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Pure chaos this one 🤯

90s in every sense of the decade.

I like those episodes in the style of the earlier black mirror seasons.

Best adaptation of the three investigators so far. Nice Cali vibes. Hitchcock would have been proud!

It sure is a beautiful adaption with all those landscape paintings, fantastic score and very human character features of the animals. Yet, it does appear to be rather (too) short with its 75 min. Crucial events such as the car heist, toad’s imprisonment, his escape as well as the battle for toad hall do not get the time they need and deserve. Instead, we get Vanessa Redgrave reading the novel to her (grand?) children on a steamboat five minutes into the film and again five minutes before the credits. Cut out all non-animation scenes, take some time to elaborate on character and plot development and this would have been close to perfection.

The production and costume design are definitely better than in Wicked (Oscars 2025).

What Barbie does to feminism this biopic does to US folk music of the 60s.

An extra star for Jack O’Connell‘s performance of the Shangri-Las. Cookie foreva!

This review may contain spoilers.

Epic cast, costumes and settings. Yet, this version tries to fit too much in too little time. And what’s with the alternative ending, Francis?

drugs

It is interesting to watch Christian Bale‘s debut, yet this Astrid Lindgren journey goes well too smoothly.

As much as the 2024 reboot draws from the LOTR-universe, this one is pure Star Wars!

Watched on Saturday November 9, 2024.

Some irrational decisions in that one. Yet, a great soundtrack by daddy of the year David Hess himself 🤘

In this one, I prefer Nick Cave to Nick Cage.

Three years later the marriage laid in shambles and Nicholas Cage drank himself to death in the arms of a hooker in the very same city.

Jensen meets del Toro. Gory, tragic, heartfelt, funny and absolutely epic!

Hardly any women in that one.

I just wish the „real“ Edward was played by Ryan Gosling.

This is certainly the strongest part of the Blomkvist-trilogy. In this case, however, I prefer the second adaptation by Göran Carmback. I understand that this one is closer to Astrid Lindgren‘s novel and, thus, is more appropriate for children. Personally, I prefer the darker undertone of the modern version and how the incredibly gifted child actors delve into the trauma of witnessing an actual murder!

The third novel, the second film adaptation and the first appearance of Eskil Dalenius as Rasmus. The one and only Rasmus I should say. He got his own film franchise, yet not as the same Rasmus. Wait for what is coming…

The second part of the rasmus trilogy. I somehow skipped this, since the rasmus appears to be living and sleuthing in a complete parallel universe to the Kalle Blomquist franchise, where the loving family of part three is dead and he is forced to live on the road. Yet, this is Rolf Huisberg who also directed the first two Blomquist-adaptations. This is even more confusing than the spider-verse!

I just realized that I have been the very first person to review this! Letterboxd-premiere! How is that even possible? The film is part of a widely available DVD-collection, at least in (see poster). Ok, it’s not the best part, as pointed out earlier. Britta is definitely no replacement for Eva-Lotta, but Anders is kinda still there (now Pontus, but still played by Sven Almgren from part three). The war on roses is completely left out, but there‘s music and romance and toker! And unfortunately some very very problematic depictions of adults on both sides of the law. I guess it needs to be watched as a product of its time. Or not at all. Anyways, one more to go…

Part 4/5 of my 50s Kalle Blomquist Marathon: So far the worst part. I’m not even sure if this „Kalle“ is the original Kalle Blomquist. He is played by Eskil Dalenius, the actor of Rasmus in the second film of the franchise. The original book is called Rasmus, Pontus och (and) Toker. Even the sign on the shed says: Rasmus and Pontus! Yet, everybody calls him Kalle, as does the (German) title of the film. All very suspicious 🕵🏻‍♂️

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Ok, the first part is way better! The Rasmus was cute at the time though. And I’m pretty sure Nicke dies in the end and they decide to lie about it in order to spare the children…

Es gibt eine remasterte Version mit den Tonspuren aus dem deutschen Hörspiel auf YouTube. Works for me…

My favourite adaptation of Astrid Lindgren so far. The script, acting and cinematography are in no way inferior to any adult mystery. The showdown recalls memories of Dürrematt‘s pledge and nightmares of a 90s childhood. Cannot wait to watch the sequel as well as the version of 1957: boxd.it/76Xc

Not as kinky as its predecessor of 1981 (are the two connected?), but picks up quite a bit of juvenile tension in the second half. The whole series is on YouTube.

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Im not even though and body count is already at five! Did those kids just drown an adult in the well? Oh wait, John Rhys Davies swallows the suicide pill. Enid Blyton rampage!!!

But what about those ruby slippers?

So this is how Mia Goth spends her summer vacation between „X“ and „Maxxxine“…

I love the Smiths and I love David Fincher. However, the union of the two does not set it off for me.
It’s not overdone.
Even though it’s done a lot.
And repetitively.
Yet, never quite on point.
But is it supposed to be?
Is it meant as a cinematic device?
Appreciation? 
Or just to display a personal affection?
Where do his intentions lay?
Or does he even have any?

Bryan Cranston is killing it as Zordon. Even though rushing a bit through the origin story and adding small incongruences here and there (Rita as a Green Ranger? Goldar as Lord Zedd? Come on!). His education style is way more straightforward and demanding than the laisser-faire-attitude of Robert Managan. Also, the pixelated wall animation and the jumping from one ranger to the other works well for me. Walter White training the hellfire club. It’s Morphin time 🤖⚡️🦾

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An innovative and beautiful animation (new york!), an authentic reinterpretation of the young turtles as teeny teens of today (all four of them!!) and a very respectful transformation of the original show’s spirit in of humour, politics and popular culture (april!!!).

I cannot wait for the sequel and the shredhead 👨🏻‍🚒

The soundtrack tops every LOTR-adaptation with instant classics such as „Frodo of the nine fingers“,„Where there’s a whip, there’s a way“, „The bearer of the ring, the wearer of the ring“ and „On a white ship will I sail“. Thank you Rankin/Bass, Maury Laws and Glen Yarbrough as the minstrel of Gondor!

75 minutes for the whole thing yet way more in the spirit of the novel than Peter Jackson‘s 532 minute cash up.

Beau is afraid I am afraid you are afraid we are afraid everybody is… fucking scared like HELL!!!

There is no way a Shinkansen train speeds off at Kyoto station, accommodates a whole end boss fight and then crashes into Yasaka-dori like its hundreds of miles away. More time-wise incongruences pls 🙏

Mac is my favorite! First of all, she is not overweight in any sense of the word. Second, who runs off to the field to eat raw potatoes? Third, how come her best friends expect her to randomly disappear without telling anyone, play hide and seek on her own and then they don’t even look for her???

The first adaptation of Faulkner‘s “Sanctuary” that did not transvert the novel’s gritty plot into a sugarcoated Stockholm syndrome love story!

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Watched on Friday June 10, 2022.

This cartoon brings my 90s toy box to life, including every ride, doll and the complete zoo! „I always wanted to press all the buttons at once!“ (Mikey in the Batmobile)

Sartre would have been proud.
King certainly was.
Lovecraft still has further remarks on the CGI-effects…

It is absolutely impossible to adapt Hesse’s magniloquence to the screen. Props for trying though! In some rare cases the source is so good that even the attempt of an adaptation makes you happy just by evoking pleasant memories of the original. I somehow feel relieved.

As a Pattinson-fan from the very start, I find the title of the film rather misleading 🤷🏼‍♂️

I feel like I have just been chased from Midtown Manhattan down to the Lower Eastside just for sneaking into the Boom Boom Room for the Weeknd. My palms are sweaty, my heartbeat is at 200 and my eyes have this nervous flickering I sometimes get when the heat dies down. Yet, as L'amours Toujours (of all songs!!!) is fading into this menacing rumbling and I return to the netflix-menu, all I want to do is press "watch again" and go for a second round on this rollercoaster. Thank you Safdies!

I wish it was like Marty McFly
I would go back in time
Face the doubts in my head
And beat the shit out of my mind

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After Mad Max and Walkabout, I'm starting to believe that it's really not a good idea to have a picnic in the Australian Outback...

Always makes a great horror movie when the outback itself turns out to be the villain.

Watched on Saturday September 7, 2019.

• Suspiria
• Suspiria
• Climax
• Black Swan
• Dirty Dancing
• Grease
• Footloose
• Flashdance
• Step Up
• Honey

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

• Nosferatu
• The Three Investigators and The Carpathian Dog
• A Complete Unknown
• So Long, Marianne
• Sinners
• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Companion
• The Brutalist
• Queer

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

Skandinavian Cinema

• Songs from the Second Floor
• The Man Without a Past
• Autumn Sonata
• The Idiots
• The Celebration
• Flickering Lights
• In China They Eat Dogs
• Kitchen Stories
• Play
• Pusher

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All animated full length films of the rebellious gaul and his friends Obelix and Idefix.

• Asterix the Gaul
• Asterix and Cleopatra
• The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
• Asterix vs. Caesar
• Asterix and the Big Fight
• Asterix in Britain
• Asterix Conquers America
• Asterix and the Vikings
• Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
• Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion

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

• Daisy Town
• Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons
• Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
• Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
• Lucky Luke
• Lucky Luke 2
• Lucky Luke and the Daltons
• Lucky Luke

• Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
• Tintin and the Blue Oranges
• Tintin and the Temple of the Sun
• Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
• The Adventures of Tintin

• From Hell
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Dorian Gray
• Sherlock Holmes
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• 28 Weeks Later
• A Clockwork Orange
• Attack the Block
• Kidulthood
• London

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

• Frankenstein
• Untitled Jordan Peele Film
• Deliver Me from Nowhere
• The Beatles: John
• Dunwich
• Asterix, The Kingdom of Nubia

Films that featured, inspired and were inspired by the clown prince of crime.

• The Man Who Laughs
• The Laughing Woman
• The King of Comedy
• Batman
• Batman
• The Dark Knight
• Joker
• Suicide Squad
• Batman: The Killing Joke
• Batman: Under the Red Hood

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

• Necronomicon
• H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones
• The Deep Ones
• Dunwich
• Color Out of Space
• The Color Out of Space
• Colour from the Dark
• The Curse
• Dagon
• Cthulhu

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

Direct and indirect references in Benedict Wells novel (Zürich: Diogenes, 2020)

• Stand by Me
• The Goonies
• The Sandlot
• The Outsiders
• Badlands
• The Breakfast Club
• Dead Poets Society
• American Graffiti
• Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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

Adaptations of the children’s fiction by Alfred Hitchcock, Enid Blyton, Astrid Lindgren, Stefan Wolf, Thomas Brezina and Erich Kästner.

• Four Junior Detectives
• TKKG - The Secret of the Mysterious Mind Machine
• TKKG
• The Three Investigators and The Legacy of the Dragon
• The Three Investigators and The Carpathian Dog
• Die drei ??? – Toteninsel
• The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle
• The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
• The Island of Adventure
• The Castle of Adventure

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Casino
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. Leaving Las Vegas
4. One from the Heart
5. Showgirls
6. The Hangover
7. Ocean's Eleven
8. Honeymoon in Vegas
9. 21
10. Last Vegas

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

• Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
• Jim Button and the Wild 13
• Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
• Augsburger Puppenkiste - Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13
• The NeverEnding Story
• The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
• The NeverEnding Story III
• The Wizard of Oz
• Return to Oz
• Oz the Great and Powerful

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Maps to the Stars
• MaXXXine
• The Neon Demon
• La La Land
• L.A. Story
• Inherent Vice
• To Live and Die in L.A.
• L.A. Confidential
• Heat
• Escape from L.A.

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

• The Pillars of the Earth
• World Without End
• Die Pfeiler der Macht
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• The Act
• The Shrink Next Door
• Zack Snyder's Justice League
• Shōgun
• Too Old to Die Young

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

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• Fantastic Planet
• The Iron Giant
• Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
• Titan A.E.
• Watership Down
• The Plague Dogs
• Felidae
• A Cat in Paris
• Fritz the Cat
• The Secret of NIMH

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

• Cherry Blossoms
• In the Realm of the Senses
• House
• Ran
• Empire of the Sun
• The Last Samurai
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• Bullet Train
• The Wolverine

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

• Magnolia
• Melancholia
• Maps to the Stars
• Wings of Desire
• The Wayward Cloud
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Last Summer
• Far from Heaven
• Magnificent Obsession
• The Cathedral

• Nosferatu
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• Nosferatu in Venice
• Nosferatu
• Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
• Shadow of the Vampire
• Mimesis: Nosferatu
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter
• Dracula
• Dracula

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

Sound yes. Color no. Shudder absolutely.

• Dracula
• Frankenstein
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• King Kong
• The Mummy
• White Zombie
• Island of Lost Souls
• The Wolf Man
• Cat People
• The Uninvited

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My very first list on Letterboxd! Updated 16.1.25. RIP ❤️

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

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

Feature films and modern adaptations

• Horton Hears a Who!
• The Lorax
• The Grinch
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• The Cat in the Hat
• In Search of Dr. Seuss

Full length features and pilots ranked by impact

• Pippi Longstocking
• Emil i Lönneberga
• Karlsson on the Roof
• Kalle Blomkvist Lives Dangerously
• Mio in the Land of Faraway
• Ronja Rövardotter
• The Brothers Lionheart
• Rasmus and the Vagabond
• Life on Seacrow Island
• The Children of Noisy Village

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

The sometimes confusing and time-jumbling multi-verse of Astrid Lindgren’s Kalle and Rasmus adaptations. Spanning over several decades, directors and actor generations. Please read my reviews, comment and add! In a chronological order that could make sense, if paradise-oskar got divorced, turned professor and moved to Lilleköping:
(Title, year, director, actor)

1. Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist, 1947, Rolf Husberg, Olle Johansson

2. Mästerdetektiven lever farligt, 1957, 
Olle Hellbom, Sven Almgren

3. Kalle Blomquist lives dangerously, 1996, 
Göran Carmback, Malte Forsberg

4.  Luffaren och Rasmus, 1955, Rolf Husberg, Eskil Dalenius, Sven Almgren

5. Rasmus and the Vagabond, 1981, Olle Hellbom, Erik Lindgren

6. Mästerdetektiven och Rasmus, 1953, Rolf Husberg, Eskil Dalenius

7. Kalle Blomquist and Rasmus, 1997, Göran armback, Malte Forsberg

8. Rasmus, Pontus och Toker, 1956, Stig Olin, Eskil Dalenius, Sven Almgren

9. Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr, 1966, Etienne Glaser, Rolf Lindefors

There are three more adaptions of the original Kalle-series that are not listed on Letterboxd:

10. Podezrelé prázdniny, 1971, Ludvík Ráža

11. Priklyucheniya Kalle-syschika, 1976, Arūnas Žebriūnas

12. Ohrožené prázdniny, 1990, Libuše Koutná

• Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist
• The Master Detective and Rasmus
• The Master Detective Lives Dangerously
• Rasmus, Pontus and Toker
• Rasmus and the Vagabond
• Rasmus and the Vagabond
• Kalle Blomkvist Lives Dangerously
• Kalle Blomkvist and Rasmus
• Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr
• Rasmus and the Tramp

• Peter Pan
• Jungle Book
• Ronja Rövardotter
• Lord of the Flies
• The Blue Lagoon

24 best/most anticipated films in 2024 ranked

• The Substance
• MaXXXine
• Fallen Leaves
• The Zone of Interest
• Kinds of Kindness
• Juror #2
• The Apprentice
• Civil War
• Megalopolis
• Wolfs

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

Films I watched when I was too old to go to bed early, but too young to go out.

• Wambo
• A Girl Called Rosemarie
• Opernball
• It Happened in Broad Daylight
• Late Show
• Rossini
• The Devil and Ms. D
• Der Campus
• Schwabenkinder
• Christiane F.

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

• The Endless Summer
• Riding Giants
• Bra Boys
• Step Into Liquid
• Big Wednesday
• The Last Wave
• Chasing Mavericks
• Point Break
• Local Boys
• Surfer, Dude

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

1. Nosferatu
2. Only Lovers Left Alive
3. Immortality
4. Interview with the Vampire
5. Salem's Lot
6. From Dusk Till Dawn
7. What We Do in the Shadows
8. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
9. The Lost Boys
10. 30 Days of Night

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Elvis
• Elvis
• Elvis
• Elvis & Nixon
• Elvis and Me
• Priscilla
• Elvis
• Elvis Has Left the Building
• 3000 Miles to Graceland
• Graceland

• Batman
• Spider-Man
• Superman
• Captain America
• The Incredible Hulk
• Swamp Thing
• RoboCop
• Condorman
• Flash Gordon
• Masters of the Universe

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

1. Borgman
2. The Invitation
3. Parasite
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. The Shining
6. Hereditary
7. Funny Games
8. Get Out
9. The Room
10. Hellraiser

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Midsommar
• Get Out
• X
• Don't Look Now
• Suspiria
• Nightmare Alley
• The Witch
• mother!
• Titane

Dinner is served 🥩

• The Silence of the Lambs
• Hannibal
• Red Dragon
• Hannibal Rising
• Manhunter
• Cannibal Holocaust
• Eaten Alive!
• Africa Screams
• The Green Inferno
• Raw

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Thing
• Videodrome
• Alien
• The Toxic Avenger
• Street Trash
• Society
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man
• Hellraiser
• Freaks
• The Fly

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

Top 20 + experiments

1. Control
2. England Is Mine
3. 24 Hour Party People
4. I'm Not There
5. Velvet Goldmine
6. The Doors
7. The Dirt
8. Sid and Nancy
9. Last Days
10. Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive!

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Fisher King
• 25th Hour
• Synecdoche, New York
• After Hours
• The Basketball Diaries
• Daddy Longlegs
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
• Oliver & Company
• Great Expectations
• Brooklyn

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

• Mulholland Drive
• Babylon
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• La La Land
• The Substance
• The Neon Demon
• MaXXXine
• Maps to the Stars
• A Star Is Born

• Don't Look Now
• The Comfort of Strangers
• Death in Venice
• Britten: Death in Venice
• The Merchant of Venice
• Othello
• Casanova
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The English Patient
• The Tourist

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

Batman full-length features in chronological order of narration. Feel free to add, rearrange or discuss in comments 🦇

• Batman: Year One
• Batman: Gotham Knight
• Batman: Assault on Arkham
• The Batman vs. Dracula
• Batman: The Killing Joke
• Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
• Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two
• Batman: Soul of the Dragon
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
• Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

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

• Triangle of Sadness
• Old
• Infinity Pool
• Us
• Funny Games
• Fantasy Island
• Midsommar
• The Wicker Man
• Don't Look Now
• The Comfort of Strangers

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

• mid90s
• Skate Kitchen
• Kids
• Ken Park
• Paranoid Park
• Grind
• Street Dreams
• Minding the Gap
• We Are Blood
• Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)

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

• Lawrence of Arabia
• Paris, Texas
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood
• Dune
• Mad Max 2
• Walkabout
• Thelma & Louise
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Rubber

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

• Onegin
• Doctor Zhivago
• Anna Karenina
• War and Peace
• Crime and Punishment
• Come and See
• Stalker
• Burnt by the Sun

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• Star Wars
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Back to the Future
• Batman
• Titanic
• Apocalypse Now
• Barry Lyndon
• Waterworld
• Braveheart
• Australia

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

• The Idiots
• Melancholia
• Antichrist
• The House That Jack Built
• Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
• Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
• Dogville
• Manderlay
• Breaking the Waves
• Dancer in the Dark

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

• Finding Neverland
• Goodbye Christopher Robin
• Howl
• Rebel in the Rye
• Tolkien
• The Man Who Invented Christmas
• Wilde
• Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman
• Becoming Astrid
• Enid

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

• Apocalypse Now
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Twelve Monkeys
• 28 Days Later
• Contagion
• Waterworld
• Escape from New York
• Planet of the Apes
• The Book of Eli
• Time of the Wolf

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

ranked best to worst

• Star Wars
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Return of the Jedi
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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