Gerry (2003) [second viewing]

Not only holds up quite well upon a second look but actually improves; once you know where the film is going (or, more importantly, where it isn't going to go), the second half starts to feel less like an exercise in marking time and more like a vast, horrific fright flick where the monster is the utter indifference of Nature to the plight of Man. Little subtleties registered more fully this time around too (the use of landscape shots to mark the passing of time; the recurring image of Our Heroes dwarfed by the cruel landscape). It's still a funny and absorbing lark, but I missed exactly how haunting it also was.

Grade: A- (up from a B+)