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It took 16 days longer to reach 25 movies in 2017 than in 2016. I’m blaming the flu. Per previous milestones, it’s now time to reveal the grades (from 0 to 5 stars) for the first batch of movies watched in 2017. Last year, there were 3 movies — Zootopia, The Witch and Deadpool — with 4 stars or more but only 1 — Logan — in 2017. Only 7 films received a Thumbs Up last year, though. This year 10 movies graded out to a Thumbs Up and none (not even Rings) received 0 stars. Here are the first batch of grades of 2017:Read More →

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The month of March might be the best month for movies in 2017. There are 15 movies — led by Beauty and the Beast, Logan and Kong: Skull Island — that are on the definitely want to see list and another 4 that are on the maybe list. The bottom of the list includes some duds that for some reason — Power Rangers (Nostalgia), The Shack (Octavia Spencer), The Baby Boss (Alec Baldwin) — still feel novel enough to be seen. So, here’s the list of movies headed to theaters in March, ranked by anticipation:Read More →

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On January 30th, Gold became the 181st movie viewed (and reviewed) of 2016. Here is a recap of all of the grades of this year’s movies and the final* 31 movies with grades below (* there’s nothing saying I might go back and see a few more movies from 2016 but we’re calling it unofficially quits on 2016):

For the 7th time, here are the last* 31 movies reviewed in 2016 graded from 0-5 stars:Read More →

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The only good thing about February’s theatrical releases? It isn’t January. If you’ve been here before at the beginning of the month, you know the deal. MHT ranks the upcoming releases based on what we’re looking forward and provides links to the trailers for you to check out. It’s no different this month as Keanu Reeves is back as John Wick and is joined by 3 other sequels and a handful of other movies that couldn’t find a better release date. Without further ado, here’s the list of expected theatrical releases for February, ranked by anticipation:Read More →

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Updated February 18th, 2018

  1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  2. Lady Bird
  3. Darkest Hour
  4. Wind River
  5. I, Tonya
  6. mother!
  7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  8. Baby Driver
  9. A Ghost Story
  10. The Disaster Artist
  11. Patti Cake$
  12. It
  13. Wonder Woman
  14. Thank You For Your Service
  15. Detroit
  16. Ingrid Goes West
  17. Wonder
  18. The Shape of Water
  19. Molly’s Game
  20. Hostiles
  21. Coco
  22. Sleight
  23. The Big Sick
  24. War for the Planet of the Apes
  25. Logan
  26. Dunkirk
  27. The Post
  28. Battle of the Sexes
  29. Blade Runner 2049
  30. The Beguiled
  31. American Made
  32. Spider-Man: Homecoming
  33. John Wick: Chapter 2
  34. Kedi
  35. Gifted
  36. All the Money in the World
  37. Wonderstruck
  38. Beatriz at Dinner
  39. LBJ
  40. Everything, Everything
  41. Beauty and the Beast
  42. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
  43. Born in China
  44. Crown Heights
  45. Thor: Ragnarok
  46. Same Kind of Different As Me
  47. Happy Death Day
  48. The Mountain Between Us
  49. The LEGO Ninjago Movie
  50. To The Bone
  51. 47 Meters Down
  52. Marshall
  53. The Lost City of Z
  54. The Zookeeper’s Wife
  55. Split
  56. The LEGO Batman Movie
  57. Tommy’s Honour
  58. I don’t feel at home in this world anymore.
  59. Get Out
  60. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  61. Logan Lucky
  62. Atomic Blonde
  63. Kong: Skull Island
  64. Free Fire
  65. Home Again
  66. Girls Trip
  67. How To Be A Latin Lover
  68. The Hitman’s Bodyguard
  69. Megan Leavey
  70. Lowriders
  71. The Foreigner
  72. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
  73. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
  74. Stronger
  75. The Greatest Showman
  76. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
  77. Birth of the Dragon
  78. Daisy Winters
  79. Alien: Covenant
  80. Win It All
  81. A Bad Moms Christmas
  82. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
  83. Snatched
  84. Life
  85. Power Rangers
  86. Going in Style
  87. CHiPs
  88. Justice League
  89. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
  90. Phantom Thread
  91. Pitch Perfect 3
  92. Flatliners
  93. True to the Game
  94. Tulip Fever
  95. Before I Fall
  96. Only the Brave
  97. Brad’s Status
  98. The Boss Baby
  99. The Glass Castle
  100. Murder On The Orient Express
  101. Call Me By Your Name
  102. Paris Can Wait
  103. Good Time
  104. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
  105. The Sense of an Ending
  106. Ghost in the Shell
  107. The Wall
  108. It Comes At Night
  109. American Assassin
  110. Daddy’s Home 2
  111. Rough Night
  112. The Promise
  113. A Cure for Wellness
  114. Valley of Bones
  115. Despicable Me 3
  116. Transformers: The Last Knight
  117. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  118. The Space Between Us
  119. Unforgettable
  120. The Fate of the Furious
  121. The Dark Tower
  122. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
  123. The Belko Experiment
  124. A Dog’s Purpose
  125. The Circle
  126. Annabelle: Creation
  127. The Dinner
  128. ‘Til Death Do Us Part
  129. The House
  130. Fist Fight
  131. The Book of Henry
  132. Jigsaw
  133. War on Everyone
  134. Bitter Harvest
  135. Victoria & Abdul
  136. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
  137. Sandy Wexler
  138. Fifty Shades Darker
  139. The Great Wall
  140. Geostorm
  141. Baywatch
  142. Sleepless
  143. Suburbicon
  144. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
  145. Collide
  146. Rings
  147. The Snowman
  148. The Mummy
  149. Kidnap
  150. The Emoji Movie
  151. Just Getting Started

 

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Welcome to “dump” month everyone! January is notorious for two things: Award nominees getting wide releases after getting thrown into a theater or two in New York or Los Angeles and garbage movies that get dropped into January because, well, it’s the best month to release terrible movies since the audiences are much smaller. Sometimes this carries over to February. It also usually encompasses the last two weeks of August and first two weeks of September but let’s get back to January. There are only a few releases that didn’t make the December list (if it was the former of the two things January is notorious for) but the rest were meant for January which means Hollywood didn’t like them all that much. That usually means we won’t either. Let’s take a look at the list:Read More →

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On November 4, Doctor Strange became the 150th movie viewed (and reviewed) of 2016. Here is a recap of all of the grades of this year’s movies and the latest 25 movies with grades below:

For the 6th time this year, here are the last 25 movies reviewed in 2016 graded from 0-5 stars:Read More →

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Thanks to a trip to Vegas, the Movie Hot Take normal schedule was thrown for a loop. It’s October now and we typically kick off every month with a list of trailers for all of the releases coming out for the month. While the first week of October is already in the books, we’ll pretend like that didn’t happen yet and run down the list of 25 anticipated releases for October. Here’s the list of October releases ranked in order of anticipation:

1. The Accountant (October 14)

We haven’t seen Ben Affleck since Batffleck and the positive reviews of his performance in an otherwise panned Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice should help The Accountant at the box office. The movie actually looks pretty good and there’s a decent supporting cast (Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow).


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On September 7th, The Light Between Oceans became the 125th movie viewed (and reviewed) of 2016. Here is a recap of all of the grades of this year’s movies and the latest 25 movies with grades below:

For the 5th time this year, here are the last 25 movies reviewed in 2016 graded from 0-5 stars:

The “Thumbs Up” Group

Hell Or High Water 5 out of 5 stars (5 / 5) REVIEW
The best movie of the summer. By far.Read More →