dir. George P. Cosmatos
Action
[USA, 1985]
Budget: $25.5 million

Magnolia
★★★★
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Drama
[USA, 1999]
Budget: $37 million

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
★★★
dir. Steven Spielberg
Action Adventure
[USA, 2008]
Budget: $185 million

DOA: Dead or Alive
★★½
dir. Corey Yuen
Action
[UK / Germany / USA, 2006]
Budget: $30 million

Déjà Vu
★★½
dir. Tony Scott
Science Fiction Action
[USA, 2006]
Budget: $75 million

Live Free or Die Hard
★★★
dir. Len Wiseman
Action Thriller
[USA, 2007]
Budget: $110 million

The Simpsons Movie
★★½
dir. David Silverman
Adult Animated Comedy
[USA, 2007]
Budget: $75 million

Hitman
★★½
dir. Xavier Gens
Action-Thriller
[France / USA / UK, 2007]
Budget: $24 million

Daredevil
★★
dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Superhero
[USA, 2003]
Budget: $78 million

Prometheus
★★★
dir. Ridley Scott
Science Fiction Horror
[UK / USA, 2012]
Budget: $120–130 million

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
★★★
dir. Mike Newell
Action Fantasy
[USA, 2010]
Budget: $150–200 million

Night at the Museum
★★½
dir. Shawn Levy
Fantasy Comedy
[USA, 2006]
Budget: $110 million

The Pink Panther
★★½
dir. Shawn Levy
Comedy-Mystery
[USA, 2006]
Budget: $80 million

Scary Movie 4
★★
dir. David Zucker
Parody
[USA, 2006]
Budget: $40 million

How to Have Sex
★★★½
dir. Molly Manning Walker
Coming-of-Age Drama
[UK / Greece / Belgium, 2023]

Longlegs
★★★½
dir. Osgood Perkins
Horror Thriller
[USA, 2024]
Budget: <$10 million

Aladdin
★★★½
dir. John Musker and Ron Clements
Musical Fantasy Comedy
[USA, 1992]
Budget: $28 million

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson: Season 1
★★★
created by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin
Sketch Comedy Show
[USA, 2019]

Jackie
★★★½
dir. Pablo Larraín
Biographical Drama
[USA / Chile / France / Germany, 2016]
Budget: $9 million

Underworld: Blood Wars
★★
dir. Anna Foerster
Action Horror
[Czech Republic / USA, 2016]
Budget: $35 million

Stromberg: Season 5
★★★½
created by Ralf Husmann
Comedy
[Germany, 2011]

Munich
★★★½
dir. Steven Spielberg
Epic Historical Drama
[USA / Canada, 2005]
Budget: $70 million

Stromberg: Season 2
★★★½
created by Ralf Husmann
Comedy
[Germany, 2005]

Lady Bird
★★★★
dir. Greta Gerwig
Coming-of-Age Comedy-Drama
[USA, 2017]
Budget: $10 million

The Squid and the Whale
★★★½
dir. Noah Baumbach
Comedy-Drama
[USA, 2005]
Budget: $1.5 million

The Meyerowitz Stories
★★★½
dir. Noah Baumbach
Comedy-Drama
[USA, 2017]
Budget: $11.4 million

The Kitchen
★★
dir. Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya
Science Fiction Drama
[UK, 2023]

The Forty-Year-Old Version
★★½
dir. Radha Blank
Comedy-Drama
[USA, 2020]

Da 5 Bloods
★★½
dir. Spike Lee
War Drama
[USA, 2020]

The Devil All the Time
★★★
dir. Antonio Campos
Southern Gothic Psychological Crime Thriller
[USA, 2020]

i’m thinking of ending things
★★★
dir. Charlie Kaufman
Surrealist Psychological Thriller
[USA, 2020]