(A-) Incredibly long, slow and detailed Tarkovsky epic manages to combine a genuine epic feel with a stronger human element. It runs out of steam a bit in the last act, but most of it is excellent.

(C) Surrealist Bunuel goes for a more straight up satire to fairly little effect. In mocking trad Catholicism and bourgeoise Spain, it just doesn't have an impact on a modern American, and the satire is frankly shallow. It obviously got by on shock value, and is incredibly tame by modern standards. It's never really dull, though.

(D-) Mind-bogglingly wretched slasher flick is too talky and uneventful to have much camp value. The ridiculous gore is sometimes slightly amusing.

(A) Like the comic, it is not w/o flaws, but it's filled with so much clever, amusing and surprising material that any weaknesses are completely overwhelmed. Snyder's visuals are also remarkable.

(D) Wretched Bergman flick goes beyond self-parody. He floods the film with death and sorrow w/o explaining or justifying any of it, making the film as shallow and manipulative as any gory horror flick. It's also incredibly boring with a tediously obvious visual style. Watch "The Seventh Seal" or "The Virgin Spring" instead.

(C-) In my mind, all the later NoE flicks have coalesced into a single mass. Turns out this one is quite a bit better than 5, not that that is saying much. I don't really know what the film is trying to do: it's too goofy to scare anyone, but it has little real humor. The set design is sometimes cool, though.

(B) As usual, I'm not much interested in Bunuel's Marxist commentary, but as a pure, surreal horror movie this is quite the bizarre, entertaining watch.

(B+) Kaufman's directorial debut is arguably even more bizarre than his screenplays, if you can imagine that. It's certainly a unique, well-crafted experience, and I suspect I'd like it either more or less on a second viewing. I couldn't say which.

(C+) Death Wish teaches a bunch of old people to fight back against the gangs. It's a goofy film, of course, though it's more competently made than you might expect.

(C-) Series is running out of steam at this point. It lacks the old DW tone, and seems like more of a generic 80s actioner.

(B) Highly entertaining b-movie with some enjoyably goofy characters and a relatively novel plot.

(B-) Typical Altman pic where a bunch of characters blather on about nothing while nothing happens. As often occurs, however, the excellent cast makes this far more interesting than it deserves to be, and it never gets dull despite the length.

(B) A highly enjoyable and efficient adaptation of the fun short story. Has entertaining old-time performances.

(A-) Late noir pic about a detached, methodical hitman is fantastically dark and existential with excellent location usage. Definitely an overlooked film deserving of the late attention.

(D+) Notorious rape-revenge flick is so lifeless and flat that I dunno how anyone can find the energy to be offended by it.

(C+) A bit better than "Cat O' Nine Tails," with some visual flair and rad drumming on the soundtrack, but this is still minor Argento with a mediocre story, even by giallo standards.

(B-) Edgy B&W Japanese film about a dude with muscular dystrophy who goes on a killing spree. Less lurid than that sounds, though it's not the serious, psychological film some have imagined it to be.

(B-) Another fun Naschy pic that mixes old-fashioned gothic horror with 70s style gore and nudity. It's a good watch.

(C-) Italian-exploitation pic tribute is too meandering and incoherent to be much fun, and the over the top gore is kinda weak.

(B) Up till the lame CGI of the climax, this is a very atmospheric military-themed horror movie about a squad of soliders who run afoul of a djinn. Better than that sounds.