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The seemingly never-ending game of Flick-usical Chairs keeps getting new additions to the assessment/re-assessment roster, along with the amount of open “pre-Dream Scenario” spots constantly dwindling. And given what’s in store for this entry, both of those observations remain true.
Let’s begin.
First up, a baker’s dozen of movies released as far back as 2023 have emerged as assessment-worthy, whether they stopped slipping through the cracks or I am now just noticing them. And of course, as always, I will detail each movie and their reasons for being assessment-worthy via the typical chart below format:
| Movie | Why it’s assessment-worthy |
| I Know What You Did Last Summer | The legacy predecessors of this movie are both on the roster for re-assessment, thus the reason why it will get assessed. |
| Fixed | An R-Rated 2D-animated movies about dogs? Sign me up! |
| Eden | I’ll watch almost anything that either has Ana de Armas or Sydney Sweeney, so you damn well know that I’ll assess a movie that has both of them. |
| Regretting You | Colleen Hoover’s reputation and career have taken a beating, mostly because of the aftermath of “It Ends With Us”. This movie is the second one to be adapted from one of her books, but I have faith in this one being the complete opposite of a dumpster fire, due to the presence of the dynamic Allison Williams. |
| The Running Man | I saw the trailer of this movie two days ago and it looks better than the 1987 version, the latter of which will be evaluated within the next 405 Flickuum evaluations. Yeah, I’m going to be running (not literally) to the theater to see this one in November. |
| Sisu 2 | This movie’s predecessor would have been perfect as a one-off. But the fact that this movie is even coming out is an added bonus. |
| Project Hail Mary | This movie has a talented cast and has the potential to outrank “The Core” a.k.a. the 1,286th enshrined Flickuum movie. |
| The Boys In The Boat | I saw the trailer for this movie when I went to go see “Migration”, and came away thinking that it could a letdown just like “Heart Of Champions”. But the latter of those three movies is up for re-assessment, thus this one deserves an assessment, on the basis of an apples-to-apples comparison. |
| Nickel Boys | From a production value-standpoint, this movie is like the one that’s listed above, thus it’s worthy of an assessment. |
| The Fire Inside | Based on the trailer, this movie looked better visually than just simply reading its brief summary. And since I saw its aforementioned trailer on the same day that I saw the trailer for the aforementioned “Nickel Boys”, it’s on the roster on trailer association alone. |
| Last Breath | This movie features Simu Liu, who is the lead of The Flickuum stabilizer “Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings”. Plus, it helps that I saw this movie before my theatrical assessment of “Nosferatu”. |
| Off The Record | The fact that this movie has Margaret Qualley’s older sister, Rainey, makes it worthy of an assessment. |
| Diablo | This movie gives off “Run All Night” vibes. |
Alright, so after composing another chart of new additions to the assessment/re-assessment roster, I had to come up with at least two more items for this entry since I’ve made it known that I don’t like just two items in any Flickasbord entry. So, with that being said, I’ve added the A24 movie “Funny Pages” to the roster instead of giving it an impromptu assessment like I did with another A24 movie in “Locke”. And as to why I added that movie to the roster, well it looked like the movie that could fill the “Problemista” void in The Project, as the Julio Torres-led movie has an 85% (and likely dwindling) Project probability rate and the Owen Kline-directed movie has what it takes to be a better version of that movie. And now that I have said that, I feel watching it right after today’s social media postings.
And finally, I rarely devote an entire paragraph to pardoned movies in these types of entries, but I needed something to fill the three-item minimum of this particular entry. So, with that being said, I’ve decided to pardon the movie “Shiva Baby”, due to me wanting to see Rachel Sennott’s performance in it, especially given how she made Flickuum waves via the movie “Bottoms” as first an assessment and then as an evaluation. Stay tuned.
Well, I’m on a four-game winless streak of finding movies that are worthy of graduation to Tier 5. But given that I’ll have a good three full days of flexible scheduling, I’m totally confident that I can meet my goal of 50 movies for the fourth Varsity vs. JV style battle between now and Sunday afternoon.
Until the next time.