First seen in 2022

I'd expected this to be truly awful, but it's still Pixar - so extremely well-animated, and there's some good fun in here, even if the story is decidedly weird.

Season 1 - Very clever high drama with great episode structure that usually works very well, even if it has a tendency to lean towards melodrama.

Season 3 - Doesn't quite rich the delirious heights of Season 2, but still a wonderful comedy show that toys so much with expectations and styles.

Really dark and painful, but also cathartic and moving. The way they're framing the mini-movies within the movie is wonderful.

These folks deserve a ton of credit for really pushing forward the medium. This looks unique, it's funny (in new sorts of ways), and the story is pretty exciting. There's so much heart here. It doesn't quite hit though; I found it often tries too hard, and it gives off some unfortunate 'what if phones but too much' vibes.

Very cool. It mostly manages to draw you into an era and an art scene all the while replicating that scene AND not straying too far from traditional documentary. VU have always been exciting, but I'm more excited about them now than ever. It does end up dragging a bit though.

Conflicted about this. It's very well-acted throughout, but the script is poor, uncritical and celebratory in the worst ways. It portrays the careers of Serena and Venus as a sort of self-actualization project of their father's which has little to do with them - their characters aren't developed at all. This is surely unfair to them, but if not, surely not something to uncritically celebrate.

It's a fun watch for mostly "historical" reasons, but as a short film, it doesn't achieve much.

It's a really interesting take on a war film - humanizing without politicizing as much as possible. It's also well-made in pretty much every aspect, visceral, and achieves some serious emotion towards the end.

Continues to make a good case for MCU as a TV project. Not as experimental as WandaVision or Loki, but it's a very fun low-key action romp with stakes that are rather easier to work with.

Season 2 - Why didn't I ever watch this before? It's really some incredible writing.

This is exciting and often beautifully shot, and really an unbelievably feel-good story.

Positively surprised by this. The production design looks gorgeous, the acting is excellent. The story is set up beautifully to expose the assholery of the central men. It's ambitious and flawed, but I thought it worked very well.

Very stylish - sounds cool, looks cool, and the action scenes are dope. It was massively style-over-substance though, and I thought the script was pretty weak. Looks like Tarantino, doesn't feel like Tarantino.

Disney still has some magic. It's beautifully animated, but also mostly a good and gripping story, even if it gets too saccharine at times.

Very calm and composed, but definitely has a certain punch to it. Beautifully shot and very well-performed.

Pretty disappointing for a Sorkin flick. It looks great and charming, but his wit is buried deep in 1950s Hollywood references, the acting is good but not great, and it all feels like it should have been made 30 years ago.

Pretty bad, but better than the usual Netflix thriller/horror fare if only because it's kinda fun. It's kind of a Scream copy, written completely by an algorithm updated for identity-politics-teens.

As hamfisted as I'd expect from a McKay satire, but I thought this was overall good, although it was occasionally struggling with some tone issues.