360 (2011)

A French Austrian Brazilian British crime drama directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Jude Law, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jamel Debbouze, Rachel Weisz, Ben Foster, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Anthony Hopkins.
People are involved in sexual situations. One woman is a hooker, a man orders her, but misses the connection, a sex offender gets out of jail and is tempted by a beautiful woman at the airport...
Boring and desultory. The plot or plots did not hold my attention at all, maybe because of the audio, which I will get to. There were far too many characters. Some of them seemed to be connected in some way. The video was all great. There was a variety of shot duration and camera placement. It really looked great, natural and not forced. The audio was horrible. Most of the dialogue was whispered. When that happens, I take it as a sign that the filmmakers thought dialogue was unimportant and don't care if the viewer hears what people are saying. If the dialogue was important, we should be able to hear it, right? Given that I only heard a few words and phrases over the course of almost 2 hours, I rate this bad. It looked great, but sounded terrible. Don't watch it.

11:14 (2003)

A Canadian American black comedy drama directed by Greg Marcks, starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Ben Foster, Clark Gregg and Barbara Hershey.
Separate series of events involving different groups of people all converge at 11:14PM in a car accident. 5 parts are shown.
This was about plot. Each of the people was shown in their own segment and with each passing segment, more of the pieces of the puzzle fit together to show what happened. Characters were kind of temporary and shallow because there were so many of them. I didn't really notice cinematography or editing and the audio seemed fine. There were also good subtitles on the version I found. Most folks seem to like this, but Time Out seemed to find it boring. I liked it because it held my attention. I rate it good and you should probably watch it.
On a side note, I have switched movie lists of what to watch next. I found this list of "every film ever made" https://alphabetizer.flap.tv/lists/list-of-every-movie-ever-made.php and figured I could just start at the beginning and watch whatever I found. It sure beats watching a list of the worst movies, if only for the element of chance involved. My old list was so long that I might as well try a list claiming to be every movie. I've also figured out how to make images start out at the top and centered.

Rampart (2011)

An American crime drama directed by Oren Moverman, starring Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Sigourney Weaver, Robert Wisdom, Robin Wright and Steve Buscemi.
A corrupt and violent cop is having trouble with his family and with following the rules at work.
The best thing about this was the casting. Woddy Harrelson makes a great violent cop. In camerawork and editing, I liked the shot of the main character underwater in a pool most. Other than that, it was very mediocre. This is part of why I haven't been posting. Most of the stuff I watch is just mediocre and not really worth writing about. I rate this o.k.

Leave No Trace (2018)

An American drama directed by Debra Granik, starring Ben Foster and Dale Dickey.
An Iraq war veteran is living in a forest with his daughter. The cops raid their camp and abduct them, forcing them into social services. They leave the christmas tree farm where they are loaned a small house and eventually find a mobile home community.
I really liked this because it was not an average, mainstream Hollywood film. The slow pace and sparse dialogue went well with the main characters and their "off the grid" lifestyle.All of the video looked good. I didn't even notice the editing or cinematography because it was all so seamless and done so well. The audio was going great until the ending credits and whatever inappropriately produced song was playing there. Those who have seen Winter's Bone (2010) will recognize Dale Dickey. The only complaint that I have is that the plot is not explained sufficiently to figure out why these people are living in the woods until the very end. I was watching along, expecting it to be some type of dark vision of the future. I thought that the main characters needed to live outside of society in order to retain some basic freedom, but no. I rate this awesome because of its uniqueness and for having "off the grid" living in the plot. I basically recommend it for anyone who liked Winter's Bone.