By skyforbes This may be subject to change based on what is released in December and what I end up watching.
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One Battle After Another – to say the first half hour is one of the worst opening sequences, filled with nonsense woke politics and vulgarity would be an understatement. Instead of crafting a female heroine, PTA and co craft a caricature of what they thought a young audience would want to see. Isn't that the problem nowadays, releasing movies for imaginary audiences? The film does improve drastically for it's middle hour and Leo, Benicio and Penn are exceptional. For me Benicio steals the show every time he is on but the others are great too. Then the movie stumbles towards a non-conclusion and just fades away. It's extremely disappointing considering the talent that was involved.
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Mickey 17 – from the enigmatic trailer to the list of Hollywood royalty involved in making this one, I thought we were in for an all time great science fiction story. Instead I ended up face palming my way through 2 hours plus of stupidity. The script has little logical sense to it, the performances range from acceptable to pure trash and the CGI looks like it is half finished. This is by far the most disappointed I felt watching a film this year.
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Tron: Ares – there's a pattern I am noticing while I make my list. Film-makers hungry for an audience that doesn't exist, while living in some sort of crazed fantasy world. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to cast a non-entity with no charisma as the female lead? Who then thought it was a great idea to cast a nobody with some sort of internet fame as the comedy side kick…who doesn't have a single funny line to his name? And then cast another comedian in an entirely straight, pointless role? Heck, Jared Leto is probably the second best part of this mess, the other being the all too brief 1980s Tron segment.
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The Phoenician Scheme – this is arguably the best movie on the list and not one I entirely dislike but Wes Anderson is now starting to feel like a guy playing at being Wes Anderson. It's always the same schtick with increasingly weak scripts. Nuff said.
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Superman – I physically groaned after watching this one. This is more like mediocre man than any kind of super. From the horrible VFX to the non-existent story and villains to Superman repeatedly getting bashed around and the awful look of the whole thing! This is James Gunn let loose and it is not a good thing at all.