Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2024 — Part Two!
Welcome back to part two of my list of my favorite movies of 2024! Click here to read part one. Let’s continue with my list: 15. Here — I enjoyed this reunion of the Forrest Gump team of director Robert Zemeckis and actors Tom Hanks & Robin Wright; it’s not per
Josh Reviews The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is (loosely) based on true events from World War II, only recently declassified (and detailed in the 2014 book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewi
Josh Reviews Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
In Guy Ritchie’s latest film, The Covenant, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Master Sergeant John Kinley, who leads a team of U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan in 2018, tasked with finding caches of bomb-making weapons. It’s dangerous work, and in an early sequence we see a truck-bom
Josh Reviews Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
In the latest Guy Ritchie film, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Jason Statham stars as super-spy Orson Fortune, who works with a team of contractors/spies hired by the British government to track a device called “the handle” that was stolen by mercenaries. Orson and h
Josh Reviews Revolver
I’m a huge fan of Guy Ritchie’s first two films: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000). Mr. Ritchie followed that up with Swept Away in 2o02, which remains the only film Mr. Ritchie has directed that I haven’t seen. It was brutally panned
Josh Reviews Wrath of Man
Wrath of Man is the latest film directed by Guy Ritchie. Jason Statham stars as the man nicknamed “H,” a security guard for an armored truck company. In the film’s opening sequence, we see a group of armed men attack and rob one of the company’s trucks, lea
Josh Reviews The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, tells a complicated yarn of the interactions among many different players in the London crime scene, from low-level street toughs to the wealthy masterminds overseeing their empires. Guy Ritchie came onto the scene with two fantast
Josh Reviews King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
I’m not sure why Hollywood keeps insisting on making King Arthur movies. Is it the allure of a known name, in the way that studios chase after franchises and keep remaking and rebooting series with a recognizable title? Personally, I have never been all that interested in th
Josh Reviews The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
There is nothing particularly revelatory about Guy Ritchie’s new film version of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., a nineteen-sixties TV show now reinvented for the big screen. Of the two films released this summer that are based on nineteen-sixties TV shows about spies, I definitely p
Josh Reviews Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
I really loved Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes film from two years ago, and so I was thrilled that they went into production on a sequel so quickly. (That the first film ended with such a delicious promise of further adventures didn’t hurt, of course!) But, unfortunately, th