Sweet And Lowdown (1999) is probably the most
underrated film here.
Not exact matches
So tragically
underrated, but
here's why, I think: Crude, lowbrow humor, and buffoonish, one - dimensional characters were glaringly off - putting to seasoned
film critics at the time of the
There's a good
film here, one that is very
underrated and is actually one of the better Slasher
films of the early 80's.
Director Shane Black has covered familiar territory before in the 2005 movie «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» (a massively
underrated film in my opinion), but he has managed to win me over once again
here.
The
film concerns Ansel Roth (played
here by the
underrated Leland Orser), a down - on - his - luck writer who primarily deals with cults and the idea of deprograming victims.
The
film is very much a festive follow - up to director Michael Dougherty's vastly
underrated 2007 Halloween
film Trick r» Treat (which I stupidly didn't spotlight in my October Horror series) so fans of that
film's darkly comedic tone should be right at home
here, although, in my view Krampus is not quite as good as that earlier effort.
He directed the funniest
film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally
underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but
here we are.
Given that I have my doubts about the artiness of some of Potter's other
films (excluding her
underrated and unavailable The Gold Diggers), I was mainly unprepared for the graceful artfulness
here — not just of her rhyming couplets to describe the adulterous affair between an Irish - American scientist (Joan Allen) and a Lebanese surgeon (Simon Abkarian) working as a cook, but also of these two actors plus Shirley Henderson (as a cleaning lady), and especially Sam Neill (as the scientist's husband), delivering them — not to mention the
film's busy visuals.
Their chemistry was good in that
underrated, wistful
film; one hopes for a stranger but inspired pairing
here.
At its best, You Were Never Really
Here reminded me of one of the most
underrated films of the 1980s, Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa — only without peak Bob Hoskins or Michael Caine or anything more than the rudiments of a plot.
Here is one of the great,
underrated film noirs — a movie whose reputation and stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.
Here is one of the great,
underrated film noirs — a movie whose stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.
Here you'll find one of 2017's most
underrated films; an early Martin Scorsese classic; a unique coming - of - age drama; a melancholy musical; two vastly different documentaries; one of Spike Lee's most commercial (yet still excellent)
films; a German action - horror
film; and one nasty slasher movie.
Here you'll find a saga from Paul Thomas Anderson; a dramadey about writer's block; an
underrated film from M. Night Shyamalan; a John Carpenter classic; a horror movie unlike any other; a star - studded alien invasion comedy; and more!