#FF19 I Am Mother, as lo-fi, nearly single-location, sci-fi goes, is pretty decent. Following a girl raised underground by a robot after an unseen apocalypse, it builds tension well.

Some of the plot beats are a little predictable, but the actresses sell everything. Worth seeing

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) June 18, 2019

#FF19 Booksmart is funny and charming, and awkward, and fun. The references to Superbad are understandable but don't do it justice: it's doing something a little different, but with some of the same DNA.

A great directorial debut, a memorable comedy, and a decent film. See it.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) June 18, 2019

#FF19 Brightburn has a solid premise (what if, as a boy, Clark Kent, was a sociopath?), but squanders it to some extent. The gruesome horror bits work well, but the film fails to build a meaningful story around them.

Solid enough, but very set-piece driven.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) June 21, 2019

#FF19 The Wandering Earth is attempting to be a blockbuster through scale, but lacks the stakes.

The film is spectacle first, plot second, characters… eventually.

It’s a light enough watch but not terribly entertaining. Looks cheap. Feels underwritten.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 7, 2019

#FF19 Prospect is indie sci-fi done very well.

The premise and stakes are clear, but rarely do we get an exposition dump.

It looks gorgeous. The old west prospecting future is somewhere I’d gladly revisit, with lots of weird wrinkles.

An excellent, tight movie. See it.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 7, 2019

#FF19 Long Shot is a so-so comedy. It's got some great moments, but not particularly well-linked. Charlize Theron is excellent in it, and Seth Rogen is... well, Seth Rogen.

Not a terrible film, but not particularly memorable.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 13, 2019

#FF19 Wine Country is a little flatter than the cast suggests. Trying to give every cast member an arc is admirable, but means none of them really get the time they need to stretch.

Funny moments, but rarely laugh out loud. Watchable.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 13, 2019

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum has fewer big action sequences, and a lot more up-close combat. From the early library fight to the ending, there's little room to breath. The action is excellent.

If you like the earlier films, this is more of the same in the best possible way.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 18, 2019

#FF19 Maria is a poor martial arts film. The plot is paper thin, the acting seems pretty bad, and the characters and their motivations seem to be whatever will get the plot moving.

Some of the action sequences are cleanly executed and edited. Others have too many cuts. Skip.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 23, 2019

#FF19 Knock Down the House is an inspirational, but somewhat dry, documentary on the movement to improve candidates to the senate.

With common knowledge, it's robbed of its dramatic beats, but still shows us the ups and downs of several important campaigns. Decent.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 29, 2019

#FF19 The Perfection is... not good in the most bizarre car crash fashion. Beautifully shot, but a mess of themes and messages. Some things that happen are problematic, some are bizarre, whilst others are plain funny.

It's a 90 minute mess. Decide for yourself.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 29, 2019

#FF19 The Furie is slow to get started, and has a few dreary sections in the middle, with a somewhat generic plot.

That said, the martial arts work, and the accompanying camera moves are excellent. Kinetic, motived, interesting. Better than most fighting films.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 31, 2019

#FF19 Rim of the World is a bit of a mess. At times it's a YA drama about an alien invasion, at others it's making crude yet cliched jokes; with all the character development of a kids film.

I've no idea who this is for. That said, it's somewhat entertaining in places. Meh.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) June 1, 2019

#FF19 Shazam is decent fun and reasonably made.

I laughed in places, I didn't care about some of the barely explained elements, it was mindless, but enjoyable.

Definitely a bit long, but not an awful way to spend an afternoon.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 8, 2019

#FF19 The Highwaymen is a decent mid-budget drama, taking the other side of Bonnie & Clyde’s crime spree.

Well shot, with sparse dialogue, but just a little long. Costner and Harrelson both make the picture work.

Definitely worth a watch.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 14, 2019

#FF19 Unicorn Store is Brie Larson’s directorial debut, about a girl who believes she’s about to get a unicorn.

It’s a little twee, but the messages work well, the pacing keeps up, and the visuals remind me of Michel Gondry.

Well done.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 14, 2019

#FF19 The Silence is the 3rd film (and the 2nd Netflix original) in the last year or so to stumble into the idea of monsters attracted to noise.

It doesn’t do well by comparison, being elevated by its cast but dragged down by its cliches (the religious cult).

Decidely so-so.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 14, 2019

#FF19 The Ruthless is a fairly average and pretty generic Italian ganster film.

Set in Milan in the the 80s and 90s, we follow one gangster as he sets up his organisation. It's light on details, focussing instead on his wife and mistress.

Fairly forgettable but okay.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 24, 2019

#FF19 The Sisters Brothers is a solid Western with a great cast. Phoenix and Reilly work well as the titular brothers, forming the backbone relationship of the cast.

Some excellent action, but mostly focussed on little conversations. Very good.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 24, 2019

#FF19 Eighth Grade does a masterful job of recreating the anxiety of finding your place in the world.

The camera work embeds you in the main character's POV, the lighting works subtlely, and the pacing is well managed.

A must-see film.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 1, 2019

#FF19 Avengers: Endgame is the climax the MCU films to date needed.

At three hours, there's definitely some flab that can be trimmed, but there are plenty of good sequences to watch when it's not doing too much fan service.

Good, not great. Fun, not fantastic.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) May 1, 2019

#FF19 Captain Marvel is a good, mid-tier superhero movie.

Brie Larson is great, as always, but doesn’t have much character to work with until the 2nd half.

The second act is a little slow, and some of the music choices are painfully on the nose.

Still, a good, fun movie.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 10, 2019

#FF19 The Kindergarten Teacher follows Maggie Gyllenhaal as the titular character who discovers a child prodigy.

The film is a beautiful reflection on her own life, with a relatively light touch.

The ending isn’t quite earned for me, but still very good.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Paddleton is a look at friendship between two slightly odd men, faced with cancer.

It’s funny, touching, and a pleasant little indie film. The ending, in particular, is beautiful and devastating. Well worth seeing.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Triple Frontier has a pretty solid cast, but squanders them in a so-so action film.

There are moments of tension, but they’re mired in clunky dialogue and plotting. Some of the action sequences, particularly towards the end, play fairly flat too. Not awful, but forgettable

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Mirage has a decent, if done before, premise; where intervening in the past causes problematic ripples.

The twists are somewhat predictable and the lack of consistency is annoying.

Moments work well, but it feels overlong. Okay.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Us is an interesting horror film. Odd, tense, lightly funny, and at other times brutal.

Its message, and metaphor, are handled with enough fuzziness to make them malleable.

A tiny bit long in places.

It’s hard to discuss without spoiling, so I’ll simply say: watch it.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Is the story of a desperate literary forger.

Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant both have strong performances that keep things interesting, but the pacing is quite slow. The story never quite hits the peak you might be waiting for.

Decent.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) February 4, 2019

#FF19 Io is the kind of indie sci-fi that has a decent central premise, but fails to deliver.

From expositional dialogue to constant narration, it fails at the basics of storytelling.

The leads don’t work together, even given what little plot they have.

Skip.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) February 4, 2019

#FF19 Velvet Buzzsaw feels like a continuation of Dan Gilroy’s critique of media consumption form Nightcrawler, with a focus on art.

Well cast and well shot, a bit weird, but no more than the subject it captures (well, maybe a bit).

A fascinating film and well worth watching.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) February 11, 2019

#FF19 Green Book is good if a little… unoriginal. You’ve seen versions of this odd couple movie before but perhaps not one that flits between broad humour (that works), and some fairly serious subject.

Tonally, it doesn’t land. It lacks weight. It’s well-acted, and entertaining

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) February 11, 2019

#FF19 If Beale Street Could Talk… is beautiful and tragic. It delivers its story with honesty and humanity, while examining a wonderful relationship torn apart by a putrid society.

Non-linear storytelling and dreamy shots pull back the story perfectly. An excellent film.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) February 11, 2019

#FF19 The Last Laugh was not good. A dull premise, executed in a lacklustre way, with tropes that need to die out. Very little of this film worked. A good cast squandered on a mediocre movie.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) February 11, 2019

#FF19 High Flying Bird is the story of an agent determined to end an NBA lockout.

It’s well-paced, doesn’t dumb anything down, and the cast is tight.

Shooting on iPhones with a lot of natural light certainly gives it a distinctive look. It’s distracting, but interesting. Good.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) February 15, 2019

#FF19 The Breaker Upperers is a good film, from its premise through its execution.

The cast of weird characters are interesting and fun; the two leads work well; and the script delivers some good laughs.

There are a few pacing issues towards the end, but nothing overwhelming.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 3, 2019

#FF19 Three Identical Strangers has most of what a good documentary needs: a good central idea to get you watching, then a whole bunch of unexpected turns.

I don’t want to say much, but I had at least one jaw-drop moment. Very watchable.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 3, 2019