Synecdoche, New York - haven't watched this since it came out. What a delight.
I feel like there should have been a movie that starred Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Tilda Swinton, and of course, Jonze writing/directing. Ah, well (if there was one, don't @ me, I'm too tired to IMDB anything right now, j/k do @ me so I know to watch it).
Anyway, I watched:
Smile - apparently the standards for mainstream horror are just low as shit, I guess? This got a bunch of positive reviews, many of which called it very original, and it actually sucks balls. Plot holes galore and sort of a nasty/decent ending that makes perfect and also no sense. Give me Peele's woke horror or the scattershot indie stuff any day over this.
The Oak Room - Adapted from what I assume works a little better as a play, but still pretty solid. Taut directing, writing, and acting. RJ Mitte in particular, very good. Good pacing, nearly perfect ending, highly recommended come to think of it.
Ambulance - "...and Michael Bay gets to keep making movies" is right.
Pain and Gain is still awesome, I will die on the hill for that one, but this was awful. If you have 2.5 hours to kill and also want to hate yourself go for it. Gyllenhaal does his best to make it watchable but, like, Brando couldn't save this.
Hideout - fun premise and the first two acts work well, then there's the big reveal and it all just gets boring and dumb. So much really great indie horror out there, but so much bad also, and this is the latter.
Retaliation - Orlando Bloom plays a, um, altar-boy who lets his bad side get the better of him 25 years later. Very measured, surprisingly restrained, two annoying yet really good monologues from Bloom, and one of the better endings to any movie I've seen in a while. Not a fun watch per se, but really good overall if your expectations are set accordingly.