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THE END IS EXTREMELY FUCKING NIGH

Absolutely devastating

It's definitely not good but it's not terrible? Gal Gadot does give an all time stinker performance though

Final shot adds at least a half star. Amazing.

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Film 24

A charmingly janky Alien rip-off which some very unintentionally funny acting

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Film 24- Janus Contemporaries

Reminds me a lot of Godard's later work which, controversially perhaps, I am a big fan of. Carax has been hit and miss for me but this really worked.

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Film 23- 2000s

Every tear leads back to Jacques

An incredibly intimate and open biographical documentary. Varda lived such an interesting life, coinciding with so many movements in both film and politics.

Her love for Demy is so moving.

Final act held up better on this watch. Give Grant more movies where he gets to monologue to camera.

Monke

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Film 23

Possibly one of the most half-baked movies I've ever seen. Also feel like the title constitutes false advertising.

I think we should hear Peter out, he might have been onto something

Vibes are kind of off the scale

A tough film to rate considering the low quality of the YouTube video I watched and the unfortunate destruction of most of the films elements. In spite of this, this is clearly a very important work and manages to tell a very touching story as well.

It's crazy to see a film from 1919 that not only acknowledges homosexuality but portrays it in an positive light, as nothing to be a ashamed of. Whoever assembled the various bits and pieces of film left over from it's destruction did an irable job, would be nice if a bigger label could do a restoration.

Where's Menna Trussler's best ing actress Oscar?

"Rubber dinghy rapids" had such a stranglehold on my friend group when this came out

One of the best performances of the 2010s from Affleck in this. Plays the pain without any big, showy outbursts and perfectly portrays Lee's inability to talk about what happened.

Can we get this Peyton Reed back please

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Film 22- Documentary

Two women trapped together in a weird sort of purgatory, reliving a past that maybe never existed. A fascinating work.

This rating is not an endorsement of incest

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Film 21- 1990s

"I learned I was part of someone else's happiness. What a wonderful discovery"

A very interesting premise, I'm a big fan of films that use ordinary every day settings to convey extraordinary concepts. Kore-eda is the master of a slow build up to a quietly devastating finally.

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Film 22

I think I prefer later period gory Fulci to his Giallo films

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Film 21

This movie would legit finish off one of my relatives who is afraid of rats

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Film 20

Completely believable that Isabella Rosselinni has a magical youth potion.

This film walked so The Substance could run

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Film 19

They made an A24 horror movie about Jesse's trauma.

Combat Carl Jnr was a great gag

9th viewing and I only now realised Jack Quaid is playing Richard Feynman

This review may contain spoilers.

A fitting end (maybe) to the franchise. Really liked the story and structure. The sub sequence one of the best of the series.

Only major complaint is that the finale is quite similar to Fallout but it's still very well done.

Hoping for a lot more Pom in The Final Reckoning

Definitely feels like a sequel that was rushed out inside a year of the first film. 80 minutes with credits and it feels like 10 minutes of that is montage.

Okay we get it Lars, life is terrible and everything sucks

(All 4 stars are for Bjork)

Brotherly love ❤️

Michael Cera best ing actor campaign starts now

The baby says the r slur

James Woods isn't even acting in this, that's just what he's like

The "you can't handle the truth" scene has become a meme but I'll be dawned if it isn't one of the most compelling scenes in mainstream cinema

A lot more farting in this than I ed

Rewatch bumped this up to five stars for me. Driver and Cruz are great and the story is very compelling. More biopic should focus on specific important incidents in their subjects lives.

The racing scenes are some of the best I've seen in film, would be interested to see how they shot them.

Watched theatrical cut this time. Still, in the words of David Sims, honks

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Film 20- Spine #451-499

I'm such a big fan of Buñuel's combination of surrealism and satire of religion, politics etc. It always works for me and this is no exception.

The cut to Mickey's face at the punk show is comedic brilliance

Everyone's a little weird these days, it's normal

No one:

Characters in this film looking straight down the barrel of the camera: 👁👄👁

So many gorgeous shots in this

Increasingly convinced that American's aren't funny

Watched this a couple years ago and have been dying to rewatch since. Definitely holds up the second time round.

Does a lot with very little and a cool concept. Tense and unsettling throughout. Loses its way a little bit in the conclusion but the final shot is great.

Tfw Marnie was there

Incredibly well made (the blocking and camera moves in some scenes is masterful) as expected from Kurosawa but the story just didn't grip me at all I'm afraid. Definitely could have been 15-20 minutes shorter imo

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Film 19- 1980s

Not entirely sure what Godard is trying to say with this but trust him to make the self insert character the biggest arsehole in the world

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Film 18- William Friedkin Closet Picks

This feels like a blueprint for a lot of more modern prison escape movies. It's surprisingly dark for a Hollywood picture from the 40s.

Lancaster and Cronyn are great as duelling convict and guard.

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Film 18

Italians really have something against narrative coherence eh?

This review may contain spoilers.

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Film 17

Massimo Dallamano made this film about a child prostitution ring operated by and with the knowledge of elements of the Italian establishment and then 2 years later died in a car accident. Make of that what you will.

• Showgirls
• Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
• Barbarella
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• All About My Mother
• Volver
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• Bananas
• Platoon
• A Night of Knowing Nothing

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. Heat
3. Aftersun
4. Children of Men
5. The Sound of Music
6. Paris Is Burning
7. The Wicker Man
8. La Haine
9. Battle Royale
10. Grave of the Fireflies

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Weekend

   A film from the CC40 boxset

2. Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

   Film from the year you were born

3. Secret Honor

   Directed by Robert Altman

4. Breathless

   Film that would be my first pick in the Criterion Closet

5. The Doom Generation

   Great Soundtracks

6. Divorce Italian Style

   John Turturro's Adventures in Moviegoing

7. Häxan

   1920s

8. The Mother and the Whore

   Film being added to the physical collection in 2025

9. Modern Times

   1930s

10. Salesman

    Andrew Garfield Closet Picks

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible
3. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
6. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
7. Mission: Impossible III
8. Mission: Impossible II

1. The Phoenician Scheme
2. Sinners
3. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
4. Mickey 17
5. Black Bag
6. The Monkey
7. Captain America: Brave New World
8. Wolf Man
9. Opus
10. One of Them Days

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Addiction

  Arrow 4K

• American Psycho

  Lionsgate 4K

• Anora

  Criterion Collection 4K

• Avatar: The Way of Water

  Steelbook 4K

• Autumn Almanac

  Curzon Boxset

• Babylon

  Steelbook 4K

• The Beyond

  Arrow Steelbook

• Black God, White Devil

  Radiance Limited Edition Blu-ray

• Blackhat

  Arrow 4K

• Blue Velvet

  Criterion Collection 4K

...plus 127 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Kwaidan

   Most popular horror film on watchlist

2. In the Folds of the Flesh
3. Coraline
4. Black Moon
5. Wolf Man
6. Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan
7. Oculus
8. The Girl Who Knew Too Much
9. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
10. Twinkle

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Power of the Dog
• The Portrait of a Lady
• In the Cut
• The Piano
• Sweetie
• Holy Smoke
• An Angel at My Table
• Two Friends

1. Nickel Boys
2. Wicked
3. The Substance
4. Anora
5. Dune: Part Two
6. I'm Still Here
7. A Complete Unknown
8. Conclave
9. The Brutalist
10. Emilia Pérez

• Mulholland Drive
• Oppenheimer
• Heat
• Chungking Express
• First Reformed
• Stalker
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Breathless
• A Few Good Men
• Pride

• Fatal Attraction
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Moonlight
• The Green Mile
• Roman Holiday

• L'Avventura
• Multiple Maniacs
• Ferrari
• Challengers
• Hereditary
• Seven Samurai
• Chinatown
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• The Silence of the Lambs

1. Le Doulos

   Spine #351-450

2. Summer with Monika

   Spine #601-700

3. Harakiri

   Film with a rating of 4.3 or higher

4. Fallen Angels

   First film in watchlist

5. Lingua Franca

   Most recently added film in watchlist

6. Happy Hour

   Longest film on watchlist

7. La Haine

   Most popular film on watchlist

8. Touki Bouki

   Martin Scorses World Cinema Project

9. Betty Blue

   Criterion Staff Picks

10. Gertrud

    New York Film Festival Favourites

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranking of films released in 2024 based on UK release date

1. Wicked
2. The Substance
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Challengers
5. All of Us Strangers
6. Dune: Part Two
7. Anora
8. The Wild Robot
9. The Holdovers
10. The Zone of Interest

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Lost Highway
3. Inland Empire
4. Eraserhead
5. Blue Velvet
6. The Elephant Man
7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
8. The Straight Story
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

1. Zodiac
2. The Social Network
3. Se7en
4. Fight Club
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. Gone Girl
7. The Killer
8. Panic Room
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10. The Game

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Psycho
2. Zombie Flesh Eaters
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
4. Frankenhooker
5. City of the Living Dead
6. Psycho II
7. Kidnapped
8. The Brood
9. The Beyond
10. Ju-on: The Grudge

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. V/H/S/Beyond
2. V/H/S/94
3. V/H/S/99
4. V/H/S
5. V/H/S/2
6. V/H/S/85
7. V/H/S: Viral

• Accattone
• A Dirty Story
• After Life
• Alice in the Cities
• All That Money Can Buy
• All These Women
• After the Rehearsal
• Ambition
• L'amore
• Anna and the Wolves

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• Autumn Sonata
• The Blood of a Poet
• Bullet Ballet
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Closely Watched Trains
• The Color of Pomegranates
• Disintegration Loop 1.1
• Earth
• Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn

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1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Prometheus
4. Alien: Romulus
5. Alien Resurrection
6. Alien: Covenant
7. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
8. Alien³
9. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

1. Open Range
2. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
3. The Postman
4. Dances with Wolves

1. Midnight Run
2. Beverly Hills Cop
3. Meet Joe Black
4. Going in Style
5. Scent of a Woman
6. Gigli

1. Perfect Blue
2. Paprika
3. Tokyo Godfathers
4. Millennium Actress

1. Predator
2. Die Hard
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. Die Hard With a Vengeance
6. Last Action Hero
7. Basic
8. Nomads
9. The 13th Warrior
10. Medicine Man

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• Possessor
• Nyctophobia
• Cremaster 3
• Upstream Color
• Happiness
• Poor Things
• IWOW: I Walk on Water
• Coherence
• Mandy
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

...plus 308 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Ex Machina
2. Civil War
3. Annihilation
4. Men

1. Arrival
2. Incendies
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Dune
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Sicario
7. Prisoners
8. Polytechnique
9. Enemy
10. August 32nd on Earth

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• La Ceremonie
• Louder Than Bombs
• White Material
• Amateur
• Story of Women
• Loulou
• Every Man for Himself
• The Bedroom Window
• Dead Man Down
• Madame Bovary

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Ranking of films that were released in 2023 (based on UK release date)

1. Oppenheimer
2. Beau Is Afraid
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
5. Babylon
6. John Wick: Chapter 4
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. Past Lives
10. Master Gardener

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1. Oppenheimer
2. The Holdovers
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Poor Things
5. Past Lives
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. The Zone of Interest
8. Maestro
9. Barbie
10. American Fiction

1. Heat
2. Collateral
3. Miami Vice
4. The Insider
5. Blackhat
6. Thief
7. Ferrari
8. The Last of the Mohicans
9. Manhunter
10. Public Enemies

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• Freaks
• Deep Red
• Tenebre
• Phenomena
• The Witch
• Frankenhooker
• Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Exorcist
• Exorcist II: The Heretic
• The Exorcist III

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• Saw X
• Saw VI
• Saw
• Jigsaw
• Saw 3D
• Saw III
• Saw IV
• Saw II
• Saw V
• Spiral: From the Book of Saw

1. The Handmaiden
2. Oldboy
3. Decision to Leave
4. t Security Area
5. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
6. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
7. Lady Vengeance
8. Thirst
9. Stoker
10. Trio

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1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The French Dispatch
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Asteroid City
5. Rushmore
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. The Darjeeling Limited
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Isle of Dogs

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1. The General
2. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
3. Sherlock Jr.
4. Our Hospitality
5. Seven Chances
6. Battling Butler
7. The Cameraman
8. Three Ages
9. The Navigator
10. Go West

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1. The Sixth Sense
2. Unbreakable
3. Glass
4. Signs
5. The Village
6. Old
7. Knock at the Cabin
8. Split
9. The Happening
10. Lady in the Water

Films on my MUBI watchlist

• Oslo, August 31st
• The Turin Horse
• Cold War
• The Worst Person in the World
• Paris, 13th District
• Reprise
• The Kindergarten Teacher
• Zero Fucks Given
• Louder Than Bombs
• Amour

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1. Scream
2. Scream VI
3. Scream 4
4. Scream 2
5. Scream
6. Scream 3

Films to watched in October 2022

• Inferno
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
• Dead & Buried
• The House by the Cemetery
• The Funhouse
• Strange Behavior
• Wolfen
• Scanners
• Roadgames
• The Fan

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