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Had hoped loving Andor would make me love Rogue One, as a sort of extended finale, but instead I just felt sad that most of my favorite characters were missing. It's fine, there's some decent action and it's allowed to be grim and hopeful at the same time, but I've never been a huge Star Wars guy and Andor has, ironically, made it so I probably never will be.

Really disliked Christmas Vacation the one time I watched it but should give it another chance as there's no way it's as bad as this. At almost every point the most obvious joke is made and the structure is clunky and uninspired.

Real mixed bag as it loses steam over time, but set up is pretty solid and delivers some amusing gags.

Had hoped this would be funnier but outside of the main character being a hairdresser with laughably bad hair, there's not much of note.

Classic rom-com set up: a book store clerk, a pickle vendor, and the guy who switched the samples in The Fugitive. Charming!

Gave this the attention Netflix fare deserves, half-watched when the action kicked in.

This marks the third time a female director has given us a memorable dance scene from one of the future Sam Mendes Beatles. Joseph Quinn, you're up.

Outside of that, found this strangely inert, lacking the heat I expected. A big disappointment after Bodies Bodies Bodies.

Football is so dumb and crazy and I hate that I love it.

Have never loved this but Val remains an incredible highlight.

So is Hammond planning on leading that tour every time?

Nothing special but entertaining enough and Sophie Thatcher is a promising screen presence after this and Heretic.

Despite liking everything Ryan Coogler's directed (even the much maligned Black Panther sequel), I haven't been as high on him as others seem to be, probably because he's lived so much within the confines of already established worlds and properties. But with Sinners, an original, electrifying horror-musical-epic, I might have to bump him up to my young(ish)* director Mount Rushmore, alongside Jordan Peele, Damien Chazelle, and Greta Gerwig. Loved the slow build to this, the entire cast crushes it, and not since Thanos has a villain had such solid points to make within his evil scheme. Eager to see it again, but will continue to rock out to the soundtrack in the meantime ("I Lied to You" and "Pale, Pale Moon" should be shoo-ins for Oscar noms).

*50% age, 50% number of films made, arbitrary requirement of at least 3 or someone like Kelly Fremon Craig would be a strong contender

Have been a fan of this since seeing it way back in high school with a group that did not enjoy it nearly as much as me, and while I still love it and think it's one of Spielberg's best, this time I struggled with the final half hour, mostly due to the pace and drawn out nature of the coda and the look of the aliens, it just feels inferior to everything that comes before it. Haley Joel Osment just as impressive as his work in The Sixth Sense, but shout out to s O'Connor, quietly the MVP.

Solid thriller from Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), although it greatly underutilizes the central pairing of Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones, their first sequence a promising start that is never equaled, Jones pushed to the side for most of the remaining runtime.

Mental illness as an excuse for Dan Aykroyd to imitate dozens of characters in pop culture, Loose Cannons is a mess of unfunny bits and inconsistent characters (Hackman's love and care for his car is quickly ignored so his new, untrusted partner can drive it and destroy it in a chase scene), thankfully short and odd enough to be a fascination.

A ridiculous but entertaining legal thriller that made me wonder how much more praise this would have gotten had Clint Eastwood directed it.

Terrible needle drops and score (they got the guy from The Matrix and he seems to have delivered a score befitting The Matrix), poorly orchestrated action, and the final nail in its coffin was the text on screen for fictional characters, forever a cinematic pet peeve of mine.

Liked this a lot when I watched it for the first time several years ago but I undervalued it, it absolutely fucking rips.

Begins as a hip, funny, low budget film about a smart, defiant teen girl barely tolerating authority figures, hanging out with friends, and hooking up with boys, and becomes something much tougher, more challenging, and surprising.

Understated and effective, carried by a great performance from Rosy McEwen (seen recently in the decent Black Mirror episode, Bête Noire), but as important and sadly always timely its themes are it failed to really wow me.

There are better examples of Denzel as a cop or private eye investigating a murder, The Mighty Quinn a mixed bag with a pretty ridiculous and unintentionally laughable finale.

A lot of racial jokes, playing with stereotypes, but few if any land, and the gags about a husband raping his wife are a big yikes, but if you can get past all that, and its horrendous sitcomy score, the chemistry between Denzel (in his first theatrical role) and Segal makes it tolerable.

Can't believe this 1993 Shakespeare adaptation was already infected with woke, tainted by the DEI hire of Denzel Washington and whatever insanity got Keanu in the cast.

Read all of the Hercule Poirot novels over the last few years and this wasn't one of my favorites. The film is fine but remains a middling entry in my mind.

Denzel and Sarita Choudhury are maybe the hottest onscreen couple, ever.

Wanted to love this but between the very tired love triangle/falling out and most of the athleticism in this filmed too close to ever really follow or enjoy, the family conflicts did most of the heavy lifting, and not at a high enough level.

Watched on Tuesday April 8, 2025.

Currently loving The Studio so felt compelled to revisit and while this remains a ton of fun for any movie-loving nerd, I do struggle to follow the Tim Robbins character and his reactions to...everything? Despite that, might still be my favorite Altman.

John Goodman and Michael Kenneth Williams really elevate every moment they're on screen but Wahlberg feels miscast, the relationship with Brie Larson is baffling and unnecessary, and despite our main character receiving just as many beatdowns as duffel bags of cash I struggled to feel any tension or care by the end. Confusing experience.

Why is this movie so fucking weird and also somehow boring?

Dumb but pretty propulsive until it runs out of steam. I did like how they juxtaposed the seemingly empty projects with maybe the busiest suburban street I've ever seen in the opening, it really made me laugh right out of the gates.

Cornball.

Very bad prequel to The Wire.

"Chuck, I had a double burger!"

I know Rian Johnson gets a lot of online hate but him being behind Brick, Looper, Knives Out, and the best Star War means he's one of my faves. Even though I don't love The Brothers Bloom and I'm a fan of both KO mysteries, I do hope he doesn't get too bogged down in the sequels to prevent him from dropping something new.

I've now seen nine films directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and none of them have been very good. Sometimes they're decent, sometimes they're borderline good, but I have to hand it to him, they've all been pretty watchable. Run All Night continues that trend, I was able to watch it.

Not a surprise that the Adam Sandler remake of a football/prison film doesn't hold up much better than the original in regard to its comedy, but somehow I was still expecting worse. Mostly hits the same beats, with a couple added scenes, but the death feels way more out of place and Sandler does not work nearly as well as Reynolds.

1. Lost in Translation
2. The Beguiled
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. Marie Antoinette
5. On the Rocks
6. Priscilla
7. The Bling Ring
8. Somewhere
9. A Very Murray Christmas

1. Bound
2. The Matrix
3. Cloud Atlas
4. The Matrix Resurrections
5. Speed Racer
6. The Matrix Reloaded
7. Jupiter Ascending
8. The Matrix Revolutions

1. Alien
2. The Last Duel
3. Black Hawk Down
4. Gladiator
5. Matchstick Men
6. The Martian
7. Alien: Covenant
8. Prometheus
9. Thelma & Louise
10. Blade Runner

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1. Crimson Tide
2. True Romance
3. Enemy of the State
4. Déjà Vu
5. Man on Fire
6. Top Gun
7. The Hunger
8. Spy Game
9. The Last Boy Scout
10. Beverly Hills Cop II

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

1. The Thing
2. Starman
3. Prince of Darkness
4. Assault on Precinct 13
5. Halloween
6. Escape from New York
7. Big Trouble in Little China
8. They Live
9. In the Mouth of Madness
10. Body Bags

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1. The Conversation
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Godfather
5. The Rainmaker
6. Peggy Sue Got Married
7. The Outsiders
8. One from the Heart
9. Rumble Fish
10. Bram Stoker's Dracula

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1. Take Shelter
2. Mud
3. Shotgun Stories
4. Midnight Special
5. Loving
6. The Bikeriders

1. Sunshine
2. 28 Days Later
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Steve Jobs
5. 127 Hours
6. T2 Trainspotting
7. Shallow Grave
8. Trainspotting
9. Millions
10. A Life Less Ordinary

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1. Mother
2. Parasite
3. Memories of Murder
4. The Host
5. Snowpiercer
6. Mickey 17
7. Okja
8. Barking Dogs Never Bite

Updated 2025

1. Fargo
2. Miller's Crossing
3. No Country for Old Men
4. The Man Who Wasn't There
5. Barton Fink
6. The Big Lebowski
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. True Grit
9. A Serious Man
10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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

1. Out of Sight
2. Side Effects
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Black Bag
5. The Informant!
6. Erin Brockovich
7. Traffic
8. The Limey
9. Contagion
10. Kimi

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

Honorable mentions, alphabetical:
A Complete Unknown
Exhuma
Good One
His Three Daughters
Hundreds of Beavers
I’m Still Here
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The People’s Joker
Rebel Ridge
Sometimes I Think About Dying
Trap
Yannick

1. Challengers
2. Anora
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. Love Lies Bleeding
6. Red Rooms
7. Flow
8. My Old Ass
9. Kinds of Kindness
10. The Substance

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

1. Batman Returns
2. Unforgiven
3. The Player
4. One False Move
5. A League of Their Own
6. A Few Good Men
7. Malcolm X
8. Aladdin
9. Bob Roberts
10. Wayne's World

1. Miller's Crossing
2. GoodFellas
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Presumed Innocent
5. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6. Misery
7. Arachnophobia
8. Close-Up
9. The Hunt for Red October
10. To Sleep with Anger

1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. The Double Life of Véronique
3. Barton Fink
4. Dogfight
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
6. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
7. Thelma & Louise
8. Boyz n the Hood
9. Clearcut
10. The Addams Family

1. The Age of Innocence
2. The Fugitive
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Schindler's List
5. Jurassic Park
6. Groundhog Day
7. The Remains of the Day
8. True Romance
9. Demolition Man
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Hoop Dreams
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. Speed
6. Quiz Show
7. The Lion King
8. True Lies
9. Léon: The Professional
10. Exotica

1. Toy Story
2. Before Sunrise
3. Se7en
4. To Die For
5. Safe
6. Dead Man
7. Crimson Tide
8. The Usual Suspects
9. Devil in a Blue Dress
10. Die Hard With a Vengeance

1. Fargo
2. Bound
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Scream
5. Jerry Maguire
6. The Cable Guy
7. That Thing You Do!
8. Swingers
9. Happy Gilmore
10. The Rock

1. Good Will Hunting
2. Jackie Brown
3. Boogie Nights
4. Men in Black
5. L.A. Confidential
6. Titanic
7. Starship Troopers
8. Breakdown
9. Perfect Blue
10. MouseHunt

1. Out of Sight
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Show Me Love
4. The Truman Show
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Shakespeare in Love
7. Rushmore
8. A Simple Plan
9. Bride of Chucky
10. Zero Effect

1. Election
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. The Matrix
4. Three Kings
5. Fight Club
6. The Talented Mr. Ripley
7. Being John Malkovich
8. Office Space
9. The Sixth Sense
10. Magnolia

Updated 2024

1. Looper
2. Django Unchained
3. It's Such a Beautiful Day
4. Zero Dark Thirty
5. Cloud Atlas
6. The Master
7. Rust and Bone
8. Moonrise Kingdom
9. 21 Jump Street
10. The Place Beyond the Pines

Updated 2024

1. Take Shelter
2. Drive
3. Rango
4. A Separation
5. Hanna
6. Young Adult
7. The Cabin in the Woods
8. Win Win
9. Tomboy
10. 50/50

Updated 2024

1. The Social Network
2. Toy Story 3
3. Rabbit Hole
4. Black Swan
5. Inception
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. True Grit
8. Never Let Me Go
9. Meek's Cutoff
10. Shutter Island

Updated 2024

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Where the Wild Things Are
3. Mother
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
6. The Informant!
7. About Elly
8. Up in the Air
9. In the Loop
10. (500) Days of Summer

Updated 2024

1. WALL·E
2. In Bruges
3. The Wrestler
4. Let the Right One In
5. Rachel Getting Married
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. Wendy and Lucy
8. The Dark Knight
9. Man on Wire
10. Synecdoche, New York

Updated 2024

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Zodiac
4. The Orphanage
5. The Bourne Ultimatum
6. Sunshine
7. Secret Sunshine
8. Michael Clayton
9. Once
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Updated 2024

1. Children of Men
2. The Prestige
3. United 93
4. Casino Royale
5. Fireworks Wednesday
6. The Host
7. The Departed
8. Monster House
9. Inside Man
10. Idiocracy

Updated 2024

1. Before Sunset
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Village
4. The Bourne Supremacy
5. Shaun of the Dead
6. Sideways
7. Team America: World Police
8. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
9. Collateral
10. Mean Girls

Updated 2024

1. Brick
2. A Bittersweet Life
3. A History of Violence
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
5. The Squid and the Whale
6. The Proposition
7. Caché
8. War of the Worlds
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. Good Night, and Good Luck.

Updated 2024

1. Lost in Translation
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. Memories of Murder
4. Finding Nemo
5. Mystic River
6. The Station Agent
7. Old School
8. Oldboy
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
10. Intolerable Cruelty

Updated 2024

1. 25th Hour
2. Adaptation.
3. The Bourne Identity
4. 28 Days Later
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. City of God
7. Panic Room
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Bloody Sunday
10. Oasis

Updated 2024

1. Mulholland Drive
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
4. Ocean's Eleven
5. Monsters, Inc.
6. Black Hawk Down
7. The Mexican
8. The Others
9. Amélie
10. Donnie Darko

Updated 2024

1. Memento
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Snatch
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. Erin Brockovich
6. Traffic
7. Together
8. Gladiator
9. Love & Basketball
10. High Fidelity

1. Do the Right Thing
2. 25th Hour
3. David Byrne's American Utopia
4. BlacKkKlansman
5. Malcolm X
6. Inside Man
7. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
8. Rodney King
9. He Got Game
10. Mo' Better Blues

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1. Before Sunset
2. Before Sunrise
3. Before Midnight
4. Boyhood
5. Dazed and Confused
6. A Scanner Darkly
7. Hit Man
8. Bernie
9. School of Rock
10. Tape

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1. The Village
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Trap
4. Signs
5. Unbreakable
6. Split
7. The Visit
8. Old
9. Knock at the Cabin
10. Glass

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1. Mulholland Drive
2. The Elephant Man
3. Blue Velvet
4. Lost Highway
5. The Straight Story
6. Twin Peaks
7. Wild at Heart
8. Twin Peaks: The Return
9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
10. Eraserhead

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1. The Age of Innocence
2. The King of Comedy
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Taxi Driver
5. GoodFellas
6. Shutter Island
7. The Departed
8. Raging Bull
9. The Aviator
10. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

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1. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2. War for the Planet of the Apes
3. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
4. Planet of the Apes
5. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
6. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
7. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
8. Battle for the Planet of the Apes
9. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
10. Planet of the Apes

Year in Review-
Honorable mentions: The Zone of Interest, Bottoms, When Evil Lurks, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3, Reality, The Royal Hotel, Creed III
Best TV: The Bear and The Curse
Best Books: The Guest (Emma Cline), The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Shehan Karunatilaka), Not Funny (Jena Friedman) 
Best pre-2023 discoveries: The Big City, The Age of Innocence, Charulata, Le Doulos, Onibaba, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Dogfight

1. Poor Things
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Barbie
7. The Killer
8. Smoking Causes Coughing
9. Full Time
10. The Holdovers

1. High and Low
2. Yojimbo
3. Seven Samurai
4. Rashomon
5. Ran
6. Throne of Blood
7. Drunken Angel
8. The Hidden Fortress
9. Ikiru
10. Sanjuro

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1. Jaws
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Jurassic Park
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7. Schindler's List
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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1. Meek's Cutoff
2. Wendy and Lucy
3. Night Moves
4. Showing Up
5. First Cow
6. Certain Women
7. Old Joy
8. River of Grass

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

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1. Mission: Impossible
2. Blow Out
3. Femme Fatale
4. The Untouchables
5. Body Double
6. Snake Eyes
7. Sisters
8. Carrie
9. Obsession
10. Scarface

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1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. Titanic
3. True Lies
4. Aliens
5. Avatar: The Way of Water
6. The Abyss
7. The Terminator
8. Avatar

1. Decision to Leave
2. The Handmaiden
3. Oldboy
4. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
5. Lady Vengeance
6. Thirst
7. Stoker
8. t Security Area
9. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK