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“Are you the Lord Buddha?”
“I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, and I try to be a good man, you see yourself.”

One of the hardest Scorsese films to seek along with one of the few blind spots of his career I had left. Marty’s grappling with religious contientious and faithful in the a broadly loose epic. One that feels grand due to Roger Deakins mesmeric cinematography which gives it a feeling that honestly no other Scorsese film comes close to replicating (maybe on Silence). Phillip Glass’s score also adds this otherworldly feeling that only knocks your breath away. 

It’s certainly not his best but my bias will only be present due to seeing this on a 35mm print in a crowd with Thelma Schoonmaker herself, Michael Imperoli (he didn’t say the line), and a lovely introduction from the maestro Scorsese himself. A magical experience that is one of a kind for a filmmaker who never ceases to stay stagnant even at 82 years old. 

Oh and to the Dhali Lama.. keep doing your thing man.

I mean obviously, I’d like a film where a predator fights against Vikings and Samurai. A nice palate cleanser to lead up to Predator: Badlands even if the back half doesn’t reach the highs the first half so easily achieves. 

Full review at Next Best Picture 

“This is the first time that we've been really alone ever since we married.”

“Yes, I suppose it is.“

Having the end of Journey to Italy be where the love between these two characters truly begins to flourish. Roberto Rossellini the genius that you are.

I think John Mulaney perfectly summed up Marc Maron in this film..

“What the fuck is he gonna do, retire? To just go and be Marc Maron.”

Celebrity docs are usually filled with fluff but this is Maron at his most honest, worn down, and conflicted with life. Seeing this after his recent announcement of WTF ending after 16 years couldn’t have felt more obvious of a decision in hindsight. Even when it gets real fucking bleak he’s still gonna have to find a way to laugh.

On paper, a corporate espionage thriller directed by David McKenzie would be the greatest thing ever. For a few moments it is as if it’s not enjoyable to watch Riz Ahmed’s overly cautious fixer make Sam Worthington, Willa Fitzgerald, and all the private ops run in circles. It’s a fun time even if it’s forgettable. 

It’s nice that McKenzie had decided to make another film since Hell or High Water but it never lives up to those highs he, Taylor Sheridan, and that cast were able to achieve.

Shit like this makes me lose the will to watch movies for the rest of the week

Can’t say that a post-TIFF rewatch doesn’t already solidify my feelings about Mike Flanagan’s overtly sentimental The Life of Chuck. It’s the absolute definition of heart-on-your-sleeve cinema stuffed with as many Flanagan monologues and ing actors from his troupe as any fan of his can hope for. Touching sentiment to focus on the things in life you love, but even by the end, I can't help from letting out a sigh and thinking to myself that was cute. Before never thinking about this movie again. I will say Carl Lumbly’s work stands out far more this time around.

“You claim that I am sent by the Devil. It's not true. To make me suffer, the Devil has sent you... and you... and you... and you.“

An unimaginable feat to have one of the most visually absorbing performances to ever grace film without hearing a single word. Renée Jeanne Falconetti‘s expressive eyes speak volumes..agony, confusion, solace. Almost a hundred years since its release Carl Theodor Dreyer’s work here still feels as revelatory as it did in 1928.

“Nobody's gonna put a medal on us. But get this straight - one job's as important as the next.”

Pretty disappointed that no one got head on this mountain

Wow a horror film about trauma and loss such a profoundly original thing can’t believe no one’s done this before. Not saying Talk to Me was some grand statement in horror but at least it wasn’t a tedious snooze fest like Bring Her Back is. Wish the Philippou brothers could bring back the time I wasted watching this.

Even when one of Wes Anderson’s more slight endeavors manages to still be dexterous in form in a way that honestly is taken for granted as last year’s unimaginative TikTok trend only cemented that Wes is one of one. 

So it’s interesting to see Anderson go full unorthodox girl-dad mode funneling a film through assorted emotions and the existentialistic dread of what he leaves behind for his family. The possibility is that his esoteric sensibilities as an artist who is intentionally mechanicalistic nature may have any sort of cross-pollination in the manner he holds himself as a father. 

It’s the special sauce (and frankly the only dynamic) of the film that breaks through. It is also what makes Benicio Del Toro’s steely-hearted arms dealer the perfect juxtaposition to Mia Threalpoton’s ethically driven sense of piousness. Two starkly opposite personalities winding each other down like sandpaper. 

Besides that, it seems Anderson trades in the substantial heft of Asteroid City for a film where he just sits back and cuts loose (which is rightfully deserved at this point in his career). An espionage comedy stuffed with Tom Hanks/Bryan Cranston trick shots, a more than Bruno Debohnel-esque conception of an afterlife paired with a dramatic Alexandre Desplat score, and rampant outbursts often interjected by a goofball Swedish Michael Cera. It’s a fun time as all Anderson films are but even by the fourth pit-stop, it begins to get a little bumpy like the planes Zsa Zsa goes down with. 

(The lack of Jason Schwartzman is more than noticeable)

“What the fuck are you doing?”
“I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.”

Everyone needs a friend as loyal as Tommy Lee Jones is in Rolling Thunder. I definitely see how someone like Tarantino would become hyper fixated with a film like this.

“I'm gonna give you a little somethin' you can't take off.“

I can never focus during the scene where Hans Landa is making Shoshanna eat the strudel because it’s maybe one of the most appetizing pieces of food to ever be captured on film. I don’t even like strudel. Never ever forget the cream.

The new Benson Boone song plays in this film during a training montage. Just thought I should warn any of you planning to see this (it’s really terrible just watch Cobra Kai). 

Full Review at Next Best Picture

“Good heavens! You can't expect me to every detail about everybody, can you?“

I think the biggest red flag Johnnie has in this film is not even the compulsive gambling, aggressive tendencies, or ulterior motives. It’s the fact that he thinks out of all pet names Monkeyface is the way to go.

“For me it's simple. A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.“

Amazing how Jean Renoir made a prison film that perfectly encapsulates the humanity everyone shares beyond the fabric of one nation's uniform. It’s hilarious and heart-wrenching in equal measure. It’s easy to see how Billy Wilder easily stripped some of The Grand Illusion’s fabric to create something of his own with Stalag 17. Filmmaking so damn good that Joseph Goebbels had to try to eradicate its existence. 

Even better when watched on my thrifted (and elusive) Criterion. A rare find I thought I never would’ve had added to my collection.

I rock with Guy Ritchie but giving me a slopfest Uncharted skinned treasure hunting film with a lead who has more chemistry with the actress playing his sister than his romantically charged adversary is an automatic no for me. Pure money laundering filmmaking at its finest.

Ethan Coen making Margaret Qualley his very own lesbian Humphrey Bogart-esque PI rocks along with Chris Evans being a sex pest shitbag reverend. Everything else all but feels slight and despite some good laughs doesn’t measure up to what Coen and Tricia Cooke did with Drive Away Dolls. 

Full Review at Next Best Picture 

A big bloated beautiful mess…

It's wild that the last installment in this franchise would result in Tom Cruise/Christopher McQuaries's sloppiest entry. At moments becoming a schmaltzy smorgasbord of callbacks that build to become a glup-shitto-filled MI film that feels like a Dave Filoni live-action Star Wars series. A feeling especially solidified with baffling editing choices stitching together moments shot with the most visually distracting of framing its core cast.  

Yet when this thing sings my god nothing compares. The highs The Final Reckoning achieves create a euphoric level of disbelief that only results in you laughing in pure shock mainly due to the physical adversity Cruise is willing to push himself through. That first hour is honestly a brutal exposition torture fest but McQuarie finds the harmony eventually making everything sing into a big-budget ballet of ridiculously impressive action filmmaking. Unfathomable to process the staging of the Submarine and of course the Bipeddle plane sequences. 

As a finale, it’s quite underwhelming. As another entry in the Mission Impossible franchise, it’s solid. As a quality theater experience where TC does the unthinkable all while running through London and is interjected by scene-stealing line readings by Tramell Tillman then little comes close to beating this. An enigma of franchise filmmaking where it’s far more real than the artificiality represented by The Entity and also compared to many other studio blockbusters being released now. That exhaustion in a way the crew must’ve felt enduring Covid, the strikes, etc is more than palpable on screen. It’s time for the IMF to have a rest. You’ve done enough TC thank you for your service.

On the heels of seeing The Final Reckoning had to fire up this bad boy.. One. Last. Time. 

Only can the power of Tom Cruise doing practical magic and making handjob innuendos with Hayley Atwell in a tiny Italian buggy can make me (somewhat) get over the Knicks losing Game 1 of the E to the Pacers.

“I've learned that men's unhappiness arises from the inability to stay quietly in their own room.”

Nothing hits differently than a François Truffaut film about how infidelity is used as a conduit to escape the perceived drolls of a stagnant life when in reality you’re just a selfish prick. Can’t say the ending wasn’t entirely justified.

“ I understand. She's the clean part of your life. I'm the dirty part.“

I know we’re tapping into the fun slop of early 2000s horror but this didn’t feel as enjoyable as the previous films I grew up with. At least we see a dude’s cock ring be ripped apart from an MRI so there’s that

Random thoughts that popped up while watching Novacaine

- We find out who would win in a fight between Jack Quaid and Ray Nicholson in the inevitable Nepo Baby War 

- There’s nothing mid about Amber Midthunder, so Jack Quaid isn’t special doing all this for her. I would’ve done the same

- Another flawless performance from the CEO of Sex

I’m not even going to sugarcoat it, it’s one of the worst films I’ve sat through in quite some time. Unimaginative, aimless, self-pitying, ego-fest led by one of the worst performances from an “actor.” I feel bad for Jenna Ortega cause she’s stronger than the military for keeping a straight face any time she was opposite of Abel. 

If you want to read about how much of a disaster Hurry Up Tomorrow is you can read my full review here: Next Best Picture 

My proclivity to liking films about gambling is honestly what squeezes out the extra half-star even if The Big Town overstays its welcome by almost a solid half-hour. At least Ben Bolt and Harold Becker make dice rolling in the Windy City somewhat as alluring as Matt Dillion and Diane Lane make it out to be. So what it’s The Hustler but with craps? Would I watch this ever again? No! Did it make me want to go to Atlantic City and show off my newfound hobby with the weakest throwing arm in the tri-state area? Absolutely.

“I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of getting killed.“

“Look, Leroy, you know we have a law against carrying a gun?
“Sure.”
“Well, we have that law because a gun is dangerous. Well, hate - Monty's kind of hate - is like a gun. If you carry it around with you, it can go off and kill somebody.”

Even the star power of the big three Roberts (Mitchum, Ryan, and Young) couldn’t save Edward Dmytryk from the wrath of McCarthy’s Blacklist. Nowhere near Dmytryk’s most dazzling work but certainly one of his most emotionally effective. Even a B-tier Dmytryk drama could still be as relevant seven decades later.

“Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason.“

After months of constantly pushing this one back down my watchlist, I finally found myself coming around to what honestly might be Kathryn Bigelow’s best work. There’s something incredibly dated yet earnest about how filmmakers pre-2000s imagined what the future would be. In this case, she, former partner James Cameron, and Jay Cocks match their combined freak to make an analog-heavy hellscape riddled with trash and Percy paranoia. 

What's more hypnotic is that it's a cyberpunk-fueled techno-noir where stagnating in memories is the very thing that can get you killed. A world so revolting but on screen looks so gorgeous that every minute spent in it is satisfying in its own right. There’s also an argument to be made that Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett are in the running for the most gorgeous actors to lead a film. 

I’m glad Bigelow has finally escaped director jail but I wished whatever she cooked up today strayed from military-oriented dramas and more horned-up shit like this and Near Dark.

 “Are they slow-moving, chief?”
 “Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.“

Just essential text in zombie cinema-filled gruesome munching sequences that still remains mind-blowing how it got by in 1968. Even in 2025 it remains terrifying to a degree.

It’s comical how Marvel got Jake Schreier to do Beef Redux (Superhero edition) but swapped out the culturally specific baggage that wains on those characters in exchange for the traumas derived from these  

This is far from a return to form for the MCU industrial complex but it has far more signs of life residing it in with actual color grading, practical sets, and humor that doesn’t always feel entirely forced into every other moment. It also helps that Florence Pugh (and that signature frown) does wonders to anchor everything together. Lewis Pullman and Wyatt Russell working together like the Shaq/Kobe of cool nepo babies. Sebastian Stan clocking in to earn his checks to do cooler things (at least he gets his aura farming and hype moments). I can unequivocally say that every time Julia Louis-Dreyfus pops up I want to start a GoFundMe to rid that character from any of these projects. A solid time but only a slight jolt of energy for what is a stagnant franchise.

What’s Ned from Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide doing here??

“Lucinda's waiting. The girls are home playing tennis. I'm swimming home.“

The cinematic mid-life crisis has never looked as glorious as it does in The Swimmer. It also helps when a Hollywood legend such as Burt Lancaster could embody the prototypical American male crash out in such a conceitedly dissonant manner. Frank Perry (and a young Sydney Pollack) make the American dream feel like a nightmare that only swallows you whole. It’s been said by many others out here but you can clearly see where Matthew Weiner attained such inspiration for a protagonist like Don Draper.

“The Europeans may have been imperialist, but they knew how to make a building.“

Nothing is better than Jon Bernthal going sicko mode and Ben Affleck practically funding a Xavier’s School of gifted children but for young autistic computer hackers.

“It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now“

It’s questionable but there are reasonable grounds to claim that this is Kubrick’s funniest film. The gold standard of cinematic louses that proves to fail upwards does indeed have its limitations. What isn’t limited is how this film has been immortalized now more recently with what should be considered an iconic 21 Savage edit. It also helps that your retinas will sear every other frame into your brain.

It almost feels like a fever dream that Gareth Evans’ long-awaited project “Havoc” is finally coming to light. It’s been four long years since it was first announced by “The Raid: Redemption” director, and since then, the film has been constantly pushed back on Netflix’s timeline. Evans’s desire to complete reshoots along with the dual strikes has made what felt like an easy win for the streamer come off more as an endurance race of a production. Plenty of people would agree that the wait would automatically be worth it just because of Evan’s work alone on “The Raid” series, and by all means, that’s more than a justified position to hold. While the end result is far from perfect, whenever Evans gets to let loose, “Havoc” is an absolute blood-soaked blast that entertains for most of its sub-two-hour runtime.

Full Review at Next Best Picture 

Honestly you could just watch Happy Death Day instead of this. A far better use of your time than this bottom of the barrel video game adaptation. 

Full Review at Next Best Picture 

“Sometimes I don't know where the bullshit ends and the truth begins.“

All That Jazz works so well cause you can see Bob Fosse plucking apart his life to make a fantastical musical with set pieces so elaborate I don’t know how I didn’t kill him making it. The plight of ambition and ego that plagues every artist is only dialed to an eleven by Roy Scheider’s performance which makes hacking up a lung look like a worthy trade-off for creating the art you envision.

After Ryan Coogler was able to make Wakanda Forever a watchable film despite the vast production issues that plagued it is when Hollywood should’ve known it was time to give one of our best working filmmakers a blank check. What I never expected was Coogler to make something as out there as Sinners. 

He’s going full throttle, basking in what feels like his own horned-up vampire venture in the vein of “Near Dark” minus the leather jackets and more sweat and golden tooth crowns. This comparison is only amplified by a rogue Ludwig Göransson score that’s threading the line between soulful blues guitar strumming to blasting heavy metal. A film very much about how music and mysticism are forever intertwined, ing through generations like tradition. The restorative feeling that it can almost elicit is so connected to this tangible idea of freedom these characters desperately crave. Almost similar to Coogler’s real-life artistic aspirations. 

All of which is so stirringly captured by Autumn Durald Arkapaw‘s cinematography which is as seductive as the characters who inhabit it. Coogler’s direction as a whole has elevated to another plane whether it’s his confidence in embracing 65mm film using a combination of IMAX 15-perf 70 mm and Ultra Panavision 70mm cameras or a flexing his prowess with its slew of elaborate set pieces he pulls off with ease. 

Coogler is also the one filmmaker of Michael B. Jordan’s career so far who’s able to get the most out of him which is why they are always finding their way back to one another. Jordan’s performance (or two in this case) is the best thing he’s done so far. Yet despite how great he is I don’t know how anyone will leave mesmerized by another heater from Delroy Lindo, Hailee Steinfeld with some of the most insane line readings, or Miles Canton who needs to become a star after this. 

I wouldn’t say Sinners is Coogler’s magnum opus, I think this is only the beginning of something special. That being said as of now it’s his best work and I’ll be endlessly revisiting a film as erotic, blood-soaked, and mesmerizing as this. You’ve been asking for audacious original films from these legacy studios. Well here it is

“She's fair game, Joe. It's always open season on princesses.”

Pretty galaxy brained that The ant is like yeah you may be autistic but it’s what helped you become so great in life skills such as mathematics… and also being a profesional hitman. 

Also side note an insane cast for an absolute three star heater:

Ben Affleck - Oscar Winner (2X)
Jon Bernthal - Emmy Winner
Jean Smart - Emmy Winner
Jon Lithgow - Emmy Winner
J.K. Simmons - Oscar Winner
Anna Kendrick - Oscar Nominated

“Well, Miss Masala, racism or as they say nowadays, tradition, gets ed down like recipes. Now, the trick is, you gotta know what to eat and what to leave on your plate. Otherwise, you’ll be mad forever.”

“And you’ll never eat.”

Love and culture colliding with one another has never looked as sumptuous. It’s because the genius of Mira Nair is to have the great Ed Lachman capture two actors as gorgeous as Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury.

“Come on, read my future for me.”
“You haven't got any.”
“Hmm? What do you mean?”
“Your future's all used up.”

SZA the star that you are

Awesome how a Viola Davis presidency would be using cryptocurrency to end world hunger

“If you can't get it in real life, you might as well get it on the job, right?“

It’s a shame how one of Spike Lee’s most visceral and visually experimental films is practically impossible to find. It’s all a performance until it isn’t. Theresa Randle slowly going from the unglamorous acting auditions to neon brazen call centers pleasuring some of the biggest freaks from the tri-state area and beyond. Somehow romantic at times when it isn’t humorously bleak.

It’s only more unhinged when it features cameos from the likes of Madonna, Quentin Tarantino, and a jockstrap-wearing Mets fan obsessed with being sexually pleased through cheers as he hits imaginary home runs. 

Watched on 35mm at Anthology 

“Did you know Tom Cruise had no idea he was in that vampire movie till two years later?

“I don't go to movies.”
“Why not?”
“Life is too short.”

It’s fascinating that The Player might be one of the few times Robert Altman is at his most cynical despite the overtly surface-level glamour that exudes from a fictions  Hollywood background that feels so lived in. Altman far more concerned with making an evisceration of the worst aspects of filmmaking than creating characters worthy of sympathy. It’s more than fitting that even without the paranoia Tim Robbins’s Griffin Mill is so shallow that after walking out of 8 1/2 his first thought would be to remake it. These guys sadly decide what filmmakers make and what we get to see. The rejections, the notes, the blatant disregard for the art form. There’s a reason why the suits aren’t the good guys here.

1. The Square
2. Are We Good?
3. Relay
4. The Trainer
5. Predator: Killer of Killers

1. Paris, Texas
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. Miracle Mile
4. The Spook Who Sat by the Door
5. Inland Empire
6. The Trial
7. Police Story
8. The Night of the Hunter
9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
10. The Sting

...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Year 7 on Letterboxd and after a more than enjoyable year of film in a post-strike landscape, 2025 is only looking to be better than ever. We might have a possible all timer year on our hands…

1. Sinners
2. Black Bag
3. Sorry, Baby
4. The Shrouds
5. Presence
6. Mickey 17
7. It Ends
8. Warfare
9. The Phoenician Scheme
10. Lurker

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dune: Part Two
• Den of Thieves
• Blue Velvet
• The Handmaiden
• Parasite
• Reservoir Dogs
• Moonlight
• The French Connection
• Crazy Heart
• Princess Mononoke

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

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

• Raging Bull
• Mean Streets
• Uncut Gems
• Woman in the Dunes
• The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
• Police Story
• Police Story 2
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• La Haine
• The Red Shoes

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eyes Wide Shut
• Barry Lyndon
• Full Metal Jacket
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• A Clockwork Orange
• Paths of Glory
• The Killing

Only ranking what I’ve seen

1. Raging Bull
2. GoodFellas
3. The Color of Money
4. The Departed
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. The Last Waltz
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. The Irishman
9. Taxi Driver
10. The King of Comedy

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

1. Parasite
2. Memories of Murder
3. Mother
4. Snowpiercer
5. Mickey 17
6. The Host
7. Okja

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

1. Marty Supreme
2. One Battle After Another
3. The Drama
4. After the Hunt
5. Caught Stealing
6. Eddington
7. Mickey 17
8. Sinners
9. Materialists
10. The History of Sound

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

Year 6 on Letterboxd trying to take this list to another level in the New Year. While on the surface this year seems a bit lighter than a jam packed 2023, there’s plenty to be excited for. An evolving moviegoing landscape almost freed from the grips of superhero films yet post SAG/WGA strikes it’ll be interesting to see what the next year brings.

1. The Brutalist
2. Challengers
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Anora
5. Nickel Boys
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. Queer
8. La Chimera
9. The Beast
10. Love Lies Bleeding

...plus 130 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Apartment
2. The Third Man
3. The Wages of Fear
4. Beau Travail
5. 12 Angry Men
6. The Set-Up
7. Moonstruck
8. The Cincinnati Kid
9. Seconds
10. The Gambler

...plus 106 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Odd Man Out
2. Detour
3. Brute Force
4. Cry of the Hunted
5. The Blue Gardenia
6. The Crimson Kimono
7. Hell Drivers
8. Human Desire
9. The Roaring Twenties
10. Knock on Any Door

• Alien
• Blade Runner
• Gladiator
• Thelma & Louise
• The Duellists
• White Squall
• G.I. Jane
• Someone to Watch Over Me
• Black Rain
• Legend

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

1. The Brutalist
2. Anora
3. Nickel Boys
4. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
5. Oh, Canada
6. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
7. All We Imagine as Light
8. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
9. Eephus
10. A Real Pain

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

1. Queer
2. The Substance
3. Cloud
4. The End
5. The Order
6. Bird
7. Friendship
8. Conclave
9. The Wild Robot
10. The Girl with the Needle

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Set-Up
2. Raging Bull
3. Uncut Gems
4. Love & Basketball
5. Creed
6. The Color of Money
7. Challengers
8. The Cincinnati Kid
9. Slap Shot
10. Moneyball

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

• Beverly Hills Cop II
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Beverly Hills Cop III
• Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

• Kneecap
• Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
• Sacramento
• The Dog Thief
• Lake George
• Firebrand
• Federer: Twelve Final Days
• Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
• Bang Bang
• Swimming Home

Year 2 on Letterbox and I’m ready to keep it coming. 

A lot of films coming out this year and hopefully I can be your guide to most releases whether they are studio releases  or independent films. I will watch as much as I can.....Enjoy

1. Minari
2. Nomadland
3. Promising Young Woman
4. Mangrove
5. Sound of Metal
6. Da 5 Bloods
7. The Father
8. Wolfwalkers
9. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
10. Another Round

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Boy and the Heron
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Poor Things
4. Evil Does Not Exist
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. The Killer
7. Perfect Days
8. Hit Man
9. May December
10. The Taste of Things

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

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Challengers
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. Gladiator II
5. Megalopolis
6. Nosferatu
7. Oh, Canada
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. Twisters
10. Ella McCay

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

• There Will Be Blood
• Boogie Nights
• Phantom Thread
• The Master
• Licorice Pizza
• Magnolia
• Inherent Vice
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Hard Eight

Year 5 on Letterbox and bringing you reviews and personal rankings for all the films I will watch in 2022. Oscar bait, superhero films, idc I’ll watch it all.

1. Oppenheimer
2. Past Lives
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Poor Things
7. Asteroid City
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
9. The Killer
10. ages

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Casablanca
• In the Mood for Love
• Do the Right Thing
• La Haine
• Chinatown
• Raging Bull
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Uncut Gems
• Akitsu Hot Springs

• Past Lives
• Oppenheimer
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Anatomy of a Fall
• American Fiction
• Barbie
• Maestro
• The Holdovers

This ranking will be in of what I would want as the best picture winner and how I think these films would age overtime if they won

1. TÁR
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. The Fabelmans
6. Avatar: The Way of Water
7. Women Talking
8. Triangle of Sadness
9. All Quiet on the Western Front
10. Elvis

• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• TÁR
• Titane
• Drive My Car

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
4. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
5. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

• Dune: Part Two
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Barbie
• Oppenheimer
• Challengers
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Creed III
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• The Bikeriders

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

A lot of films coming out this year and hopefully I can be your guide to most releases whether they are studio or independent films. Will watch as much as I can.....Enjoy

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1. Parasite
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Little Women
4. The Irishman
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
6. Uncut Gems
7. The Farewell
8. 1917
9. Jojo Rabbit
10. Marriage Story

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Year 4 on Letterbox and bringing you reviews and personal rankings for all the films I will watch in 2022. Oscar bait, superhero films, idc I’ll watch it all.

1. Babylon
2. Decision to Leave
3. TÁR
4. Bones and All
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Nope
8. The Batman
9. Aftersun
10. Top Gun: Maverick

...plus 102 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This ranking will be in of what I would want as the best picture winner and how I think these films would age overtime if they won

1. The Power of the Dog
2. Drive My Car
3. Dune
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Nightmare Alley
6. King Richard
7. CODA
8. Belfast
9. Don't Look Up
10. West Side Story

This is the definitive MCU Ranking no exceptions.

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Avengers: Infinity War
4. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
5. Black Panther
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Iron Man
9. Captain America: Civil War
10. The Avengers

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

• Decision to Leave
• Bones and All
• TÁR
• Triangle of Sadness
• Women Talking
• Aftersun
• She Said
• Personality Crisis: One Night Only
• Armageddon Time

1. BlacKkKlansman
2. Cold War
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. Burning
5. First Reformed
6. If Beale Street Could Talk
7. Annihilation
8. Widows
9. The Favourite
10. Roma

1. Uncut Gems
2. Moonlight
3. Good Time
4. First Reformed
5. Ex Machina
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. The Green Knight
8. The Lighthouse
9. Minari
10. A Most Violent Year

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

1. Babylon
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Blonde
4. The Northman
5. The Batman
6. Crimes of the Future
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
8. Decision to Leave
9. Bullet Train
10. Don't Worry Darling

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

With coronavirus, messy Academy Award eligibility dates, and constantly shifting release dates I’ll see as much as I can and tell you what I think. Year 3 on Letterbox and the best is yet to come.

1. Licorice Pizza
2. Spencer
3. Dune
4. The Green Knight
5. Titane
6. In the Heights
7. The Power of the Dog
8. Drive My Car
9. The Tragedy of Macbeth
10. ing

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Spider-Man: No Way Home
4. Spider-Man: Homecoming
5. Spider-Man: Far From Home
6. Spider-Man
7. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
8. Spider-Man 3
9. The Amazing Spider-Man

1. Skyfall
2. Casino Royale
3. No Time to Die
4. Spectre
5. Quantum of Solace

1. The Suicide Squad
2. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
3. Shazam!
4. Wonder Woman
5. Aquaman
6. Zack Snyder's Justice League
7. Man of Steel
8. Wonder Woman 1984
9. Suicide Squad
10. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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

I don’t have films I have family

1. Fast Five
2. The Fast and the Furious
3. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
4. Furious 7
5. Fast & Furious
6. The Fate of the Furious
7. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
8. 2 Fast 2 Furious
9. Fast & Furious 6
10. F9

1. The Matrix
2. The Matrix Reloaded
3. The Matrix Revolutions
4. The Matrix Resurrections

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