What variety for this week's #LetterboxdFriday!
A Different Man (2024) - 4.5 - What a delight!
A Field in England (2013) - 2.5 - What a slog!
Drop (2025) - 2 - What a dumb movie!
April Fool's Day (1986) - 4 - What a fun time!
A Nice Indian Boy (2024) - 3.5 - What a charming yet average rom-com!
An interesting week for #LetterboxdFriday:
Warfare (2025) - 4 - Viscerally asks "what's the point?" and leaves you to piece together an answer.
Anchoress (1993) - 4.5 - Just a beautiful film about a girl who, enlightened or not, wants to live her life her way.
Mad Foxes (1981) - 4 - Euro-sleaze exploitation that will deliver 77-mins of WTF.
Penda's Fen (1974) - 2.5 - I appreciate much of this stream of consciousness self-discovery, but I'm not British enough to fully connect with it.
The Pledge (1982) - 2 - Basically nothing.
The Sermon (2018) - 4 - When two people really love each other...
Robin Redbreast (1970) - 4.5 - Terrific! Rosemary's Baby but in a village.
The Wedding Banquet (2025) - 3 - Fine, predictable, mostly good performances.
The Brutalist (2024) - 4.5 - Still so great.
Sinners (2025) - 4.5 - From Dusk Till Dawn but meaningful and actually good.
The Ugly Stepsister (2025) - 3.5 - Cinderella with a hint of The Substance and a touch of Pearl.
The Order (2024) - 4 stars - Jude Law looking like a trim Gene Hackman in a good movie about some hateful folks. Sadly still relevant.
The Muppet Movie (1979) - 4.5 stars - Always a hoot!
One of Them Days (2025) - 3.5 stars - Fast-paced silly fun.
White Lightning (1973) - 3.5 stars - Can't go wrong with Burt Reynolds chewing gum and cackling in a car.
The Shrouds (2024) - 4 stars - Love, loss, grief, multinational techno-conspiracies, dreams...it's Cronenberg, baby!
An almost great week for #LetterboxdFriday!
The Wicker Man (1973) - 4.5 - Fulfilled my wish to watch it, @willhopkins, and it was great!
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) - 4 - Pretty good doc about sound design; cried for no reason at the end.
The Producers (1967) - 4 - Brisk, zany fun!
Fight or Flight (2024) - 2 - Screen Unseen. Went in blind. Should've just seen Sinners again instead, but here we are.
Scanners (1981) - 4 - Maybe I'm entering my Cronenberg Appreciation Era?
A short #LetterboxdFriday for a change.
Thieves Like Us (1974) - 4.5 stars - Excellent Robert Altman. Colorful characters, great environmental storytelling, Carradine and Duvall just chewing it up. Kind of a "Bonnie & Clyde if Bonnie stayed home" thing going on. Loved it.
A Simple Favor (2018) - 2.5 stars - Gone Girl for babies.
Another Simple Favor (2025) - 1.5 stars - I don't know why they made a sequel or why they tried to make it zany. A worse Murder Mystery 2 meets a worse Barb & Star.
Was busy/had no time for #LetterboxdFriday last week, so here it is on a Tuesday(!):
Eternal Sunshine... (2004) - 5 + a heart
Sneakers (1992) - 5 + a heart
The Vanishing (1998) - 4.5
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - 5 + a heart
To Live and Die in LA (1985) - 4.5
Slugs (2025) - 5
Final Destination (2000) - 3
Final Destination 2 (2003) - 3
Final Destination 3 (2006) - 3.5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - 2
The Final Destination (2009) - 0.5
Final Destination 5 (2011) - 3.5
#LetterboxdFriday is here and I'm very tired.
Friendship (2024) - 4 stars - Good as a comedy, works better as a light horror in my mind.
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) - 3 stars - Solid entry in the franchise (though 5 had a great ending that kinda wrapped up the series, in a sense). Good family representation and a decent enough send-off to Tony Todd.
Manhunter (1986) - 4.5 stars - When Michael Mann is good, he's great.
Eric J
Chris "Crunchy Leaf" Salzman