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Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

there is such a ridiculous cat in the hat-style of world building here that makes speed racer feel completely divorced from reality. it somehow does this in a way that erases the line between absurd comedy and heartfelt storytelling. the final act uses its wacky cartoon-style aesthetic to deliver a powerful emotional climax.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

mission impossible is in its eighth instalment now and it is in a unique position where it needs to make sense to people who are new to the series, while also following the continuity of its own long-running storyline. because of this, there are unavoidable exposition dumps and callbacks to moments from earlier films which kind of act like pit stops during each act break. but fuck it's like completely worth it to be able to witness some of the most edge-of-your-seat movie magic ever put on a theatre screen. watching the last 30-40 minutes of final reckoning actually felt like having a panic attack (in a good way).

this film was made with a budget of $60 million USD

on this rewatch, it feels like it's still just as confusing as the first time but somehow makes a lot more sense. the train derailing sequence is nuts. tom cruise is awesome.

like being in one of those crazy dreams that are hard to describe after waking up

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

harrowing. like being condemned to hell for eternity and telling yourself there might be a way to get out only to find that you were just lying to yourself. one of the most hopeless films I've ever seen.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

the rapid changes these characters experience is chaotic. in a span of 17 years, they experienced massive changes in technology and infrastructure, people close to them seemingly vanished, and instead of being carried forward with the current they just get left behind. even when they were able to find footing, it wasn't long before they had to move again, and the scary thing is that they might never stop moving. the final image through the CCTV cameras is so disturbing, in a way that tells us these people are only secondary to the country's continued growth.

a series of quiet moments that end up emotionally obliterating you

the producer took me into the foyer to hard sell me a blunt tote bag after the film

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

a marvel film that does all the wacky superhero MCU stuff, yet somehow also tells a sincerely heartfelt story about depression and suicidal ideation. it's still got the trappings of the "rollercoaster film" but in comparison to the lazy and disted films that marvel has been putting out since the last spiderman, this feels like it was made by humans instead of a multimedia corporation.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

secret sunshine is suffocating from beginning to end. I don't think I've ever seen a film protagonist experience this amount of destruction before. it was like watching a Kafka character being tossed around by systems of bureaucracy, except here the bureaucracy is God.

there are some oddly affective moments here. the image of the kid throwing his square notebook into a circular wastepaper bin and having it bounce out did speak to the film's emotional core. some of the jokes also land pretty well. the computer graphics are competent for what is an entirely green screen production. ultimately we got what we came for when we heard the whole audience cry out chicken jockey in unison.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

watching this film did not remind me about how it felt to be depressed. it instead sort of described it as a detached observer to that experience. and oddly, this perspective does represent that experience very accurately. emotionless days that blend into each other with no clear sense of time. I didn't feel emotional at all watching this, but I felt like I was retracing old feelings. a weirdly insightful film.

it was really funny when John's autocorrect made him call this movie From Behind but that somehow seems like a better title for such a horny body horror film

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

sincere and heartfelt. overflowing at the seams with love. i am literally sobbing.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

lee chang dong hates me

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

magical

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

??? what??

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

I think the best way to describe how it felt to watch this film is if you were a new McDonald's employee who was watching 115 minutes of orientation and training videos on your first day and you started having a seizure but your supervisor forced you to stay and finish watching the whole thing before he could let you call an ambulance

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

extremely emotional because of this

this is a harrowing experience that works on you gradually until you suddenly feel the full force of it. there's a moment of clarity when this happens, and also the very scary realisation that it has happened and that it can't be reversed. a debilitating film.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

top 10 nonsensical screenplays of all time

Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

this film is just one really long conversation but somehow ends up being completely captivating

• Mud Crab
• A Trip to the Moon
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Nimic
• We Used to Own Houses
• The Red Balloon
• Evil Demon Golfball from Hell!!!
• Emilie Muller
• Factory Farmed
• Thunder Road

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incomplete list

• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• WALL·E
• Aftersun
• About Time
• Godzilla Minus One
• The Holdovers
• Logan
• La La Land
• Coco
• Your Name.

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

• The Worst Person in the World
• Anora
• Dìdi (弟弟)
• Only Yesterday
• Columbus
• Lady Bird
• Paris, Texas
• Good Will Hunting
• Black Swan
• On Body and Soul

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

1. Only Yesterday
2. Kiki's Delivery Service
3. The Wind Rises
4. Spirited Away
5. Howl's Moving Castle
6. Princess Mononoke
7. Whisper of the Heart
8. The Boy and the Heron
9. My Neighbor Totoro
10. Grave of the Fireflies

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

• Avengers: Endgame
• Joker
• Ad Astra
• The Lighthouse
• Jojo Rabbit
• Uncut Gems
• Marriage Story
• Sorry We Missed You
• Booksmart
• Ford v Ferrari

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A ranked list of movies from this year obviously

• First Man
• Shoplifters
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Eighth Grade
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Avengers: Infinity War
• A Star Is Born
• Widows
• Sorry to Bother You
• BlacKkKlansman

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. The Florida Project
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. Phantom Thread
6. The Shape of Water
7. Logan
8. Lady Bird
9. Dunkirk
10. I, Tonya

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Aftersun
3. Riceboy Sleeps
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. The Batman
6. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
7. The Whale
8. Triangle of Sadness
9. Hundreds of Beavers
10. Obi-Wan Kenobi

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Look Back
3. Dìdi (弟弟)
4. Flow
5. Anora
6. The Brutalist
7. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
8. Inside Out 2
9. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
10. Monkey Man

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Jellyfish
• Good for Nothing Blues
• Bird Drone
• Christmas Movie
• Hounds of Love
• The Lady and the Lighthouse
• Subject 36
• Stubbornly Here
• Esperance to Fremantle
• The Quiet Light of the Midnight Cold

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Shaolin Soccer
• Kung Fu Hustle
• The Promise
• Painted Skin
• The Storm Warriors
• Shed Skin Papa
• Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy

1. Perfect Days
2. Oppenheimer
3. Time Still Turns the Pages
4. Past Lives
5. The Holdovers
6. The Boy and the Heron
7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
8. John Wick: Chapter 4
9. Godzilla Minus One
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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

• Jellyfish
• Interview

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
3. Avengers: Endgame
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Eternals
6. Avengers: Infinity War
7. Ant-Man
8. Captain America: Civil War
9. Black Panther
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

from letterboxd top 10 romance movies of 2024

• 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days
• Love in the Big City
• Drawing Closer

in progress

• Short Term 12
• The Wrestler
• Tampopo
• A Separation
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• The Conformist
• Dekalog
• Upstream Color
• Scarface
• Chariots of Fire

...plus 97 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

updated 7/11/2024

• Chungking Express
• Inception
• La La Land
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
• About Time
• Arrival
• Dune: Part Two
• Inside Out
• Only Yesterday

• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Ghost in the Shell
• RoboCop
• Alien
• The Matrix
• Minority Report
• Ex Machina
• Tron

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

research

• Hounds of Love
• The Babadook
• Talk to Me
• Birdeater
• Nitram
• He Ain't Heavy
• Of an Age
• Babyteeth
• The Moogai
• The Nightingale

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

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Possessor
• Tenet
• Inception
• Her
• Minority Report
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Seconds
• Maniac
• The Parallax View

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

1. Sicario

   taylor sheridan

2. Dune: Part Two

   denis villeneuve

3. La La Land

   damien chazelle

4. Whiplash

   damien chazelle

5. Steve Jobs

   aaron sorkin

6. The Social Network

   aaron sorkin

7. Inception

   christopher nolan

8. Oppenheimer

   christopher nolan

9. Memento

   christopher nolan

10. The Dark Knight

    christopher nolan

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

• Shin Ultraman

  transformation: growing in size, glowing?

• Possessor

  : wax dummy melting (tasya into colin), flashing images, lens flares, sinsister music

• Inception

  entering a dream: closing eyes followed by standard picture cut

• Your Name.

  body swap: go to sleep, wake up

• Talk to Me

  being possessed: woosh sound effect, twitching, darkened eyes

• Ant-Man

  shrinking: ghosting vis-effect with camera tilt

• Tenet

  inversion: step inside turnstile, movement reversed

• Maniac

  experiment: take pill, head strapped in, sleep, picture cut

• Power Rangers

  self-explanatory

• Arrival
• Inside Out
• Inside Out 2
• Maniac
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
• About Time
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Everything Everywhere All at Once

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

• Lady Bird
• Eighth Grade
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Memento
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Maniac
• Spider-Man 2
• (500) Days of Summer
• Submarine
• Black Swan

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

• The Florida Project
• The Beauty Inside
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Inside Out
• Under the Skin
• Paris, Texas
• Ikiru
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Three Colours: Blue
• Fallen Angels

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Blade Runner 2049

  discovering his own humanity

• Phantom Thread

  destructive romance

• Call Me by Your Name

  unrequited romance

• Punch-Drunk Love

  awkwardness and self-loathing

• Memento

  unreliable protagonist

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  science, psychology and business

• Her

  sadness

• Your Name.

  body swap

• Chungking Express

  subjective personal photography, longing

• Marriage Story

  the facade of domesticity

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

• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Widows
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Shame

• It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books

  richard linklater

• Barking Dogs Never Bite

  bong joon ho

• Following

  christopher nolan

• The Duellists

  ridley scott

• Kinetta

  yorgos lanthimos

• Get Out

  jordan peele

• Ex Machina

  alex garland

• Lady Bird

  greta gerwig

• Y Tu Mamá También

  alfonso cuaron

• Hereditary

  ari aster

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

1. Ikiru
2. Seven Samurai
3. Ran
4. High and Low
5. Rashomon
6. Yojimbo
7. Kagemusha
8. Dreams
9. The Hidden Fortress

• In the Mood for Love
• Chungking Express
• Fallen Angels
• Happy Together
• 2046
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Enter the Dragon
• Police Story
• Days of Being Wild
• Hard Boiled

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Dark Knight Rises
• La La Land
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Inception
• The Godfather
• Fight Club
• Whiplash
• Arrival
• Aftersun
• Schindler's List

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

1. Schindler's List
2. The Terminal
3. Munich
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Jurassic Park
10. Jaws

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

• La La Land
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• Dune: Part Two
• Past Lives
• Interstellar
• Spirited Away
• The Wind Rises
• Amélie
• First Man
• Lars and the Real Girl

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Good Will Hunting
• The Holdovers
• Monster
• Eighth Grade

not including 2023 releases

1. The Great Dictator
2. Police Story
3. Ran
4. The Worst Person in the World
5. Aftersun
6. The Wind Rises
7. Opening Night
8. Let the Right One In
9. Thelma & Louise
10. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

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

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• La La Land
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
• Inception
• Blade Runner 2049
• Interstellar
• The Dark Knight
• Chungking Express
• Spirited Away
• Lars and the Real Girl

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

• The Worst Person in the World
• Mother
• Children of Men
• Babel

  rodrigo prieto

• Fish Tank

  robbie ryan

• No Time to Die

  linus sandgren

• Carol

  edward lachman

• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Three Colours: Blue
• A Ghost Story

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

1. Chungking Express
2. La La Land
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Her
5. Synecdoche, New York
6. Minari
7. Evil Dead II
8. Wolf Children
9. Princess Mononoke
10. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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

in watch order

1. Paddington
2. Paddington 2
3. Chungking Express
4. Lars and the Real Girl
5. Minari
6. About Time
7. Shaolin Soccer
8. Kung Fu Hustle
9. La La Land
10. The Terminal

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i love this man

1. Snowpiercer
2. Mother
3. Memories of Murder
4. Parasite
5. Okja

ranked by how bonkers the action and sfx are
ranking is kinda not important past #18

1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Tenet
4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
6. Baby Driver
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Children of Men
9. No Time to Die
10. Skyfall

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

boogie

1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

   disc

2. Lars and the Real Girl
3. Submarine
4. Maniac

   netflix

5. About Time

   netflix

6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Amélie

   disc

8. Carol

   netflix
   disc

9. The Place Beyond the Pines
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once

    disc

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Drive My Car
• Akira
• Initial D
• The Italian Job
• The Batman
• The Dark Knight
• Batman Begins
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• No Time to Die
• Skyfall

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

• Fish Tank
• Chungking Express

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

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

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Departed
4. The King of Comedy
5. Raging Bull
6. GoodFellas
7. The Irishman
8. Hugo
9. The Aviator
10. Silence

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

1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. The Social Network
4. The Game
5. Zodiac
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7. Gone Girl
8. Panic Room
9. Alien³

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Fargo
3. The Big Lebowski
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Man Who Wasn't There
6. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7. Burn After Reading
8. A Serious Man
9. Blood Simple
10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home
2. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
3. No Time to Die
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Red Rocket
6. Eternals
7. The Suicide Squad
8. Don't Look Up
9. Cruella
10. Pig

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

ranked by importance based on the main character

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

   watch the show first

2. Lars and the Real Girl
3. Chungking Express
4. First Man
5. Adaptation.
6. Maniac
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Submarine
9. A Serious Man
10. The Double