My recent watching, from best to 'worst'. The first two could both be described as "crazy, fun and dark" but were rather different.
Parasite (2019)
A teen from a family struggling to put food on the table gets a job working for a rich family, and the poorer family band together to try and get each other jobs with the rich family. Parasite is a very good film, with a great combination of humour, tension and surprise. It was like a cross between two other South Korean films, 3-Iron (one of my all-time favourite films) and Shoplifters.
Birds of Prey (2020)
Birds of Prey aimed for Deadpool-style I think, but should've been more Joker if they were aiming for the adult audience. It took a while to get going (it's difficult to get behind a morally unambiguous character) but was fun for the second hour or so, especially the visuals.
The Guard (2011)
Irish comedy crime thriller about a confrontational police man who snorts the coke he finds on criminals but teams up with an an uptight FBI agent. Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson had good chemistry and The Guard is good fun, in the vein of In Bruges.
Under the Skin (2013)
Scarlett Johansson stars as an emotionally-detached alien kidnapping guys around Scotland. Under the Skin was intriguing to start with, but I was bored for stretches during the second half.
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Isolated Italian peasants, including a kind teen the locals make fun of, are exploited by a tobacco baroness. Marked as a fantasy, and I wondered how for the first hour. I was sort of enjoying it but felt it lost its way and could've been half an hour shorter.
Sunset Song (2015)
The life of a young Scottish woman during WWI. The ending was emotional enough, but Sunset Song was another film that seemed too long. One of the main character's 'change' wasn't believable. I couldn't understand the accents at times, so switched on the subtitles. I kid you not (especially the second screen - click for larger):
Finally caught up with PARASITE and was underwhelmed, possibly due to the hype raising my expectations. I thought it was OK and it had a neat premise, but it was overlong and predictable and I can't for the life of me see why there's been so much fuss about the movie.
In short, a film about unpleasant people doing unpleasant things.
I didn't think so. Family was at the core of both sides (particularly the main protagonist), and I was surprised by what happened a few times. It's not the best South Korean film I've seen, but it's in the next tier. I'm disappointed (not surprised) to see a 6-episode HBO series is planned already. Some things should be left as they are, though the Snowpiercer TV adaptation looks better than the (English-language) film (which was by the same director as Parasite).