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The closing monologue of the film didn't connect as hard with me, but I liked the movie overall, particularly the direction of the second act. A lot of interesting themes explored, and at times wildly relatable.

Victor in the Q&A referenced 45 Years (super underrated movie) and Certain Women as influences, and once they said it, it aaaallllll connected. A solid debut.

Close enough, welcome back French New Extremity.

Recapping of the series as a whole was slightly over the top, but that climax is an excellent mix of suspense and playfulness.

None of these characters were acting like people, and it drove me absolutely insane. All character motivation thrown out the window for a cheap, lackluster plot that’s so far removed from the book! Why bother?? We deserved the Chloe Okuno version.

It makes me sad that Suzanna Son didn’t get her flowers after starring in Red Rocket, but Katherine Waterston needs a new agent, holy hell. Why is she in this?!?

And not a single puff sleeve in sight in 1988? Shameful.

Downtown hot spots
Halfway through this life
I used to feel free
Was it just a dream?
Now you're half shy
Think you're so carefree
But you're just seventeen
So much like me
You're just seventeen
You're just seventeen
Seventeen

Sad Girl Cinema Club relaunch at Hyperreal!

I 🎬 am 🎬 the 🎬 Third 🎬 Revelation 🎬

rewatched for wedding inspo, if you know you know

PTA summer babyyyy

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

This is why you can’t invite your coworkers over!

Some people still know how to make rom coms!! Nice & feel good.

Set in Seattle / Washington are? A penny is the film’s villain?? Seems like crypto propaganda to me.

Guess I gotta accept the pain
Need a cigarette to make me feel better

Capri is very pretty.

The kind of movie I wish I saw when I was younger, because I know I would have been obsessed with it all my life. The digital found footage-esque way it was shot, a gritty coming of age story set in the heart of Tokyo, the POV shots (!!)... everything about this speaks to me. Losing friends for no reason other than you're drifting apart is the hardest thing about growing up.

Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up
These are the best days of our lives

Vampires are so back !! Loved the way the music flowed, loved the gore, loved the cast. Fun, lively, sultry, and moving.

Charli XCX watched this on the same day as meeee, that’s all that matters. Cronenberg Summer indeed !! 

I didn’t like it as much as I wanted to, but I liked the idea of it. Except, I don’t want techy graves in the future: please don’t let anyone get any ideas. I would like to own a restaurant in a graveyard, though. Now that is a top tier idea.

So many Tildas, so little time.

I deserved a comfortable life as a gangster's wife. Alas, I am working in film.

35mm at Vista

A little heavy handed towards the end with one particular conversation that is had, but the dark humor really worked for me even with the film’s shortcomings. That priest is absolutely unhinged.

I will be needing a Creeper stuffed animal ASAP. But also why does it kinda look like a more cuddly Host monster? Fun, with too many ideas, too many moving pieces, but my man Bong Joon Ho can make a film.

What's so funny about this movie is that I'm 99% sure Julia Fox wasn't even acting, she was just living that life. Also that Gabbriette cameo!! This movie is just such a sweet, funny time. The cast is great, and my Dickinson girly Anna Baryshnikov is just thriving – I love to see it. I also feel inspired to wear gloves now.

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Ethan and Alex are pretty iconic bffs. They made me feel something.

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Mumford & Sons & Bees

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This review may contain spoilers.

Mockumentary Back to the Future is such a good premise. Simultaneously made me laugh and made me feel old. This also comes from someone who has never seen the show (my mistake). My only major issue is that you can clearly see a Lush back in 2008, and as a woman I know we did not have that storefront way back when.

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Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

If I had not seen all of Storror prior to watching the documentary, I might have thought at least 50% of them had died by now from jumping in insane places.

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Mean Girls meets The Substance. Reminds me of dystopia YA books (compliment).

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A really simple premise, but an extra half star for the very grotesque practical effects that elevate the film's fun. I don't think Together would have worked as well without IRL American Sweethearts Alison Brie and Dave Franco.

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In the words of the great poet Pitbull:

One more shot, another round
End of the night, it's goin' down

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Obsessed that she paired eating herself with a crispy diet coke. The ultimate girl dinner.

Crazy that IN MY SKIN and TROUBLE EVERY DAY came out within a year of each other – I assume Denis' film just ate this one up from relevance, but I liked this quite a bit I could see a lot of RAW and THE SUBSTANCE in IN MY SKIN, too (and on that note, are RAW and IN MY SKIN in the same cinematic universe, since Laurent Lucas is in both?).

Not even mites can make me stop eating cheese.

There’s nothing more pleasant than going to the movies with a bunch of elderly people to watch a wacky movie about elderly people. 🥰 What a treat.

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Janelle James could very well be the funniest woman on the planet.

Need to simmer on this more. A lot of things that usually would annoy me really worked for me here, but there were some things that still felt overwrought. I do love messy ambition from capable filmmakers, though.

When you know you know

I ittedly did not like this movie very much when it came out, and that makes sense for me because in college I started to really dislike men telling me what movies I should like (even though going into college, I adored There Will Be Blood - I was full of contradictions). I can it 10+ years later that I was wrong. Although, it is funny rewatching a movie and ing why you disliked it, and seeing it through a different lens. What an experience!

🍩💸🥲

Filmmaking is just one big happy family.

Not sure how I feel that Mr. Leigh Allen and I share a middle name.

When a man creates a whole social media platform because he hates women, believe him.

More of a personal entry, but I didn't know that when I programmed Helter Skelter for Terror Tuesday that I would be laid off from Alamo Drafthouse in the same day.

This is a movie that I love, so I'm very glad I was still able to go and share this movie with a bunch of film fans. It was bittersweet, but it reminded me why I love programming films and even being laid off cannot take that ion away from me 🫶.

Also, justice for the venue staff who were laid off from Alamo South Lamar, among other corporate venues, yesterday. Many of them worked at Alamo hoping for stability (not for a seasonal gig), and that was taken away from them early yesterday morning. Stay unionized ✊.

Just a perfect tearjerker.

Watched on Wednesday November 15, 2023.

Watched on Thursday September 7, 2023.

Watched on Thursday May 25, 2023.

Watched on Thursday May 11, 2023.

Watched on Friday August 19, 2022.

I have to speak my truth, and it’s that I’d 1000% tune into this show if it were real. I’d be one of the little old ladies on the couch with the Truman pillow!

It’s sometimes weird watching a movie you’ve seen clips of in ing, because is it my first watch if I’ve seen the whole ending?

• The Count of Monte Cristo

  Jan 3 | Variance

• The Visitor

  Jan 9

• One of Them Days

  Jan 17 | Sony

• Presence

  Jan 24 | Neon

• Companion

  Jan 31 | WB

• Armand

  Feb 7 | Neon

• Parthenope

  Feb 7 | A24

• SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

  Feb 13 | Hulu

• The Monkey

  Feb 21 | Neon

• Mickey 17

  March 7 | WB

...plus 150 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sinners
2. Sister Midnight
3. Dead Talents Society
4. The Shrouds
5. Presence
6. Bring Her Back
7. Together
8. Final Destination Bloodlines
9. The Monkey
10. Companion

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

As William Shakespeare knew long before we were all alive, romance does not necessarily equate to happy endings.

All films are ranked 4/5 or above.

• In the Mood for Love
• Il Mare
• Moulin Rouge!
• My Sassy Girl
• Monsoon Wedding
• Oasis
• The Classic
• Love Me If You Dare
• Before Sunset
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favorite genre is horror - that's not something I'm shy about. I also have a lot of people ask me, "Hey, give me a great modern horror movie to watch," because more than often people aren't interested in getting into the old stuff. That's fine. New movies are fun, and modern horror is scarier for a modern audience.

So I made a list, sorted alphabetically by release year, of horror movies that I love from the 21st century. Enjoy :)

• American Psycho
• Ichi the Killer
• The Others
• Pulse
• Suicide Club
• Trouble Every Day
• 28 Days Later
• Dark Water
• The Eye
• In My Skin

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Vampyr
2. Nosferatu
3. Thirst
4. Let the Right One In
5. Interview with the Vampire
6. Only Lovers Left Alive
7. Tokyo Vampire Hotel
8. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
9. Nosferatu
10. Emotion

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Nosferatu
2. Anora
3. The Brutalist
4. Dune: Part Two
5. The Beast
6. La Chimera
7. Challengers
8. Evil Does Not Exist
9. How to Have Sex
10. I Saw the TV Glow

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

Have I ever mentioned that I find cannibalism the ultimate metaphor for desire?

Cannibals in movies, ranked by sex appeal.

I welcome suggestions.

Note, if I could put Mads Mikkelson’s Hannibal, he would be #1.

1. Jennifer's Body
2. 301/302
3. Bones and All
4. Raw
5. The Neon Demon
6. Hannibal Rising
7. In My Skin
8. Dumplings
9. Trouble Every Day
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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

1. Lust, Caution
2. Roman Holiday
3. A Brighter Summer Day
4. Maborosi
5. Being John Malkovich
6. Godzilla
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. Typhoon Club
9. The Sacrifice
10. Gate of Flesh

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

1. Nosferatu
2. Chime
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. The First Omen
5. Abigail
6. Exhuma
7. Trap
8. Lisa Frankenstein
9. Late Night with the Devil
10. Immaculate

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

1. House
2. Suicide Club
3. Ugetsu
4. Audition
5. Perfect Blue
6. Cure
7. Ring
8. Emotion
9. Battle Royale
10. The Ghost of Yotsuya

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1-11: Netflix
12-32: Max
33-48: Hulu
49-60: Shudder
61-79: Amazon Prime
80-87: Criterion Channel
88-98: Peacock
99-100: Disney+

1. American Psycho

   Netflix

2. The Wailing

   Netflix, Peacock

3. The Forest of Love

   Netflix

4. The Conjuring

   Netflix

5. Under the Shadow

   Netflix

6. Pearl

   Netflix

7. It Follows

   Netflix

8. Wendell & Wild

   Netflix

9. Creep

   Netflix

10. The House

    Netflix

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All movies I saw at Fantastic Fest from 2008 - present, ranked.

1. The Handmaiden

   2016

2. Parasite

   2019

3. Decision to Leave
4. Raw

   2016

5. I Saw the Devil

   2010

6. Coherence

   2013

7. Burning

   2018

8. Bones and All
9. Suspiria

   2018

10. The Assassin

    2015

...plus 247 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A Tale of Two Sisters
2. The Host
3. The Housemaid
4. I Saw the Devil
5. 301/302
6. Ban Geum-ryeon
7. Thirst
8. The Wailing
9. Insect Woman
10. Train to Busan

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

horror films directed by women that I have seen

• The Velvet Vampire
• Witch Hunt
• Ring of Curse
• Candyman
• Nothing Bad Can Happen
• Blood and Chocolate
• Fugue
• Dearest Sister
• Saint Maud
• Honeymoon

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

List made in honor of International Women's Day :)

*Update*: I've decided to not repeat directors on this list. In the notes, I have ranked the rest of a director's filmography I have seen.

*Update #2*: I'm expanded my list to 100!

1. The Virgin Suicides

   Dir. Sofia Coppola
   The Bling Ring (2013) 4/5
   Lost in Translation (2003) 4/5
   Marie Antionette (2006) 4/5
   On the Rocks (2020) 3.5/5
   The Beguiled (2017) 3.5/5
   Somewhere (2010) 3/5

2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

   Dir. Celine Sciamma
   Girlhood (2014) 4/5
   Tomboy (2011) 4/5
   Petite Maman (2011) 4/5
   Water Lilies (2007) 3.5/5

3. Raw

   Dir. Julia Ducournau
   Titane (2021) 4/5

4. Josie and the Pussycats

   Dir. Deborah Kaplan (& Harry Elfont)

5. Monsoon Wedding

   Dir. Mira Nair
   The Namesake (2006) 4/5
   Vanity Fair (2004) 3/5
   New York, I Love You (2008), segment "Mira Nair" 2/5

6. American Psycho

   Dir. Mary Harron

7. 35 Shots of Rum

   Dir. Claire Denis
   Beau Travail (1999) 4/5
   High Life (2018) 4/5
   Trouble Every Day (2001) 3/5

8. Little Women

   Dir. Greta Gerwig
   Lady Bird (2017) 3.5/5

9. The Power of the Dog

   Dir. Jane Campion
   Bright Star (2009) 4/5

10. First Cow

    Dir. Kelly Reichardt
    Certain Women (2016) 4/5

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

1. What's Up, Doc?
2. Nowhere
3. Bamboozled
4. Totally F***ed Up
5. The Doom Generation
6. SoulMate
7. Lilya 4-ever
8. Thief
9. Party Girl
10. Ornamental Hairpin

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Poor Things
2. Past Lives
3. Godland
4. Perfect Days
5. Oppenheimer
6. May December
7. The Boy and the Heron
8. Priscilla
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. The Five Devils

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Infinity Pool
2. Scream VI
3. M3GAN
4. Cobweb
5. Knock at the Cabin
6. When Evil Lurks
7. Thanksgiving
8. It Lives Inside
9. Talk to Me
10. Birth/Rebirth

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

• April Story
• Asako I & II

  Criterion, Kanopy, Fandor (Amazon)

• Before Sunset

  HBO Max

• Bergman Island

  Hulu

• Beyond the Lights

  Netflix

• Bones and All

  Rent

• Brief Encounter

  HBO Max, Criterion

• Call Me by Your Name

  Netflix

• The Classic
• Cold War

  Amazon Prime

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

1. Decision to Leave
2. Bones and All
3. TÁR
4. Aftersun
5. Nope
6. Murina
7. Broker
8. After Yang
9. All Quiet on the Western Front
10. Pearl

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

1. Brief Encounter
2. Videodrome
3. Jaws
4. Desperate Living
5. The Happiness of the Katakuris
6. Girlfriends
7. Once Upon a Time in China
8. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
9. Saint Laurent
10. Death Becomes Her

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

1. Bones and All
2. Nope
3. Pearl
4. Barbarian
5. Crimes of the Future
6. Earwig
7. X
8. Flux Gourmet
9. The Innocents
10. Scream

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Titane
2. In the Earth
3. The Night House
4. The Queen of Black Magic
5. Silent Night
6. The Medium
7. Fear Street: 1978
8. Spiral: From the Book of Saw
9. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
10. Candyman

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

LOVE 3D will not be on this list.

Currently researching, but it's a start.

• Love & Basketball
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• In the Mood for Love

  The sexy movie that inspired MOONLIGHT's sexiness.

• Moulin Rouge!
• Millennium Mambo
• Y Tu Mamá También

  Threesomes with Diego Luna and Gael Garcia. Like, whoa, possibly too much for anyone to handle.

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• 2046
• Before Sunset

  THAT LAST SCENE.

• Closer

  If you don't think Natalie Portman with pink hair is sexy, I don't wanna be your friend.

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

The Almost Made Its:

Shape of Red
The Nowhere Inn
Spencer
Cyrano
House of Gucci
Silent Night
Mayday
Cruella

1. Drive My Car
2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
3. The Worst Person in the World
4. The Power of the Dog
5. Titane
6. Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
7. Annette
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Bergman Island
10. The Souvenir: Part II

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Born March 18, 1990
Still living and watching movies!

Repeat Directors:
Wong Kar Wai (3)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2)
Henry Selick (2)

Top 5 Foreign Countries:
Japan (6)
South Korea (4)
(3)
Hong Kong (3)

• Days of Being Wild
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Rebels of the Neon God
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Chungking Express
• 301/302
• Irma Vep
• Princess Mononoke
• Sada
• The Virgin Suicides

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

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. Funeral Parade of Roses
3. Ikiru
4. Paris Is Burning
5. The Forest of Love
6. Sakuran
7. Us and Them
8. Hush!
9. Hard Boiled
10. Insect Woman

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. First Cow
2. Undine
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. Time
5. Bacurau
6. Nomadland
7. Lovers Rock
8. Minari
9. The Woman Who Ran
10. Ema

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

1. The Invisible Man
2. Swallow
3. La Llorona
4. Impetigore
5. Host
6. The Empty Man
7. Relic
8. His House
9. Vampires vs. the Bronx
10. The Rental

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Fallen Angels
2. Ugetsu
3. Sada
4. Belle de Jour
5. Days of Being Wild
6. His Motorbike, Her Island
7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
8. Loulou
9. 301/302
10. The Apartment

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Suspiria
2. Hereditary
3. Mandy
4. Mon Mon Mon Monsters
5. The House That Jack Built
6. Blue My Mind
7. Halloween
8. Satan's Slaves
9. The Strangers: Prey at Night
10. Unfriended: Dark Web

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Note: I have very little interest in The Grudge 2 and 3, so I apologize if this feels incomplete.

1. Ju-on: The Grudge
2. Ju-on: The Grudge 2
3. Ju-on: The Curse
4. Ju-On: Black Ghost
5. The Grudge
6. Ju-on: The Curse 2
7. Ju-On: Origins
8. Ju-On: White Ghost
9. Ju-on: The Beginning of the End
10. Ju-on: The Final Curse

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

1. The Lighthouse

   🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

2. Us

   I'm such a sucker for a good home invasion film.

3. Climax

   This movie fucks

4. In Fabric

   MURDER DRESS.

5. Ready or Not

   I’m ready for marriage, guys 💍

6. Tigers Are Not Afraid

   In the off chance this comes out, it's so so so good.

7. Little Monsters

   Josh Gad has found his calling.

8. One Cut of the Dead

   Adorable ode to filmmaking, with a horror twist!

9. It Chapter Two

   Bill, marry meeee 🎈

10. Happy Death Day 2U

    Jessica Rothe is a gift we don’t deserve.

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Raw
2. It
3. Get Out
4. The Lure
5. Happy Death Day
6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
7. Sadako vs. Kayako
8. The Girl with All the Gifts
9. Thelma
10. It Comes at Night

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

After some soul searching, I put together a list of my top 100 films from the 2010s. These were the movies of my 20s that made me who I was as an adult moviegoer.

1. On the Beach at Night Alone
2. The Handmaiden
3. Wreck-It Ralph
4. Parasite
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
6. Shoplifters
7. I Saw the Devil
8. Boyhood
9. The Skin I Live In
10. Moonlight

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Parasite

   8/26 🖤

2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Asako I & II
4. The Lighthouse
5. Little Women
6. Marriage Story
7. Us
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
9. Holiday
10. Her Smell

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

Unlike years in the past, my new goal with this list is to highlight films that I saw for the first time that aren't from this or the previous year (2018 and 2019). So, knowing that, these are my favorite first watches of 2019. Enjoy!

P.S. Honorable mentions in "Notes"

Previous Years
Favorite First Watches | 2017
Favorite First Watches | 2018

• The Housemaid

  January 2019

  Honorable Mentions: Right Now, Wrong Then, Inside Llewyn Davis, Mustang

• Secret Sunshine

  February 2019

  Honorable Mentions: Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Poetry, Oasis, Police Story

• The Midnight Swim

  March 2019

• Certified Copy

  April 2019

• Secrets & Lies

  May 2019

• Yi Yi

  June 2019

  Honorable Mentions: Happy Hour, Schindler's List

• Irma Vep

  July 2019

  Honorable Mention: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• Possession

  August 2019

  Honorable Mentions: House of Tolerance, s Ha, Showgirls

• Late Spring

  September 2019

  Honorable Mention: Persona

• Terrorizers

  October 2019

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

I might be the pickiest horror lover out there, but I also love ranking things so here are my top 100 horror films from the 2010s.

Subject to change by the end of the year, but I can't imagine it shifting too much.

Thank you <3

1. I Saw the Devil
2. The Skin I Live In
3. Raw
4. The Cabin in the Woods
5. Coherence
6. Suspiria
7. The Lighthouse
8. Only Lovers Left Alive
9. Spring
10. Hereditary

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Previously on this list pre-2019:

Bodied dir. Joseph Kahn

1. Shoplifters
2. Burning
3. Cold War
4. Eighth Grade
5. Foxtrot
6. Suspiria
7. Minding the Gap
8. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
10. Vox Lux

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sometimes the best film I've seen in a month isn't even a film from the current year (although sometimes it is). Here's a list of my favorite films I've seen all year.

P.S. Honorable mentions in "Notes"

Previous Years
Favorite First Watches | 2017

• On the Beach at Night Alone

  January 2018

  Honorable Mentions: Phantom Thread, God's Own Country, Paddington 2

• Faces Places

  February 2018

• Eighth Grade

  March 2018

  Honorable Mentions: Hereditary, Blindspotting, The Vanishing, People’s Republic of Desire

• Perfect Blue

  April 2018

  Honorable Mentions: Foxtrot, Lawrence of Arabia, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Eyes Wide Shut

• Good Time

  May 2018

• Tokyo Godfathers

  June 2018

  Honorable Mentions: The Jangmadang Generation, Incredibles 2, Network

• In the Realm of the Senses

  July 2017

  Honorable Mentions: Mission: Impossible - Fallout, All That Jazz, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

• BlacKkKlansman

  August 2018

• Suspiria

  September 2018

  Honorable Mentions: Ban Geum-Ryun, Burning, Millennium Mambo, Holiday, A City of Sadness, Fish Bones, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

• Shoplifters

  October 2018

  Honorable Mentions: Mandy, Diabolique, The Old Man and the Gun, First Man

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

Movies I've watched since the end of 2017 that would have been on this list:

Phantom Thread
God's Own Country
I, Tonya
On the Beach at Night Alone
Foxtrot

1. Raw

   I've seen Raw three times, and each time it seems to get better. Sometimes you find a movie that feels like it was made just for you, and this one was it.

2. A Ghost Story

   Seeing A GHOST STORY might have been my favorite movie experience of 2017 (mimosas and ghosts). It's hypnotizing. Both shockingly intimate, but also cold and distant. It's a stunning movie.

3. The Florida Project

   I didn't really expect much from THE FLORIDA PROJECT, but I got everything. Many tears were shed, both of joy and heartbreak. This is a perfect movie about young friendship.

4. Call Me by Your Name

   I watched CALL ME BY YOUR NAME on the first night of Hanukkah, and it was probably the most unique movie viewing of 2017. Perhaps that fueled my adoration for this incredible bisexual story, but it felt like a huge leap from A BIGGER SPLASH. It's the good kind of Euro arthouse.

5. The Lost City of Z

   THE LOST CITY OF Z was a film that genuinely surprised me. I heard it was good, but I didn't expect it to be as majestic as it was. Charlie Hunnam is one hell of a performer. The scope and spectacle is enormous. I just wanted to live inside this world.

6. Personal Shopper

   Texting with a ghost has never been so good.

7. Your Name.

   A beautifully envisioned love story that felt like it could have been a DOCTOR WHO episode. That's the highest compliment.

8. Lady Macbeth

   I want to be Florence Pugh, and I don't know if that's a good thing, but she's the kind of murdery lady that I dream about being.

9. After the Storm

   I helped program AFTER THE STORM for the Austin Asian American Film Festival last November (in 2016). It still lingered on my mind well into 2017. Hirokazu Kore-eda has a way of quietly depicting the modern Japanese family so well.

10. Logan

    LOGAN is the kind of action movie I want to see more of. It's epic yet focused, and the world isn't in danger. Also, Hugh Jackman is really fucking great.

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In pseudo-particular order, my favorite movies that were released in 2015. (Spring is missing since I put it on my list last year.)

• The Assassin
• Phoenix
• Son of Saul
• Carol
• When Marnie Was There
• Room
• Sicario
• 45 Years
• Girlhood
• Ex Machina

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are some of my favorite movies from 2014. My original top 10 was:

HTTYD2
Boyhood
Snowpiecer
Before I Disappear
The Boxtrolls
Spring
Mommy
Force Majeure
A Most Violent Year
& Cart

However, after seeing a few more films prepping for the Oscars, I realized that Top 10 was slightly off-balance. I probably would have ranked Song of the Sea as my favorite movie of 2014 if I had seen it first, and Ida would have definitely made it in my top three.

So (because I'm obsessed with lists) I decided to make a list of the best movies from 2014 - no ranking, no limit. Enjoy :)

• The Dam Keeper
• Song of the Sea
• Ida
• Boyhood
• Whiplash
• Snowpiercer
• Force Majeure
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• The Boxtrolls
• Spring

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

2016 was an interesting year. While it didn't seem particularly prolific at first, I soon realized I had given out just as many (if not more) 4-star ratings than I had in years past. That's because 2016 was a year of indie greatness - from THE WITCH to movies like THINGS TO COME at the end of the year. The blockbuster mainstream side of 2016 was a heavy disappointment, but film is certainly still alive, even in the darkest of times.

1. The Handmaiden
2. Arrival
3. Moonlight
4. Things to Come
5. O.J.: Made in America
6. The Fits
7. Jackie
8. Evolution
9. Moana
10. Train to Busan

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Girl Walk // All Day

  January 2017

  Honorable mention: Cameraperson

• Eyes Without a Face

  February 2017

  Honorable mentions: Tampopo, The Salesman, Army of Darkness, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

• Personal Shopper

  March 2017

  Honorable mentions: Logan, The Work

• PlayTime

  April 2017

  Honorable mentions: Suspiria, Your Name, Before Midnight, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Trainspotting

• Gertrud

  May 2017

  Honorable mentions: Children of Men, Barry Lyndon, The Great Beauty, Like Someone in Love, The Lost City of Z, Memories of Murder, Close-Up

• Rashomon

  June 2017

  Honorable mention: Y Tu Mamá También

• A Ghost Story

  July 2017

  Honorable mentions: Breathe, Holy Motors, Dunkirk, Contempt

• Pierrot le Fou

  August 2017

  Honorable Mentions: The ion of Joan of Arc, L'Atalante

• Rosemary's Baby

  September 2017

  Honorable Mentions: The Florida Project, Bodied, The Square, and Tigers Are Not Afraid

• Vampyr

  October 2017

  Honorable Mentions: Ordet, The Fly

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

My ranked horror movies of 2016.

Excluded due to imminent US release: SADAKO VS KAYAKO, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

1. Evolution
2. Train to Busan
3. Under the Shadow
4. The Witch
5. Nina Forever
6. The Wailing
7. Demon
8. Don't Breathe
9. Creepy
10. The Inerasable

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