Series: Top 100 (2009 List)

Finding Nemo is one of my favorite movies and does a lot of things right, but there is one specific thing that I think it does better than any other movie in cinema history:

Terminator 2 bungles two narrative devices in its opening half hour, and it leaves me ever-so-slightly sour on the film for the rest of its runtime.

Watching Pulp Fiction fires old synapses in my head that had gone dormant.

One of the chief problems of the previous Harry Potter movie, Goblet of Fire, is that it took two thirds of the movie for the movie to find a theme for Harry’s character growth (beyond “clueless teen” and “Wizard Olympics participant”).

It’s tough to overstate how iconic Office Space: Almost 25 years later, its portrait of white-collar corporate hell remains potent and disturbingly accurate.

There’s a pretty major difference watching One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at age 33, with more life experiences under your belt, as opposed to age 18, when I first saw it.

Imagine you are a seventeen year-old boy. One burden-free summer day, you and your buddies get hopped up on Dr Pepper. The sun is shining. It’s the golden era of your youth.

Dumb and Dumber is a comedy where many of the broadest, best-known gags have lost their luster, but the the stuff on the fringes absolutely slays me.

Sometimes a movie just clicks in a way that is totally subjective. Especially comedies.

Sometimes my critical faculties are short-circuited and I can only gush. Here goes.