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jumping into pride month with the movie that was my introduction to sapphic cinema at the ripe age of 12. changed my life then and it's still good fun now.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

unfortunately, i'm a sucker for the ‘villain uses love interest to get to protagonist (and eventually he must stay away to protect her)’ trope

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

Before my first watch, a girl walked by me in the cinema lobby as she loudly exclaimed that SHE IS SO GLAD ETHAN HUNT DIDN’T DIE. Truth to be told it would had been unlike Tom Cruise to kill him off, but I was still pissed.

Still, the action setpieces worked so well I completely fell under their spell. The Sevastopol submarine mission is one of the most tense sequences I have ever experienced. I got so exhausted after being high on adrenaline for the better part of the movie that I came home and fell asleep. Not the best in the franchise, but a great time for its fans.

it’s a fine movie, but the fact that it was released on the same week as the latest mission impossible shows you just how little faith the studio had in it

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

This movie has been out for more than 40 years and somehow it has escaped me. It’s so deeply embedded into pop culture that even without watching I would confidently say “I know what it’s all about”. While objectively that was true, it was also very wrong to think that I was emotionally prepared. But I do understand now. It really is the kind of movie that can (re)ignite someone’s love for cinema.

found family rating: better than the avengers, but not as good as the guardians of the galaxy

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

after the cgi creatures and world threatening villains didn’t work, they took a step back and figured depressed people deserve their own marvel movie. we already know they won’t stick with this more grounded formula, but it’s always nice to have representation.

I tried to explain the concept of the ‘music reaching over the past, present, and future’ scene to someone, who hasn’t seen the movie. All I got was a raised eyebrow with “and that worked?”. I guess that’s why I’m no director and Ryan Coogler is one of the best. That scene could have easily been cringey – but with the music, the mise en scene, and the dynamic camera use he created something that gave me chills.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

finished it, stood up, and stared out of the window for like 5 minutes. if the last minute played differently, i might have just ended it all. it’s been a while since i have been so gutted by the power of a movie.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Steven Spielberg is a special man. Even in a philosophical and at times hopeless sci-fi about the prison of predestination, he finds the right time and place for some eyeball-comedy. He cracked me up not once, but twice - and he even inserted an applause transition for the second gag. Cheeky!

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

this is completely beside the point here but give me an Asian American girl named Vivian and my one track mind will immediately go to Saving Face
(plus, Joan Chen!)

came for cate blanchett, stayed for marisa abela. such a scene stealer with those line deliveries. “girl, you know i have” in the middle of the polygraph test was so unserious, it had me chuckling.

Watched on Tuesday March 25, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.

you put this movie on and you know he will do it. but when he does it, you still think “you crazy son of a bitch, you did it”. that’s the Cruise charm.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.

the fact that parker posey playing a 16 year old version of her character with basically no de-aging while everyone else is age appropriate feels fitting for the movie says it all

This review may contain spoilers.

i felt my heart drop when i thought they gwen stacy-d the baby creeper

It’s been a while since I watched this, but it left an imprint on me that I didn’t really expect. So I thought, I should jot down a few thoughts.

Compared to other terminal disease romance movies, this felt very “normal” – for lack of a better word. Sure, most of us aren’t world-class ice skaters or award-winning chefs, but it still felt like an unexceptional story. In the best way.

The non-linear worked well for me. In the first five minutes, you already know what you are in for. I liked that they didn’t want to shock the audience with surprising twists or reveals. Instead, the movie lets you simmer in a sense of unease and worry. Which is fitting, since the characters were going through the same emotions.

By the end, they still managed to leave me with a hopeful ending. I can see myself coming back to this in the future.

Now that I have seen this, I can weigh in on the ‘discourse’ with my professional native-Hungarian-speaker expertise.

First of all, I don’t know what Adrien and Felicity were doing but those were not Hungarian accents. I know most people won’t even notice this, but it bugged the hell out of me. And sure, one might excuse it because Hungarian is a difficult language – and it is. But they could have at least made sure that the Hungarian characters knew how to pronounce their own names. I don’t care if it’s nitpicking, because it brought me out of the movie every time. They only had to learn how to say like two words properly (and László Tóth isn’t even a difficult name).

Which brings me to the second point. I thought the use of AI for the pronunciation correction was completely fine. It was very easy to tell where they used it, because the Hungarian spoken parts were all flawless. As I said, Hungarian is a very difficult language so I’m glad they didn’t try and butcher it.

So I wish that they paid more attention to the words spoken by the actors themselves as well.

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

“It desensitizes and sensitizes you all at the same time. We have deep empathy and comion for animals, way more than we do for humans.”

I became this movie’s defender when I read this Robbie Williams quote about the avatar decision. After seeing it, I will be more than that. It works way better than it has any right to for a monkey movie about a British popstar.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 9, 2025.

• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible II

1. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. West Side Story
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Ran
5. The Lion King
6. West Side Story
7. She's the Man
8. The Tragedy of Macbeth
9. Anyone But You
10. Rosaline

i tried but i simply cannot come up with a definite ranking

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Gone Girl
4. La La Land
5. Rear Window
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Oppenheimer
8. Little Women
9. Arrival
10. The Worst Person in the World

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Little Women
2. The Farewell
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
4. Tangled
5. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
6. The Nice Guys
7. The Parent Trap
8. Emma.
9. Stardust
10. Stick It

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

requirements: made me stare into the abyss as it finished and I wondered why I was hurt this way

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Atonement
• The Haunting of Bly Manor
• Little Fish
• La La Land
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• The World to Come
• Schindler's List
• WandaVision

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

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• Fountain of Youth
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mission: Impossible II
• Armageddon

paid for by moneydollars since 2013

1. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
2. Thunderbolts*
3. Sinners
4. Mickey 17

   2025

5. Wicked
6. Anora

   twice

7. Conclave
8. Rumours
9. Emilia Pérez
10. A Real Pain

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

• Sinners
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• Black Bag
• Thunderbolts*
• Mickey 17
• One of Them Days
• Fountain of Youth
• The Parenting

• 10 Things I Hate About You
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 20th Century Women
• 27 Dresses
• All of Us Strangers
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• American Psycho
• Anora
• Apocalypse Now

...plus 192 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Black Bag
• Dìdi (弟弟)
• Collateral
• Jerry Maguire
• One of Them Days
• Minority Report
• Office Space
• Magnolia
• Days of Thunder
• Children of Men

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

1. Abigail
2. Alien: Romulus
3. Am I OK?
4. Anora
5. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
6. Blink Twice
7. Challengers
8. Civil War
9. Conclave
10. Damsel

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Mickey 17
• The Parenting
• Death Becomes Her
• King Kong
• A Few Good Men

• 12 Angry Men
• About Time
• American Psycho
• Another Round
• Apocalypse Now
• Avatar
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• GoodFellas
• It's a Wonderful Life

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Challengers
3. Anora
4. Conclave
5. We Live in Time
6. His Three Daughters
7. Civil War
8. The Outrun
9. Better Man
10. Twisters

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Munich
• September 5
• Better Man
• Gone Running
• The Apprentice
• The Brutalist

• Ran
• Cunk on Life
• Juror #2
• We Live in Time
• Sing Sing
• To Die For
• Saving Private Ryan
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Descendants
• Jexi

1. Challengers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Arcane: Bridging the Rift
4. Twisters
5. Agatha All Along
6. Fly Me to the Moon
7. We Live in Time
8. Conclave
9. His Three Daughters
10. The Fall Guy

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

1. Casablanca
2. Dial M for Murder
3. Grave of the Fireflies
4. Ponyo
5. Interview with the Vampire
6. Howl's Moving Castle
7. The Departed
8. To Catch a Thief
9. Aliens
10. My Cousin Vinny

viennale (+ budapest international film festival)

• Anora
• The Outrun
• A Real Pain
• Emilia Pérez
• Rumours
• The Brutalist

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. The Haunting of Bly Manor
3. Shiva Baby
4. Black Mirror: San Junipero
5. Saving Face
6. Booksmart
7. The Haunting of Hill House
8. Carol
9. Atomic Blonde
10. Thelma

...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

completed: 18/31
rewatches: none (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2. Singing in the Rain
3. A League of Their Own
4. Princess Mononoke
5. The Wonder

1. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2. Down with Love
3. The Wonder
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Your Name.
6. Licorice Pizza
7. The Hurt Locker
8. The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex
9. Barbie: Star Light Adventure
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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

completed: 14/30
rewatches: Birds of Prey (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2. The Fallout
3. The Whale
4. Suspiria 2018
5. Suspiria 1977

1. Suspiria
2. The Fallout
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Phantom Thread
5. The Island of Dr. Moreau
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. The Ides of March
9. The Departed
10. 8-Bit Christmas

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

completed: 21/30
rewatches: - (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. The Father
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Nope
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Election

1. Nope
2. Chungking Express
3. Downhill Racer
4. Incendies
5. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Election
8. Lilo & Stitch
9. Brittany Runs a Marathon
10. The Island

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Love & Death
• The Curse
• Chernobyl
• Fleishman Is in Trouble
• Unbelievable
• War and Peace
• The Movies
• Mare of Easttown
• Devs

1. The Marsh King's Daughter
2. Theater Camp
3. Barbie
4. Monster
5. How to Have Sex
6. Society of the Snow
7. Eileen
8. The Boy and the Heron
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

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

1. Oppenheimer
2. Barbie
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
5. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
6. The Holdovers
7. Past Lives
8. All of Us Strangers
9. Poor Things
10. Theater Camp

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Holdovers
2. Past Lives
3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
4. Oppenheimer
5. Society of the Snow
6. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
7. Nimona
8. Scream VI
9. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
10. All of Us Strangers

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

expected additions once I finally watch them:
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Brief Encounter (1945)

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Emma.
• Atonement
• Pride & Prejudice
• Carol
• Disobedience
• The Handmaiden
• Anna Karenina
• Vita & Virginia
• The World to Come

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

• Singin' in the Rain
• Rear Window
• National Theatre Live: Prima Facie
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Chicago
• Seven Samurai
• Phantom Thread
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Sunset
• Panic Room

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

original scores that i listen to regularly

1. La La Land
2. The Imitation Game
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. The Haunting of Bly Manor
7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
9. Jurassic Park
10. Little Women

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Poor Things
• Anatomy of a Fall
• All of Us Strangers
• The Holdovers
• Priscilla
• Shortcomings

aka movies that make me feel personally attacked in some way

• s Ha
• Am I OK?
• Little Women
• Booksmart
• The Farewell
• The Worst Person in the World
• Set It Up
• The Edge of Seventeen
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• 20th Century Women

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. National Theatre Live: Prima Facie
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. The Batman
6. TÁR
7. Cha Cha Real Smooth
8. After Yang
9. You Can Live Forever
10. The Fallout

...plus 99 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune
2. The Worst Person in the World
3. The Father
4. Mass
5. Help
6. WandaVision
7. Flee
8. Judas and the Black Messiah
9. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
10. tick, tick... BOOM!

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Farewell
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Little Women
4. Parasite
5. 1917
6. Jojo Rabbit
7. Knives Out
8. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
9. Marriage Story
10. Uncut Gems

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

completed: 21/28
rewatches: Ocean’s Eight (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2. Spirited Away
3. A League of Their Own
4. Lilo and Stitch
5. The Chef of South Pole

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. Fantastic Four
3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
4. Spirited Away
5. The Invisible Guest
6. The King of Comedy
7. A League of Their Own
8. In the Absence of the Sun
9. Princess Mononoke
10. Ocean's Eight

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

completed: 14/31
rewatches: - (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Ford v Ferrari
3. The Fallout
4. Lilo and Stitch
5. There Will Be Blood

1. Lilo & Stitch
2. The Departed
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Shake Off Your Sorrows
6. Rebecca
7. Project Power
8. The Outfit
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. The Commuter

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

completed: 16/30
rewatches: none (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. Shutter Island
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Jaws
4. Moonlight
5. A League of Their Own

1. Jaws
2. Jason Bourne
3. Hearts Beat Loud
4. Boiling Point
5. The Magnificent Seven
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. A League of Their Own
8. Get Out
9. Hubie Halloween
10. Little Miss Sunshine

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Game Night
• All Cheerleaders Die
• American Carnage
• Annihilation
• The Babysitter: Killer Queen
• Contagion
• Jennifer's Body
• Knife+Heart
• Marrowbone
• Master

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

completed: 11/31
rewatches: The Batman (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. Singin in the Rain
4. Jaws
5. Nope

1. Jennifer's Body
2. C'mon C'mon
3. Mona Lisa Smile
4. Kick-Ass
5. Velvet Buzzsaw
6. Singin' in the Rain
7. Alice in Wonderland
8. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
9. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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

shout out to the +1, Prima Facie – not a movie but deserves to be here

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Babylon
5. The Batman
6. Cha Cha Real Smooth
7. Women Talking
8. After Yang
9. TÁR
10. The Menu

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

completed: 23/31
rewatches: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (not counting the movies i haven't seen in 10+ years)
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top five (first watch):
1. Bad Genius
2. Shiva Baby
3. You Can Live Forever
4. Columbus
5. Scott Pilgrim

1. Shiva Baby
2. Breaking News in Yuba County
3. Promising Young Woman
4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
5. Spirited Away
6. The Kid Stays in the Picture
7. In Bruges
8. Last Night in Soho
9. Rebecca
10. Chungking Express

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

mix of favourite movies from the 2010s that i also watched during the 2010s
only roughly in order because there are several number ones in my heart

• Knives Out
• La La Land
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• The Farewell
• Little Women
• Room
• Booksmart
• Marriage Story
• Avengers: Endgame
• Carol

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

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. The Haunting of Hill House
3. John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City
4. The Favourite
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
7. BlacKkKlansman
8. Lady Bird
9. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
10. I, Tonya

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

that i watched in 2018

1. I, Tonya
2. Lady Bird
3. Game Night
4. John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City
5. Black Panther
6. Avengers: Infinity War
7. The Spy Who Dumped Me
8. Ocean's Eight
9. Ant-Man and the Wasp
10. Ready Player One

only including the films i've seen for the first time

• Atomic Blonde

  neon lights, cuddling in neon lights, Charlize Theron eliminating every single man and THE SOUNDTRACK
  i loved it despite that i had no idea what was going on sometimes

• I, Tonya

  Talented. Brilliant. Incredible. Amazing. Show stopping. Spectacular.
  made me forget to finish my nachos

• Spotlight

  this story is just....amazing

• Game Night

  good plot, very very funny, has Rachel McAdams
  suddenly I have a new favourite comedy

• Paddington

  soft, cute and great graphics, but the best scene was the taxi(dermy) sign on the truck

• Thor: Ragnarok

  Taika Waititi saved the MCU
  
  and Tessa Thompson saved us all

• Arrival

  great take on the "aliens come to earth" kind of story, Amy Adams snatched my wig
  breathtakingly beautiful shots

• The Help

  iconic performances by the actresses and some ICONIC SCENES
  
  "the last time I had an almond I stopped liking men" - Skeeter Phelan

• Miss Sloane

  Jessica Chastain could throw me under a bus and i'd crawl back to her

• Ant-Man and the Wasp

  my dad laughed embarrassingly loudly in the cinema and i felt so proud he enjoyed it
  
  also gave extra half star for the amazing score and evangeline lilly

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Black Panther
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Ready Player One
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Widows
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Vita & Virginia

based on what i like to listen to during work
shoutout to the house of the dragon (ramin djawadi), wednesday (danny elfman), and severance (theodore shapiro) scores

1. See How They Run
2. Babylon
3. The Batman
4. After Yang
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. Moon Knight
7. The Menu
8. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
9. The Fallout
10. Persuasion

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

watched in 2019

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. Little Women
3. Knives Out
4. Marriage Story
5. Booksmart
6. Parasite
7. 1917
8. Jojo Rabbit
9. Fighting with My Family
10. Official Secrets

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

1. Little Women
2. Marriage Story
3. Knives Out
4. The Farewell
5. Jojo Rabbit
6. Parasite
7. 1917
8. Avengers: Endgame
9. Captain Marvel
10. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World