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Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

A witty social satire on fascism, materialism, and control, Larraín steps outside of his comfort zone with this film, though he sticks to his smooth navigation of the crossroads of man, moral, and fame but in a more blunt way than he's done previously. This film reminds of Joshua Oppenheimer's The End, not content-wise but with the idea that they bit off more than they could chew. The End, despite Oppenheimer's very articulate words on class and capitalism, ended up not living up to its potential though it should still be lauded on its attempt.
Similarly, El Conde for me didn't live up to its potential, as it works too much in at a time and finds itself torn between these additions. Larraín is a very talented filmmaker and I consistently enjoy his work, so perhaps there is a perspective I am simply not looking from, but is otherwise an intelligent piece that I enjoyed even through its flaws.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

This is one of my favourite films ever which is weird because when I first watched it I didn't like it at all. I was trying to analyse what made it so good and why it was regarded so highly by so many people. But it's a film you slowly learn to love. By pure coincidence I got to watch it again when someone randomly put it on after a party (which in hindsight is kinda weird) and I guess I just gained a new perspective on it. Since, I've seen it maybe 4 times and I do, every time, get something new out of it. I think it's important to let it wash over you - relax and don't worry about what it means. It's so rich in detail and symbolism that needs a good amount of context to understand so you're not expected to. Regardless they're still some of the most magical and memorable experiences I've had watching a film and I can not express how much I love it.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.

Man I love Cosmo so much he's the best part of this movie.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

This movie is surprisingly good. Sure it has its flaws - it's rushed and oversimplified, messy, and feels incomplete. Also it's so blatantly on the nose with its themes. But what else would you expect from a Marvel movie?
Outside of that, I'm so proud of Marvel for actually making an effort to step outside their comfort zone. The emotion gets lost in the action at times but what it says about media and corruption rings true. Marvel can always stick to what it's good at when it needs to, but it's making changes to step away from its corporate monotonous underdeveloped money grabs into art of actual substance and that's really nice to see.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

I don't really know what to put here I mean it's literally like 45 seconds long

OK gagged

Period

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Fucking amazing

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

My comfort movie fr I love the way he breathes in-between each sentence

Not my thing really but still enjoyed it

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Extra half a star for Aaron Taylor Johnson's abs

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Nice idea but a bit messy, it has its flaws like any other movie, fell more into the average range than I would have liked.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

Still shots of empty beds and cold hotel lobbies. Silence save from your own breathing.
There is not much to Hotel Monterey from one simple look, in fact nothing happens at all.

But the long takes and silent nature let you notice details you wouldn’t normally. Every small movement. Every shake in the camera’s shot. Sometimes even sounds that aren’t there.
You imagine the character’s conversations and what they’re saying and why they’re there. The haunting hallways, empty rooms, and fading paint. Your mind wanders and creates a backstory and life to this word. It is not these walls that tell the story, it is you.
It is a catalyst for creativity; Akerman is a founding figure in the slow cinema movement, and that’s just what this style represents - creativity. It is the mostest born out of the littlest.

The movie is not the movie itself - the acting, the sets, the story - you get none of that. The movie is what you take out of it, how you interpret the total nothingness it is.
Do not go into this expecting anything, because what you get out of it will be your own personal story that you yourself have written.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Flow is literally a perfect movie. It has the ingenuity of 12 Angry Men in the fact that it misses a crucial aspect a film usually has, the creativity and innovation of Renoir's The Rules of The Game and animation akin to Akira. By far the best film of the year and one of the best of all time.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

• I Am Not Your Negro
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• No Other Land
• That Obscure Object of Desire
• Sunset Boulevard
• All About Eve
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Flow
• PlayTime
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

...plus 172 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The viewing experience, not the film

1. Twilight
2. I Am Not Your Negro
3. Sing Sing
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. Almost Famous
6. Scream
7. Queer
8. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
9. Red Rocket
10. Manhunter

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

The viewing experience, not the film

1. Meshes of the Afternoon
2. PlayTime
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4. No Other Land
5. Petite Maman
6. Parasite
7. I'm Still Here
8. Babel
9. Shoplifters
10. The Piano Lesson

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

The viewing experience, not the film

1. Yi Yi
2. Stop Making Sense
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. A Real Pain
5. Coherence
6. Anora
7. s Ha
8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
10. The Lego Batman Movie

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

The viewing experience, not the film

1. Flow
2. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
4. Sunset Boulevard
5. All About Eve
6. Persepolis
7. Call Me by Your Name
8. Memoir of a Snail
9. Akira
10. Network

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

The viewing experience, not the film

Disclaimer I don't think it can be understated how many of these films I loved.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Beau Travail
3. The Spirit of the Beehive
4. All of Us Strangers
5. I Saw the TV Glow
6. All We Imagine as Light
7. David Lynch Cooks Quinoa
8. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
9. Singin' in the Rain
10. The Red Shoes

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

As of May-June 2025, will change definitively

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Meshes of the Afternoon
3. Stop Making Sense
4. Yi Yi
5. Paris, Texas
6. Close-Up
7. Taste of Cherry
8. Tokyo Story
9. Beau Travail
10. The Spirit of the Beehive

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Unranked

Honorable Mentions
- Dune: Part Two
- Didi
- Longlegs
- Challengers
- The Substance
- My Old Ass
- Kneecap
- The Brutalist
- Anora
- Nickel Boys

• Flow
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
• All We Imagine as Light
• No Other Land
• I'm Still Here
• A Real Pain
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Look Back
• Queer
• How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

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

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

1. The Social Network
2. Fight Club
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Se7en
5. Zodiac
6. The Killer
7. The Game
8. Alien³
9. Mank
10. Gone Girl

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

Unranked

• Past Lives
• The Holdovers
• All of Us Strangers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Beast
• The Zone of Interest
• La Chimera
• Monster
• Four Daughters
• Toll

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

• Matilda
• Brazil
• The Insider
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• American Graffiti
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• A Little Princess
• Star Wars
• The Joy Luck Club
• Horrible Bosses

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

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. All About Eve
3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
4. Moonlight
5. Casablanca
6. On the Waterfront
7. The Apartment
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. Annie Hall
10. Rebecca

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked by score, then amount of reviews, then alphabetic order.

Average Across Every Year of Best Picture Nominees
1948 - Avg. 98.8%
1927 - Avg. 97%
1950 - Avg. 95.4%
1993 - Avg. 94.6%
1949 - Avg. 94.2%
1939 - Avg. 93.4%
1997 - Avg. 93.2%
2020 - Avg. 93%
1940 - Avg. 92.9%
1968 - Avg. 92.8%
2010 - Avg. 92.6%
1972 - Avg. 92.4%
1982 - Avg. 92.2%
2016 - Avg. 92.1%
2017 - Avg. 92.1%
1995 - Avg. 92%
2023 - Avg. 91.9%
1981 - Avg. 91.8%
2015 - Avg. 91.62%
1951 - Avg. 91.6%
1942 - Avg. 91.5%
1935 - Avg. 91.41%
2013 - Avg. 91.4%
1938 - Avg. 91.2%
1992 - Avg. 90.8%
1979 - Avg. 90.8%
1996 - Avg. 90.6%
1975 - Avg. 90.6%
1959 - Avg. 90.6%
1941 - Avg. 90.5%
1947 - Avg. 90.2%
2007 - Avg. 90%
1961 - Avg. 90%
1966 - Avg. 90%
1937 - Avg. 89.9%
1946 - Avg. 89.6%
1976 - Avg. 89.6%
2014 - Avg. 89.5%
1932 - Avg. 89.5%
2024 - Avg. 89%
1994 - Avg. 89%
1964 - Avg. 88.8%
1987 - Avg. 88.8%
2019 - Avg. 88.6%
1957 - Avg. 88.6%
1973 - Avg. 88.6%
2009 - Avg. 88.4%
2003 - Avg. 88.2%
1974 - Avg. 88.2%
1989 - Avg. 88%
1943 - Avg. 87.9%
1933 - Avg. 87.9%
2012 - Avg. 87.89%
1984 - Avg. 87.8%
2006 - Avg. 87.6%
1980 - Avg. 87.4%
2022 - Avg. 87.4%
1944 - Avg. 87.4%
2004 - Avg. 87%
1930 - Avg. 86.8%
1978 - Avg. 86.8%
1962 - Avg. 86.8%
1958 - Avg. 86.2%
1971 - Avg. 86.2%
2021 - Avg. 86.1%
2002 - Avg. 85.8%
1998 - Avg. 85.8%
1983 - Avg. 85.4%
1991 - Avg. 85.2%
1988 - Avg. 85.2%
1986 - Avg. 84.8%
2005 - Avg. 84.4%
2001 - Avg. 84.2%
1954 - Avg. 84.2%
2018 - Avg. 84%
2000 - Avg. 83.8%
1999 - Avg. 83.8%
1956 - Avg. 83.4%
1934 - Avg. 82.83%
2008 - Avg. 82.4%
2011 - Avg. 82.4%
1945 - Avg. 82.4%
1931 - Avg. 82.2%
1977 - Avg. 81.2%
1970 - Avg. 81%
1985 - Avg. 80.8%
1990 - Avg. 80.6%
1936 - Avg. 79.3%
1953 - Avg. 79.2%
1952 - Avg. 77.6%
1963 - Avg. 77.2%
1960 - Avg. 77%
1967 - Avg. 74.6%
1965 - Avg. 74.4%
1969 - Avg. 71.6%
1955 - Avg. 70.8%
1929 - Avg. 59.4%

1. The Philadelphia Story
2. 12 Angry Men
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. Anatomy of a Murder
5. The Adventures of Robin Hood
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. Stagecoach
8. Top Hat
9. Witness for the Prosecution
10. Atlantic City

...plus 601 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 8½
• Breathless
• A Brighter Summer Day
• A Canterbury Tale
• A City of Sadness
• A Clockwork Orange
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Alien

...plus 296 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix