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Night Moves immediately enters the “God the 70’s must’ve been so gross and sweaty” hall of fame. The stink of that throuple love shack in the keys must’ve been otherworldly. Hell they couldn’t even hide Gene’s sweaty pits during one scene not to mention the swampy mess those corduroy bell bottom skin tight pants must’ve become after like 3 minutes of driving in a car with no a/c. Don’t even get me started with the cigarette smoking lord have mercy. 

I will say, no one has ever pulled off a pair of Florida Jorts more spectacularly than Tom Iverson does in this film. I mean, hemmed jorts no shirt and the leather skin is next level. Just obsessed with the fashion in this film. 

It’s a tragedy Lee Marvin doesn’t play the throwaway side character Marv with the atrocious laugh. He deserved the death that came to him for the laugh alone tbh.

Did Bethany actually do anything? Justice for the real hero of the film, Silent Bob, for his faithful wordless defense of the Almighty Her. 

I am now a confirmed Catholic. No questions please.

Ugh I can’t believe that home-wrecking bitch Alice wins after all the shit she put Irena through. Like Oliver and Irena probably would’ve been fine in their asexual non-kissing relationship if not for her teary eyed water cooler emotional manipulation. 

Not to victim blame Irena, but wtf was this loser Oliver Reed doing casually at the Zoo alone when they first met? Dude is just cruising the zoo looking to pick up chicks after work? And then all it took was literally getting married to this zoo chick for him to realize he was deeply in love with his all too available coworker? Alice and Oliver should be imprisoned for the psychic torture they imposed on Irena negligently leading to her death.

How on earth did room sized computers work. They ran on paper? And giant tape? 

Watching this movie feels like ing a conversation at a cocktail party between a good friend and someone you don’t know at all. And then neither really acknowledge that you’ve ed but you’re stuck standing there hoping they change the subject but then they don’t and you don’t have anything to add so you just keep watching them converse like an awkwardly direct peeping tom waiting for it to all come to an end.

I hate to nitpick but the characters travel between Texas and Helsinki faster than I travel to a happy hour bar on a summer Friday.  

I think it’s kind of wild that this movie universe moves on from the nuclear annihilation of at least 100,000 US citizens and (2) NFL franchises via montage of diplomatic peace treaties and extrajudicial international assassinations. And maybe it’s an even bigger problem that I can’t tell if said montage is satire or a genuine attempt at cinematic patriotism?

The sexual tension in my theater hit peak palpability at Michael Cera’s turn into full Dimes Square Sleaze Boy, complete with the cigarette, ironic (but maybe not?) Only style jacket, and pedo-stache X wild hair combo. 

Every Wes film feels like such a lil treat. Something fun and comfortable but effortful if you want it to be. I’m not sure I’ll feel the need to come back to this one in the same way as previous entries but I’m happy it exists.

God Bless these bones.

Will someone please for the love of god explain to me how throwing wads of cash at a bookie works. How do they know who bet what? How do you follow up if you win? Are they setting live odds? I don’t think anyone alive today has ever participated in betting in that fashion. 

Screenwriting in the 80’s must’ve been a real trip. This movie is based on a Stephen King novel and yet there is still a mountain of world building meat left on the bone. Arnold and team killed 5 TV stars and the host of the most popular television show live on air and then just walked out of the building all in a good days work. You’re telling me the regime isn’t coming for them?

Edit: This Jesse Ventura was the governor of Minnesota????????

God this was one of the most tedious watches I’ve ever undertaken. The steady flow of boring platonic aphorisms brought me to my knees. 

I’m certain 1/3 of the words in this script were just other characters saying Jack. I don’t think my name has been spoken aloud in my entire lifetime as many times as Jack’s was here. 

But low key the Lord of Darkness kinda fucks. Tom Cruise as Mega-Cuck wasn’t what I was expecting out of this film.

Incredibly stirring beginning to end. Truly makes one Proud to be an American ™️. The delineation between the good and the bad faith actors is so stark in retrospect, and this series makes it crystal clear just how poorly modern day bad actors trying to destroy and strip the land that belongs to everyone for personal profit will be ed.

Is Bruce Willis’ execution of the orange sheer shirt the best ever seen on screen? Has anyone pulled a fit off harder? He’s got me wanting to convert my whole wardrobe into sheer shirts.

Rebecca plz just pick a side already.

A random goon is disposed of in what has to be the most painful way to go in this film; Tossed over a handrail back first on to the escalator steps. Just the thought of going out like that makes me wince.

CUT THE CHATTER RED 4 WE KNOW ITS FUCKIN BIG ITS CALLED THE DEATH STAR FOR GODS SAKE

CZJ forging that signature and getting the tingle down her spine is as real of cinema as you’ll ever get. 

Where do we think Rusty has her name tattooed? Has tattoo removal technology come far enough to make any location of tattoo removable?

I’m certain we live in the wrong timeline because Jared Leto hasn’t self financed a reboot of this film staring himself as Jesus.

For some reason I just can’t abide Josh Hartnett in anything ever.

Tom Cruise reaches his career peak acting performance precisely when he’s wearing the shroud and asking to see Max in this film. No questions.

Absolute Nirvana for the Timmy-Daggerwielding-Trebuchet-Sexual crowd of which I count myself.

Ahh 1998, the days when cell phones were ubiquitous enough to be used as plot devices but just too darn expensive for burners to be viable. 

All of the spy movie tropes land so hard here without as much of a wink that it almost feels like the origin document for them. Unexplained McGuffin briefcase, shoehorned love interest, Russian gangsters with some of the gooniest looking goons imaginable.  The only major oversight is a young upstart Interpol agent in way over their head dumping exposition on us. 

The on screen collateral damage caused by a few minor goons over the chasing of this briefcase would be enough to cripple the international world order as we know it.

Is this what it took to get gambling into professional sports? Casual murder on both sides the likes of which haven’t been seen since the Wild West. 

Was professional football actually played on Friday nights way back when or was that just the best parody MNF song they could come up with?

I’ve definitely seen this before but recall absolutely nothing about the plot. Retire Roger Moore.

Most solidly three star films in my book are usually characterized by a slow start with a banging finish. This movie is the first I can think of with an out of this world first half followed by the sleepiest doesn’t go anywhere second half of all time. 

The cop response to the shooting is the funniest cops fuck it up scene that results in the pretty gruesome death of three officers.

There has been a lot of hay made about certain opening crawl sequences but somehow, “heroes on both sides” has eluded me until this in theater viewing. Who exactly are the separatist heroes? 

Is there a movie where the roof of an actors mouth gets more up close screen time than Ian Mcdiarmid’s in this? It’s like 30+ seconds of up close in your face roof of mouth scene as he begs Mace to spare him.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this on the big screen for the first time since I was 10. But it sort of confounds me that they couldn’t figure out a way to get attack of the clones in first? Is it that important that the re-releases fall on certain anniversaries? We got phantom menace last year for it’s 25th and then we’re skipping right over Attack of the Clones for this one’s 20th?

Even as a beautiful corpse ole Donny Sutherland was the best to ever do it. RIP King.

Everyone should abandon their families and try to cross the Pacific via balsa wood raft with their bros at least once. 

I couldn’t resist a 10pm Metrograph rep screening of the Final Cut and it totally brought the juice. I fell asleep twice in the middle third of the movie but the most important revelation was the brain melting Vangelis score playing loud and proud like it was meant to be heard.

👁️👄👁️ < me listening to those juicy saxy synth chords. 

This screening in particular was programmed by some fine folks showing a series of the concept artist Syd Mead’s works at a gallery in New York. Syd famously produced concept art for Blade Runner which they showed prior to the screening. As amazing as the movie is it unfortunately doesn’t hold a candle to Syd’s concept art.

After much reflection and a run of CoBro flicks this one feels like it illuminates them the most for me. Joel brings the deeply cynical “through it all, we cut the hair” energy to the movies whereas Ethan brings the trademark zany-ness. You can’t have one without the other but it’s become a lot more obvious to me who is driving the ship movie to movie.

Minus a full star for the daughter’s gymnastic routine kicking of the raptor off the building. 

The weapons grade level of incompetence InGen brings to the table is a sight to behold. Why is my Brother in Christ listening to mariachi music on his apparently noise cancelling headphones during an expedition on an island FULL OF MURDEROUS DINOSAURS.

“Is it all worth it? It is when it works”

So much of this works and so much of it doesn’t. A glorious exercise in absurdity.

Chirrut popping a post ass-whooping squat on a dead storm troopers body might be the hardest moment in Star Wars history. 

My body is ready for Andor Season 2. The hype has never been more real.

Would that it were, so simple. 

My heart kinda broke for Gawain tbh.

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Pappy O’Daniel, Rock & Roll Governor? 

Has a character ever transcended the actor playing the roll more completely than Vernon T. Waldrip? I’d give all the money in my wallet to someone who could name the actor without looking it up.

I sort of wished it ended with the battleship blasting away Christian Bale’s hotel bedroom. Lord knows they deserved it.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than a dance hall full of lonely men hiring women to waltz with them to hula music.

Far from me to comment on the specific ups and downs of Guy’s directorial career, but after watching a couple of these back to back it baffles me how he moves so easily between snappy criss cross villain flicks to preachy self indulgent bullshit like this. Not to mention how awful the American actors are here. RIP ray but lord that sucked.

The erotic tension between Doc Holliday and Ringo is enough to set your pants on fire. Think of the life they could’ve lived together if they put the machismo aside. 

I want to hangout in the Oriental Saloon so badly. That late 18th century parlour vibe in the pouring rain with the windows open had to be so damn cozy.

Minus a half star because my mustache envy is just too much. I couldn’t dream of growing a mustache even half as glorious as the worst one in this film.

Ancient playboy mags so good you get all your buddies to come over so you niece can read them out loud.

Even all the way back in 1998 Quigon was careful not to misgender Darth Maul before he was absolutely certain. If he can do it so can you.

On this rewatch the tone felt all over the place. Four years removed and the ego death of Marvel behind us makes me think there were some competing forces on the creative side. One camp wanting more quippy lines and the other trying desperately to beat back the corporate forces and keep it in the James Bond lane. 

Bond and Ana De Armas literally stop in the midst of a shoot out while their mark is escaping and take drink like it’s a transition sequence of a broadway style dance musical. Did the audience need that?

If ever there comes a day where smell-o-vision becomes a truly viable technology, I will be first in line for the Days of Thunder remastered smell-o-release. The nostalgic draw of cigarettes, gasoline, and stale beer would simply be too much.  

If ever I suffer a traumatic brain injury I’m sure I too would be casually shredding some Saturday afternoon solo games of pool in my man cave while my sobbing wife tends to our thirteen children.

Pretty sure Mutt combs his hair with a comb dipped in a 50’s Jock Coke, which at first seemed pretty gross to me, but after further reflection probably worked pretty well as a gel stand in. Not to mention the slight scent of cola follow you around which is probably preferable to grease?

The line “And Robert’s your father’s Brother” has been on repeat in my brain since I watched this last week. God did Guy Ritchie have the juice from the jump.

Ugh yes Steven inject a tight 90 minute spy procedural directly into my veins. I’m not really sure how that high orbit satellite got such a low angle on the bench but I don’t even care. 

What exactly was going on with lighting though? How many people did that choice have to get past before casually burning my retinas in the theater?

The goofy escaping always gets me. Back in the day when everything wasn’t so serious the Nazis were just like “oh those darn children are protecting him! We’ll get him next time.” And then they actually did!

It should be a crime for a movie that looks and feels like it was made for tv to have such a banging poster. I wish I could’ve seen the movie the person who made this poster saw.

The mortal combat style street performer robot fight is peak 2004 cinema. Imagine flying to Europe without overnight accommodations of any kind??

I didn’t realize the all-time Matt Damon cameo performance happens in the first 10 minutes of this movie. Probably should’ve just stopped there.

I’m here to tell all the horny people above that twins exists.  

Complaining about this movie being “on the nose” feels like a pretty dead giveaway that you might not be a real Bong Head, and that’s okay! I welcome you with open arms to Bong-dom!

I’m not sure there’s a worse way to approach a famous person you don’t know than by telling them they broke your heart as they dine in a cafe. I truly can’t imagine rehearsing such a thought and then expecting it to go well upon delivery.

From The New Yorkers Instagram Page:

As part of The New Yorker's ongoing centenary celebration, Richard Brody shares his favorite movies about New York-One for each decade since the magazine's founding." I’ve deliberately avoided the modern classics" and the "familiar titles" Brody writes.

Instead, he picks lesser-known films: dramas shot on location in fervent detail; a comedy set in a gin-and-whipped cream New York that existed only in movies; one documentary that delves deep into private lives and public activism in a single neighborhood, and more. "They capture New York states of mind," he writes, "of which there are far more than there are NEW YORK residents.

• A Thousand and One
• Margaret
• Down with Love
• What About Me
• News from Home
• Summer in the City
• The Wrong Man
• The Clock
• That Uncertain Feeling
• Me and My Gal

• Island of Lost Souls
• Forbidden Planet
• The Blob
• Zardoz
• THX 1138
• Rollerball
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Barbarella
• Werewolf of London

As Sacramento and The Ballad of Wallis Island release in the cool world of theaters, this Showdown is all about location, location, location. If you 🎹 wanna be a part of it 🎹, make your own atlas by listing your ten favorite films named after a landmark, a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country, even a continent. One rule: it must be a specific place. This means no No Country for Old Men, no Nomadland, no North by Northwest. Also, while there are scores of stories titled after spots in filmmaking hubs like Los Angeles and New York, we encourage you to go more global! If you need a road map, explore these lists by Energetic_nova, HDorrittie and Logan (though keep in mind that not everything in these lists are eligible—looking at you, Dune).

• Nashville
• Chinatown
• Sahara
• Tombstone
• Crossing Delancey
• Midnight in Paris
• Belfast
• Key Largo
• Blue Hawaii
• Bridge of Spies

My personal rankings of movies with wide releases in 2025.

• The Monkey

• Interview with the Vampire
• Clerks
• Léon: The Professional
• Quiz Show
• Ed Wood
• The Mask
• Shallow Grave
• New Nightmare
• Natural Born Killers
• Legends of the Fall

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

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Challengers
3. Nosferatu
4. Sing Sing
5. Kinds of Kindness
6. Conclave
7. Alien: Romulus
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. The Order
10. The Brutalist

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of short films shortlisted for the 9th Oscar awards.

1-15 are the for category Documentary Short Film
16-30 are for the category Animated Short Film
31-45 are for the category Live Action Short Film

Each sorted in alphabetical order.

1. Chasing Roo
2. Death by Numbers
3. Eternal Father
4. I Am Ready, Warden
5. Incident
6. Instruments of a Beating Heart
7. Keeper
8. Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World
9. Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
10. The Only Girl in the Orchestra

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A fluid list of my favorite first time watches during 2024. Movies released in 2024 are not eligible for inclusion.

1. Sorcerer
2. Michael Clayton
3. Miller's Crossing
4. sex, lies, and videotape
5. The Candidate
6. Swingers
7. First Man
8. Mississippi Burning
9. The Insider
10. Network

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

• The Mummy
• National Treasure
• Fool's Gold

Movies releasing in 2024 I'm hoping to see in theaters.

• Dune: Part Two
• The Bikeriders
• Nosferatu
• Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire
• Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
• Civil War
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
• Twisters
• Alien: Romulus

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

1. Alien
2. Prometheus
3. Alien: Romulus
4. Alien: Covenant
5. Aliens
6. Alien³
7. Alien Resurrection

The River is our mightiest metaphor, may it continue to bless the silver screen with its mystical storytelling powers.

• Apocalypse Now
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• The Mosquito Coast
• The African Queen
• Death on the Nile
• Deliverance
• Anaconda
• Sorcerer

Inspired by the NYT best 100 Books of the 21st Century (so far) I filtered out the Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative features to create a list of the best movies of this century, including 2000, as decided on by the film lovers of Letterboxd. I continued down the average rating line by decade to fill out the list to 100, ignoring the same types of films as the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films List.

The list is ranked and sorted by average rating, highest to lowest.

Last Updated July 12, 2024

Honorable Mentions:
101. Short Term 12
102. Hundreds of Beavers
103. Paddington 2
104. Get Out
105. Amores Perros
106. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
107. Black Swan
108. Anatomy of a Fall

1. Parasite
2. Yi Yi
3. City of God
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
5. The Dark Knight
6. Dune: Part Two
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Spirited Away
9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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

A list of movies that are a visual feast for the eyes and the plot is irrelevant. The proverbial coffee table books of cinema for the patrons of my future drinking establishment.

• Barbarella
• Flash Gordon
• Fantastic Voyage
• Planet of the Apes
• The Party
• The Fifth Element
• Forbidden Planet
• Zardoz
• Danger: Diabolik

Fourth annual "The Criterion Challenge"

There are 52 categories. The goal is to watch any Criterion released film based on the categories below between 1/1/24-12/31/24.

Films must be released by Criterion on 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, VHS, Laserdisc, or been featured on The Criterion Channel streaming service.

Categories:
1. Spine #351-450
2. Spine #601-700
3. Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher
4. First film in your watchlist
5. Most recently added film in your watchlist
6. Longest runtime in your watchlist
7. Most popular film in your watchlist
8. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
9. Criterion Staff Picks
10. New York Film Festival Favorites
11. Watch a film in the Saturday Matinee series "Observations on Film Art"
12. First Films - watch a directorial debut
13. Virtually Reality
14. Random Number Generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
15. Technicolor
16. Women Auteurs
17. Criterion Sight and Sound
18. Dreaming of a Holiday Movie Marathon
19. Watch a Netflix Original released by Criterion
20. 100 Years of Olympic Films
21. LGBTQ+
22. Directed by Luis Buñuel
23. Directed by Mai Zetterling
24. Starring Liv Ullmann
25. Italian Neorealism
26. Hong Kong Cinema
27. Made in Brazil
28. Ari Aster’s Closet Picks
29. Yo La Tengo’s Closet Picks
30. Charlie Day’s Closet Picks
31. Michael Shannon’s Closet Picks
32. Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10
33. Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10
34. Alan Arkin’s Top 10
35. Tunde Adebimpe’s Top 10
36. Genre: Made for TV
37. Genre: Family
38. Genre: Animation
39. Genre: History
40. Guillermo del Toro’s Twitter Film recommendations
41. 1920s
42. 1930s
43. 1940s
44. 1950s
45. 1960s
46. 1970s
47. 1980s
48. 1990s
49. 2000s
50. 2010s
51. 2020s
52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist

Helpful Links:
The Complete Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection by Spine Number
Every Film Available on The Criterion Channel

Started:
Completed:

1. Green for Danger

   Spine #351-450

2. The Gold Rush

   Spine #601-700

3. Do the Right Thing

   Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher

4. Time Bandits

   First film in your watchlist

5. The Power of the Dog

   Most recently added film in your watchlist

6. Seven Samurai

   Longest runtime in your watchlist

7. Mulholland Drive

   Most popular film in your watchlist

8. The Housemaid

   Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project

9. House of Games

   Criterion Staff Picks

10. Paris, Texas

    New York Film Festival Favorites

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

• American Fiction
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favorites of the year. Not necessarily the best but certainly the movies I keep telling everyone they have to see.

1. Past Lives
2. Infinity Pool
3. The Holdovers
4. John Wick: Chapter 4
5. Saltburn
6. Inside
7. Theater Camp
8. Beyond Utopia
9. Oppenheimer
10. The Killer

• Oppenheimer
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Holdovers
• Past Lives
• American Fiction
• The Boy and the Heron
• Barbie
• May December
• The Killer
• Asteroid City

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Zone of Interest
• The Creator
• Dune: Part Two
• Poor Things
• Priscilla
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Bikeriders
• The Boy and the Heron
• May December
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter

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

If you long for lazy summer afternoons and have the time to melt into the couch you’ve come to the right place. Feel the nostalgia of the simpler times when you had to watch a movie across 6 to 7

• A Time to Kill
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• A Few Good Men
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Forrest Gump
• The Green Mile
• Stand by Me

My fav sciencey films for Letterboxd’s Science showdown

• Island of Lost Souls
• Colossus: The Forbin Project
• The Prestige
• Jurassic Park
• Primer
• Flubber
• The Imitation Game
• The Martian
• Arrival
• Don't Look Up

Started: 4/22/2023

Progress: 12/52

Categories:

1. Random Number Generator: Criterion Spine #136
2. Made in Belgium
3. Made in Taiwan
4. Made in Canada
5. Made in Portugal
6. Animals in the Collection
7. Films To Fall Asleep To
8. Black Music Films
9. Black Lives Collection
10. Heartbreak Heaven: Films to Watch When You’re Questioning Love (and Heartbreak Heaven: Films to Watch When You’re Questioning Love, Part II for more options)
11. Criterion Double Features - Film #1
12. Criterion Double Features - Film #2
13. Danny Peary’s “Guide for the Film Fanatic”
14. Sundance Hits
15. Early Women Filmmakers
16. Independent American Cinema
17. Dysfunctional Families
18. Food on Film
19. Faith on Film
20. Tearjerkers
21. British Realism
22. Wilco’s Closet Picks
23. Gaspar Noé’s Closet Picks
24. Alicia Malone’s Closet Picks
25. Laurie Anderson’s Closet Picks
26. Bong Joon-ho’s Top 10
27. Sonic Youth’s Top 10
28. Jane Campion’s Top 10
29. Allison Anders’s Top 10
30. Directed by Carl Dreyer
31. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles
32. Directed by Marlon Riggs
33. Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
34. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai
35. Genre: Fantasy
36. Genre: Action/Adventure
37. Genre: Crime
38. Spine #201-350
39. Spine #800-950
40. Watch a film with a rating 3.0 or lower
41. 1920s
42. 1930s
43. 1940s
44. 1950s
45. 1960s
46. 1970s
47. 1980s
48. 1990s
49. 2000s
50. 2010s
51. 2020s
52. Any Criterion film on your watchlist
 

1. Spellbound

   1. RNG Criterion Spine #136

2. La Promesse

   2. Made in Belgium

3. Dragon Inn

   3. Made in Taiwan

4. Videodrome

   4. Made in Canada

5. Ossos

   5. Made in Portugal

6. Okja

   6. Animals in the Collection

7. The Inland Sea

   7. Films To Fall Asleep To

8. Space Is the Place

   8. Black Music Films

9. Shaft

   9. Black Lives Collection

10. Chungking Express

    10. Heartbreak Heaven: Films to Watch When You’re Questioning Love

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

A comprehensive list of all the feature films and shorts nominated for the 95th Academy Awards. Notes for each Film include a list of nominations.

List is sorted by total number of nominations.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once

   1. Best Picture
   2. Best Director, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
   3. Best Actress, Michelle Yeoh
   4. Best ing Actress, Jamie Lee Curtis
   5. Best ing Actress, Stephanie Hsu
   6. Best ing Actor, Ke Huy Quan
   7. Editing
   8. Original Song, “This Is a Life"
   9. Costume Design
   10. Original Score
   11. Original Screenplay

2. All Quiet on the Western Front

   1. Best Picture
   2. Cinematography
   3. International Feature
   4. Production Design
   5. Visual Effects
   6. Sound
   7. Makeup and Hairstyling
   8. Original Score
   9. Adapted Screenplay

3. The Banshees of Inisherin

   1. Best Picture
   2. Best Director, Martin McDonagh
   3. Best Actor, Colin Farrell
   4. Best ing Actress, Kerry Condon
   5. Best ing Actor, Brendan Gleeson
   6. Best ing Actor, Barry Keoghan
   7. Editing
   8. Original Score
   9. Original Screenplay

4. Elvis

   1. Best Picture
   2. Best Actor, Austin Butler
   3. Cinematography
   4. Production Design
   5. Editing
   6. Sound
   7. Makeup and Hairstyling
   8. Costume Design

5. The Fabelmans

   1. Best Picture
   2. Best Director, Steven Spielberg
   3. Best Actress, Michelle Williams
   4. Best ing Actor, Judd Hirsch
   5. Production Design
   6. Original Score
   7. Original Screenplay

6. TÁR

   1. Best Picture
   2. Best Director, Todd Field
   3. Best Actress, Cate Blanchett
   4. Cinematography
   5. Editing
   6. Original Screenplay

7. Top Gun: Maverick

   1. Best Picture
   2. Editing
   3. Visual Effects
   4. Original Song, “Hold My Hand”
   5. Sound
   6. Adapted Screenplay

8. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

   1. Best ing Actress, Angela Bassett
   2. Visual Effects
   3. Original Song, “Lift Me Up”
   4. Makeup and Hairstyling
   5. Costume Design

9. Avatar: The Way of Water

   1. Best Picture
   2. Production Design
   3. Visual Effects
   4. Sound

10. Babylon

    1. Production Design
    2. Costume Design
    3. Original Score

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies Released in 2022 ranked by Weston from Best to Worst.

1. Nope
2. The Fabelmans
3. Babylon
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. Top Gun: Maverick
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. TÁR
8. Crimes of the Future
9. Empire of Light
10. The Northman

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

Is the mystery genre back at Kenneth Branagh’s long last? Will the era of superhero films be supplanted by the all mighty murder mystery? Or are our pandemic driven cozy inside fears and feelings finally making their way to the big screen? Either way 2022 is all in on the ensemble whodunit.

• Death on the Nile
• The Outfit
• Bodies Bodies Bodies
• See How They Run
• Amsterdam
• Glass Onion
• The Batman
• Vengeance
• Confess, Fletch
• The Pale Blue Eye

*See Title

**Ranked by Quality of Split Face Execution

1. The Ides of March

   The preeminent example

2. Heavy Times
3. Raising Cain
4. Face/Off
5. The Fan
6. Five Minutes of Heaven
7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
8. Warcraft
9. The Prestige

   barely makes the cut but it's my list so i say yes.

• Top Gun
• Airplane!
• Snakes on a Plane
• Non-Stop
• The Aviator
• Red Tails
• American Made
• Catch Me If You Can
• Escape from New York
• Knight and Day

My personal rankings of movies released in 2020. Based on the stated wide release date of each film.

1. Tigertail
2. The Gentlemen
3. The Banker
4. Just Mercy
5. Greyhound
6. The Old Guard
7. Miss Americana
8. An American Pickle
9. Underwater
10. Color Out of Space

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

List Parameters:

A selection of movies who’s primary focus is on works of art or art history. Uses museums broadly as setting. Real Works of Art as characters or objects of importance to the plot. No documentaries, all choices will be narrative feature length, whether fictional or based on true stories. 

Background:

During this global pandemic we’re all a part of I’ve really missed visiting museums locally and on trips. Generally speaking I find the crossover between fictional stories and real world art to be a very entertaining plot device. I find most are accurate to the specific pieces and allow me to learn and dive deeper into something I may not have been aware of prior. Many of these movies also tend to have really great, globetrotting, set pieces which allows me to scratch that travel itch I’ve had but been unable to satisfy lately. 

Always happy to have suggestions and recommendations.

• Woman in Gold
• The Da Vinci Code
• The Monuments Men
• Angels & Demons
• Inferno
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Incognito
• Midnight in Paris
• Trance
• Ocean's Twelve

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