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This review may contain spoilers.

Missed half of the movie to fooling around with a girl so I almost missed that the blonde girl is her grandmother and this weirdly sapphic-coded movie isn't actually gay at all.

I'm on Worker's Comp for Pride Month motherfuckers, time to watch some gay shit.

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Multiple Maniacs
• Knife+Heart
• Off Ramp
• XXY
• The Delta
• On Swift Horses
• I Don't Understand You
• How to Survive a Plague
• The Long Day Closes

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

• Losing Ground
• Step
• Belle
• Bessie
• A United Kingdom
• The Weight of Water
• Trouble Every Day
• First They Killed My Father
• Divines
• Woodshock

...plus 3939 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Happiest Season
• Get Out
• The Substance
• The Stepford Wives
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Midsommar
• Society
• Rosemary's Baby
• Ready or Not
• Hereditary

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

Well, I finally finished my first Criterion Challenge list (from 2023) so why not make another one out of pure wishful thinking that I'll get around to it! This watchlist challenge is created in accordance with the fifth edition of the Criterion Challenge, as outlined by Ben's list. You can check out the rules there! I've listed the category each film was selected for in the notes.

1. All That Jazz

   1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset

2. Totally F***ed Up

   2. Watch a film from the year you were born

3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

   3. Directed by Robert Altman

4. Rouge

   4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet

5. Risky Business

   5. Great Soundtracks

6. Brute Force

   6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing

7. The Cameraman

   7. 1920s

8. Crossing Delancey

   8. Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025

9. Imitation of Life

   9. 1930s

10. Happiness

    10. Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Gasoline Rainbow
• We're All Going to the World's Fair
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Poison
• Dilating for Maximum Results
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
• Happy Birthday, Marsha!
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Mala Noche
• The Matrix Resurrections

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

• Janet Planet
• Caddo Lake
• It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
• Heart of a Dog
• The Substance
• Speed Racer
• Nanny
• Simone Barbès or Virtue
• La Ciénaga
• My Old Ass

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

LOL DVDs? I guess I still have some lying around. This list has grown considerably shorter over the years as my blu-ray collection has grown, so consider this the last vestiges of my taste during middle/high school and my early days at college.

• 2 Fast 2 Furious
• 13 Assassins
• 25th Hour
• 50/50
• 127 Hours
• 300
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Adaptation.
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Altered States

...plus 148 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"A cunty amount of cool dvds [sic] to have." - irl friend of Lara.

Aka the reason the movers hate me aka at least one thing that has single-handedly gotten me laid.

• 3:10 to Yuma

  Criterion Collection

• 3:10 to Yuma
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  Criterion Collection

• Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom, for Sale

  The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
  Criterion Collection

• 8½

  Criterion Collection

• Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

  8 1/2
  Criterion Collection

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• 12 Angry Men

  Criterion Collection

• Tragedy in a Temporary Town

  12 Angry Men
  Criterion Collection

• 12 Years a Slave

...plus 1166 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In order of production date, not release.

• Invitation
• Days of Daisy
• How Do I Tell You This
• #ChadGetsTheAxe
• Match Me If You Can
• Haunted Mansion
• History of Evil
• Big George Foreman
• My Southern Family Christmas
• The Dirty South

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

• The Devils

  Home viewing, on Criterion Channel

• The Night Porter

  Home viewing, on Criterion Channel

• Life Is Sweet

  Home viewing, on Criterion Channel

• Violent Cop

  Home viewing, on Mubi

• The Proposal

  Home viewing, on Hulu

• Fearless Hyena

  Home viewing, on Criterion Channel

• Blackmail

  Home viewing, on Criterion Channel

• Birder

  Teaser Fest / Jumpcut Film Festival Screening
  Evangeline Hall at the Hotel St. Vincent in New Orleans, LA

• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• Withnail & I

  Home viewing, on Criterion Channel

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

• The Night Porter
• The Matrix
• The Proposal
• Señorita
• Scrap
• The Hill We Climb
• Wheel
• Credit
• The Candy Lady
• Pink Suit Black Suit

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• I Saw the TV Glow
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• The People's Joker
• The Wild Robot
• The Substance
• Challengers
• Love Lies Bleeding
• Trap
• Dune: Part Two
• Close to You

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

Sorted by "most times in the theater" then "most- to least-favorite"

7x: How Do I Tell You This (this is my short film lol)
6x: Invitation (this is also my short film)
4x: Mad Max: Fury Road
3x: I Saw the TV Glow - Interstellar
Twice: Her - Amazing Spider-Man 2

• How Do I Tell You This
• Invitation
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Uncut Gems
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Barbie
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Interstellar
• Her

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

My stab at participating in the third edition of the Criterion Challenge, as outlined by Ben's list. You can check out the rules there! I've listed the category each film was selected for in the notes.

1. Revenge

   1. Random Number Generator

2. Man Bites Dog

   2. Made in Belgium

3. A Brighter Summer Day

   3. Made in Taiwan

4. Exotica

   4. Made in Canada

5. Ossos

   5. Made in Portugal

6. White Dog

   6. Animals in the Collection

7. News from Home

   7. Films to Fall Asleep To

8. Trances

   8. Black Music Films

9. Black Girl

   9. Black Lives Collection

10. Weekend

    10. Heartbreak Heaven

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Let's try this again. My stab at participating in the fourth edition of the Criterion Challenge, as outlined by Ben's list. You can check out the rules there! I've listed the category each film was selected for in the notes.

1. Night on Earth

   1. Spine #351-450 - #401

2. Heaven's Gate

   2. Spine #601-700 - #636

3. A Woman Under the Influence

   3. Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher

4. Come and See

   4. First film in your watchlist

5. Mother

   5. Most recently added film in your watchlist

6. Red Beard

   6. Longest runtime in your watchlist

7. The Piano Teacher

   7. Most popular film in your watchlist

8. Touki Bouki

   8. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project

9. Gap-Toothed Women

   9. Criterion Staff Picks

10. La Ciénaga

    10. New York Film Festival Favorites

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Mad Max 2
• Happy Feet
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
• Lorenzo's Oil
• Babe: Pig in the City
• Mad Max
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Happy Feet Two

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

This was fucking hard to whittle down.

Tried to counter my recency bias by limiting myself to one film per decade for the top 10.

• Harakiri
• Parasite
• Titane
• Fish Tank
• In the Mood for Love
• Rififi
• Do the Right Thing
• Farewell My Concubine
• Walkabout
• The Third Man

...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Wasp
• Milk
• Dog
• My Dinner with Werner
• Ape Sodom
• Clownfish
• Caught On Tape
• The Candy Lady
• Pink Suit Black Suit
• Dead Flesh

...plus 117 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I work in the film industry. I live in New Orleans. I'm always happy to see my city show up on screen. Collecting some films that were produced and/or set here for a potential future marathon or project of some kind.

• Down by Law
• Panic in the Streets
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Interview with the Vampire
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Cat People
• Déjà Vu
• 12 Years a Slave
• Killing Them Softly

...plus 135 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Stranger Than Paradise

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• Pusher III

  Home viewing, on Mubi

• Twister

  Home viewing, on DVD

• Skinamarink

  Theatrical viewing
  The Broad Theater in New Orleans, LA

• Eve's Bayou

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• M3GAN

  Theatrical viewing
  AMC Elmwood Palace 20 in Harahan, LA

• Women Talking

  Theatrical viewing
  The Broad Theater in New Orleans, LA

• Wedding Crashers

  Home viewing, on DVD

• Daisies

  Home viewing, on Criterion Channel

• Alice, Darling

  Theatrical viewing
  AMC Elmwood Palace 20 in Harahan, LA

...plus 152 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. No Country for Old Men

   Winner

2. Up in the Air
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. There Will Be Blood
5. District 9
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

   Winner

9. Traffic
10. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Eve's Bayou
• Women Talking
• Daisies
• Alice, Darling
• Beau Travail
• Losing Ground
• Desert Hearts
• Shiva Baby
• The Flying Sailor
• My Year of Dicks

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

• Wendy and Lucy
• Nomadland
• Paris, Texas
• Silence
• Lady Bird
• The Straight Story
• American Honey
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

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

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Raging Bull
3. The Elephant Man
4. Broadcast News
5. Witness
6. Moonstruck
7. Platoon

   Winner

8. of Endearment

   Winner

9. Fatal Attraction
10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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

1. Taxi Driver
2. Jaws
3. Star Wars
4. Apocalypse Now
5. M*A*S*H
6. Chinatown
7. The Godfather Part II

   Winner

8. The Godfather

   Winner

9. The Sting

   Winner

10. Barry Lyndon

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

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. The Apartment

   Winner

6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. Lawrence of Arabia

   Winner

8. In the Heat of the Night

   Winner

9. The Graduate
10. Midnight Cowboy

    Winner

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

1. Ben-Hur

   Winner

2. 12 Angry Men
3. High Noon
4. Giant
5. On the Waterfront

   Winner

6. All About Eve
7. The Bridge on the River Kwai

   Winner

8. Anatomy of a Murder
9. Sunset Boulevard
10. Roman Holiday

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

1. The Great Dictator
2. The Red Shoes
3. Double Indemnity
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. Citizen Kane
6. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. Rebecca

   Winner

8. It's a Wonderful Life
9. Gaslight
10. The Philadelphia Story

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. It Happened One Night

   Winner

2. All Quiet on the Western Front

   Winner

3. Gone with the Wind

   Winner

4. The Wizard of Oz
5. Stagecoach
6. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7. Of Mice and Men
8. A Star Is Born

1. TÁR
2. West Side Story
3. Sound of Metal
4. Minari
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once

   Winner

6. Women Talking
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
8. The Power of the Dog
9. Nomadland

   Winner

10. Avatar: The Way of Water

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

My general movie watching cratered in 2021, which means I didn't do so hot on my attempts to watch more films made by women either. Here's to trying to do better this year.

• Encanto
• Censor
• Eternals
• The Lure
• Teknolust
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Take This Waltz
• The Innocents
• The Lost Daughter
• Erzulie

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

• Licorice Pizza

  Theatrical viewing
  Cinemark Colonel Glenn and XD in Little Rock, AR

• After Life

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• Andrei Rublev

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• Encanto

  Home viewing, on Disney+

• The Wrong Man

  Home viewing, on Blu-ray

• Inland Empire

  Home viewing, on DVD

• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

  Home viewing, on Blu-ray

• Censor

  Home viewing, on Hulu

• The Eyes of Tammy Faye

  Home viewing, on HBO Max

• The Wedding Singer

  Home viewing, on Netflix

...plus 115 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• First Cow
• Brokeback Mountain
• Desert Hearts
• The Power of the Dog
• Maurice
• Shane
• Johnny Guitar

• Sense8: Amor Vincit Omnia
• Her
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
• Crimes of the Future
• Marriage Story
• Dead Ringers
• Perfect Sense
• Contagion

• Scream
• It Follows
• Candyman
• Smile
• Enemy
• Cam
• New Nightmare
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Babadook
• Oculus

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

1. A History of Violence
2. Videodrome
3. Crimes of the Future
4. The Brood
5. Eastern Promises
6. The Fly
7. Crash
8. eXistenZ
9. The Dead Zone
10. Scanners

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

1. Volver
2. Talk to Her
3. Broken Embraces
4. Bad Education
5. The Skin I Live In
6. Law of Desire
7. Matador
8. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
9. All About My Mother
10. Live Flesh

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

All the Netflix Original films I've seen, started from back when they first started producing original content.

• Virunga
• Beasts of No Nation
• Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
• What Happened, Miss Simone?
• The Square
• Amanda Knox
• 13th
• Into the Inferno
• The Fundamentals of Caring
• I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Watchmen

   The Ultimate Cut

2. Man of Steel
3. 300
4. Dawn of the Dead
5. Zack Snyder's Justice League
6. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
7. Justice League
8. Sucker Punch
9. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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

1. The Squid and the Whale
2. Marriage Story
3. s Ha
4. While We're Young
5. De Palma
6. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
7. Greenberg
8. Mistress America
9. Margot at the Wedding
10. Kicking and Screaming

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

1. Down by Law
2. Only Lovers Left Alive
3. Paterson
4. Dead Man
5. Broken Flowers
6. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
7. Coffee and Cigarettes

1. Malignant
2. The Conjuring
3. The Conjuring 2
4. Insidious
5. Saw
6. Furious 7
7. Aquaman
8. Insidious: Chapter 2

1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. From Russia with Love
4. Goldfinger
5. Spectre
6. Dr. No
7. Quantum of Solace
8. Thunderball
9. No Time to Die

To be fair and give credit where credit is due, I'm ripping this idea from one Mark Jewiss (who apparently ripped it from a bunch of other people, so I guess this is the new Letterboxd trend).
This is the list of (in my opinion) the best films of each year since I've been born. Since I'm only 19, this list won't be very long, but surely there will be many an amazing film to be found. If there's a film that I seem to be missing...I probably haven't seen it. Or maybe I just think less of it than you. At any rate, these are my favorites, and many, many more will be added to this list as the years go by.
Note: I'm letting Fellowship of the Ring count as the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy for 2001. Because there are a couple movies on here that I REALLY wanted to recognize, only to see that, well, Lord of the Rings came out that year.

• Dazed and Confused
• Pulp Fiction
• Toy Story
• Secrets & Lies
• Princess Mononoke
• The Thin Red Line
• The Matrix
• Memento
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 25th Hour

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

Unfortunately I failed to hit all 52 in 2020, let's see if I can do better here.

• Promising Young Woman
• Kajillionaire
• The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Love & Basketball
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
• Agua Viva
• Kitchen Sink
• Lingua Franca
• Shangri-La
• Saint Maud

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

1. Eraserhead
2. The Elephant Man
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Blue Velvet
5. The Straight Story
6. Lost Highway
7. Wild at Heart
8. Inland Empire
9. Dune

1. Psycho
2. Rear Window
3. Strangers on a Train
4. North by Northwest
5. Rebecca
6. Vertigo
7. Notorious
8. Rope
9. Dial M for Murder
10. Foreign Correspondent

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

• American Movie

  Home viewing, Amazon Rental

• The Wages of Fear

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• Beauty and the Beast

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• Cat People

  Home viewing, on Blu-ray

• Run

  Home viewing, on Hulu

• Promising Young Woman

  Home viewing, Amazon Rental

• El Topo

  Home viewing, on Mubi

• The Sword of Doom

  Home viewing, on Criterion Blu-ray

• The Holy Mountain

  Home viewing, on Mubi

• History of the World: Part I

  Home viewing, on Blu-ray

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