I got out to the movies last month—three times, even! I saw Whit Stillman’s delicious “Love & Friendship,” which, as a Jane Austen adaptation, is not exactly in the same milieu as his modern classics “Metropolitan” and “Barcelona,” but it nevertheless fully recaptures his magical and very particular blend of absurdly articulate witticicsms and high society mannerist comedy. The natural complement to such period costume entertainments is, of course “Captain America: Civil War,” which was good enough fun that I went to see it twice. I’m not exactly proud of that, but at heart, I am a geek.

May 2016

• “The Guest” I knew nothing about this movie before watching it and was pleasantly surprised.
• “Mad Max”
• “Cars” Gotta say, I don’t hate this least loved of all the Pixar movies.
• “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial” First time since I was a kid. Sniff.
• “Captain America: Civil War”
• “High-Rise” It has a brilliant poster.
• “Desperate”
• “Decision at Sundown”
• “Lucy” I’d heard that it gets really bad at the end; it does.
• “Raising Arizona” Immortal.
• “The Dark Knight” Watched this again after several years; I was shocked by how much of it is really stiff and unconvincing, but its second half is still potent.
• “Love & Friendship”

If you’re interested, here’s my list from April, March and my list for January and February. And you can follow along with my film diary on Letterboxd, too.