The Menu

 

This was so much fun and easily my favorite horror movie so far of 2022. Really well acted, funny, and it goes in a completely different direction then the previews indicate which it was beneficial considering how predictable that shit was going to be.

3/4 (Very close to a 4)

The Invitation

 

Very reminiscent of Ready or Not, but ironically enough, a lot more blood-drained and defanged.

2/4

Men

 

Ugh. I really really really want to rank this higher. The leads are stellar here, Jessie Buckley as our heroine really wears her heart on her sleeve and her face. MVP is clearly Rory Kinnear who plays several different men throughout the movie, all sinister, all foreboding, all dynamic, all different.

But man, that fucking ending. Granted, it's from the director of Annihilation and Ex Machina so you definitely know it's going to be a movie where it's not all that meets the eye. But Damn, can something even hit the lash? Still a bit unsure of what it was trying to say if anything and by the end you feel unsatisfied and a bit tricked by what could have been a classic. Not just a classic letdown.

2/4

Barbarian

 

Soo....are old naked ladies the new Black? Shit gets wild and it gets wild quickly. And if this movie doesn't cement Justin Long as a scream queen I will leave the planet.

3/4

Halloween Ends

 

I'm slightly tweaking a Real Housewives quote when I say about this movie, "It needs to go back to where it came from, which is nowhere in my life". There were some pretty good kills here and I wasn't wanting to die throughout watching it, but it just left me feeling more confused then anything. Some really bizarre narrative choices occur very early on that takes the story off the path it has been building for all of the new entries. Halloween Begins, Halloween Middles and Halloween Climaxes are all wondering who the fuck this chick is.

2/4

Top Dogs: 2020-2029

 2020

3. Possessor

2. Soul

1. Promising Young Woman

2021

3. House of Gucci

2. Malignant

1. Last Night in Soho

2022

3. Spoiler Alert

2. The Menu

1. Glass Onion 

2023

3. May December

2. Poor Things

1. Barbie

2024

3. Woman of the Hour

2. Nosferatu

1. Wicked