The first superman couldn't fly

GLASS

M. Night Shyamalan's least bad movie in years.

2019

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Spoiler alert: highish, I guess, but nothing you'd be unlikely to figure out yourself

Things shaped like bananas

EIGHTH GRADE

Either 2018's funniest comedy, one of its most heart-rending coming-of-age stories, or both.

2018

Written and directed by Bo Burnham

Spoiler alert: moderate

Walt Disney, part VII: Won't you be our neighbor?

SALUDOS AMIGOS

A reasonably pleasant diversion for a film made at the behest of the U.S. State Department, Saludos Amigos has some pretty low lows, but its usual tack is genial, colorful, and funny, and if you showed it in a classroom today it's at least possible you might not get mobbed on Twitter, which for a Disney film made in 1942 about people other than Europeans is, frankly, a sterling achievement.

1942 (Brazil)/1943 (USA)

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Norm Ferguson

Spoiler alert: mild

Predator Week, part III: Space what now?

PREDATORS

Predators presents one big new idea for the franchise, with a lot of littler new ideas that dovetail into it, and most of those ideas range from good to honestly great... and yet, what we get with this film is not really too much better than what we got in 1990, or in 2004 (and if it's better than what we got in 2007, dude, so are several varieties of cancer).

2010

Directed by Nimrod Antal

Written by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch

Spoiler alert: moderate verging on high

Robert Zemeckis, part XXI: I like wearing women's shoes, somehow it connects me to the essence of dames

WELCOME TO MARWEN

Robert Zemeckis' most interesting effort in eighteen years is also his easiest to dislike and misunderstand, which is why the director's first grab toward real greatness in just as long has become branded his worst film, and has, accordingly, failed miserably.  Thing is, I'd usually blame you, but in this instance, I don't think there's anyone else to blame but Bob himself.

2018

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Written by Caroline Thompson and Robert Zemeckis

Spoiler alert: mild

And then there were nun

THE NUN

Finally, the Marilyn Manson biopic the world's been waiting for.

2018

Directed by Corin Hardy

Written by Gary Dauberman

Spoiler alert: mild

Naughty and nice

POOKA!

Shabby in a lot of ways, Pooka! is still leaps and bounds better than the phrase "made-for-streaming Christmas horror film" makes it sound.

2018

Directed by Nacho Vigalondo

Written by Gerald T. Olson

Spoiler alert: moderate

Four rooms

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

Not as bad as some folks say, but not nearly as good as it it ought to have been, Bad Times does enough right (despite doing what seems like even more wrong) that I'm willing to call it "good."  It's got atmosphere, and that'll do.

2018

Written and directed by Drew Goddard

Spoiler alert: mild