Sunday, 21 November 2004

ickleReviews

Since Sunday 12 September 2004, I've been reviewing every film I see at the cinema, on video or DVD, and on TV. The reviews are supposed to be "ickle": small and easy to digest, giving you just enough about the film to help you decide whether or not you want to see it. Sometimes the reviews are very short, so if you'd like me to expand any of them, let me know by email and I'll add to it.

Update (Tuesday 5 January 2010): I haven't reviewed any films since Brüno (in a vain attempt to streamline my life and get on with my DPhil without unnecessary clutter) but I've still added these films to this list and given them a rating. These are the films without hyperlinks, such as The Boondock Saints.

Update (Monday 11 January 2010): I'm now going to try reviewing films within Twitter's limit of 140 characters, starting with The Road.

ickleRatings explained:
* a must-see: miss this and you're a damn fool
+ pooty good: a fair crack of the whip
= so-so: won't give you rabies, but don't break a leg to see it
- stinks royally: avoid like the plague

A
À bout de souffle +
About Time (in-flight movie) +
About Time (DVD) *
The Adjustment Bureau +
Adult Life Skills +
Adventureland +
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert =
Afghan Star =
Aftersun *
A.I. Artificial Intelligence =
Aladdin =
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa =
Alexander -
Alice +
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore +
All Good Things =
All of Us Strangers +
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) +
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed +
All the President’s Men +
All the Right Moves =
All This Mayhem +
American Fiction +
American Hustle +
American Summer (AKA Measure of a Man) +
Amores perros =
Amy +
Anatomy of a Fall +
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy =
Andre the Giant +
Annie Hall *
Anora +
Another Round +
Anyone But You +
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. +
L'Argent +
Argo +
The Armstrong Lie +
Arrival +
Arthur Christmas (3D) +
The Artist *
The Assassination of Richard Nixon =
The Assistant +
Atonement +
Avatar +
Away We Go +

B
The Babadook +
Baby Driver +
Bad Education =
The Ballad of Wallis Island +
Bananas =
Band of Brothers *
Barbie =
Batman Begins -
Battle of the Sexes +
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years +
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (AKA De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) =
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood +
Before Midnight *
Before Night Falls =
Before Sunrise *
Before Sunset *
Beginners +
Behind the Candelabra -
Be Kind Rewind -
Belfast +
Belleville Rendez-Vous +
Benda Bilili! +
Bend It Like Beckham =
Best Shot (AKA Hoosiers) -
The Bicycle Thieves (AKA Ladri di biciclette) *
Bigger Stronger Faster* +
Big Hero 6 +
The Big Lebowski *
The Big Short +
The Big Sick +
Billy Elliot +
Black Hawk Down +
BlacKkKlansman +
Black Orpheus =
Black Panther =
The Blind Side +
Bloom =
Blow Out +
Blow-Up =
Blue Blood +
Blue Jasmine +
The Blues Brothers =
The Bodyguard -
Bohemian Rhapsody +
Bombshell +
The Book of Life =
Booksmart *
The Boondock Saints =
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan +
The Bourne Identity +
The Bourne Supremacy +
The Bourne Ultimatum +
Bowling for Columbine +
Boyhood +
The Breakfast Club -
Breaking Away +
Breaking the Waves =
Brick +
Bridesmaids =
Bridge of Spies +
Bring It On =
Broadway Danny Rose =
Broken Flowers +
Brokeback Mountain =
Brooklyn +
Bros: After the Screaming Stops +
Brüno =
A Bug's Life =
Bugsy Malone +
Bullets Over Broadway +
A Bunch of Amateurs *
Butterfly on a Wheel =

C
Café Society +
Call Me By Your Name *
Calvary +
Can You Ever Forgive Me? +
Capitalism: A Love Story +
Capote =
Captain Fantastic +
Captain Phillips +
Captain Underpants =
Carnage (cinema) +
Carnage (TV) *
Carol (35mm) +
Casino Royale +
Cassandra's Dream =
Catching Hell +
Catherine Called Birdy +
Catfish +
Cemetery Junction =
Certain Women +
CGI-brows =
Challengers +
Charade =
Charge: The Electric TT =
Chariots of Fire =
Check It =
Chelsea on the Rocks =
Chicago =
Chinatown =
Chocolat +
A Christmas Story +
The Circle =
City Slickers -
Close *
Closer (cinema) +
Closer (DVD) +
Cobain: Montage of Heck +
A Cock and Bull Story +
Coco +
Cold Comfort Farm =
Cold Mountain =
Collateral +
The Color of Money =
The Commitments *
A Complete Unknown +
Conclave +
Contact =
Control Room =
The Conversation =
Cookie's Fortune =
The Cooler =
Coraline =
The Corporation =
Crash (cinema) =
Crash (DVD) +
Crazy Rich Asians =
Darkest Hour +
Dating Amber =
Day & Night (3D) +
Dazed and Confused *
Dead Poets Society +
Dead Man's Shoes +
Dean Spanley =
Dear Mr. Watterson =
The Death of Stalin +
Death Proof +
Deconstructing Harry +
Deep Throat =
Denial =
The Departed =
Derailroaded +
The Descent -
Desperately Seeking Susan -
Despicable Me =
Despicable Me 2 =
The Devil's Advocate =
The Devil Wears Prada =
Die Another Day =
Diego Maradona +
DiG! +
Diner +
District 9 +
Django Unchained +
Documentary: The Margins of Reality -
Dog Altogether +
Dogville *
Do I Sound Gay? +
Donnie Brasco =
Donnie Darko +
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut +
Don't Look Up +
Double Indemnity +
Down by Law =
Downfall +
Draft Day -
Drive +
Drive My Car +
Drugstore Cowboy =
Due Date =
Dune =
Dunkirk +
Dylan Moran: Monster =

E
Eastern Promises =
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls +
Eddie Murphy Raw +
Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable +
Edge of Seventeen +
An Education +
Eighth Grade +
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie +
Elf +
Elvis =
Everything Everywhere All at Once +
Everything in This Country Must +
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask =
Exit Through the Gift Shop +
Ex Machina +

F
The Fabelmans +
Fahrenheit 11/9 +
The Falling =
The Farewell +
Fargo (DVD) +
Fargo (Netflix) +
The Fast and the Furious =
Fast Food Nation +
Fast Times at Ridgemont High =
Fat City -
The Father *
The Favourite +
Ferris Bueller's Day Off =
Festival Express (cinema) *
Festival Express (DVD) *
50 First Dates =
Fight Club +
Fighting with My Family +
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool +
The Final Year +
Finding Forrester =
Finding Neverland =
Finding Vivian Maier +
First Man +
Fisherman's Friends =
5x2 +
500 Days of Summer =
The Five-Year Engagement =
Flags of Our Fathers =
The Florida Project +
Following James Joyce, Dublin to Buffalo +
The Football Factory =
Forgetting Sarah Marshall =
Forrest Gump +
The Founder +
Four Lions +
Four Weddings and a Funeral =
The 40 Year Old Virgin +
Framing Britney Spears =
Frances Ha +
Frankie and Johnny +
Frankie Boyle Live +
Frankie Howerd on Campus -
Freaky Friday +
Free Solo +
Freshman Year (AKA Shithouse) +
Friday Night Lights +
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe *
Friends with Benefits =
Frost/Nixon +
Fruitvale Station +
The Full Monty +
Funny Cow +
Funny People =
Fury =
Futura +

G
Galaxy Quest =
Garage +
Garden State (cinema) +
Garden State (DVD) +
Genevieve +
Gerry =
Get Out +
Gifted +
Gilda -
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery +
The Godfather +
The Godfather: Part II +
Grace of My Heart -
The Grand Budapest Hotel =
Grandma +
Gravity *
The Great Global Warming Swindle +
Green Book +
Green Zone +
Gregory's Girl +
Grosse Pointe Blank =
The Guard =
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints +

H
Hail, Caesar! +
Hallam Foe +
Handkerchief Drill +
Hannah and Her Sisters +
Happy-Go-Lucky +
Harold and Maude +
Hearts and Minds +
Heat =
The Heat =
Hero =
He's Just Not That Into You -
Hidden (AKA Cache) +
Hidden Figures =
High Fidelity +
Hillsborough =
Hit Man +
The Holdovers +
Hollywood Ending =
Hostel =
Hot Fuzz =
The House I Live In +
House of Flying Daggers =
Hugo (3D) =
The Hunger Games =
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire =
Hunt for the Wilderpeople +
The Hurt Locker +
Husbands and Wives =
Hustlers =
HyperNormalisation +

I
I Am Sam +
I, Daniel Blake +
If Beale Street Could Talk +
Igby Goes Down =
I Heart Huckabees =
The Imitation Game +
I'm Still Here +
The Inbetweeners Movie =
The Inbetweeners 2 =
In Bruges +
Inception (cinema) +
Inception (DVD) +
An Inconvenient Truth +
The Incredibles =
Inglourious Basterds +
Ingrid Goes West -
Inside Deep Throat =
Inside Llewyn Davis +
Inside Out *
Inside Out 2 +
The Interpreter -
In the Fade +
In the House (AKA Dans la maison) +
The Irishman +
The Iron Lady +
Irrational Man +
Isle of Dogs =
I, Tonya +
It's a Wonderful Life +

J
Jackie =
Jarhead =
Jaws =
Jeremy +
Jericho Days =
Jesus Camp +
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection +
Jojo Rabbit =
Joker -
Judas and the Black Messiah +
Judy =
Julie & Julia +
Juliet, Naked +
Juno +
Just Mercy +

K
Kedi =
The Kids Are Alright +
Killers of the Flower Moon +
Killing Patient Zero +
The King of Comedy +
King Richard +
The Kings of Summer *
The King's Speech =
Kinsey -
Knives Out +
Knocked Up +
Kolja (AKA Kolya) +

L
Lady Bird +
Lady Chatterley +
The Lady in the Van +
La La Land +
Lars and the Real Girl +
Last Days +
The Last King of Scotland +
The Last of the First =
Leave No Trace +
Leave the World Behind +
Legally Blonde -
The Lego Movie =
Le Mans '66 (AKA Ford v Ferrari) +
Letters from Iwo Jima +
Letter to Brezhnev =
Liberal Arts +
Licorice Pizza +
Life, Animated +
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou =
Life in a Day +
Life Is Beautiful (AKA La Vita è bella) +
Like Crazy +
Limitless =
The Lion King =
Little Men +
Little Miss Sunshine +
Living +
Local Hero =
Locke =
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner =
Looking for Eric +
Looper -
Loose Change: 2nd Edition =
The Lost City of Z =
Love Actually +
Love and Death =
Love & Mercy +
Love Is Strange +
Love, Simon +
Lucy =
Luther: Never Too Much =

M
McQueen +
Made in Dagenham =
The Madness of King George +
Maestro =
Maggie's Plan +
Magic in the Moonlight +
Mamma Mia! =
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again =
Manhattan *
Manhattan Murder Mystery =
Mank +
Man on Wire +
The Many Saints of Newark +
March of the Penguins +
Marjorie Prime +
The Mark of Cain =
Marley +
Marriage Story +
The Martian +
Mary Poppins =
The Master +
Match Point (cinema) +
Match Point (DVD) +
A Matter of Life and Death +
Mayor of the Sunset Strip =
Mean Girls =
Me and Orson Welles +
Me and You and Everyone We Know +
Meet the Fockers -
Melinda and Melinda +
Memento *
The Merchant of Venice =
Mesrine: Killer Instinct =
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 =
Micmacs (AKA Micmacs à tire-larigot) +
Midnight in Paris +
Mid90s +
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy =
Mighty Aphrodite +
A Mighty Wind =
Military Wives +
Minari +
Minding the Gap +
Minions =
The Mirror -
Misbehaviour =
Miss Americana =
Miss Sloane +
Mistress America +
Moana +
Moneyball +
Monster =
Moon +
Moonlight +
Moonlight Mile *
Moonrise Kingdom =
A Most Wanted Man =
The Motorcycle Diaries =
Mrs Doubtfire =
The Muppet Christmas Carol =
Murderball +
Murder on the Orient Express =
The Muse =
My Best Friend's Wedding =

N
Napoleon Dynamite =
Neighbors -
Network +
New York Doll +
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist =
Nightcrawler +
Nightmare Alley +
9 Songs =
1917 *
99 Homes +
9th Company +
Nocturnal Animals +
No Country for Old Men +
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan +
Nomadland +
Non-Fiction +
Nora +
North by Northwest =
Northern Soul +
Notes on a Scandal +
Notes on Blindness *
Notting Hill =
Nowhere Boy +

O
Obvious Child +
Office Space +
Official Secrets =
Of Gods and Men +
Of Time and the City +
On a Clear Day =
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood +
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band +
On Golden Pond *
Only You +
On the Basis of Sex +
Oppenheimer +
Ordinary People +
Out of Sight =
The Outrun +
The Outsiders -
Overlord *
The Overnighters +

P
Paddington +
Paddington 2 +
Palm Springs +
The Panic in Needle Park =
Pan's Labyrinth +
Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist +
Parasite +
Partly Cloudy +
Passages +
The Passion of the Christ -
Past Lives +
Paterno =
Paul =
Paul Weller: Studio 150 =
The Perks of Being a Wallflower +
The Personal History of David Copperfield +
Peter's Friends +
Phantom Thread +
Philadelphia =
Phone Booth +
Pickle =
Pierrepoint (cinema) +
Pierrepoint (DVD) +
Pitch Perfect +
Pitch Perfect 2 =
Play It Again, Sam =
Plus One +
Poor Things +
Porky's -
Portrait of a Lady on Fire *
The Poseidon Adventure -
The Post +
The Prestige =
Pretty in Pink =
Pride =
The Princess and the Frog +
The Princess Bride =
The Producers =
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women =
The Program =
Project Nim +
Promising Young Woman +
Proof =
A Prophet (AKA Un prophète) +
Pumping Iron +
Punk's Not Dead +
The Purple Rose of Cairo +
Puzzle +

Q
Quick Change =
The Queen =

R
Radio Days =
Rain Man +
A Rainy Day in New York =
The Red Shoes +
The Red Turtle +
Remember the Titans +
Return to Oz -
Rize +
The Road +
Rocketman +
Rocky Road to Dublin =
Roger & Me +
Roger Dodger =
Rollerball =
Roma +
Romantics Anonymous +
Romanzo criminale =
Room +
Room 237 +
Rounders +
Rush +
Rye Lane +

S
Saint Frances +
Saint Omer *
Saloon =
Saving Mr. Banks +
Saw =
Say Anything… +
A Scanner Darkly +
Scent of a Woman =
School Ties =
Scoop +
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World +
Scrapper +
Sea of Love =
Searching +
Searching for Sugar Man +
Secretary =
The Selfish Giant +
Senna +
Seven Psychopaths +
Shadows and Fog =
Shakespeare in Love *
The Shape of Water =
The Shining +
Shrek the Third =
Shut Up and Play the Hits +
Sicario +
Sicko +
Sideways =
The Silence of the Lambs +
Silent Running =
Silent Shakespeare =
Silver City =
Silver Linings Playbook +
The Simpsons Movie +
Sin City +
Singin' in the Rain =
Singles =
Sing Street +
Sin Nombre +
16 Blocks =
Skate Kitchen +
Skyfall =
Sleeper =
Sleepless in Seattle =
Slumdog Millionaire =
Small Time Crooks =
Sneakers =
The Social Dilemma =
The Social Network +
Some Kind of Wonderful +
Some Like It Hot =
Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son *
Somersault +
Somers Town +
Sometimes Always Never +
Sorcerer +
Soul +
SoulBoy (cinema) +
SoulBoy (HD) +
Sound of Metal +
Source Code *
The Souvenir +
The Souvenir: Part II +
The Spectacular Now +
Spectre =
Spellbound +
Spotlight +
Stand By Me *
Stardust Memories -
A Star Is Born (2018) +
Starsky & Hutch =
Steve Jobs +
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie +
Still Alice +
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone *
The Stone Tape -
Strictly Ballroom =
Stronger +
Stutz +
Style Wars +
Subject +
Submarine +
subUrbia =
Sully =
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) +
Sunshine on Leith +
Superbad =
Super Size Me (cinema) =
Super Size Me (TV) =
Supersonic =
Sweet and Lowdown =
Sweet Sixteen +
The Talented Mr Ripley +
Tár +
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour +
Ted =
Tenet +
The Terminal =
Theater Camp +
Their Finest +
The Theory of Everything +
There Will Be Blood +
The Thin Blue Line +
The Third Man =
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri *
Three Colours: Blue (AKA Trois couleurs: Bleu) +
Three Colours: Red (AKA Trois couleurs: Rouge) +
Three Colours: White (AKA Trois couleurs: Blanc) +
Three Identical Strangers +
Three Kings +
tick, tick… BOOM! +
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy =
To All the Boys: Always and Forever =
To All the Boys I've Loved Before =
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You =
To Leslie +
Tomboy *
Top Gun +
Top Gun: Maverick +
To Rome With Love =
Toy Story 3 (3D) +
Traffic =
Training Day =
Trainwreck +
Trance =
The Trial of the Chicago 7 +
Triangle of Sadness +
Trucker +
True Grit (2010) +
True History of the Kelly Gang -
True Stories: Biggie and Tupac =
Tsotsi +
TT3D: Closer to the Edge (2D) +
T2 Trainspotting +
12 Angry Men +
20th Century Women +
21 =
Two Days, One Night (AKA Deux jours, une nuit) +
The Two Popes +
2001: A Space Odyssey *

U
Uncut Gems =
Under the Skin +
United 93 +
Untouchable (AKA Intouchables) +
Up (2D) *
Up in the Air +
Us +
The U.S. vs. John Lennon +

V
Ventoux +
Vernon, Florida =
Vice +
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl +
WALL·E +
The War Room +
Wayne's World =
The Way Way Back +
We Are Marshall =
Wedding Crashers =
Weiner +
Le Week-end +
West Side Story (2021) -
Whatever Works +
What Maisie Knew +
What's New, Pussycat -
What's Up, Doc? +
What's Up, Tiger Lily? =
What We Did on Our Holiday =
When Harry Met Sally... *
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts +
When We Were Kings =
Whip It +
Whiplash +
Whitney +
Whitney: Can I Be Me =
Wide Sargasso Sea =
Widows +
Wiener-Dog =
The Wife =
The Wind That Shakes the Barley +
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom =
Winter's Bone =
The Wolf of Wall Street +
Women Talking +
Wonder Wheel =
Won't You Be My Neighbor +
The Woodsman =
Woody Allen: A Documentary +
Working Girl -
World Trade Center -

X
X-Men =

Y
Yesterday =
Your Father's Murderer: A Letter to Zachary +
Your Sister's Sister +
Youth in Revolt =
You've Got Mail (TV) =
You've Got Mail (Amazon Video) =
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger +

Z
Zelig =
Zombieland +
The Zone of Interest +
Zoolander =
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  1. MICHAEL JOYCETuesday, 12 January 2010 at 19:37:00 GMT

    Great article. Good luck with your studies my friend. Always looking forward to your reviews. Love the idea of twitter-sized reviews. People these days love their info short and sweet. You absolutely must see Avatar (in 3d or IMAX 3d). What an experience. I'll be a'waitin' that review. -Michael Joyce (The Joyce Review)

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