Letterboxd 4v3r4n Guilherme Simões Reis https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/ Letterboxd - Guilherme Simões Reis Spider 1j5z4h Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse/ letterboxd-review-913267846 Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:49:04 +1200 2025-06-11 No Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 4.0 569094 <![CDATA[

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Once again, animation is awesome, combining different styles in fast-paced action and beautiful innovative visual compositions with a very complex and sophisticated outcome. The script is also very good, once more among the best when it comes to multiverses. The number of alternative spider-individuals exploded, with several nice varieties of spider supers. Among the new characters, I enjoyed Spot and Hobie the most, but the new Vulture, Pavitr Prabhakar, Mayday and Jess Drew are also very nice. Beyond the good action and drama and easter egg gags, there are several philosofical issues that are well worked in the script: Is there a teleology, a determined coherence in history towards a definite end? Does the individual have power to change fate? Which criteria is appropriate to define good and evil? Is utilitarianism a good principle to chose what to do? How much individuals are composed by experience, by what they lived? To resume, many questions are explored, and the movie advances well, with the personal and family dramas. However, differently from masterpiece Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse is not a full film by its own, but a first part of a two-movie story, which is still unended, waiting for Beyond the Spider-Verse. Well, so am I: waiting for the next chapter of this great achievement in animation and in superhero genre.

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Macbeth a702i 1971 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/macbeth-1971/ letterboxd-review-911573372 Mon, 9 Jun 2025 17:47:55 +1200 2025-06-09 No Macbeth 1971 4.0 11316 <![CDATA[

Polanski's adaptation of Shakespeare's play is visually appealing, transporting spectator to muddy, bloody and grimy Middle Ages. The scenes of war and feast are atmospheric in that sense. Acting and costume design are excellent. Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and King Duncan all have quite consistent performances (Jon Finch, sca Annis, and Nicholas Selby), the witches are creepy, and the porter played by Sydney Bromley breaks expectation and is funny. Despite that, it is probably the most violent adaptation of a Shakespeare's play I have ever watched. Increasingly violent, indeed. Macbeth's madness illusion are also very explicit in the film.

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Batman 4o1y5a Hush, 2019 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/batman-hush/ letterboxd-review-906970522 Wed, 4 Jun 2025 16:22:30 +1200 2025-06-04 No Batman: Hush 2019 3.5 537056 <![CDATA[

Not a bad Batman animated film, but a slight disappointment cannot be ignored. There are good moments, and the characters are well depicted. Well.. there are too many characters... Too many things happen one after the other, seeming that various movies were squeezed into a single feature film. The plot could be perceived as ambitious and huge, but actually it never seems very impressive. Spectator does not feel any of the numerous surprises, events, twists, character arcs. Batman faces extremely tough challenges, has fundamental occurrences in his private life, and a batvillain reaches his deadliest danger level... but none of that is felt as significant. Outcome is just ok, but certainly not one to be highlighted among the best animated films to explore the world of the dark knight.

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Madame Web 1cf2h 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/madame-web/ letterboxd-review-906184772 Tue, 3 Jun 2025 18:00:44 +1200 2025-06-03 No Madame Web 2024 4.0 634492 <![CDATA[

Given the infamously awful rating, I could never expect to watch a so amusing (and sometimes either funny or cute) superhero action movie. The origin story (and the mystic jungle stuff) works well, the five major characters are well developped given the fast pace, and the divination power is very well portrayed. I guess terrible rating has three different (and not necessarily shared together by all the film's haters) reasons: 1) firstly (and the only reason I do respect), the characters, particularly Madame Web, deviate a lot from the way they are represented in the comics (although it does not bother me as I never read the comics, besides the explanation in the end of this review); 2) secondly, most superhero-movie fans are addicted to a too narrow range of possible scripts and react badly to any movie which innovate and do not copy that particular formula (and therefore there are both numerous examples of mediocre flicks which have high ratings and interesting refreshing movies which are widely rejected); and 3) last but definitely not least, there is a wave of misogynous spectators who hate any film with female leading roles and blame them as "woke". Anyway, despite disagreeing seriously about the bad rating, I must say that I did not like the visual of the spider-teenagers, who, fortunately, and I must say also weirdly, appear very little in the whole film, just as visions of the future. However, all the three girls are nice characters as nearly adopted daughters of quite likeable Cassie Webb. To resume, the very fact of the young age of Madame Webb, quite different from her portrayall in comics, is not really a problem if one takes into that the film story happens in the past of Spider-Man storyline. Actually, there is an Easter egg which makes it doubtless.

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The Number 23 2zj5e 2007 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/the-number-23/ letterboxd-review-905126263 Mon, 2 Jun 2025 14:27:07 +1200 2025-06-01 No The Number 23 2007 3.5 3594 <![CDATA[

Wow! I finished to watch the film precisely at 23h23! It is an intriguing triller, which started with great style, even reminding a neo-noir film sometimes. However, as it advanced, it became slightly confusing and eventually it was solved and explained in a not so convincing or interesting way. It is nice, but not as goor as the promising beginning suggested.

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Street Gang 2o2z70 How We Got to Sesame Street, 2021 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/street-gang-how-we-got-to-sesame-street/ letterboxd-review-901431455 Thu, 29 May 2025 17:18:57 +1200 2025-05-29 No Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street 2021 4.0 476044 <![CDATA[

So beautiful, so charming, so clever! How good intentions together with intelligence may change the word! Watching this documentary about how the greatest pupperts ever were born and the revolution they produced (even though Roosevelt Franklin had a short life) was very satisfying . And when we see the interaction with children... it is so lovely! So magical! Brilliant crew!

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Batman Is Just Not That Into You 1i23p 2017 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/batman-is-just-not-that-into-you/ letterboxd-review-900544629 Wed, 28 May 2025 16:37:04 +1200 2025-05-28 No Batman Is Just Not That Into You 2017 2.5 461834 <![CDATA[

Silly. I like the TV show parody stuff, but the short film finishes fast without ever becoming really funny. This LEGO stuff is going too far too, I am tired of that mediocre animation. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIHv4wW8t8

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Batman 4o1y5a Broken Promise, 2022 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/batman-broken-promise/ letterboxd-review-899137166 Tue, 27 May 2025 07:07:56 +1200 2025-05-26 No Batman: Broken Promise 2022 4.0 1358952 <![CDATA[

Excellent fan-made Batman animated short film! Adimation is very innovative, heavily inspired in cartoon itself, and the script is very clever. I loved the two classic bat-villains and how they are depicted in the story. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c_ORJHJXgI

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Batman 4o1y5a The Long Halloween, Part Two, 2021 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/batman-the-long-halloween-part-two/ letterboxd-review-897764087 Mon, 26 May 2025 01:33:01 +1200 2025-05-25 No Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two 2021 4.0 736074 <![CDATA[

It is a great two-part Batman movie. It has a beautiful animation work, consistent and engaging script, several true characters in bat-universe. As part two is the direct sequel for part one, with no chronological gap and the core issues there, they are obviously similar movies. Differences, however, must be highlighted. In part one, it is almost a mafia film, with thresome Batman-Gordon-Dent, with the recurrent help of Catwoman, trying to solve a murder mystery. In this second part, the noir aesthetics is still there, but much less, while the fantastic is much more present. Solomon Grundy, Poison Ivy, the Scarecrow, the Mad Hatter... they are there with their magic and lunatic splendor. It is time for Two-Face to rise. The age of old mob-ruled Gotham is over. And so are the Hollyday and the long Halloween.

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I Am from Palestine 1q6a4y 2023 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/i-am-from-palestine/ letterboxd-review-897247407 Sun, 25 May 2025 12:45:18 +1200 2025-05-24 No I Am from Palestine 2023 4.0 1127571 <![CDATA[

The short film is cute and sadly nostalgic, but also brings hope and resilience, despite the normalization propaganda and the vicious slaughter and ethnic cleansing. Delicate and bright drawing. Watch it here: youtu.be/BAujeFizTi4?si=rg-08kfdj1HP93AD

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Batman 4o1y5a The Long Halloween, Part One, 2021 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/batman-the-long-halloween-part-one/ letterboxd-review-896901023 Sun, 25 May 2025 07:06:19 +1200 2025-05-24 No Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One 2021 4.0 736073 <![CDATA[

Great animation flick. Dialogues are excellent, noir aesthetics is beautiful, characters are well built and nicely designed (the Joker, Batman, Catwoman, Harvey Dent, Carmine Falcone...), action and pace are good, the murder mystery is thrilling, the potrayal of the change of Gotham from a normal big city with high crime rate into a freak pandemonium is superb. It is a superhero movie but there are moments when it seems a proper (and top-level) mafia one, from the fancy parties of the Italian ciminal family to the colourful Chinatown.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5ap67 Mutant Mayhem, 2023 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem/ letterboxd-review-894653240 Thu, 22 May 2025 14:51:14 +1200 2025-05-21 No Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2023 3.0 614930 <![CDATA[

Animated movie with origin story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Animation work is frentic and innovative character design must be praised. The first half hour is very promising, with both cute and dark humour moments. Unfortunately, from the establishsment of the partnership of the foursome with April O'Neil on, the movie worsens a lot. Until the end there is a lot of silliness, terrible dialogues, and some pretty stupid ideas such as the way they adopted their names (with no relation to the Renaissance artists!). I began with good expectations but it turned out to be a serious disappointment.

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Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase 5565x 1982 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/mighty-mouse-in-the-great-space-chase/ letterboxd-review-893939885 Wed, 21 May 2025 16:47:28 +1200 2025-05-21 No Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase 1982 4.0 43215 <![CDATA[

Charming and funny Filmation animated feature film where the most powerful mouse in the universe has a great space adventure in order to avoid the feline triumph of evil. Lovely and actually amusing. If there were a ranking of scientifically absurd sci-fi films, it would be a serious contender for reaching the top place, what is also funny.

🐀Watch it in English: youtu.be/Yca1L4YviAs?si=98gsDN33YiR476TZ
🐀Watch it dubbed in Portuguese: youtu.be/Go61nuCVILc?si=LOFWIkZuBw6mG9Ge

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Instant Family 1i193z 2018 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/instant-family/ letterboxd-review-893878149 Wed, 21 May 2025 15:11:16 +1200 2025-05-21 No Instant Family 2018 3.5 491418 <![CDATA[

The film has ups and downs, alternating between good (either comical or dramatic) moments and unfunny ones, between smart details and pure cheesy cliché, between good acting and silly scenes. On average, outcome is nice enough, besides being a well intentioned flick.

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The Ugly Stepsister 2b134n 2025 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/the-ugly-stepsister/ letterboxd-review-893144583 Tue, 20 May 2025 17:07:42 +1200 2025-05-20 No The Ugly Stepsister 2025 4.0 1284120 <![CDATA[

Norwegian (co-produced with Denmark, Romania, Poland and Sweden) unique faiytale movie. Unlike most adaptations of Cinderella fairytale, Emilie Blichfeldt's is mostly based in the brothers Grimm' version and not in Perrault's. While it is a dark humoured drama, it brings many elements of body horror and scatology, besides fantastic realism (not pure fantasy as recurrently in Cinderella tales). It deviates from Manichaeism, portraying Cinderella far from being a pure angel (despite being abused indeed, she does not have many moments of empathy), her father is ambitious, the prince is disgusting, and, well, the stepmother is as mean as always, but her daughters are much more nuanced than usual. Beneath all the dirtiness in the film, there is also an implicit critique towards patriarchy, with (besides many other scenes of misogyny) that ridiculous ball where girls offer themselves as if they were goods and aiming to marry a rich man as the goal of their lives. The arc of the leading character (who is not Cinderella, as you certainly noticed by the title) is a harsh and depressing drama, perfectly portrayed. Indeed, direction, cinematography, edition, makeup, acting, everything works well.

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Mädchen können kein Fußball spielen 4k5m1o 2025 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/madchen-konnen-kein-fuball-spielen/ letterboxd-review-890237641 Sat, 17 May 2025 16:47:00 +1200 2025-05-17 No Mädchen können kein Fußball spielen 2025 4.0 1470426 <![CDATA[

Beautiful German documentary on women's football resistence against widespread prejudice in that country. With amazing footage and very nice interviews, the well made film shows how dire was decades-length macho mockery and prohibition against female footballers, and how resilient and skilled players could overcome them. It is beautiful to see those old or middle age women's testimonies about their experiences and feelings interwined with footage of those very players in historical moments of sport. It was also interesting that the movie shows both sides of , with the lack of following different paths but with a similar outcome: while in the Western side It was just the basic stupid sexism that expects women to be weak and stay in the kitchen, in the Eastern side there was no interest in boosting women's football because there would be no olympic medal and sports were viewed primarily as a propaganda vehicle. It is curious to see how , a country which would be so successful in women's football, imposed until so late many constraints to the girls who wanted to play. Against all the difficulties, they succeding providing many beautiful plays shown in the footage! Decades afterwards, stupid sexism against women's football is shamefully still strong nowadays, as everyone can always see by reading hate speech in the comments in social network.

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Itaperuna Esporte Clube 3j5s A Águia do Noroeste, 2025 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/itaperuna-esporte-clube-a-aguia-do-noroeste/ letterboxd-review-889420052 Fri, 16 May 2025 16:17:43 +1200 2025-05-16 No Itaperuna Esporte Clube - A Águia do Noroeste 2025 4.5 1474998 <![CDATA[

Excellent documentary about the rise and fall of a small team from a small tall in Rio de Janeiro state. The edition is nice, there is great game footage, and the interviews are fantastic, with hilarious testimonies. The documentary is very informative, with a very good research, and is extremely amusing too, not only for the nostalgy of Rio football in the 1980s and 1990s, but also because there are numerous remarkable anecdotes. I never noticed that there could have been an unimaginable rivalry between Itaperuna and Remo! By he way, I loved Porto Alegre's kit!

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Coop 313k6p 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/coop-2024/ letterboxd-review-889412459 Fri, 16 May 2025 16:04:43 +1200 2025-05-16 No Coop 2024 4.0 1474953 <![CDATA[

Very funny and well made Saudi short film. It is charming, and the Liverpool goalkeeper is a quite charismatic character!

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Alcateia z564w 2024 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/alcateia-2024/ letterboxd-review-889397808 Fri, 16 May 2025 15:40:55 +1200 2025-05-16 No Alcateia 2024 3.0 1475005 <![CDATA[

The documentary is well shot and just follows a football team of transgender players in some matches. Nothing more than that, no particular story is deeply explored.

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Viventes 4e6n61 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/viventes/ letterboxd-review-889372404 Fri, 16 May 2025 15:01:49 +1200 2025-05-15 No Viventes 2024 4.0 1226532 <![CDATA[

Social political surrealism with elements of fantastic comedy horror. There are three connected stories of people in vulnerable social and labour situations. There are funny moments, great surprises, innovative elements, and an important social critique. The fact that sometimes it is supernatural, and other times it is oneiric, did not work so well in my opinion, despite all three being good segments. I also missed a stronger link than the presence of the unemployed boy. The movie is nice, anyway.

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A rifa do porco Julinho 124q3u 2025 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/a-rifa-do-porco-julinho/ letterboxd-review-889357747 Fri, 16 May 2025 14:41:02 +1200 2025-05-15 No A rifa do porco Julinho 2025 4.0 1474957 <![CDATA[

Amusing and charming Northern Brazilian B-film mockumentary from Belém. The story is funny, and so are the portrayed characters.

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Final de Copa 6m5vv 2025 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/final-de-copa/ letterboxd-review-889347231 Fri, 16 May 2025 14:18:13 +1200 2025-05-15 No Final de Copa 2025 3.0 1474974 <![CDATA[

I missed footage of the final match, only the town and fanbase were portrayed. Except for that, the documentary is well produced, but I considered it had a tepid outcome. The team seemed less interesting than I expected given its success coming from a tiny town, and the testimonies of the interviewees did not provide great stories either.

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Cam1l0 4r391i 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/cam1l0/ letterboxd-review-889277871 Fri, 16 May 2025 12:24:09 +1200 2025-05-15 No Cam1l0 2024 3.5 1474949 <![CDATA[

Extremely short film. There is a nice narration, the idea is clever and addresses the divine ststus of Maradona in Argentina, but suddenly the film ends and there is nothing more.

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My Grandfather 4q6n39 Ice Champion - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/my-grandfather-ice-champion/ letterboxd-review-889276259 Fri, 16 May 2025 12:21:10 +1200 2025-05-15 No My Grandfather: Ice Champion 3.5 1328186 <![CDATA[

The documentary is about the director's grandfather who has been football player in Atlético Mineiro and "champion of ice" in an European tournée. Well, the first part of the title is well explored, and spectator does know about who was that man, and there are some funny moments (the former player's sister must be highlighted). However, there is almost nothing about the pioneer campaign of Atlético Mineiro in . Testimonies are more worried about crying for past defeats than about giving more information about the tournament that is mentioned in the club's anthem. Therefore, the title is misleading.

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Marini 5v1x6b 2025 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/marini/ letterboxd-review-889270454 Fri, 16 May 2025 12:10:42 +1200 2025-05-15 No Marini 2025 3.5 1474985 <![CDATA[

This Malayan short film brings good representation of oppessive patriarchy, but the main character is very weird and has a quite strsnge behaviour.

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Bread and People 664m72 2020 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/bread-and-people/ letterboxd-review-888723434 Thu, 15 May 2025 17:05:51 +1200 2025-05-15 No Bread and People 2020 3.0 667418 <![CDATA[

Brecht in São Paulo. Among bakery and newspapers, non-linear musical adaptation mixes the play itself and the very characters as people outside it. Outcome in interesting but also excessively stilted and pretentious.

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Alma e Corpo de uma Raça 5b5b3x 1938 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/alma-e-corpo-de-uma-raca/ letterboxd-review-888693740 Thu, 15 May 2025 16:07:41 +1200 2025-05-15 No Alma e Corpo de uma Raça 1938 4.0 1397179 <![CDATA[

The film is a priceless audiovisual relic, which made me feel deeply moved. Off course it is far from a great narrative flick, but its footage and documentary elements not only have good quality (congrats for cinematographers Afrodisio Pereira de Castro and José Stamato, and camaraman Ruy Santos) but also have an outstanding importance for the history of Brazilian sport and for recording life in Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s. The plot is a romantic comedy with a love triangle story which is merged with the transition from amateur to professional football. There was also the transition from silent to sound cinema, and one of the drawbacks is precisely terrible acting (which turned to produce unintentional gags, besides the sometimes funny intended ones). The fact that a great part of the movie was shot outdoor, and not only inside the studio as was so common in the first half of XXth century, is one of the reasons the film is so precious despite its problems. Spectator sees Rio de Janeiro streets with few cars and crossed by tram rails. Besides that, there are several scenes of sports, mainly football but not only, and of players and athletes, mostly from Flamengo but also from Fluminense, including extremely famous and important ones. They do not appear in static photographs, but actually training, playing, talking in the changing room, and even singing and playing instruments (unfortunately, the sound of the latter scene is currently lost). Stars like “black diamond” Leônidas da Silva, “divine master” Domingos da Guia, and “black arrow” Jarbas appear in detail, among others who I could not identify. There is a match in Gávea Stadium when its structure was still being built (indeed, the movie was partially produced by Flamengo and its grossing was used to finance the building of the very stadium!). In that match scene it was possible to see Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas very near the field, and it is very special because of a particular event which was remarkable: the lagoon used to be larger, before an artificial increase of the land area around it, and it was closer to the stadium; in a derby that Fluminense was winning, the thre-coloured players shoot the ball intentionally several times into the water in order to have the time advancing and then avoiding a reaction of Flamengo. Although it was a different match, the scene made it easy to understand how the famous Lagoon Fla-Flu happened! There is also in the movie a long and detailed scene of a match of the Fla-Flu derby, held in Laranjeiras Stadium (Fluminense’s), and it is possible to see it in various angles, including the box office. The movie also shows Flamengo’s old headquarters, a building that does not exist anymore, in Flamengo neighborhood (now Flamengo’s headquarters are placed in Gávea, where the aforementioned stadium is located). The historical movie also shows athletes of Flamengo from other sports, such as rowing, athletics (racing, jumping and throwing), swimming, and even wrestling! I am very grateful for Cinédia and Cinemateca Brasileira for restoring the movie, and for CineFOOT festival for screening it. I hope I will be able to watch it many times more, and notice more details and identify more past idols of Flamengo. By the way, it was originally released on Flamengo and Proclamation of the Republic anniversary, and had a special screening for president Getúlio Vargas and other authorities.

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Eleven Tomorrows 23474g Berlinale Meets Football, 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/eleven-tomorrows-berlinale-meets-football/ letterboxd-review-888539487 Thu, 15 May 2025 12:18:55 +1200 2025-05-14 No Eleven Tomorrows: Berlinale Meets Football 2024 3.5 1231487 <![CDATA[

German anthology movie with short films on varied sides of football. While they are not extraordinary, they are well produced and share the interesting approach of exploring each issue from inside. There are blind football, female teams with foreign players, a left-wing team in a town full of fascists, and so forth. Nice experience, I felt interested in following some of those teams.

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Coluna Norte 5u3e5r 1960 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/coluna-norte/ letterboxd-review-887589339 Wed, 14 May 2025 07:44:03 +1200 2025-05-13 No Coluna Norte 1960 2.5 1125026 <![CDATA[

Propaganda film during Juscelino Kubitscheck government with good footage but terrible text and narration. Quite ridiculous intent to present the building of Brasília-Belém road and of the new capital as a heroic patriotic epic of workers and industrialists. Available here, in Portuguese: youtu.be/Fo4cLakwurE?si=zKwYeC6sqjtfwNUY

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Samedi soir 322t3v dimanche matin, 2023 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/samedi-soir-dimanche-matin/ letterboxd-review-887191559 Tue, 13 May 2025 16:32:34 +1200 2025-05-13 No Samedi soir, dimanche matin 2023 4.0 1479532 <![CDATA[

Nice French short drama, very well produced, directed, acted, shot and edited. The main character is almost as good football player as he is a jerk. Anyway, either deserving it or not, he just wishes one thing, and he will try hard to get it.

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Sangre de Campeones 6k1y71 2018 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/sangre-de-campeones/ letterboxd-review-886294653 Mon, 12 May 2025 14:33:31 +1200 2025-05-11 No Sangre de Campeones 2018 4.5 859368 <![CDATA[

What a nice Uruguayan documentary! Extraordinary footage, great reasearch and information, nice edition and sound. Spectator learns a lot about that group of working class men who had an adventure in and changed world football. There are so many amusing and surprising stories, and so many beautiful match scenes!

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https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/ange-the-boss-puskas-in-australia/ letterboxd-review-886262181 Mon, 12 May 2025 13:57:12 +1200 2025-05-11 No Ange & The Boss - Puskas in Australia 2024 3.5 1369521 <![CDATA[

I never knew that Puskás had lived and worked in Australia, and it is nice that there is a documentary about it. However, while the film has funny moments, on average it is a little tepid. There is perhaps too much detail about the matches, but relatively little about the ethnic context and other interesting issues. Anyway, one of the best things in the movie is how spectator could know a lot about Puskás's mood, personality, grimaces.

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Me dicen el Panzer c562g 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/me-dicen-el-panzer/ letterboxd-review-886085491 Mon, 12 May 2025 10:21:50 +1200 2025-05-11 No Me dicen el Panzer 2024 4.0 1233085 <![CDATA[

The film has good acting, art direction, cinematography, and is well produced. It is actually a nice film, but there is a problem in the script. Many things happen and are not well explained, the reasons for Rommell's mother (good performance for the actress) are not clear enough. The way Cabezón turns to be El Panzer is shown too much in a hurry. To resume, the good production deserved a tighter script.

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My Very Own Footballer tl14 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/my-very-own-footballer/ letterboxd-review-886055475 Mon, 12 May 2025 09:52:58 +1200 2025-05-11 No My Very Own Footballer 2024 4.0 1299212 <![CDATA[

Innovative surrealist French short animated film, where the ion dor footbal is contrasted with maket society.

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La seleccion de Chile 5e3o2k 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/la-seleccion-de-chile/ letterboxd-review-885316879 Sun, 11 May 2025 15:12:57 +1200 2025-05-11 No La seleccion de Chile 2024 4.0 1301855 <![CDATA[

Innovative Italian documentary in Spanish. Perhaps it would have been nicer if it brought more footage of inside the stadium and of those dark days. Anyway, the text is clever and strong, and innovation appears in the choice of who is the narrator, as spectator soon notices. FIFA never loses an opportunity to be in the wrong side, and the film is a homage to the victims of the coward coup lead by Pinochet.

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O Menino 6q704i o Recruta e o Sargento, 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/o-menino-o-recruta-e-o-sargento/ letterboxd-review-885254469 Sun, 11 May 2025 13:58:16 +1200 2025-05-10 No O Menino, o Recruta e o Sargento 2024 4.0 1475032 <![CDATA[

A beautiful cinematography, but perhaps little historical accuracy and a too melodramatic ending.

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Un tesoro y 60 años 5v4e41 2022 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/un-tesoro-y-60-anos/ letterboxd-review-885248813 Sun, 11 May 2025 13:51:15 +1200 2025-05-10 No Un tesoro y 60 años 2022 4.0 1475042 <![CDATA[

Amazing quality of the so much time lost and recently found pictures! It was nice to see them with comments of people who were there, either on the field or outside.

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Almir Pernambuquinho 2lie O Touro Indomável do Futebol, 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/almir-pernambuquinho-o-touro-indomavel-do/ letterboxd-review-885157647 Sun, 11 May 2025 11:49:14 +1200 2025-05-10 No Almir Pernambuquinho - O Touro Indomável do Futebol 2024 3.5 1474967 <![CDATA[

Almir Pernambuquinho is an amazing character in Brazilian football, and a documentary about him is very welcome. There is some good footage and pictures, but I would like them to be much more. There are also nice stories and research, but information is a little disorganized and interviews did not always have a great outcome. I think that a more chronological narrative would work better.

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A Herança de Chico 1l4m4q 2023 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/a-heranca-de-chico/ letterboxd-review-885153410 Sun, 11 May 2025 11:43:23 +1200 2025-05-10 No A Herança de Chico 2023 3.5 1475018 <![CDATA[

Low budget production. The idea for the plot is great, better than the development. The best of the movie is the performance of Rafael Oliveira, in the role of Chico Guanabara.

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The Best of Enemies 4h4pc 2019 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/the-best-of-enemies-2019/ letterboxd-review-883584272 Fri, 9 May 2025 14:36:16 +1200 2025-05-08 No The Best of Enemies 2019 5.0 458131 <![CDATA[

What a great film! It is simple, but deep, strong, and carefully developed throughout its length. The characters's arc is built coherently as they are forced to cohabitate the same space instead of isolating themselves from each other. Acting is very good for the entire casting, but the leading roles must be highlighted: Sam Rockwell has an amazing performance, so complex and convincing, and Taraji P. Henson also goes very well, with a strong presence. Script and direction (Robin Bissell's directorial debut!) are very effective in bringing to the big screen a very beautiful and remarkable story which actually happened in real life. The two last scenes are very moving and make sure that this is a very special movie.

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Batman 4o1y5a Gotham Knight, 2008 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/batman-gotham-knight/ letterboxd-review-882953516 Thu, 8 May 2025 16:59:47 +1200 2025-05-07 No Batman: Gotham Knight 2008 3.5 13851 <![CDATA[

US-Japanese-Korean animated anthology movie about Batman. The segments have very different tiles and are independent of each other (or loosely connected), but together they explore the iconic traits of the dark knight.
While the first episode, Have I Got a Story for You, has a very nice plot, playing on the Gotham knight's mystique, I seriously desliked its bizarre drawing style. (3 stars)
The second episode, Crossfire, has a much nicer animation, and there the debate about Batman is also in the core (not among skateboarders, as in previous segment, but between cop parterns), until the dark knight's action answers the question. (4 stars)
The third, Field Test, has a good animation in a very Japanese style, and some excellent dialogues (one by Bruce Wayne about the murder of an activist and another about a date, and other dialogue by Batman about mobsters' territories), but it is mostly sluggish and confusing. (3 stars )
The fourth, In Darnkess Dwells, has a very innovative animation, an expressionist one. Batman investigator and bat-gadgets are both explored in a neo-noir atmosphere, where the dark night fights two classic bat-villains. (4 stars)
The fifth, Working Through Pain, has a very nice concept, showing Batman in serious trouble interwined with past moments in Bruce Wayne's life in which he learned useful lessons about how to deal with such painful situations. (4 stars)
The last, Deadshot, consistent animation (which mixes styles but partially reminds painture) follows Batman facing the nicest batvillain in this movie, a quite charismatic one. (4 stars)

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Universal Soldier 1wd6a 1992 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/universal-soldier/ letterboxd-review-881459772 Tue, 6 May 2025 16:13:41 +1200 2025-05-05 No Universal Soldier 1992 4.0 9349 <![CDATA[

Certainly one of the best movies with Jean-Claude Van Damme (I know it is not that much, but this is a compliment!). There are some plot holes in the middle, and clichés seem to multiply in the last moments of the film. However, it is still a very entertaining action sci-fi (and superhero, although never mentioned as that; and road movie, and horror sometimes) flick. There are both nice action and funny gags, and Ally Walker makes a good partner for the good-hearted universal soldier GR44. There is also a great rivalry and mouse-cat duel with vicious GR-13 (Lundgren's top character after Ivan Drago and - perhaps - He-Man?). I did enjoy this.

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Adultery Brazilian Style 6f3v40 1969 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/adultery-brazilian-style/ letterboxd-review-880635966 Mon, 5 May 2025 17:16:15 +1200 2025-05-05 No Adultery Brazilian Style 1969 4.0 272145 <![CDATA[

This antology movie is certainly the best made by Pedro Carlos Rovai. The first segment, The roof, is is a drama of a working class man who is cheated by his wife when he is in the factory. The story is very simples, but cinematography, art direction and acting (particularly Sérgio Hingst in the leading role) are really well done. Poor Zé…
The second segment, The signature, has an interesting contrast with the former. While the first portrayed the working class, this one portrays very rich people, but the issue of unfaithfulness is, offcourse, cross-class (and obviously not only amatter of cheating wives). The way the film explored more thoughts than dialogues was funny (and so was the yoga teacher, although he was completely unnecessary to the story. In the end, unfaithfulness was not the core of the segment, differently from the previous one.
The third and last segment, The recipe, portrays middle class. Interestingly, in all segments, although it is mentioned only in this one, the patriarchy is the norm, and only the husband has a job, and the woman stays at home (and is responsible for housework in the first and third segments; in the second there are obviously many employees to do it). The husband (Mário Benvenutti) wants his beautiful wife (played by Romenian actress Jacqueline Myrna) to say at home, and is a womanizer outside (all his colleagues in office have the same mood, but he is the worst). The scenes portraying his imagination are funny Well, perhaps his absence will not be felt as a problem in the neighborhood...

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Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia 671l3h 2019 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/lima-barreto-ao-terceiro-dia/ letterboxd-review-880522869 Mon, 5 May 2025 14:44:27 +1200 2025-05-04 No Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia 2019 3.5 900706 <![CDATA[

I liked both the idea of representing two different moments of Lima Barreto's life, either separated or merged,and of portraying Policarpo Quaresma (and other characters from the novel, such as Ismênia, Adelaide, General Albernaz, and Felizardo). However, despite this narrative innovation in script, outcome is a little flat. The film also looks more like a theatre play, due a lot of overacting. The fact that different actors portray Lima Barreto in each moment is quite weird, given the fact that one happens when he was 30 years old (writing O triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma) and the other one when he was in a sanatorium for the last time (just 8 years afterwards!). Luís Miranda was 52 years old when playing 38 years old Lima Barreto (while Sidney Santiago Kuanza, the actor who played Lima Barreto when he was 30 years old, was actually 37 years old!). Besides that bizarre problem of casting and the irregular acting, pace also has ups and downs. The best moments are by far the ones in which Policarpo Quaresma interacts with Felizardo, very funny and smart ones (well... that is Lima Barreto himself!).

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Monsieur Lazhar 2e5hi 2011 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/monsieur-lazhar/ letterboxd-review-879522533 Sun, 4 May 2025 17:47:59 +1200 2025-05-04 No Monsieur Lazhar 2011 4.0 78480 <![CDATA[

Beautiful and sensitive movie, addressing many issues (from suicide to cultural differences, from education to politics for immigrnats...), with various deep and well built characters (children included). There are many windows which are opened and never closed, but there is no problem. They all compose the complexities of life in society, and the intereactions of individuals with so many experiences, expectations, trauma, wishes. Off course the arc of Bashir Lazhar is in the core, and perhaps that window was closed. However, how many more windows has he opened?

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Joker 2w2g5d Folie à Deux, 2024 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/joker-folie-a-deux/ letterboxd-review-878446192 Sat, 3 May 2025 16:39:26 +1200 2025-05-02 No Joker: Folie à Deux 2024 3.5 889737 <![CDATA[

While I watched Joker: Folie à Deux, I thought that bad ratings were very unfair and were due people usually react badly to unusual narrative in cinema, and I was enjoying it. In the end, I still thought it is very underrated, but I also considered that many bad ratings could have been motivated by anger. Why? Because, although not a masterpiece as the first film, this movie was going pretty well, until it had one of the worst and most frustrating endings I have ever seen. If we could consider the movie only until a little before the last moments of the trial, it would deserve easily a four-star rating. The musical genre is a strange choice, for sure, but it did work, as both main characters are crazy and performatic. The dark visual of the film is beautiful and fits very well the dramatic plot. The scenes of situations imagined by Arthur are perhaps the best representation of the Joker ever. Charming letterings were nice and represented well the showbiz environment the Joker intended to enter. The animated opening scene was a great surprise and worked well as an abstract of the core issue of the movie. Lady Gaga worked well, as always, but it was Joaquin Phoenix who once more had a brilliant performance. His facial expressions, his baffling thinness, his body work... everything is striking. Harley Quinn was a well built character, and the initial apparent plot holes eventually proved not to exist. Dialogues are well written, in the ambiguous path crossing humor and drama. The trial was also very nice, with great moments, until everything went badly in its terrible completion and the incoherent sequence of events that followed it, leading to my serious disappointment. That was really a shame, and a pity. An awful joke.

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Ex Machina 564h1n 2015 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/ex-machina-2015/ letterboxd-review-877540646 Fri, 2 May 2025 16:32:41 +1200 2025-05-01 No Ex Machina 2015 4.5 264660 <![CDATA[

A great sci-fi movie! Very smart, with extraordinary script, a good exploration of the borders between humans and machines, and possibly the best ending. Alicia Vikander is striking as the robot, Domhnall Gleeson has a deep performance in the leading role, and, above all, Oscar Isaac is wonderful playing his unpleasant role, who is responsible for making spectator always be unconforbable and uncertain about what is actually going on. Besides all that, art direction and visual effects are great.

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Santa 3519 The Fascist Years, 2008 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/santa-the-fascist-years/ letterboxd-review-876668851 Thu, 1 May 2025 16:48:02 +1200 2025-05-01 No Santa: The Fascist Years 2008 4.0 150220 <![CDATA[

Very nice dark-humored three-minute short film in war newsreel mockumentary style on the shadow past of Santa Claus. Watch it here: youtu.be/XgRC427hpTU?si=syZfc0HAxpH1odh2

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Nelson Filma o Rio 2t3s1b 2021 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/nelson-filma-o-rio/ letterboxd-review-876649379 Thu, 1 May 2025 16:13:30 +1200 2025-05-01 No Nelson Filma o Rio 2021 4.0 1145363 <![CDATA[

Luiz Carlos Lacerda's documentary about the best Brazilian filmmaker ever, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, focused in how Rio de Janeiro is represented in his filmography, with good analysis by film critic Rodrigo Fonseca. Nelson is so amazing that just seeing few excerpts of his movies, particularly Rio Zona Norte and Rio 40 Graus, is enough to get emotional.

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Ye Olden Days 5w3j2i 1933 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/film/ye-olden-days/ letterboxd-review-874533554 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:42:05 +1200 2025-04-28 No Ye Olden Days 1933 4.0 67790 <![CDATA[

Very amusing Mickey Mouse musical short film in Middle Ages. The general plot is cliché and predictable, but the film is very charming due the specific details that are present along its eight minutes. Mickey is a minstrel who converts humself in a folk improvised cavalier in order to save princess Minnie from an undesirable wedding, imposed by her father the King of Kalapazoo, who is not a mouse! Interestingly, his rival and fiancé is Goofy, in a different version: he is not a friend of Mickey, but is prince of Poopapadoo, and his name (before being renamed in later and current version) is Dippy Dawg. I loved the fight, the armours, the guillotine, and the feast.
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Spider 1j5z4h Man, ranked 😡🕸🕷 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/spider-man-ranked/ letterboxd-list-21381167 Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:19:46 +1200 <![CDATA[

Only films I have watched!
Despite sharing core characters, I decided not to include Madame Web in this list, as Spider-Man does not exist yet.

  1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  2. The Amazing Spider-Man
  3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  4. Spider-Man 2
  5. Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham
  6. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  7. Spider-Man
  8. Spider-Man: No Way Home
  9. Spider-Man 3
  10. Avengers: Infinity War

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

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Superhero movies I have not watched (yet) 👁️🦹🏻‍♀️ 33494k https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/superhero-movies-i-have-not-watched-yet/ letterboxd-list-7012018 Wed, 5 Feb 2020 20:30:33 +1300 <![CDATA[

Together with the two lists below (both ranking lists about superhero films I have watched), the present list may be seen as part of a 3-segmented encoming list of all superhero films ever made which I know and are in Letterboxd (more than 800 films).
See also my list of the best superhero movies (rating 3.5 stars or more): boxd.it/4Hmys
See also my list of the worst superhero movies (rating 3 stars or less): boxd.it/4HnWA

  1. Superman
  2. Constantine: The House of Mystery
  3. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
  4. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
  5. Untitled The Batman Sequel
  6. Captain America: Brave New World
  7. Venom: The Last Dance
  8. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  9. Thunderbolts*
  10. Kraven the Hunter

...plus 433 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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The best superhero movies 🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏿‍♂️🦸🏻‍♂️ 6m6r4s https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/the-best-superhero-movies/ letterboxd-list-6944015 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:07:28 +1300 <![CDATA[

Films about supervillains - without superheroes or with them only as minor characters - have also been incuded in the list. Movies about characters from comic books and graphic novels which I do not consider as superhero movies have not (even those I liked): Constantine, Sin City, Barb Wire, Flash Gordon, The Punisher (2004), Joker: Folie à Deux, Son of the Mask, Jonah Hex, and Andy Warhol's Batman Dracula, for example.
Many non superhero movies portray characters making impossible actions. Therefore, it is not always easy to define a superhero film. I tried to consider it as a movie in which at least one character has obviously superpowers (and uses them for good or for evil) or is a masked vigilante (necessarily disguised). Russian feature film Major Grom: Plague Doctor has been included mostly for its supervillain, while the prior short film Major Grom has not. There are here all the superhero movies I have watched and given as a rate at least 3.5. In the end of the list, there are some honorable mentions of titles which are not properly movies or not really on superheroes. Unfortunately, many titles (mainly small budget and independent short films, but also important TV series) are not in Letterboxd (what became even worse after stupid TMDB absurdly deleted several ones from their database); therefore, a more encoming list of the best superhero movies may be seen here: www.imdb.com/list/ls056296043
In Letterboxd, see also my list of the worst superhero movies (rating 3 stars or less): letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/the-worst-superhero-movies/
For a list of other superhero films besides the ones I watched, check it up here: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/superhero-movies-i-have-not-watched-yet/

  1. Joker
  2. Watchmen
  3. V for Vendetta
  4. The Assailant
  5. Superman
  6. X-Men: Days of Future Past
  7. The Dark Knight Rises
  8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  9. The Dark Knight
  10. X-Men

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Possible Worlds Showdown 19ki Best alternate-universe films Great animation feature movies (excluded Disney) 🤯👻🗿 1f2v2l https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/great-animation-feature-movies-excluded-disney/ letterboxd-list-6954303 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:07:12 +1300 <![CDATA[

Other titles will be added as I watch them (and rate them 4 stars at least; indeed, there is one exception: historical first all-digital animated film Cassiopeia, that got 3.5).
🐭 See also my ranking list of animated Disney movies (there is a full list for them; that is why I excluded Disney here): letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/disney-animated-films-i-watched-as-an-adult/
🦇 There are many Batman films in the beginning of this list, so I also made another with the ranked films of the dark knight: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/batman-films-ranked-only-films-where-batman/

See also my list of films combining animation and live action: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/mixing-animation-and-live-action-some-nice/

To be added: Más ¡Vampiros en La Habana!, already in TMDB but ridiculously not in Letterboxd. t.co/VEwQ7Lj6Fx

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Innovative movies you should watch 3t5d2 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/innovative-movies-you-should-watch/ letterboxd-list-6947463 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:04:20 +1300 <![CDATA[

Not all titles are in Letterboxd; a few more are in this list: www.imdb.com/list/ls052725651/

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Fantasy 1q1q3k from the greatest to those that are not awful (just live action)🧙🏼‍♂️🦄🧝🏻‍♀️🧞‍♂️🧜🏼‍♀️🐲 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/fantasy-from-the-greatest-to-those-that-are/ letterboxd-list-6960839 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:27:24 +1300 <![CDATA[

The short spoof of Dungeons & Dragons made for Renault does deserve to be included in this list: youtu.be/kC9-bfsNne8
I say the same about Super Power Beat Down Darth Vader vs. Gandalf: youtu.be/GwP2vnQCoho
Also to be added: TV series Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and The Witcher.

  1. Pan's Labyrinth
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  6. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  7. Cloud Atlas

    The post-apocalyptic segment may be considered as fantasy.

  8. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  9. The Wizard of Oz
  10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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🐲 Dragons in live action movies 🐉 2v55z https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/dragons-in-live-action-movies/ letterboxd-list-7911116 Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:15:10 +1200 <![CDATA[

Visual ranking of the portrayed dragons (not of the films themselves). TV series also included, when available in Letterboxd. In the end, two special mentions of amazing dragons in animated films. Missing: Merlin 2008 TV series.

  1. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
  3. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  4. Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life

    The TV show.

  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  6. DragonHeart

    This is a movie from past century. They made an amazing dragon with much less technology!

  7. Dragonslayer

    This is a film from 1981! They were able to make an amazing dragon!

  8. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    What a cute dragon!

  9. Sucker Punch

    A bad film with a quite nice dragon.

  10. Maleficent

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Best one 492b2d on-one film duels Showdown https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/best-one-on-one-film-duels-showdown/ letterboxd-list-34990732 Sun, 9 Jul 2023 20:47:03 +1200 <![CDATA[

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Really violent movies 🗜🔗⚙☠ 4c1n3b https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/really-violent-movies/ letterboxd-list-6973378 Sat, 1 Feb 2020 16:35:57 +1300 <![CDATA[

I like all these films, some of them a lot. There are movies that take violence seriously (the majority of this list); they are often more violent than those which show splitting blood and detached limbs.
To be added: "The weeknd: False Alarm"; "Biting Elbows: Bad Motherfucker"

  1. American History X
  2. Our Evil
  3. Friendly Beast
  4. I Spit on Your Grave
  5. Brawl in Cell Block 99
  6. Assassination Nation
  7. Bog of Beasts
  8. Friendly Fire
  9. Return to Homs
  10. Ódio

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Nice magicians from (not always) good films or TV series (or even theatre!) 🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♀️ 5h4s6n https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/nice-magicians-from-not-always-good-films/ letterboxd-list-21110135 Tue, 7 Dec 2021 14:40:02 +1300 <![CDATA[

Both powerful wizards/witches and smart trick-makers are in the list.
A list with the Showdown tag has been created, when I noticed that I had made in IMDB an image list of a past challenge I only saw much time afterwards: Showdown № 117: The Craft (your favorite witches, wizards and warlocks in film).
I would also like to add in this list: Vanessa Ives and Cut-wife Joan Clayton (Penny Dreadful), Pyat Pree (Game of Thrones), Samantha (Bewitched), Presto (Dungeons and Dragons).

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Stage Door showdown 47241e Best stage-to-screen film adaptations (not Brazilian) https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/stage-door-showdown-best-stage-to-screen-1/ letterboxd-list-47638263 Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:34:00 +1200 <![CDATA[

Following the instructions, I avoided movies where "the script veers too far from Shakespeare’s original source material to count".

See also my other list composed only by Brazilian movies: boxd.it/wePsW

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The 70s 5r556x my favorite movies 📅🎦 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/the-70s-my-favorite-movies/ letterboxd-list-6956227 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:29:12 +1300 <![CDATA[
  1. Life of Brian
  2. A Clockwork Orange
  3. Superman
  4. Barry Lyndon
  5. The Wrung-Out Man
  6. Short Night of Glass Dolls
  7. Popeye
  8. Rocky
  9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  10. Duck, You Sucker

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My personal tentative Shakespearean adaptations ranking 1b5dk https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/my-personal-tentative-shakespearean-adaptations/ letterboxd-list-13352192 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:20:10 +1200 <![CDATA[

Not including stories loosely inspired in the plays. Off course, only films I have already watched; the list is continuously increased as I watch more movies.

I eventually added the tag showdown:bard for this list. However, as the Showdown challenge considered pro-shot theatre as not eligible, I also made a 10-film list without the wonderful plays of Shakespeare's Globe On Screen: boxd.it/HhyxU

I also added to Letterboxd the Shakespeare top20 list by The Guardian: boxd.it/Gix3i

  1. Richard III
  2. Romeo and Juliet
  3. The Merchant of Venice (Globe Theater, 2015)
  4. Hamlet
  5. The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
  6. Dia de Reis

    Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) adapted to cultural traditions (Three Kings Day revelry) from Minas Gerais countryside.

  7. Macbeth - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
  8. Much Ado About Nothing - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
  9. Macbeth
  10. Hamlet

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

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Ancient and Middle Ages on screen ⚔ 4z5m5y https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/ancient-and-middle-ages-on-screen/ letterboxd-list-7300604 Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:07:08 +1300 <![CDATA[

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To Be or Not to Be Showdown 2q5w5n https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/to-be-or-not-to-be-showdown/ letterboxd-list-63956682 Sun, 25 May 2025 06:02:57 +1200 <![CDATA[

I added the showdown:bard tag to my Shakespeare list ( boxd.it/92f9o ), but as the challenge considered pro-shot theatre as not eligible (and my list if full of wonderful plays of Shakespeare's Globe On Screen!), I made this 10-film list too.

The explanation: "To thine own self be true as you pen a list of your ten favorite adaptations of the Bard’s plays—be they contemporary teen rom-coms or period-accurate costume dramas. All the world may be a stage, but no pro-shot theatre, please (with apologies to National Theatre Live). This means that Ethan Hawke’s Hamlet is eligible, but Andrew Scott’s isn’t. Alack!"

  1. Richard III
  2. Romeo and Juliet
  3. Hamlet
  4. Dia de Reis
  5. Macbeth
  6. Hamlet
  7. Romeo + Juliet
  8. The Inheritance
  9. Macbeth
  10. The Tragedy of Macbeth

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Best films set in the middle ages 2w445u Showdown https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/best-films-set-in-the-middle-ages-showdown/ letterboxd-list-24249683 Sun, 1 May 2022 13:45:18 +1200 <![CDATA[

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The Celluloid Closet Showdown 🏳️‍🌈 Best underseen queer films (excluded Brazilian ones) 5j3a5f https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/the-celluloid-closet-showdown-best-underseen/ letterboxd-list-64608188 Sun, 8 Jun 2025 14:44:46 +1200 <![CDATA[

"Go fish up a list of your ten favorite queer films with 50,000 watches or fewer".
As most of my top films that fit in this showdown challenge were Brazilian ones, I decided to split it into two different lists, this one without productions from Brazil and another only including them: boxd.it/HIUlU
See also my broader list of LGBTQIA+ movies: boxd.it/4HS90/detail

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Brazilian underseen queer movies 🇧🇷🏳️‍🌈 The Celluloid Closet Showdown 4c2f5 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-underseen-queer-movies-the-celluloid/ letterboxd-list-64608550 Sun, 8 Jun 2025 14:54:45 +1200 <![CDATA[

Just one film I would have included in my top Brazilian queer movies overcame the 50K watches: excellent Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks), with 138K viewers.
As most of my top films that fit in this showdown challenge ("ten favorite queer films with 50,000 watches or fewer") were Brazilian ones, I decided to split it into two different lists, this one only with productions from Brazil and another one with foreign films: boxd.it/HITpw
See also my broader list of LGBTQIA+ movies: boxd.it/4HS90/detail

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Divine Trash 5b5a6p Best camp films - late tentative list for a past Showdown challenge https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/divine-trash-best-camp-films-late-tentative/ letterboxd-list-21152756 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:29:34 +1300 <![CDATA[

Chronological order. I will add more films as I them.
I decided not to include pioneer slapstick comedy geniuses such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Max Linder, or even Georges Méliès, despite all of them could be labeled as camp.

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🇧🇷Brazilian movies 521i31 outside Rio de Janeiro, Northeast or São Paulo🏘 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-outside-rio-de-janeiro-northeast/ letterboxd-list-6954560 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:43:40 +1300 <![CDATA[

Documentaries are not listed here. The best Brazilian documentaries are in another list. There are also three more lists for Brazilian films: one for movies about/in Rio de Janeiro, one about/in Northeast, and another for in/about São Paulo.
The list is larger in IMDB, as some titles are not in Letterboxd, particularly some short films from Jorge Furtado: www.imdb.com/list/ls056432290/


🇧🇷 See also my other lists of Brazilian films:
▪️Documentaries: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-documentaries-or-foreign-docs-about/
▪️Rio de Janeiro: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-about-in-rio-de-janeiro/
▪️São Paulo: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-about-in-sao-paulo/
▪️Northeast: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-about-in-northeast/

  1. Baptism of Blood
  2. Point Zero
  3. Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
  4. At Play in the Fields of the Lord
  5. The Seeker

    The place where the story is held is not mentioned or identifiable.

  6. Solidões

    There are different stories in this film, and they're held in different parts of Brazil.

  7. Boy & the World
  8. Aquarela
  9. Ed
  10. My Uncle Killed a Guy

...plus 300 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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📽🎬🎞Movies about cinema i2e excluded the really bad ones https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/movies-about-cinema-excluded-the-really-bad/ letterboxd-list-6972726 Sat, 1 Feb 2020 14:43:13 +1300 <![CDATA[

To be added: Cinéma algérien, un nouveau souffle; The visual element; Onde os mortos não têm vez; Star Wars: Episode IV - A Toy Story (vimeo.com/118892267).
Also to be added "Nosso Cinema Nosso", by Kátia Lund, which is bad (I give it a 2.5), but is a documentary on cinema making.

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🦇Batman films 6r2p4r ranked (only films where Batman appears and has a major role) https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/batman-films-ranked-only-films-where-batman/ letterboxd-list-41292162 Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:19:33 +1300 <![CDATA[

The list will grow as I watch more bat-films. See also some more encoming superhero lists of mine:
🦇The best superhero movies (rating 3.5 stars or more): boxd.it/4Hmys
🦇The worst superhero movies (rating 3 stars or less): letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/the-worst-superhero-movies/
🦇Other superhero films besides the ones I watched: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/superhero-movies-i-have-not-watched-yet/

  1. The Dark Knight Rises
  2. The Dark Knight
  3. Batman Begins
  4. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
  5. The Batman
  6. Batman
  7. Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
  8. Batman Returns
  9. Batman: Ashes to Ashes
  10. Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two

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https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/latin-american-movies-except/ letterboxd-list-6954814 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:17:56 +1300 <![CDATA[

Brazilian and Argentine movies excluded, as they are in other specific lists, below. As many titles are missing in Letterbox, a more encoming list mat be seen here: www.imdb.com/list/ls056414005/
🇦🇷My list of films from Argentina: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/argentine-movies/
🇧🇷My five lists of Brazilian movies:
▪️Documentaries: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-documentaries-or-foreign-docs-about/
▪️Rio de Janeiro: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-about-in-rio-de-janeiro/
▪️São Paulo: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-about-in-sao-paulo/
▪️Northeast: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-about-in-northeast/
▪️Others: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/brazilian-movies-outside-rio-de-janeiro-northeast/

  1. Pan's Labyrinth

    🇲🇽

  2. I Am Cuba

    🇨🇺

  3. A Twelve-Year Night

    🇺🇾

  4. Even the Rain

    🇲🇽

  5. Amores Perros

    🇲🇽

  6. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

    🇲🇽 USA-Mexico- production, with a very important Mexican animation work.

  7. Maracaná

    🇺🇾

  8. Red Ink

    🇵🇪

  9. Gods

    🇵🇪

  10. The Offended

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Movies that took many years to be made 50701y https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/movies-that-took-many-years-to-be-made/ letterboxd-list-8155007 Fri, 15 May 2020 18:47:13 +1200 <![CDATA[

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Films about writers ✍⌨ 3o3t3q https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/films-about-writers/ letterboxd-list-6973137 Sat, 1 Feb 2020 15:58:01 +1300 <![CDATA[

To be added: iography: Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius; A Casa do Mário.

I eventually added showdown tag to this list I had already built previously.

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Murder Mystery Showdown Challenge 🕵🏻‍♂️🩸 5c6w37 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/murder-mystery-showdown-challenge/ letterboxd-list-23063175 Tue, 1 Mar 2022 13:28:58 +1300 <![CDATA[

I decided not to include any Hitchcock film here, but, alternatively, adding this showdown tag to my ranking list of his films, as most of them fit its requirements: boxd.it/4JrY0

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Madhouse 4883p lunatic asylum or psychiatric hospitals https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/madhouse-lunatic-asylum-or-psychiatric-hospitals/ letterboxd-list-38436587 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:17:45 +1300 <![CDATA[

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Hotels 🏨 6h5am https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/hotels/ letterboxd-list-7794549 Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:29:52 +1200 <![CDATA[

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Directors League 603f5k https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/directors-league/ letterboxd-list-34800976 Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:43:00 +1200 <![CDATA[

Only directors I watched and rated 5 or more films (there are many awesome filmmakers I had watched just 4!).
Copying the idea of this list: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/geeman81/list/the-directors-league/

See also my (more impressionist and less quantitative) list of favorite directors: www.imdb.com/list/ls056410445

  1. The Constant Gardener

    Fernando Meirelles: 94% (5 movies)

  2. I, Daniel Blake

    Ken Loach: 93,3% (6 movies)

  3. The Cameraman's Revenge

    Władysław Starewicz: 93,3% (6 movies)

  4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Sergio Leone: 88,3% (6 movies)

  5. Interstellar

    Christopher Nolan: 88,3% (6 movies)

  6. Amores Perros

    Alejandro González Iñárritu: 88% (5 movies)

  7. Run Lola Run

    Tom Tykwer: 88% (5 movies)
    P.S.: Cloud Atlas is my top movie by him. However, as I love Run Lola Run and he directed Cloud Atlas together with the Wachowskis, I let the latter representing them in this list.

  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    Peter Jackson: 85,7% (7 movies)

  9. I'm Still Here

    Walter Salles: 84,4% (9 movies)

  10. Superman

    Richard Donner: 84,3% (7 movies)

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The black question ✊🏿🙌🏿 1o6b3r https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/the-black-question/ letterboxd-list-7220394 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:29:31 +1300 <![CDATA[

To be added: Minha avó era palhaço

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Movies about TV shows 📺 2p3ko https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/movies-about-tv-shows/ letterboxd-list-29387924 Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:17:41 +1300 <![CDATA[

Older list I added showdown tag when the challenge was launched.

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Favorite documentaries 📹👁 4u4d52 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/favorite-documentaries/ letterboxd-list-6961099 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 08:06:11 +1300 <![CDATA[

Many titles are missing in Letterboxd; to be added:
- Super Power Beat Down: Batmobiles Racing - Although the series is composed mostly of short action ficional films, this first one was a documentary.Watch it here: youtu.be/6m3jcBMI9WU
- Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius
- Cinéma algérien, un nouveau souffle
- A history of christianity
- infrarouge: Nelson Mandela: Au nom de la liberté
- Que tal a vida, camaradas?
=> Here I have a larger list: www.imdb.com/list/ls070023764/
Also to be added, out of IMDB:
- A linha imaginária

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The worst superhero movies 🦹🏼‍♂️🧜🏿‍♂️💀🦾 1w5q59 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/the-worst-superhero-movies/ letterboxd-list-6944549 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:18:22 +1300 <![CDATA[

WARNING: some very popular movies are included in this list, as I strongly dislike the thin screenplays disguised behind visual effects in the formula followed ad nauseum by high-gross Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise (and, with less commercial success, by rival DC Comics). I agree with what Ridley Scott said much time afterwards: "Their scripts are not any fucking good. Why don’t the superhero movies have better stories? Sorry. I got off the rail, but I mean, c’mon. They’re mostly saved by special effects".
Films about supervillains - without superheroes or with them only as minor characters - have also been included in the list. Movies about characters from comic books and graphic novels which I do not consider as superhero movies have not (I liked some of these examples): Constantine, Sin City, Barb Wire, Flash Gordon, The Punisher (2004), Son of the Mask, Jonah Hex, and Andy Warhol's Batman Dracula, for example.
Many non superhero movies portray characters making impossible actions. Therefore, it is not always easy to define a superhero film. I tried to consider it as a movie in which at least one character has obviously superpowers (and uses them for good or for evil) or is a masked vigilante (necessarily disguised). There are here all the superhero movies I have watched and given as a rate 3 stars or less. In the very end of the list, there are two 'dishonorable mentions': 1) "Disaster movie", which could arguably be in the 1st place, but, in spite of showing Hancock, Iron Man, Hellboy, the Hulk, and Batman, I cannot consider it as a superhero movie, and 2) meaningless short spin-off "Groot's Pursuit". Unfortunately, many titles (mainly small budget and independent short films) are not in Letterboxd; therefore, a more encoming list of the worst superhero movies may be seen here: www.imdb.com/list/ls054387859/
In Letterboxd, see also my list of the best superhero movies (rating 3.5 stars or more): m.imdb.com/list/ls056296043/ and boxd.it/4Hmys
For a huge list of other superhero films besides the ones I watched, check it up here: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/superhero-movies-i-have-not-watched-yet/

  1. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled!
  2. Spiderbabe
  3. Captain Battle: Legacy War
  4. The Crusaders #357: Experiment in Evil!
  5. The Amazing Bulk
  6. Kekko Kamen 2: We'll be back...
  7. Deadpool & Wolverine
  8. Three Giant Men
  9. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
  10. Vampirella

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Gangsters and mobsters films 🔫👨🏻‍💼💰 82o3o https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/gangsters-and-mobsters-films/ letterboxd-list-7300668 Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:21:16 +1300 <![CDATA[

Excluded both the Westerns and the bad ones. You can see my list of Westerns in this link: letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/westerns-i-have-watched-from-best-to-worst/

  1. Gran Torino
  2. Gangs of New York
  3. City of God
  4. The Untouchables
  5. The Sicilian Girl
  6. Dirty Hearts
  7. iNumber Number
  8. Once Upon a Time in America
  9. Snatch
  10. Mystic River

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Sexy animated female characters 👯‍♀️👀 106ju https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/sexy-animated-female-characters/ letterboxd-list-22994676 Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:32:12 +1300 <![CDATA[

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Understanding the Palestine question 🇵🇸 663p4i https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/understanding-the-palestine-question/ letterboxd-list-60178404 Tue, 4 Mar 2025 07:15:50 +1300 <![CDATA[

Four films in this list are excellent Israeli movies, by the way. See also my more encoming list of movies from/on Middle East, including several ones about Israeli invasion into Lebanon: boxd.it/4HOQ0

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Great movies from Middle East 🧕🏼🐪 3y73e https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/great-movies-from-middle-east/ letterboxd-list-6954887 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:26:44 +1300 <![CDATA[

Add short film Give It On Giving. www.shootonline.com/video/leo-burnett-dubai-hanzo-film-enbd-give-giving%C2%A0-charming-animated-short

  1. Children of Heaven
  2. Return to Homs
  3. Promises
  4. Lemon Tree
  5. Defamation
  6. The Insult
  7. Paradise Now
  8. Strangers
  9. A Separation
  10. The White Balloon

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Showdown Sin City g2c6y Best noir films https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/showdown-sin-city-best-noir-films/ letterboxd-list-29860961 Tue, 3 Jan 2023 18:51:49 +1300 <![CDATA[

"With The Kid Detective out and Jack and David Fincher’s Mank lurking, we stumble out of the past into Noirvember in search of the very best, most stylish, noir and neo-noir. French critic Nino Frank wrapped up the hallmarks of the genre with the term ‘film noir’ back in 1946. Movies, generally about a crime, but not really about the crime, that are exceptional for their style, their reflection of the times (the Depression, war, post-war existentialism, present-day fatalism), their spotlight on corruption (of the press, the police, public office, take your pick), and the injustices of the powerful against the powerless. Also: cynical protagonists running from their pasts (cue flashbacks), femmes and hommes-fatale, diabolical mobsters, sadistic violence, innuendo-laden dialogue, shadowy cinematography. Once more into Nightmare Alley, angel heart."

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5ap67 ranked 🐢🥋⚔️ COWABUNGA!!! https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-ranked-cowabunga/ letterboxd-list-62514148 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:49:22 +1200 <![CDATA[

I still have not watched 2023 animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem yet.

  1. TMNT
  2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
  3. Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
  6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
  8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
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Best court/lawyer movies I 6z1y6c https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/best-court-lawyer-movies-i-/ letterboxd-list-6960440 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:29:21 +1300 <![CDATA[

A court films list nearly as a ranking about this issue. Some movies would be better ranked with another criteria, is a more general rating. I have also included a few not so good films.

The Showdown tag has been eventually added, when I noticed that I had made an identical list of a past challenge I only saw much time afterwards.

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Vice Versa 3e6p4f Best body-swap film Showdown challenge https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/vice-versa-best-body-swap-film-showdown-challenge/ letterboxd-list-26438855 Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:03:59 +1200 <![CDATA[

Explanation: "It’s a little-known fact that acting was invented for the body-swap/​body-occupant genre, so break out great-granddad’s shoe-stitching machine, hot chicks—it’s time to get freaky. Whether you’re little or big, whether your name is Mona or Shola or Mack or Rita, this Showdown is for you. The rules: two living beings either swapping bodies or sharing the same body for a spell; one human embodying their older or younger self or someone else from the past or future; a brain or a face transplanted; a mind changed; a soul returned to a new vessel on Earth. Confused? It’s easy: cat to human, soul to cat, rich old lady to Steve Martin, Matthew Perry to Zac Efron. I am you, you are me."

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Space movies 3ai6e a personal tentative list 🚀🪐🌚 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/space-movies-a-personal-tentative-list/ letterboxd-list-6960850 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:28:57 +1300 <![CDATA[

Not really sure about the positions in the ranking: the movie styles are so different, I don't details of most of them and there are so many elements to take into consideration...
I decided not to include: Watchmen, Man of Steel or Brazilian film from the 60's Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de Aventura.
The Showdown tag has been eventually added, when I noticed that I had made an almost identical list (but also including the films I did not like) of a past challenge I only saw much time afterwards.

  1. WALL·E
  2. Aquarela
  3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  4. Interstellar
  5. The Martian
  6. Don't Look Up
  7. Silent Running
  8. The Empire Strikes Back
  9. Salyut-7
  10. Solo: A Star Wars Story

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Top superhero spoof 🦹🏼‍♂️🤣 243t5x https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/top-10-superhero-spoof/ letterboxd-list-20716802 Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:48:42 +1300 <![CDATA[

Not including original mockery superheroes such as The Mask or Deadpool, or animated films such as Megamind, Despicable me and The Incredibles. More realistic films about crazy people who think that are or behave as superheroes (such as excellent Defendor, Super and Griff The invisible) have not been considered as spoofs either.

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Best film fathers Challenge 635w4x Showdown late list https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/best-film-fathers-challenge-showdown-late/ letterboxd-list-22987557 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 23:09:34 +1300 <![CDATA[

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Best film mothers Challenge 5x5c2j Showdown list https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/best-film-mothers-challenge-showdown-list/ letterboxd-list-23505687 Fri, 1 Jul 2022 14:48:38 +1200 <![CDATA[

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

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Showdown r731a Best women-directed horror films 🪓👧🏼🧟‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/showdown-best-women-directed-horror-films/ letterboxd-list-22236647 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:11:22 +1300 <![CDATA[

I have a much more encoming list with all horror movies I have watched and rated 3.5 stars or more (boxd.it/4HvI2). Then, I decided do make a list for this past Showdown challenge using mostly part of my much broader list.

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Scandinavian movies 4z6rg ranked 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇮🇸 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/scandinavian-movies-ranked/ letterboxd-list-6974047 Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:20:18 +1300 <![CDATA[

I am considering only movies I have watched. I know I still have to watch most of Ingmar Bergman's movies and they will be added as I watch them.
It is amazing how bullying is recurrent in recent Scandinavian movies!

  1. Babette's Feast
  2. Let the Right One In
  3. Terribly Happy
  4. Land of Mine
  5. The Celebration
  6. Northwest
  7. Hotel
  8. Headhunters
  9. The Architecture of Doom
  10. Kung Fury

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

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Dark fantasy 🌚🖤👺 u3a31 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/guisreis/list/dark-fantasy/ letterboxd-list-58585642 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:06:44 +1300 <![CDATA[

This list is about fantasy films, not horror ones, although with a darker tone than usual. See also my broader list of fantasy films ( boxd.it/4I4k0 ) and the one I made about horror movies ( boxd.it/4HvI2 )

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

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