The Sandra Bullock Movie Star Playbook and ‘Practical Magic 2.’ Plus: ‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger.’

I Play Rocky 2025

TIFF biopic about the making of ‘Rocky.’ Sean expected to hate it, didn't.

Your Mother 2025

Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq's film, made after the ‘Blade’ they never got to make. Sean: really good.

Woman Unknown 2025

Venice Golden Lion winner. Set in post-war 1945 Denmark and told from the women's side. Competent but forgettable, and it lifts a beat or two from ‘Game of Thrones.’ The premiere ran with botched subtitles.

Possible Love 2025

Presumed favorite; took the Silver Lion instead.

Wild Horse Nine 2025

Malkovich won for it, unsurprisingly.

Naza 2025

Special jury prize, from Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger 2025

Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern's concert doc on the reunion tour. Twins the Noel/Liam thaw with the fans' relationship to the songs, one city per track. Restrained where it could be maudlin (the autistic kid and ‘Talk Tonight,’ the dog named Bonehead). Yasi's five out of five.

Practical Magic 2 2025

Suzanne Bier directs. Kidman and Bullock return; Joey King and Maisie Williams as Sally's daughters (playing 20 years younger than their age, which nobody explains), Lee Pace wasted on half a hip shimmy. Wooden dialogue, Vaseline-lens photography, CGI third act, heavy product placement. Underperformed at $30M against ~$46M tracking. Yasi came in loving the first one and left crushed.

Practical Magic 1998

Griffin Dunne's original. A box-office miss turned fall-season comfort watch; the curse reads as a metaphor for risking love. Sean had never seen it until this week.

Speed 1994

The launch, at 30.

While You Were Sleeping 1995

A relationship built on lies and fraud; a sequel is proposed and rejected on ethical grounds.

Miss Congeniality 2000

Two Weeks Notice 2002

Rom-com hall of fame if not for the Trump cameo at the end.

The Lake House 2006

Wonderful and makes no sense, so a sequel writes itself.

The Proposal 2009

$317M with Ryan Reynolds in his Ryan Reynolds bag.

Gravity 2013

Her second apex; rests entirely on her shoulders. Could have won Best Picture.

The Heat 2013

The Blind Side 2009

Won her Best Actress.

Crash 2004

A Best Picture winner and, per the room, hot garbage.

Ocean's 8 2018

Should have been directed by Soderbergh; Hathaway is the best thing in it.

Bird Box 2018

Huge Netflix hit, not a good movie.

The Unforgivable 2021

The Lost City 2022

Bullet Train 2022

Murder by Numbers 2002

Early Gosling; Sean's proposed revival.

Our Brand Is Crisis 2015

A real swing with David Gordon Green that didn't click.

A Time to Kill 1996

She's on the sideline; give her the McConaughey part in a courtroom redo.

Forces of Nature 1999

Hope Floats 1998

Two If by Sea 1996

Demolition Man 1993

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway 1993

Love Potion No. 9 1992