James has written 120 reviews for films during 2020.

1917

2019

★★★★ 9

This was really good but I could never shake the feeling that I was watching a 2-hour cutscene and never getting a chance to actually play the game.

At least Roger Deakins will be a 2-time Oscar winner now.

Abominable

2019

★★★ 11

This was really excellent for like 25 minutes and then it just turned into a worse version of Up

Airplane!

1980

★★★½ 25

I feel like we don't talk about the lady who fucked a horse enough

Almost Famous

2000

★★★★½ 7

"Rock stars have kidnapped my son."

Not just a highly entertaining movie, but a visceral, palpable experience. A movie that feels entirely authentic in spite of its larger-than-life characters. A real treat of a film that I can't wait to see again.

Antz

1998

★★★ 25

I am entirely baffled by nearly every single aspect of this film.

But I think I enjoyed it?

Artemis Fowl

2020

½ 44

The most insulting adaptation since The Last Airbender. An absolutely worthless piece of dogshit that sucks every compelling element out of an incredible book series and deforms it into an unrecognizable pulp. Every character is uninteresting, every directorial choice is incomprehensible, every scene is indescribably awful in its own unique way. Avoid this movie at all costs, especially if you have even the slightest attachment to the original source material.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

2001

★★★★½ 16

I can't believe how amazing this movie is.

Then again, these are the directors behind Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, so I can't believe I didn't expect this to be amazing.

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

1963

★½ 3

Effortlessly unlikable

Bee Movie

2007

★★★½ 39

A shitpost disguised as a film

Being John Malkovich

1999

★★★½ 20

Honestly fuck Maxine, Lotte deserves so much better

Bolt

2008

★★½ 20

If the main character was voiced by Adam West it would've been good

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

★★★★ 21

Probably includes the funniest fight scene ever put to film