Italian Beard

.... From the IACP and James Beard Award-nominated authors of In the... globally inspired recipes pull from Italian, French, Vietnamese, and Mexican culinary...

... was broader, with a dark beard and deep-set eyes that burned... had been the sound of Italian independence -- regarded the scene... you counter it?" The composer's beard jutted forward. "I can do...

... to the issue with the Italian Prime Minister, but the moment... over the hairs of his beard, feeling the rough skin on...

... to the issue with the Italian Prime Minister, but the moment... over the hairs of his beard, feeling the rough skin on...

... may produce a magnificent mustache, beard, or other style of your... realize it or not. Imported Italian Maple (free Villain) - Every... making threats. This pristine imported Italian maple desk is absurdly expensive... also rocking a truly fine-ass beard and that dashing looking ponytail...

... exactly twenty years ago, an Italian police squad burst through the... testimony of Raffaele Imperiale, an Italian cocaine trafficker and fellow Super... looking trim, with a neat beard and the hint of a...

... silver circlet, and his long beard was elegant and well-maintained, reaching... a wide and wild steel-gray beard and bushy hair above his...." He stroked his smooth, elegant beard. "Trust me, I know! Relax... with a friendly wave, the Italian lilt to her voice soft ...

... member of the European Commonwealth," Italian Prime Minister Farrari asked. He... one in a revolving-door of Italian leaders, though he had the... compromise with the more moderate Italian leftists to drive out the... Henry demanded, tugging on his beard. "No, it is a statement...

... boss glaring at us. "Also, ItaLIAn maple by the wAY!" I... hair and a neatly trimmed beard stepped out of the portal...

... long-awaited cookbook from four-time James Beard Award nominee Chef Hillary Sterling... her later love affair with Italian cooking, and her career spent... inspired twists—she brings an Italian spin to the Passover table...

... long-awaited cookbook from four-time James Beard Award nominee Chef Hillary Sterling... her later love affair with Italian cooking, and her career spent... inspired twists—she brings an Italian spin to the Passover table...

... work. "Need to add the Italian gadgie as a notch on ... a few fingers through his beard as he stared. He knew...

..., The Bad Sleep Well, Red Beard) 13. Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca, Gaslight.... Sophia Loren (Two Women, Marriage Italian Style, A Special Day, The...

Inquirer.com Emilia, Greg Vernick’s new Italian restaurant, is irresistible The James Beard award-winning chef’s fourth restaurant, his first in seven years, has a refined contemporary touch that offers a distinctive voice amidst Philadelphia’s crowded Italian scene. Was hoping to try this in May, but will DEF try it this year! Looks like another home run for Greg Vernick.

... on the crispinette New Male Beard, inspired by a 1370 bust... and stronger Republican form. Historical Italian Flavor: Take part in civic...

... 21st-century chaos. With his long beard, resonant voice, outgoing personality, and..., and of Julius Evola, the Italian dandy antisemite and Mussolini supporter, ... those years. One was the Italian Claudio Mutti, whom De Benoist ... then, Mutti had supervised an Italian translation of the Protocols of ... 1974, Mutti was arrested by Italian police during the dismantling of ...

Went to dinner with friends at AMA Restaurant in DC, a James Beard finalist. Unique Italian food. We had some wonderful wines all drinking very well. I was surprised the Beta was so open for such a young wine. IMG_05691920×2560 319 KB

..., And, perhaps, a handful of Italian and Spanish shows. Just to ... with a neatly trimmed white beard. "Lord Focalors…that is a...

..., And, perhaps, a handful of Italian and Spanish shows. Just to ... with a neatly trimmed white beard. "Lord Focalors…that is a...

.... What’s the story? ALBAWABA - Italian magazine L’Espresso has been facing... woman. The cover of the Italian magazine "L'Espresso" has gone viral ... Bank. Moreover, to defend the Italian magazine, many activists and Palestinian ... men, the formation of the beard and Kippah are outlandish, and ...

..., but simply looked exotic, or Italian - she had managed to... back and sides and no beard or whiskers. Ah well, how...

... completely bald. No hair, no beard, not even eyebrows. He looked... like he was miming an Italian gesture. He then dropped his...

... completely bald. No hair, no beard, not even eyebrows. He looked... like he was miming an Italian gesture. He then dropped his...

... fat middle-aged guy with a beard that probably looked better before... 'mercy'. "Yeah, stinks like an Italian restaurant's shoe closet down here." ...

... the wedding tomorrow, so cheeky Italian tonight and probably Kew or... the producers and stars (Coach Beard) and is a massive Arsenal...

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Not gonna lie, I like the Italian look more. People don't assume I'm in my mid twenties unlike the full beard lol submitted by /u/jerrysrice to r/malegrooming [link] [comments]

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Was looking at balbo and hollywoodian style but last minute went with Italian style as recommended by my barber. Looking for a default style for my weak/patchy side coverage (runs in the family 😭). submitted by /u/Sol-eks to r/BeardAdvice [link] [comments]

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Changed the fuller beard which was weak at sides to an Italian style but unsure weather it works or not. submitted by /u/One_Cartographer_876 to r/BeardAdvice [link] [comments]

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ETA: There may have been some confusion as to my gf's reaction, she was ashamed her family dug so deep into me, not about my response. After wanting to die for the next 48 hours she agreed I did the right thing and that it was funny Backstory: due to my dad's job we lived in Italy for 3 years when I was younger, so I speak Italian almost fluently (it's been awhile, so I've lost some of it) ​ Recently I started dating a girl. She's great and I love her so much. I met her family a few nights ago for dinner. She warned me that the male side of her family is very big into being macho, into "testing" the boys the women date and are VERY big on taking pride in their Italian ancestry. I think besides the grandfather, however, they were almost all born in Bergen County, NJ but whatever, its nice to take pride in ones heritage. ​ Long story short at dinner they kept making jokes at my expense (I honestly would not call it bullying, just things about my height, beard, shaved head). They tried making fun of my IT job too but stopped once I told them my income. It was overall not a bad experience, but a not so pleasant one. Anyways, her older brother kept pushing things, giving me exceptional amounts of shit for playing Lacrosse in HS (apparently its a sport for prissy rich kids and not manly like football or baseball). He ended his rant by saying "hey, we're just a big Italian family, we're loud and tell it how we see it! Hahaha!" and all the family except my girlfriend laughed. So I, for the next minute, responded to everything they said in Italian. My girlfriend buried her head in shame, the grandfather laughed and everyone else kept looking at each other confused before telling me they didn't speak Italian. I replied "then don't use your Italian heritage as an excuse to behave poorly when you can't even speak the language." They got mad, but the grandfather told them all I was right and to be quiet. ​ My girlfriend isn't mad, just ashamed, I think the grandfather likes me, but word from my gf's sister is that all the men are furious, think I'm a smart ass and that I disrespected them and their masculinity in an unforgiveable way. So AITA? submitted by /u/aitaITAM1990 to r/AmItheAsshole [link] [comments]

I am NOT OP, this is a repost. ​ I think I'm dating the man that got me pregnant on a one night stand. Original posted to r/relationship_advice on April 24th 2022. Throw away because I have family members on my personal. I'm a single mother to a beautiful little girl from a one night stand about 4.5 years. just finished collage and had just moved and wasn’t looking for anything serious. It also happened was also just before I left on my 2 mnth long post-college vacation. I have been dating this man for four months. He’s met my daughter once. They get along extremely well. But I don't let them I overlap to much (I don't want to expose her to passing in flings. And though he has mentioned wanting to continue this we aren’t quite ‘serious’ yet.) Prior to last week he’s been coming back to my place because I had a bad experience going back to another mans place a year ago. So I went back to his place for the first time... It's the same Fucking building as that man. I didnt really recognize it until we pulled into the the parking garage. And Went up the elevator But I know it is. But I recognized the hallways instantly. It also had a very recognizable condo smell? (I don't know why I remember that. But I feel like they use the clean solutions that spas use, it smells like eucalyptus and...appartment musk? The condo itself is similar but it’s been 4 years and I honestly don’t remember anything but his room, and that he had a red couch and the layout which I'm assuming is similar for most of the condos. He doesn’t have the couch but the layouts the same, And I'm pretty sure it has the same view from its main window? (Before ppl come at me for not ‘hunting him down’ etc. When we slept together I had just moved to the city after my masters. I never would have found his condo myself my I bussed back...Also We had been obviously been drinking.) it's been a week, but I genuinely thinking it's him now because, though they were busy, we met both times at two very similar events. 4yrs ago the man had shoulder length wavy dark hair and a Thick beard when we slept together. He does have a similar skin tone, (kind Mediterranean). The man I am dating has short cropped Dark hair, light stubble and glasses, he is also a italian background. They have the same name. It's a very basic American name so I never connected it together. Also, to make it worse I likely look very different too. I used to be very thin, and suffered from an eating disorder, that my pregnancy really and helped me to overcome (I've gained 30lbs, that I really needed). I also had short hair that I straightened & I'm half black and admittedly look very different now with my longer curly hair. I've been dwelling on this for the entire week. I don't know what I'm asking. But I don’t know if I also need legal advice? Or if I should cut contact because even if he isn’t him, I don't think i’ll be able to get over this weird feeling that his is. Is there a way to bring this up?should I message him and let him have the option to ghost me? I'm scared he’ll think I'm crazy if I bring this up? Or that I planned it or something weird like that? How do I approach this? Or should it not be approached at all? It's so fucking mental I don't know what to do. Sorry if absolutely none of this makes any sense. Also, To be clear. I am stable time-wise, and money-wise. I DO NOT need this man in my life. My daughter has two amazing father figures in her uncles who visit every other day and absolutely love their roles in her life and would probably steal her if that could. Edi t: It's Him. He had the red couch I remembered. So if anyone has any suggestions about how to tell a man this. That would be great. Thanks. Edit2 : I sent him this post. I didn't know how else to do it. He saw it half an hour ago. And has yet to respond. So I'm going to bed.👍 Edit 3 : ...I woke up to a lot more comments than I was expecting. And I just dropped my daughter at her uncles so I will respond to what I can now. I'm getting some flack for telling him this way. But until your in an absolutely insane position like this, you don't know how impossible it is to broach a topic like this. I'm not a shy person but this was enough to almost make me conimplate ghosting him. Even though I do like him, and I know it's wrong. We've been talking for 6 months and dating for 4. He asked about monogomy 2weeks ago, I agreed. With this post, I sent him a picture of me for 5yrs ago, and told him the event and when, where. And any other small details I could remember. And the sonogram with the date I have on my fridge. He messaged at like 4am to say: Yes, I was there. I remember you. And I've see the text bubbles popping up and disappearing all morning. I don't have any other update. And I'm not sure I will. I clearly only looked for Potential partners who would be okay with a woman with a kid into he picture. My daughter is the world to me. But I'm not sure how this can not be an incredible shock. I'm going to give him time and contact my family's lawyer with the shit-storm I know I've just caused. I do want to have a laugh though, at the ppl who think it's impossible of me to have forgotten what a ons looked like. It was 5yrs ago. We have both clearly changed a lot and we had been drinking. There are people I don't recognise from uni. who sat next to me in class for a year. Thanks for the help earlier. I'll probably have to delete this. But this has really helped me calm down. (I used to journal a lot before I had my daughter). ​ A relevant comment from a fellow redditor and one I personally agree with: I read your edits and I think sending him this post was likely a mistake. This is the kind of conversation you have in person. This is life altering jarring and scary. I know whats done is done but in the future, conversations like this need to be done very carefully and face to face. [link] OP addresses some comments about her initially not being sure and not remembering what he looked like: We were dating before. It was a dimly lit event. And like a night before my flight to Europe. Ive never had great facial recognition though I dunno if It's the beard? I honestly just don't f\cking know* [link] ​ It was five years ago, and at this point the more I try to remember exactly what he looked like the less I do. It might sound bad but I didn't have any intention of seeing him again at the time. I just don't really remember plus, we had been drinking. And yes, but I seriously don't know how to broach this. And I don't know if he remembers me. I'm assuming not. [link] ​ Update posted to r/relationship_advice on May 6th 2022. Sorry new phone so forgive the formatting** I doubt this will be the update everyone was hoping for but he 'bounced' to put it politely. Won't answer my calls. Or messages, though I don't think he actually blocked me.. We talked the first few days. Exchanged pictures etc. It's definitely him. He knows it is. Then about a week and a bit ago.. nothing. I guess I could go by his place. But I don't particularly care too. And I doubt he'd appreciate it. If this is his choice he can stick with it. I didn't get a choice when this happened, even though it's the happiest accident of my life. But I didn't have the option either. I own a business and have been debating the opportunity to move to invest in a small estate Europe for a few years. And I've been putting off the decision. (He was aware of this while we were dating). My daughter's uncles are even planning on moving with us for the opertunity since they both have dual citizens like us. So, I'm sorry if this is a disappointment for lots of you. I do wish him the best. But I think big, insane moments like this are eye opening. I also think my daughter would benefit from experiencing Europe. If he gets back in contact, I would be willing to pay for his flights and housing etc for him to get to know her. But I don't think that will be the case. Hope you're all well, and that is didn't add too much of a downer to your days. But I got a lot of requests to update. ​ This comment sums up this situation quite nicely Willing to date a single mom... but not step up for his own child. You dodged a bullet, OP. [link] ​ ​ This post has been tagged concluded. If the Mod team finds the tag incorrect, please feel free to change it accordingly. 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This year I went to see 192 different movies in theaters, plus one rewatch. That's up from 162 in 2018, 140 in 2017, 9 in 2016, and 5 in 2015. I usually go 3 or 4 times per week, mostly on weekends. I keep track of dates/theaters/movies/ratings for fun and save all of the stubs. My ratings are what I give the movie right after seeing it, with no real 'checklist' or anything, mostly just initial thought/enjoyment/opinion. It's not meant to be taken super seriously, I'm not a professional reviewer. This is my full ranking for the year, from favorite to least-favorite, with a few small reviews/thoughts thrown in: Monos - 10/10 - Hands-down my favorite movie of the year and honestly high on my all-time list. It's Apocalypse Now meets Lord of the Flies, with some Beasts of No Nation thrown in. It builds a unique, lived-in world that's believable and brutal. Beautifully-filmed, some of the best shots of the year (the ending shot gets seared in your mind). Modern and grounded look at a militia/cartel fighting against an unnamed enemy in a Colombian jungle. It almost feels post-apocalyptic instead of 'cartel vs government', which I really loved. You get to imagine your own backstory as the story unfolds. Unforgiving and gut-wrenching, but hopeful too. Got a lot out of its cast. Can't recommend this movie enough. Really disappointed this didn't make the Best Foreign Language Film shortlist. "Masterpiece" gets thrown around a lot, but in my mind this is the only one this year. Marriage Story - 10/10 The Farewell - 10/10 Journey to a Mother's Room - 9/10 - Biggest surprise of the year, came out of nowhere. Deeply-personal story between a mother & daughter. It's very basic on the surface, and there's not much story (you start at Point A, and end at Point A), but it's the most emotional movie of the year. If you don't cry at least 3 times during this, you're probably not human. It's all about the unbreakable connection you have to your parent(s), from the day you're born until the day you die. It only takes place over the course of a few months, but feels like lifetimes. Beautiful little movie about separation, loss, and human connection. Waves - 9/10 - I could write 20 pages on how much I loved this movie. To keep it short, it's got a perfect soundtrack, perfect setting, awards-worthy performances (from Kelvin Harrison Jr., Sterling K. Brown, and Taylor Russell). Visceral story that grips you from the first minute and doesn't let go until the closing shot. Unique use of colors and aspect-ratio. It takes a huge risk structurally that pays off. It's also the only movie I went to see twice this year. Really worth it too, picked up on a lot of stuff on the second viewing. Would've went a third time if theaters kept it playing longer. Every tiny decision/action has a huge impact. Just watch this. Last Black Man In San Francisco - 9/10 Birds of Passage - 9/10 Apollo 11 - 9/10 - The best documentary of the year. Probably the best editing (and use of sound) I've ever seen/heard in a documentary. It's unique because they don't use interviews like most documentaries do, it's real sound the whole through. Impressive use of archival footage/audio. Uncut Gems - 9/10 - This movie wasn't on the Best Original Score shortlist for the 2020 Oscars. This aggression will not stand. The Mustang - 9/10 Wild Rose - 9/10 - If this doesn't win the Oscar for Best Original Song ('Glasgow'), I've lost all faith in the Academy. The ending concert scene had me crying like a baby. Jessie Buckley is gonna be big. Best music-drama since A Star Is Born. Transit - 9/10 Ad Astra - 9/10 - Top-notch acting, great atmosphere, world-building, existentialism, beautiful VFX, engaging score. Best opening scene of the year. Thoughtful commentary on modern society all wrapped in a Heart of Darkness blanket. If you're into space/exploration movies, then I recommend this. Surprised at the backlash this movie has gotten on /r/movies. The Report - 9/10 - This was a really good year for legal-thrillers and The Report was the cream of the crop. Tight, Sorkin-like script with top performances from Adam Driver & Annette Bening. Could change a lot of minds about the war on terror and use of torture. Parasite - 9/10 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - 9/10 Midnight Traveler - 9/10 - If you feel like life is unfair and the odds are stacked against you, watch this movie. It puts everything in a different perspective. Every problem you have is going to seem minuscule compared to what this family went through. It's eye-opening and should fill you with anger. Luce - 9/10 - It's Kelvin Harrison Jr's world and we're just living in it. The Irishman - 8/10 Mickey and the Bear - 8/10 - Camila Morrone puts in the best breakout performance of the year. PTSD, drug-addiction, alcoholism, rural Montana, toxic relationships, James Badge Dale, following your dreams. What's not to love? The Art of Self Defense - 8/10 - The best dark-comedy of the year. So many great one liners. It's like Yorgos Lanthimos directing Death of Stalin, set in a karate studio. Surprisingly violent and depressing, but in all the right ways. Jesse Eisenberg's best movie since.....The Social Network? Peanut Butter Falcon - 8/10 - "Am I going to die?" "We all do, it's only a matter of time, now stop being a little bitch." - Favorite line of the year, really stuck with me. Everybody Knows - 8/10 Mary Magdalene - 8/10 Knives Out - 8/10 - Well-crafted whoddunit with an ensemble cast. Just a genuinely fun time at the movies. Ana de Armas with well-deserved leading role for once. A few of the characters are a tad bit unrealistic (and basically caricatures), but the movie doesn't take itself seriously enough for that to be a problem. Daniel Craig hamming it up with a Southern accent was fun. Old school film with a modern twist. The Lighthouse - 8/10 The Dead Don't Die - 8/10 - This movie really isn't for everyone, but I loved the dry humor and purposefully-bad chemistry/dialogue. The line delivery was off-putting but hilarious. Everything is extremely on-the-nose and it works. I could watch 10 hours of Tom Waits talking to himself. Us - 8/10 Villains - 8/10 Ford v Ferrari - 8/10 Midsommar - 8/10 Jojo Rabbit - 8/10 Official Secrets - 8/10 - Keira Knightley with one of the most underrated performances of the year. Another really good legal/political-thriller that exposes the dark side of government bureaucracy. Pain & Glory - 8/10 John Wick 3: Parabellum - 8/10 Queen & Slim - 8/10 Amazing Grace - 8/10 - Great concert-documentary. Some of Aretha Franklin's performances in this should give you insane chills. I actually had this one rated higher right after watching it, but then looked up some of the people shown on screen and it turns out some were real pieces of shit, while preaching to people like hypocrits. Felt gross and took a lot of the magic out. One of my few revised scores this year. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood - 8/10 Joker - 8/10 Non-Fiction - 8/10 - It's very French (talky and sexual) and the writing seems impressed with itself, but it's a good adult-drama that surprised me. I'm a big fan of Olivier Assayas and this is some of his best work. Rocketman - 8/10 Stan & Ollie - 8/10 Hustlers - 8/10 Avengers Endgame - 8/10 Doctor Sleep - 8/10 - It gets bloated and probably needed to be 20-30 minutes shorter (there's a shit ton of side-characters), but it was a worthwhile sequel to The Shining. Didn't feel like a cash grab and carries its own weight. Booksmart - 8/10 Little Monsters - 8/10 - I'd recommend watching this based just on Josh Gad's character. So over-the-top and hilarious. When he starts chugging hand sanitizer might be the most I laughed in a theater this year. Also Lupita Nyong'o playing & singing on the ukulele to a bunch of kids is exactly what I needed in my life. Cute zombie-comedy with a ton of heart. Spider-Man: Far From Home - 8/10 A Hidden Life - 8/10 - If there's a song from this year (or this decade even) that I'd want played at my funeral, it's James Newton Howard's theme from this movie. It's so beautiful and perfectly captures the feel of the movie. That song broke me down every time it played. I can't imagine this movie without it, it's that good. It's a shame this movie is getting ignored this awards season. Never Look Away - 8/10 Toy Story 4 - 8/10 Pavarotti - 8/10 The Biggest Little Farm - 8/10- If you're really into the inner-workings of a Californian farm, then this is the documentary for you. Abominable - 8/10 The Current War - 7/10 Artic - 7/10 - Well made, solidly-acted. I loved the small details about survival that this movie brings up, makes it very grounded and realistic. I'm kinda bored of survival movies in general so this didn't blow my mind or anything. Bombshell - 7/10 Honey Boy - 7/10 - Pretty big letdown because I had really high expectations for this one. Lacked the emotional punch I hoped for. Didn't land for me at all, kind of like Boy Erased last year. I appreciate how honest and revealing it was, took a lot of guts for Shia LaBeouf to put this out there but it's forgettable. Lucas Hedges' Shia impression was reallllly on point though, that was worth the price of admission right there. Mid90s last year was a 10/10 for me and I expected the same for this. It was good, not great. American Woman - 7/10 - Sienna Miller's performance in this is awards-worthy. The accent she does is perfect and it might be the most underrated role of the year. The movie gets way too tearjerky at the end though. It's basically 2 hours of bad shit happening to a good person, which gets a bit overwhelming. The Beach Bum - 7/10 Captain Marvel - 7/10 Spies In Disguise - 7/10 - Looked pretty generic based on the trailer, but was actually pretty funny. Cold Pursuit - 7/10 Tolkien - 7/10 - Not much happens but it felt really comfortable. Solid performances all around and they handled the WW1 scenes better than I thought they would. Expected to be bored out of my mind based on the reviews and trailer but it flowed well. As far as "Nicholas Hoult Biopics of Famous Writers" go, it's miles ahead of Rebel in the Rye 2 years ago. Jumanji: The Next Level - 7/10 Sauvage/Wild - 7/10 Detective Pikachu - 7/10 Maiden - 7/10 Dark Waters - 7/10 - . Good performances and an okay script, even though it beats you over the head sometimes. Total waste of Anne Hathaway. She's way too good of an actress for a boring, generic, 'supporting wife' role with just a few lines. Not even sure why she was in this. Overall, a solid legal-thriller, which is a genre I really enjoy and I've been missing since its late-90s heyday. Pretty crazy story too, scummy and evil corporate greed is always interesting to explore on film (like The Insider). Should've been 20 minutes shorter and less on-the-nose Adopt A Highway - 7/10 The Wedding Guest - 7/10 The Hummingbird Project - 7/10 Motherless Brooklyn - 7/10 The Lion King - 7/10 Last Christmas - 7/10 - It's really easy to bash this movie, a lot of the humor falls flat and the twist is ridiculous, but I couldn't help walking out with a smile. I love how committed Emilia Clarke was to the character, and her interactions with her boss and family were legitimately heart-warming at times. Also did I mention how ridiculous that twist is? Richard Jewell - 7/10 - This was decent. Even though it's clearly Clint Eastwood's personal crusade (and thinly-veiled propaganda piece in some regards) against the FBI & the Spooky Media™, it still told the story effectively/semi-believably. Some of the characters (Hamm/Wilde obviously) were pretty ridiculous caricatures though, was hard to take anything they said seriously, I mean come on. You just roll your eyes at most of what they say. Some of the situations and encounters are too-conveniently set-up but that's easy to overlook. It had very solid performances (Hauser was great, especially when he finally let's his emotion show, in that scene where he kicks the table). Much better than The Mule, and 20x better than 15:17 To Paris. Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker - 7/10 21 Bridges - 7/10 Before You Know It - 7/10 Hobbs & Shaw - 7/10 - This is peak "Stupid Summer Popcorn Movie" and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's The Meg of 2019. Fighting With My Family - 7/10 Pet Sematary - 7/10 Downton Abbey - 7/10 - Never saw a single episode of the show before watching the movie, but it still felt familiar/safe to jump right in. Yesterday - 7/10 Greta - 7/10 - It's a cheesy, predictable, non-scary horror film but I liked it. Sometimes you just need Isabelle Hupert to play a psychopathic serial killer. Felt very old-school, a movie straight out of the 1980s. Judy - 7/10 - It's the definition of Oscar bait and is emotionally manipulative, especially towards the end, but it does a great job at humanizing a Hollywood legend. Frozen 2 - 7/10 Aladdin - 7/10 The Souvenir - 7/10 Zombieland 2: Double Tap - 7/10 - Nowhere near as memorable/iconic as the first one, but it still got a bunch of laughs from me (especially the Thomas Middleditch/Luke Wilson scene). Above-average for a comedy-sequel, but I could see this one not aging well. The Two Popes - 6/10 - Two solid performances but underwhelming overall, too many cheap-looking flashback scenes, not enough Pryce/Hopkins. Reminded me of Can You Ever Forgive Me? last year, depending on the 2 leads to carry a weak movie/premise on their back, to disappointing results. Highly-overrated movie. Ready Or Not - 6/10 Anna - 6/10 - It's basically Red Sparrow but slightly worse. Saint Frances - 6/10 Hotel Mumbai - 6/10 Shazam! - 6/10 - Low-stakes, formulaic, superhero movie clearly made with strict budget limitations. It hits all the notes you'd expect a movie like this to hit. It was decent. Alita: Battle Angel - 6/10 Loro - 6/10 - One of the more disappointing movies of the year. On paper it sounds amazing, a sprawling biopic of an infamous/corrupt Italian politician/mogul by Paolo Sorrentino who's not that far removed from a masterpiece? Sign me the fuck up. But nah, this was a shallow, surface-level (like my reviews), pointless dull knife of a biopic. Too much shoehorned religious imagery too. Tone is all over the place. It can't decide whether it's serious or funny and gets lost in-between. It looked nice at least. It also wins this year's "Most Nudity" award, easily beating the rest of the field. Teen Spirit - 6/10 The Upside - 6/10 Gloria Bell - 6/10 - Great performance from Julianne Moore but this just felt like "Middle-Aged Crisis: The Movie". Just couldn't connect to it. I imagine the original is a lot better. On The Basis Of Sex - 6/10 Stockholm - 6/10 Give Me Liberty - 6/10 - This is an example of a movie that has its heart in the right place but bites off a lot more than it can chew. There's a beautiful, emotional story in here somewhere, but it's too muddled with ineffective editing tricks and too many side-stories. It's sweet in some ways and the true-life characters bring a lot of charm, but it didn't do that much for me. A lot of 'year-end' lists have this as one of the most overlooked movies of the year, but I don't see it. Rough editing, bad soundtrack. Child's Play - 6/10 Good Boys - 6/10 - Just watch Booksmart instead. Styx - 6/10 Woman at War - 6/10 The Lego Movie 2 - 6/10 Missing Link - 6/10 Long Shot - 6/10 - The chemistry between Charlize Theron & Seth Rogen was great but the jokes couldn't really match it. It's a unique mix of politics & humor, but fell short of being an actual crowd-pleaser. Echo in the Canyon - 6/10 Cyrano, My Love - 6/10 Dora the Explorer - 6/10 Brittany Runs A Marathon - 6/10 IT: Chapter 2 - 6/10 - Way too long. Felt like a never-ending series of fetch-quests. Good CGI & acting though. Mister America - 6/10 Crawl - 6/10 Trial By Fire - 6/10 - Great performances by Laura Dern & Jack O'Connell get overshadowed by an overly-preacy script. It doesn't let the audience make up its own mind. The Third Wife - 6/10 Godzilla: King of Monsters - 5/10 - This needed less humans, more monsters. Glass - 5/10 Escape Room - 5/10 Terminator: Dark Fate - 5/10 Dumbo - 5/10 All Is True - 5/10 Brightburn - 5/10 The White Crow - 5/10 - One of those biopics where the movie doesn't do justice to the story. Reading the Wikipedia page on this guy's life, you'd except an Oscar contender. Instead it was just okay. Watch Cold War instead. It's basically this movie but better. High Life - 5/10 - Unpleasant. Where'd You Go Bernadette? - 5/10 Scary Stories to Tell Dark - 5/10 Her Smell - 5/10 - This movie made me physically nauseous. The tight, claustrophobic, haze-filled shots in the first 2 acts really threw me off. It's temporarily redeemed by a reallllllly good third act and a solid performance from Elisabeth Moss. But then deflated by a terrible final scene. By the Grace of God - 5/10 - Based on the critical acclaim, director, and subject matter, I walked in expected to be blown away. Basically expected Spotlight, but this movie completely derails at the halfway point. Hard to sit through. Blinded by the Light - 5/10 The Best of Enemies - 5/10 The Aeronauts - 5/10 - This is mis-marketed as an intense survival story but it's really just a boring biopic with too many flashbacks. Fall of the American Empire - 5/10 Family - 5/10 The Goldfinch - 5/10 - It turns out an unfilmable novel really is unfilmbable, who would've thought? Shoutout to Jeffrey Wright & Finn Wolfhard for actually trying. Angel Has Fallen - 5/10 Gemini Man - 5/10 Late Night - 5/10 Black and Blue - 5/10 Diane - 5/10 - This was just depression-porn. Sometimes it works (Mungiu/Zvyagintsev), sometimes it doesn't (this movie). It's such a bummer. Wouldn't recommend this to anyone but Mary Kay Place's performance makes it watchable and engaging sometimes. Destroyer - 5/10 How To Train Your Dragon 3 - 5/10 Rafiki - 5/10 - I feel bad for this score because I get that this is a really important/significant movie for African Cinema, but I just couldn't get past the terrible acting, bad (like baaaaaad) dialogue, and lackluster story. Again, pretty big achievement that this got made and reached a global audience, but yeah, in a vacuum, it's undoubtedly a bad movie. Felt like an amateur movie on a shoestring budget. Captive State - 4/10 Wild Nights With Emily - 4/10 - This movie is what happens when someone asks the question "hey, what if we turned Emily Dickinson's life into an SNL skit?". I get what they were going for, and Molly Shannon is great, but this was extremely unfunny and probably the longest 84-minute movie I've ever seen. Dark Pheonix - 4/10 The Addams Family - 4/10 Midway - 4/10 To Dust - 4/10 Rojo - 4/10 - The only memorable thing about this movie is that there was a power outage about 90 minutes in so they comped my ticket and gave me a free drink. So that was cool, I guess. The Kid Who Would Be King - 4/10 MIB: International - 4/10 The Kid - 4/10 - There's a 98% chance that this movie is some kind of tax write-off or money laundering scheme. It somehow got 2 big names (Pratt & Hawke), co-starring the son of the producer in his first movie ever. Directed by Vincent D'Onofrio for some reason (???). Was dumped by Lionsgate in a few hundred theaters with 0 marketing/promotion, and flopped hard. It's dated, boring, and unoriginal. Cheesy dialogue. Literally a story that's been told a million times before, usually in much better ways. No reason for this to exist. Chris Pratt has the worst fake-movie-beard of all time in this, that's kinda worth checking out. Ramen Shop - 4/10 The Good Liar - 4/10- The most convoluted, needlessly-complicated plot of the year. Helen Mirren & Ian McKellen both phone it in (I don't blame them, they were given trash to work with). I hate when movies try to crowbar "WW2 flashbacks" into their movies when it's not needed. Climax - 4/10 Harriet - 4/10 Lucy in the Sky - 4/10 - Once or twice a year, a movie comes along that has such a frustrating/stupid/anti-climactic ending it makes me actually angry. This is that movie. Natalie Portman had another movie like that last year (Vox Lux). Hey Noah Hawley, what the fuck? Freaks - 4/10 - This movie would fit well in the "Good Idea But Bad Execution" subreddit. Tel Aviv On Fire - 4/10 Ma - 4/10 Frankie - 3/10 Stuber - 3/10 Serenity - 3/10 - In a year full of batshit-crazy twists (looking at you, Last Christmas), this easily had the batshit-iest twist. It's something you actually have to experience yourself, and be fully-immersed in it, to appreciate how mind-numblingly crazy it is. How they got A-list talent for this script is a total mystery, but it probably involves of a lot of favors and cocaine. It's almost "so bad its good". Almost. I can't wait for the sequel, Free Guy, next year. Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil - 3/10 - More genocide than I expected for a live-action Disney fairy tale movie. Donnybrook - 3/10 The Photograph - 3/10 - Zzzzzzzzzz... Charlie's Angels - 3/10 Hellboy - 3/10 - This movie is like that annoying kid in middle school that tries way to hard to be edgy. It's gory and vulgar just for the sake of being gory & vulgar. It reminded me of the Predator reboot last year, had the same kind of dated/forced humor that seems to have no real target audience (except for the aforementioned middle school edgy kid I guess). Bad CGI and a boring villain. iirc it also had a lame sequel-bait ending which I hate. Happy Death Day 2U - 3/10 - The Sun Is Also A Star - 3/10 - It's filmed like a generic music video and has the emotional depth of a puddle. Don't Let Go - 3/10 The Invisibles - 3/10 Playing with Fire - 3/10 - This was just like Mark Wahlberg's Instant Family last year, except that it was worse in every imaginable way. No lie, the end-credits bloopers were by far better than anything else in the movie. It was the only time I even chuckled or felt any type of emotion. Cats - 2/10 - There's not much more I could say that already hasn't been said. Yes, it was bad. No, it wasn't the worst movie in history. For me, it was just so boring. Forgettable songs (except Beautiful Ghosts), no story/plot, nonsensical ending. Just wanted it to end. Jennifer Hudson just floating into space for no reason, Judi Dench giving me unwarranted lessons about raising cats, Ian McKellen slurping milk from a bowl, Extremely-Hairy-And-Naked-Idris-Elba, Cockroach Genocide, etc. These things all happened and we can't change them, and for us to grow as a society, we need to just move on and learn from our mistakes. Rambo: Last Blood - 2/10 The Sound of Silence - 2/10 - More like The Sound of Boredom, amirite? No but seriously, that's all I got. This movie was the closest I got to falling asleep in my seat this year. Synonyms - 2/10 Black Christmas - 2/10 - Extremely cheesy dialogue, cop-out violence, boring/predictable jump scares, low production value (bad even for a low-end Blumhouse movie), some of the worst one-liners you've ever heard, unrealistic/2D characters. Shitty ending. Wayyyyy too heavy-handed with the message. About as subtle as a flying brick to the forehead. Amateur acting, cutaway for every death, etc etc. After the Wedding - 2/10 - Overacted, muddled garbage. 47 Meters Down Uncaged - 1/10 Shaft - 1/10 - Crude, unfunny, soulless, grating, pointless. There's a million adjectives I could use to describe this reboot, and none of them are positive. This is one I'm surprised I didn't just walk out of. Probably didn't have anything better do do that day. Jexi - 1/10 - This year's worst movie. It's just the kind of movie that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, like you need to watch something else to get the stink of this one out of your mind. It was just so mean-spirited, from start to finish. Not a single joke landed, you just hated all of the characters. There are no redeeming factors. On the technical side, it was very basic, looked like a cheap music video. No memorable scenes, no good lines of dialogue, no originality in any way. None of the "cheerful"/"pick-me-up" moments earn any kind of emotional reaction. If you had a freshman high-school film student remake Her as a shitty comedy, this would be it. The fact that I paid money to see this is something I will never live down. Movies that I saw outside of theaters, not included in the list: The King - 8/10 - Netflix Paddleton - 8/10 - Netflix El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story - 8/10 - Netflix High Flying Bird - 7/10 - Netflix Dolemite Is My Name - 7/10 - Netflix Triple Frontier - 6/10 - Netflix The Boy Who Harnessed Wind - 6/10 - Netflix The Laundromat - 5/10 - Netflix The Highwaymen - 5/10 - Netflix Velvet Buzzsaw - 4/10 - Netflix Bird Box - 4/10 - Netflix Six Underground - 2/10 - Netflix Movies that I saw in theaters in 2019, but are not included in the list due to original release date: If Beale Street Could Talk - 9/10 Cold War - 9/10 Capernaum - 9/10 Mary Poppins Returns - 7/10 The Charmer - 6/10 Movies that I haven't seen yet but will see in the next few weeks: Little Women 1917 In Fabric Tremors Just Mercy Midnight Family A Million Little Pieces The Earthquake Bird American Son Portrait of A Lady On Fire Clemency Beanpole The Kingmaker The Song of Names Here is the distribution of theater visits by day of the week: https://i.imgur.com/aIlGc6d.jpg Throughout the year, I've gone to 13 different theaters. 9 at major chains, and 4 at indie theaters. Here's the distribution of visits by theater: https://i.imgur.com/MuGEcEp.png Here is the distribution of theater visits by month: https://i.imgur.com/DhTqpeB.jpg Other: The longest stretch I went without going to the movies was from July 21st thru August 20th, without a single trip to the movies. Partially due to an out-of-country trip and personal stuff. During this time I "missed out" on The Kitchen, The Nightingale, Brian Banks, and Honeyland. Mostly caught up to the rest. The most theater visits in a one-week span was November 1st thru November 8th, with 8 movies that week. The most in one day was 3 movies in theaters on March 15th, 2019 (Styx, To Dust, and Captive State). There were 26 double-headers this year (two movies in theaters during the same day, usually back-to-back). Solid year, not as many surprises as 2018 though. Going to try to break 200 in 2020. Here is last year's ranking: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/aavyrr/i_saw_162_movies_in_theaters_in_2018_here_is_my/ submitted by /u/BunyipPouch to r/movies [link] [comments]