The Brown Note Movie Review

Ever since the amazing debut of director Jeff Nichols, Shotgun Stories, it's been a story of disappointment for me, especially the awful Mud (watch Joe instead). This is better but still an atmospheric big fat nothing of a film.

I preferred White House Down over Olympus Has Fallen but it was still a guilty pleasure. Not so this time around for an almost heroically terrible effort that isn't even made to a releasable standard.

Prolific and mostly good horror director, Mike Flanagan's entry into the small but notable sensory horror genre. Here we have a deaf and mute heroin to face off against a killer.

I don't know what I was smoking here to give this only mild abuse, it's truly and in every way godawful. Rivals the likes of Burn After Reading as the worst ever Cohen brother film.

A look at the man baby freak out that greeted the all-female Ghostbusters reboot.

The fascinating filmography of South African Gavin Hood follows Good Kill with a look at the morality of drone warfare and diminished responsibilities.

Nearly a worthy follow up to the superb Winter Soldier, though with a tiny bit too much franchise building. And just sod off Spiderman. And Ant Man.

It is indeed a Marvel how badly the DC movie universe faltered and in a myriad of different ways. Here we get turgid, muddy and humorless and at 4/10 a surprisingly high score from me.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead & John Goodman elevate this paranoid follow up to the found footage original.

Argentine Damián Szifron, directed one of my films of the entire decade and a seemingly underappreciated one too. One of the best short story anthologies ever made and brilliant filmaking in every direction, including the best wedding scene ever.