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Hmmmm, a pretty mixed bag for me. The screenplay is gorgeously composed and deeply perceptive of the nature of dating in today’s world, but it’s also got its fair share of puzzling moments and lack of clarity (poor guy in the city owns and pays for a car and uses that car to go to dinner from downtown to midtown? Seriously?). The casting of Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal isn’t quite right, but I thoroughly enjoyed Dakota Johnson and Zoe Winters (who was especially excellent). It’s shot really beautifully, especially in the way it portrays NYC, but Song’s direction tended to be a little too heavy-handed for my tastes.

All that being said, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t really swept up in the end by the romanticism of it all. It wears its heart on its sleeve, for better or worse— mostly for the better.

Still not quite obsessed with this movie, but god, if it wasn’t a hell of a time in a sold out crowd at Film Forum amongst the girls, the gays, the theys, and the film bros of BFC 🫶🏼

Monumental in its scale, but I found it a little tough to remain engaged with on an emotional investment level.

I just wanna smoke a t with Spiccoli. 

I had such a great time with this one. It’s a pure time-capsule of a movie. One of those rare movies that filled me with nostalgia for a period I never even experienced.

not entirely my thing but it did make me want to jump out of my skin a few times, so it elicited the exact response I think Tim Robinson was trying to elicit

hahahaha no 🫶🏼

Film Twitter is going to absolutely rip this to shreds upon its release, I think.

“Blues wasn't forced on us like that religion. Nah, we brought this from home.”

My second watch (in 70mm IMAX 😭) only proved to deepen my love and appreciation for this film. Not only is Sinners a perfect representation of a director in full-control, knowing exactly how to craft a thrilling movie, but it’s also an extensive exploration of the African American experience that is incredibly layered and deep in its thematic analysis.

I caught so many nuances on this watch that I missed before: lyrics in the blues music speaking to specific moments, the oppression of black Americans through the use of varying currencies, the way that Remmick’s promise of salvation mirrors the forced assimilation and white-washing of different cultures within our country. 

It’s so rich and so brilliant. It’s gonna be a tough movie to top this year for me.

This is sort of what I imagine some cuck relationships are like??? Don’t tell me if I’m wrong.

Unfortunately this was sort of a hot mess. Tonally all over the map, failing to toe the line of the ridiculous-but-rip-roaring-good-time that the other McQuarrie installments bring to the table. This one just goes full ridiculous (@Lily would tag this “better if you don’t think too hard about science”), leading to lots of unintentional laughs throughout at just how nonsensical it all is, while also being incredibly self-serious. 

That being said, the 2 huge action set pieces are excellent, just as good as almost any action sequence in the franchise.  The plane sequence alone had me throwing up my hands and clutching my pearls throughout. If there’s one thing McQuarrie knows how to do, it’s build a thrilling action scene.

Those 2 scenes really saved the film for me, turning it into a messy but watchable good-time.

had a solid potential for a B- Horror Flick but felt like it was written by a 13 year old… and that ending? 🙄

When it comes to the microgenre of Tortured-Genius-Types-Making-Meta-Masterpieces-About-How-They’re-Womanizing-Assholes, I still prefer All That Jazz, but 8 1/2 certainly set the bar.

Proof that Marvel CAN make films that actually have something to say. Truly one of the most bold visions from Marvel in years, I’m just sort of over the whole MCU thing at this point. But if they made more movies like this, they could bring me back into the fold just a little.

While obviously thematically rich, I found this one to be a tough nut to crack for most of its runtime… but those final 30 minutes really hit home in a special way that brought me around on it.

One of those movies where nothing happens and everything happens at the same time. 

It took me a bit to find its wavelength, but once I did, I rather enjoyed it.

As much as I loved this story, I can’t lie and say I didn’t have a huge issue with its approach. The elongated, drawn-out single take shots added about 30 unnecessary minutes to the runtime of this one, and nearly put me to sleep on multiple occasions. Plus I also found the score to be cacophonous and overbearing. 
There was a lot to like about it as well, including a powerful performance Mary Twala, but the package it arrived in did more damage than good.

A stone-cold classic. Just beaming with romanticism in every frame. Every performance is perfect, the score is transcendent, the cinematography is stunning, and it makes me, against all odds, attracted to Tom Wambsgans.

For the sake of keeping track:

Joe (W)rights: Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Hanna
Joe Wrongs: Pan, The Darkest Hour, The Woman in the Window

MISS COBEL!???

This was a blast! Tarantino’s trademarks are all over it. It’s almost Shakespearean in its set up, climaxing in a shootout for the ages, but one thing I appreciated was that it never undermined the central romance with cheap jokes or ulterior motives. Clarence and Alabama’s love is the beating heart of this one, even amidst all the drugs and violence.

I wanted to ride a Swift Horse away from whatever tf this was. 

So poorly written and executed. Not sure there was a natural beat or moment in its entire 2-hour runtime. Felt like it was made by an alien directing a group of humans in scenes featuring scenarios and emotions he didn’t understand.

“I felt like a gerbil smothering in Richard Gere’s butthole.”

Really not quite sure what to make of this one, but I had a great time!!

Added to my list: Films that definitely should’ve been gayer what the hell

I was immediately really into this but it just really lagged in the second half to me. Some of the most stunningly gorgeous scenery and cinematography here, and the several instances where it uses pre-existing songs were placed and executed so perfectly. I just wish it would’ve been gayer.

alright let’s be honest, those kids were f*cking brats. 

that shot of Jane Wyman in the tv *chef’s kiss*

has way too much to say about way too many topics and gets bogged down in it all. but the biggest sin is it’s just kind of boring.

Really excellent all around. 

I know I don’t really need to say it, but it bears repeating… *whispers* ACAB.

Anything this unabashedly gay gets a stamp of approval from me. 

Ahn gets a little too heavy-handed at times for my tastes, but it’s got a gift of a cast to ease some of those frustrations. Especially Youn Yuh-Jung, who is so excellent here, sort of the antithesis of her Minari role.

Lonergan so deftly handles each emotional beat in this film while avoiding manipulating the audience’s emotion. And it’s all played so beautifully by Linney and Ruffalo. Sammy and Terry are both such layered and realized people: messy, flawed, and tortured by their past. But their love for each other shines through the most. 

Just top-tier indie filmmaking.

wow wow wow this was excellent

What a delightful little farcical romantic romp. Just continues to surprise and charm you through its entire runtime.

Also I realize this probably isn’t breaking news for anyone, but Clark Gable: hot.

I saw a quote from Coogler where he likened the experience of seeing his new film Sinners to eating a “good meal”, but I’d argue he gave us a whole ass feast!

Sinners captured me from its very first moments with its stunning cinematography and thrilling score from maybe-already-legendary Ludwig Göransson. The way Coogler approaches this story like Southern Gothic folklore brings an otherworldly quality to the proceedings. From the very first moments, you know you’re in for something eerie and epic.

As the film goes on, Sinners turns into a quasi-musical, playing with the ways that culture and music connect us to the past and the future: a through-line for life itself. There’s a centerpiece sequence on the dancefloor of the club, fueled by the incredible blues stylings of Sammie, blending culture and music into an exalting generational experience that will undoubtedly be ed for years to come. 

Once Coogler’s film makes its shift into its vampiric sub-genre is when the real fun starts. And boy, does he use the vampire genre to thrilling metaphorical effect. I was shocked and surprised at the routes he took thematically here. He leaves us with so much to chew on about the ways that white people continue their oppression of black people, sucking them dry. But it was the metaphors of assimilation and religion that surprised me the most, exploring assimilation as form or oppression and the ways religion preys on the weak and the vulnerable, counteracting grief and struggle with a promise of salvation. 

I could absolutely see Sinners being the sort of genre film that takes 2025 by storm in a similar fashion to Get Out and The Substance. I sure hope it has the staying power to land the (I count 11 potential) Oscar nominations it really deserves next year. I can’t imagine that there will be 10 other films in 2025 that will top this. And what a joy it was to the experience Coogler’s brilliant film on 70mm projected onto an IMAX screen. I have a feeling I’ll be seeing it a couple more times before it leaves theaters. Thrilling, haunting, moving, boundary-pushing, genre-defying… it’s everything cinema should be.

They were rather light in their loafers.
One could say they had a little sugar in their tanks.
There was definitely a little swish in their steps.

She ate them all uppppppp. Feels way ahead of its time in its handling of mental health themes.

A really solid police procedural that feels a little dated at times and not quite as revolutionary by today’s standards, but that car chase scene was sick.

Quietly devastating.

Really struggle to see what all the praise is about on this one outside of an absolutely banger final scene, which almost makes up for what came before, but not quite enough.

Not quite as bowled over by this as some have been, but it’s certainly good. Stephen Graham is the real star here, especially in that final episode. 

I honestly found the one-take stuff to be sort of unnecessary, not really serving the plot much outside of maybe episode 3. It’s impressive that they pulled those extended shots off but doesn’t conjure much more than a “cool, kudos to them” from me.

One of the few romcoms that nearly reaches When Harry Met Sally territory for me. It’s utterly charming, impeccably written, and subverts your expectations of the ways it fits into the romcom genre with every step. Plus, it portrays NYC in such vibrant, romantic fashion. You can see the love that Joan Micklin Silver clearly has for the city in every small interaction.

Griffith’s wonderful The Ballad of Wallis Island wraps you in the warm embrace of a Nick Hornby film, accompanied by the folk musical stylings of a John Carney film. And what a winning combination that is. 

And what a brilliant performance by Tim Key here, walking a fine fiiiiine line between charming and maddening, but always in full control. He has here what stand to be some of the funniest line readings of 2025.

I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention the luminous Carey Mulligan. I wish she had a little more to do here, but she brings such a warmth and a grounded nature to this character and this story.

I second Michael’s review. 

What a fun little slice of mystery. I could never quite get a grasp on where this one was going as it twisted and turned its way to a wholly satisfying finale. I wish they leaned into the camp just a little more, but still a really good time.

A really incredible film that I will likely never watch again.

Giulietta Masina burns brighter than the sun, electrifying the screen. One of the best female leading lady performances of all time, perhaps? There’s no shortage of laughs when she’s on screen, but she proves by the end that she can absolutely rip your heart out in equal measure. The final sequence sent me to the moon.

just sort of failed to do anything successfully outside of casting some good actors and a couple one-liners.

An absolutely miserable watch that I’ve had a tough time of assessing fully since I finished it last night. In many ways, it’s Mike Leigh’s best. Naked is a nihilistic and atmospheric feat like nothing else in his filmography. David Thewlis’s performance as Johnny is also probably a career-best in Leigh’s filmography, which is chock full of brilliant, layered, nuanced performances. The screenplay, while not as gratifying as some of his others, is a philosophy-major’s wet dream as Johnny drones on and on in a way only a misogynistic tortured-genius type could. 

Satisfying? No.
Brilliant? Depends how much you’re willing to handle.

River Phoenix was an actor wise beyond his years. Watching this really drove home what a monumental loss he was for cinema. 

Lumet’s film doesn’t have to dig too deep to land its emotional blows. When you’ve got actors like Phoenix, the always-dependable Judd Hirsch, a remarkable Christine Lahti, and the unsung hero of the film, Martha Plimpton, you don’t really have to. What starts as a pretty basic set-up slowly blooms into something more profound. I was an emotional mess at several moments near the end, mostly thanks to Foner’s wonderful screenplay and this brilliant cast interpreting her words. 

One of Lumet’s best films that doesn’t get talked enough about.

80’s schmaltz that really hasn’t aged well, but a young Matthew Modine could pin me to the mat ANY day

I was surprised by how much I loved this one. Stranger by the Lake seems to be regarded by most here as a fun and steamy little gay thriller, but much like Franck with Michel, I discovered so much more than that hidden under its eerie guise. 

First and foremost, in the vain of many brilliant French films before it, Guiraudie’s film is an exploration of desire, and more specifically about gay male desire. He sets his film in an ambiguous time and place, because there’s a universality about the gay experience that he wants to touch on. There are realities about being queer that may never subside: living life in the shadows, fear of HIV/Aids, paranoia of being outed, lack of acceptance, struggle to form meaningful connections amongst a sex-driven culture. And somehow Guiraudie manages to fit all of these themes into this one taut package while not beating us over the head with any of them. Franck’s experiences at the lake are an encapsulation of all of these things at once.

The sexual desires that pulled Franck to this cruising beach and drew him towards Michel also allowed him to excuse the events he witnessed behind the trees that night (intentionally vague, no spoilers here). With Michel, he finally succeeds in landing the sort of desirable male package that he so greatly longs for, but in doing so, deludes himself to reality. While forming an actual meaningful connection with Henri steps away, his vanity allows him to withdraw from the depths of these conversations for a tryst in the brush with a man he knows to be a monster. 

For the sake of not spoiling anything, I’ll refrain from saying more. But there are many more layers to this film than I realized going in (plus it’s got the most graphic gay sex scenes I’ve ever seen outside of PornHub). I found it to be one of the most authentic encapsulations of the gay male experience I’ve ever seen.

Stranger by the Lake s the ranks of other incredible French films such as Fat Girl, The Piano Teacher, and Last Summer exploring sexual desire in bold and thrilling ways.

A melancholy delight. Comes and goes just like an eephus pitch.

incredibly well-intentioned but… 😬😬😬

While I’m sure this was super cool and revolutionary for its time, it left me a little cold. All the shaky camera work was a bit much for me. Lots of naked Cillian Murphy, though, so that’s something!

The shock I had coming to Capote’s Letterboxd page to find it rated a 3.7????? This is a stone-cold masterpiece and I feel sorry for anyone missing that. 

Having recently seen Richard Brooks’ brilliant film adaptation of In Cold Blood, I found this film to be less a biopic than a fascinating companion piece that expands on these subjects and further contextualizes the intentions and writings of Truman Capote. Capote, in search of a new story to write, instead finds something deeper: a companion. A man cut from the same cloth as himself but dealt a lesser hand by fate. Capote says, “It's as if Perry and I grew up in the same house. And one day he stood up and went out the back door, while I went out the front.” Capote is a damaged man himself, abandoned by his family at a young age, struggling with alcoholism, masking his pain and trauma through humor and partying. He’s a deeply layered character here, performed to perfection by the incomparable Philip Seymour Hoffman. In Perry, Capote not only finds a tragic subject for his next novel, but also a friend. Someone who can bring him a deeper understanding of the world and of himself. 

Perhaps the most important thing that Bennet Miller does in his direction is refuse to turn Capote into the hero of his own story. This was a flawed man, like Perry, finding and then exploiting a man in a position of vulnerability, also searching for understanding. Within this mutual understanding, these two men find solace, but to what end? Yes, Capote’s writing may bring a new perception of this killer and his heinous actions on the night of November 15th, 1959, but did this exploitation really benefit this man trapped behind bars, waiting to be put to death? 

A crime for a crime, one being punishable by death, and the other hailed as a literary masterpiece.

There’s no such thing as a bad Mike Leigh film. They don’t exist.

One of Soderbergh’s best in years. Well-paced, but the climax left a little to be desired for me.

1. Birth
2. Under the Skin
3. The Zone of Interest
4. Sexy Beast

1. Under the Skin
2. I Saw the TV Glow
3. Ex Machina
4. Room
5. Uncut Gems
6. The Brutalist
7. Everything Everywhere All at Once
8. 20th Century Women
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
10. The Zone of Interest

...plus 78 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(all the Criterion releases I’ve seen)

1. All That Jazz
2. Parasite
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Boyhood
5. High and Low
6. Being John Malkovich
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. The Last Picture Show
9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
10. Army of Shadows

...plus 241 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Being John Malkovich
2. Brief Encounter
3. Matewan
4. 8½
5. Wings of Desire
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock
7. It Happened One Night
8. Taste of Cherry
9. Menace II Society
10. Amarcord

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1. Sinners
2. Adolescence
3. Twinless
4. Mickey 17
5. Eephus
6. Thunderbolts*
7. Omaha
8. Plainclothes
9. Black Bag
10. Paddington in Peru

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

1. The Hours
2. Capote
3. Brief Encounter
4. Mysterious Skin
5. In Cold Blood
6. The Master
7. Matewan
8. The Annihilation of Fish
9. Rope
10. Nights of Cabiria

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• The Power of the Dog
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• TÁR
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Bergman Island
• Dune
• The Brutalist
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

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

• The Dreamers
• The Eight Mountains
• The Doom Generation

My all-timers.

color-coded

• Gravity
• Children of Men
• Uncut Gems
• I Saw the TV Glow
• The Godfather Part II
• Psycho
• Whiplash
• Scream 4
• All That Jazz
• In the Bedroom

...plus 176 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original list here. 

Categories:

1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset
2. Watch a film from the year you were born
3. Directed by Robert Altman
4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
5. Great Soundtracks
6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
7. 1920s
8. Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025
9. 1930s
10. Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks
11. 1940s
12. Celine Song’s Top 10
13. 1950s
14. Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favorites lists
15. 1960s
16. Watch a film that is currently out of print from the physical collection
17. 1970s
18. William Friedkin’s Closet Picks
19. 1980s
20. Spine #451-499
21. 1990s
22. Documentary
23. 2000s
24. Janus Contemporaries
25. 2010s
26. Bill Hader’s Second Closet Picks
27. 2020s
28. Noir and Neonoir
29. All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks
30. Criterion Releases Never Picked in the Closet
31. North American film
32. Ayo Edebiri’s Closet Picks
33. Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing
34. South American film
35. Random Number Generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
36. AAPI Filmmakers
37. Watch a film shorter than 80 minutes
38. European film
39. Cult Movies
40. Isabella Rossellini’s Adventures in Moviegoing
41. Winona Ryder’s Closet Picks
42. African film
43. John Carpenter’s Top 10
44. Horror
45. Asian film
46. Dark Comedies
47. Rachel Kushner’s Adventures in Moviegoing
48. Australian film
49. Female Filmmakers
50. Ben Wheatley’s Closet Picks
51. A film by a director whose work you have not seen before
52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist.

1. Safe
2. Three Colours: Red
3. Short Cuts
4. Being John Malkovich
5. Menace II Society
6. Wild Strawberries
7. The Kid
8. The Wages of Fear
9. It Happened One Night
10. Happiness

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

• My Cousin Vinny
• Being John Malkovich
• Drop Dead Gorgeous
• Knives Out
• Zombieland
• The Goonies
• Juno
• When Harry Met Sally...
• What's Up, Doc?
• Rushmore

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Understated? Never heard of her.

• The Hours
• Nights of Cabiria
• Secrets & Lies
• The Piano Teacher
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Thelma & Louise
• In the Bedroom
• Birth
• of Endearment

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Secrets & Lies
2. Vera Drake
3. Naked
4. Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Hard Truths
6. Meantime
7. Life Is Sweet

• Suspiria
• Halloween
• Naked

1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. The Brutalist
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Challengers
5. Sing Sing
6. Problemista
7. Anora
8. The Beast
9. Dìdi (弟弟)
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• My Octopus Teacher
• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?
• For Sama
• HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
• Free Solo
• Minding the Gap
• Faces Places
• O.J.: Made in America
• Searching for Sugar Man

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. High and Low
2. The Last Picture Show
3. Army of Shadows
4. Barry Lyndon
5. The Red Shoes
6. Seven Samurai
7. The ion of Joan of Arc
8. Happy Together
9. Still Walking
10. Bicycle Thieves

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

working my way through the filmography

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Phantom Thread
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Boogie Nights
5. The Master
6. Magnolia
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Inherent Vice

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

1. Nomadland
2. Promising Young Woman
3. Mangrove
4. Sound of Metal
5. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7. Minari
8. Hamilton
9. David Byrne's American Utopia
10. The Father

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1. The Godfather Part II
2. High and Low
3. Army of Shadows
4. Barry Lyndon
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Seven Samurai
7. The Red Shoes
8. The Piano Teacher
9. The ion of Joan of Arc
10. Happy Together

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The original list is here. 

Categories:
1. Spine #351-450
2. Spine #601-700
3. Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher
4. First film in your watchlist
5. Most recently added film in your watchlist
6. Longest runtime in your watchlist
7. Most popular film in your watchlist
8. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
9. Criterion Staff Picks
10. New York Film Festival Favorites
11. Watch a film in the Saturday Matinee series "Observations on Film Art"
12. First Films - watch a directorial debut
13. Virtually Reality
14. Random Number Generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
15. Technicolor
16. Women Auteurs
17. Criterion Sight and Sound
18. Dreaming of a Holiday Movie Marathon
19. Watch a Netflix Original released by Criterion
20. 100 Years of Olympic Films
21. LGBTQ+
22. Directed by Luis Buñuel
23. Directed by Mai Zetterling
24. Starring Liv Ullmann
25. Italian Neorealism
26. Hong Kong Cinema
27. Made in Brazil
28. Ari Aster’s Closet Picks
29. Yo La Tengo’s Closet Picks
30. Charlie Day’s Closet Picks
31. Michael Shannon’s Closet Picks
32. Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10
33. Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10
34. Alan Arkin’s Top 10
35. Tunde Adebimpe’s Top 10
36. Genre: Made for TV
37. Genre: Family
38. Genre: Animation
39. Genre: History
40. Guillermo del Toro’s Twitter Film recommendations
41. 1920s
42. 1930s
43. 1940s
44. 1950s
45. 1960s
46. 1970s
47. 1980s
48. 1990s
49. 2000s
50. 2010s
51. 2020s
52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist

1. Stranger Than Paradise
2. Eating Raoul
3. Barry Lyndon
4. L'Argent
5. The Swimming Pool
6. Seven Samurai
7. Chungking Express
8. A Brighter Summer Day
9. Tampopo
10. The Battle of Algiers

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• The Fugitive
• Sunshine
• Twister
• 13 Going on 30
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• The Village
• School of Rock
• Thelma & Louise
• Ghost
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Brutalist
2. Anora
3. No Other Land
4. I'm Still Here
5. Hard Truths
6. Maria
7. Nickel Boys
8. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
9. All We Imagine as Light
10. Queer

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Challengers
3. Bones and All
4. Queer
5. I Am Love
6. We Are Who We Are
7. A Bigger Splash
8. Suspiria

• All That Jazz
• There Will Be Blood
• Parasite
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Titanic
• Alien
• Blade Runner
• The Godfather Part II
• Children of Men
• Sunset Boulevard

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1. Anatomy of a Fall
2. Beyond Utopia
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. The Holdovers
5. Poor Things
6. All of Us Strangers
7. Perfect Days
8. The Zone of Interest
9. ages
10. Theater Camp

...plus 85 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. All About My Mother
2. Volver
3. Parallel Mothers
4. Bad Education
5. Pain and Glory
6. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
7. Broken Embraces
8. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
9. The Human Voice
10. Talk to Her

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Schindler's List
3. Jaws
4. Jurassic Park
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Lincoln
8. The Fabelmans
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. West Side Story

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1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
4. The Hateful Eight
5. Django Unchained
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
8. Jackie Brown
9. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

1. GoodFellas
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. The King of Comedy
4. The Age of Innocence
5. The Irishman
6. The Departed
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Silence
9. Hugo
10. The Aviator

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

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Happy Together
4. The Times of Harvey Milk
5. Brokeback Mountain
6. Carol
7. God's Own Country
8. Paris Is Burning
9. Tomboy
10. All About My Mother

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

• Prisoners
• Dune
• Blade Runner 2049
• Arrival
• Sicario
• Incendies
• Enemy
• Polytechnique
• Dune: Part Two

1. The Piano Teacher
2. Happy Together
3. Leave Her to Heaven
4. The Pianist
5. A Woman Under the Influence
6. Yentl
7. The River Wild
8. Ever After
9. Soapdish
10. The Women

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

Ari Aster
Jordan Peele
Robert Eggers

• Get Out
• Hereditary
• Midsommar
• The Northman
• Us
• Nope
• Beau Is Afraid
• The Lighthouse
• The Witch

1. Poor Things
2. The Favourite
3. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
4. Dogtooth
5. The Lobster

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors
3. Sling Blade
4. Vertigo
5. Fanny and Alexander
6. My Favorite Year
7. Coming Home
8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
9. Arthur
10. The Night of the Hunter

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

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Psycho
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Unforgiven
5. Schindler's List
6. Under the Skin
7. The Hunt
8. GoodFellas
9. Coraline
10. Apocalypse Now

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• To Die For
• Saint Omer
• The Runner
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Nothing But a Man
• The Roaring Twenties
• Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
• The Heroic Trio
• A Tale of Autumn
• A Summer's Tale

...plus 1558 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Holdovers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Hit Man
• Navalny
• Cruella
• Fighting with My Family

1. Anatomy of a Fall
2. All of Us Strangers
3. Poor Things
4. Perfect Days
5. The Zone of Interest
6. The Taste of Things
7. The Curse
8. About Dry Grasses
9. May December
10. Hit Man

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. TÁR
3. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
4. Women Talking
5. Bones and All
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. Babylon
8. No Bears
9. Fire of Love
10. Top Gun: Maverick

...plus 107 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Prestige
3. Inception
4. Interstellar
5. Oppenheimer
6. Dunkirk
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Memento
9. Following
10. Tenet

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

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

• L'Argent
• Fanny and Alexander
• An American Werewolf in London
• Barry Lyndon
• Chinatown
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Ambulance
• My Father's Dragon

• Titanic
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Avatar
• The Terminator
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Aliens
• The Abyss

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Michael Clayton
3. Double Indemnity
4. Ikiru
5. Pride & Prejudice
6. Life Itself
7. Three Colours: Blue
8. On the Waterfront
9. An Unmarried Woman
10. The Apartment

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Children of Men
• Parasite
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Godfather
• Boyhood
• The Wizard of Oz
• Being John Malkovich
• Jaws
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• When Harry Met Sally...

1. TÁR
2. Women Talking
3. Bones and All
4. No Bears
5. Armageddon Time
6. Triangle of Sadness
7. EO
8. Aftersun
9. Decision to Leave
10. She Said

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.