Signature Series Reviews

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2023 REVIEWS
Mandy (01.31.23)

2021 REVIEWS
Taxi Driver (09.26.20)
The Shining (Revisited) (07.16.20)

2020 REVIEWS
The Miranda Murders: Lost Tapes of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng (04.21.20)
Cats (04.12.20)
The Lonely Lady (02.19.20)
Marriage Story (01.14.20)

2019 REVIEWS
Joker (10.08.19)
Ad Astra (10.03.19)
It Chapter Two (09.12.19)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (08.26.19)
Birds of Passage (07.14.19)
Under the Silver Lake (05.08.19)
Transit (03.27.19)
The Happytime Murders (03.06.19)
Bohemian Rhapsody (02.19.19)
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (01.31.19)
Twilight (01.08.19)

2018 REVIEWS
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (12.18.18)
The House that Jack Built (12.14.18)
The Grinch (11.14.18)
Unbroken: Path to Redemption (09.19.18)
Rock of Ages (08.23.18)
Vertigo (05.14.18)
Images (05.08.18)
Last Days (04.30.18)
A Quiet Place (04.18.18)
The Witches of Eastwick (04.07.18)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (03.07.18)
Dunkirk (02.28.18)
Phantom Thread (02.4.18)
I, Tonya (01.17.18)
The Shape of Water (01.01.18)

2017 REVIEWS
Mother! (12.19.17)
Coco (12.04.17)
Shame (11.10.17)
It Comes at Night (10.28.17)
Irreversible (10.26.17)
Sleepaway Camp (10.20.17)
It (09.15.17)
The Black Dahlia (09.09.17)
Fifty Shades Darker (09.03.17)
Christine (07.22.17)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (06.24.17)
31 (05.25.17)
The Last Circus (04.10.17)
Hell or High Water (03.12.17)
Manchester by the Sea (03.06.17)
Funny Girl (01.21.17)
Basic Instinct (01.17.17)

2016 REVIEWS
Moonlight (11.20.16)
The Girl on the Train (11.01.16)
A Serbian Film (10.27.16)
Opera (10.16.16)
Madman (10.09.16)
The Tree of Life (08.21.16)

Watchmen (08.30.16)
Florence Foster Jenkins (08.20.16)
Embrace of the Serpent (07.31.16)
Jaws (07.15.16)
The Reflecting Skin (06.26.16)
Room (06.20.16)
Seven (05.13.16)
Son of Saul (05.08.16)
Moulin Rouge! (04.11.16)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (04.06.16)

Little Children (03.23.16)
Spotlight (03.06.16)
The Passion of the Christ (02.21.16)
Amorous (02.20.16)
Fifty Shades of Grey (02.10.16)
1408 (01.25.16)
Everest (01.16.16)
The Revenant (01.11.16)
Hugo (01.07.16)
The Hateful Eight (01.04.16)


2015 REVIEWS
Macbeth (12.19.15)
Home Alone (12.14.15)
Horrible Bosses (12.06.15)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (11.03.15)
Mad Max (09.30.15)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (09.18.15)
There Will Be Blood (09.16.15)
Tusk (08.20.15)
Pixels (07.28.15)
Romancing the Stone (07.15.15)

Inglorious Basterds (07.10.15)
Inside Out (06.20.15)
Zodiac (06.19.15)
Philadelphia (06.14.15)
The White Ribbon (05.27.15)

Poltergeist II: The Other Side (05.26.15)
Moon (05.09.15)
I Saw the Devil (04.20.15)
The Imitation Game (04.07.15)
Conspiracy (04.04.15)
Love Actually (03.31.15)
Whiplash (02.14.15)

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (01.09.15)

2014 REVIEWS
Birdman (12.04.14)
Showgirls (11.24.14)
Horns (11.15.14)
The Goonies (11.13.14)
Gone Girl (11.06.14)
Mama (10.26.14)
Devil (10.07.14)

Dirty Dancing (09.20.14)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (09.02.14)
12 Years a Slave (07.28.14)

Alien 3 (07.24.14)
Hitler's Children (07.17.14)
Life Itself (07.07.14)
Kill Your Darlings (06.26.14)
Filth (06.16.14)
Carnage (06.12.14)
Maleficent (06.05.14)
Elephant (05.13.14)
Rear Window (03.26.14)
Napoleon Dynamite (03.24.14)
Lifeboat (03.17.14)

300: Rise of an Empire (03.08.14)
American Hustle (03.05.14)
Dallas Buyer's Club (02.27.14)
Frenzy (02.17.14)
Labor Day (02.13.14)
Marnie (02.07.14)

Natural Born Killers (01.27.14)
Parkland (01.23.14)
WALL-E (01.21.14)
Some Like it Hot (01.16.14)
Sunshine (01.06.14)

2013 REVIEWS

Grizzly Man (12.11.13)
Apocalypto (10.22.13)
Aliens (10.15.13)

Sex and the City 2 (10.11.13)
Sex and the City (10.10.13)
Gravity (10.08.13)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (09.17.13)
Riddick (09.12.13)
Network (09.06.13)
The Secret of Kells (08.29.13)
Magnolia (08.22.13)
Melancholia (08.13.13)
Django Unchained (07.30.13)
Cloud Atlas (07.10.13)
Prometheus (07.02.13)
Big Business (06.24.13)

2011 REVIEWS
Scream 4 (04.15.11)

2010 REVIEWS
2012 (03.24.10)
Downfall (03.11.10)

2009 REVIEWS
Orphan (07.27.09)

2008 REVIEWS
Speed Racer (05.09.08) 

2007 REVIEWS
Beowulf (12.07.07)         
Fountain, The (07.01.07)
Hannibal Rising (07.01.07)

2005 REVIEWS
Batman Begins (06.17.05)
Kingdom of Heaven (05.10.05)
Sin City (04.01.05)

2004 REVIEWS  
National Treasure (12.20.04)      
Alexander (12.10.04)
Polar Express, The (11.11.04)     
King Arthur (07.25.04)
Alien (07.21.04)
I'm Not Scared (05.04.04)            
Alamo, The (04.09.04)   
Full Metal Jacket (03.01.04)
Cold Mountain (01.27.04)            
Swimming Pool (01.27.04)           

2003 REVIEWS
28 Days Later (06.27.03)
My Little Eye (06.06.03)
Finding Nemo (06.06.03)              
Matrix Reloaded, The (05.15.03)              
Phone Booth (04.14.03)
Dreamcatcher (03.21.03)             
Boat Trip (03.21.03)        
Tears of the Sun (03.14.03)         
Dark Blue (03.14.03)
Bringing Down the House (03.14.03)       
Far From Heaven (01.10.03)

2002 REVIEWS
Pianist, The (12.27.02)
Ghost Ship (11.15.02)
Knockaround Guys (11.15.02)
Formula 51 (10.21.02)
Igby Goes Down (09.30.02)
One Hour Photo (09.13.02)
Simone (08.23.02)
Country Bears, The (07.26.02)
Minority Report (06.21.02)
Frailty (04.21.02)
Blade II (03.22.02)
Impostor (01.27.02)       

2001 REVIEWS
Gosford Park (12.24.01)
Endurance, The (12.24.01)
From Hell (10.19.01)
Bubble Boy (09.29.01)
Cast Away (01.19.01)
Requiem For a Dream (01.05.01)
Tigerland (01.05.01)

2000 REVIEWS
Almost Famous (11.03.00)
Collectors (10.27.00)
Disney's The Kid (07.29.00)
Wonder Boys (04.14.00)
Boiler Room (03.10.00)
Supernova (01.21.00)

1999 REVIEWS
Any Given Sunday (12.31.99)
End of Days (12.11.99)
Insider, The (11.19.99)
Men Cry Bullets (10.01.99)
Cabinet fo Dr. Caligari, The (08.16.99)
Deep Blue Sea (08.06.99)
Eyes Wide Shut (07.17.99)
Batman Returns (07.16.99)
Metropolis (07.05.99)
Matrix, The (04.02.99)
Excalibur (02.22.99)

1998 REVIEWS
Elizabeth (12.11.98)
Black Cauldron, The (08.07.98)

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