Film Reviews by Phil

It might be an "original and brave film", with great acting, and a likeable Willem Dafoe, but it's not entertaining, moving, thought provoking, or any other quality I look for in a film. Much of the dialogue is mumbled, and not interesting enough to warrant making the effort to pay attention to.

I love this film. It's 32 years old, but unlike many films >10 years old it doesn't look dated, and the humour still works perfectly. I can't pretend to understand everything I've seen, or recognise the reference to other genres or films, but there's enough to entertain, make me laugh, and keep me pondering to keep it right at the top of my best films list.

Another american film where the actors slur and mumbles their lines. I struggled to understand what they were saying for the first 20 minutes, and by the time I'd turned up the volume sufficiently and acclimatised my ears to the poor diction I think I'd missed some key elements of the plot. Possibly a good film if you can understand what they're saying but I couldn't be bothered with it after 40 minutes and gave up.

Pretentious self conscious and very dull.

Poor attempt to replicate french cinema style in Hollywood, or wherever it was made.

Pretentious self conscious and very dull and repetitive

Pretentious self conscious and very dull and repetitive

Pretentious self conscious and very dull and repetitive

Pretentious self conscious and very dull and repetitive