#WalrusMaybe?

TUSK

One of the best and worst horror-comedies of the 2010s in a single 101 minute package.  Koo koo kachoo.

2014

Written and directed by Kevin Smith

Spoiler alert: moderate

Fresher prince

GEMINI MAN

Damn, it's nice when a cinematic experiment works out.  Maybe more people should have actually partaken in it, but that's how it goes.

2019

Directed by Ang Lee

Written by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke

Spoiler alert: moderate

Walt Disney, part XXI: Fur is dead

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS

Even if you're not thrilled about all the changes the movie represents, it's still pretty hard not to like what the movie is.  (Though not impossible, and, boy, does it have some unexamined problems with its drama.)

1961

Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi

Written by Bill Peet (based on the novel by Dodie Smith)

Spoiler alert: I mean, what do you think? she flays the puppies and looks good doing it?

Cardboard Science: Suffer the children

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED

If perhaps not the perfect version of itself, you just can't discount the cold savagery of the version we got.

1960
Directed by Wolf Rilla
Written by Sterling Silliphant, Ronald Kinnoch, and Wolf Rilla (based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Walt Disney, part XX: All that beautiful detail in the trees, the bark, and all that, that's all well and good, but who the hell's going to look at that?

SLEEPING BEAUTY

As a work of visual artistry, Sleeping Beauty would be a staggering achievement for any era of Disney animation.  That it came out of the Silver Age is almost a surprise; that it also ended it, a great and sorrowful shame.

1959

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Eric Larson, and Clyde Geronimi

Spoiler alert: true love's kiss, dude

Why so serious?

JOKER

I feel like if Todd Phillips were actually the next Martin Scorsese, we'd have known it by now.

2019

Directed by Todd Phillips

Written by Scott Silver and Todd Phillips

Spoiler alert: moderate (maybe technically high, but you know how this one's gonna end, and in pretty fine detail, by, like, the twenty minute mark)

Walt Disney, part XIX: The dog days are over

LADY AND THE TRAMP

Maybe I'm just not a dog person, you know?

1955

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske

Spoiler alert: moderate