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A great, very well acted, street level look at the seedy underbelly of late 70s/early 80s Atlantic City NJ

Michael Keaton plays a sociopathic wheeler-dealer to perfection here in this McDonald's origin story, resulting in a film that while not entirely historically accurate, is a good showcase of how detrimental ruthlessly capitalistic greed is to the human soul.

A light, charming, funny take on Shakespeare, with good performances and some good jokes, this absolutely did not deserve best picture, but its still kinda great with its nifty set and costume design.

A classic of Hollywood's Golden Age with great performances and a fantastic antinazi message, Casablanca has earned its legend status.

Spike Lee characteristically delivers with this nuanced, sprawling, bold epic, with Denzel Washington giving a 4-dimensional, powerful, human performance as the civil rights icon.

Sebastian Stan succeeds in his difficult and controversial performance as one of America's most divisive political figures of recent memory, with Jeremy Strong and Maria Bakalova proving themselves capable of keeping up with their very competent ing roles. The Apprentice is a surprisingly well thought-out way of tackling the Trump origin story and does a great job of explaining his repugnant vices as being the result of a less than ideal upbringing and terrible influences.

A remarkably charming, funny, heartwarming movie about a true story regarding a clever restaurant concept, Nonnas is saved from being too cliche by its good cast.

Rob Reiner continues his hot streak of adapting the work of Stephen King with this genuinely chilling thriller about how creepy obsessive fans are. Kathy Bates delivers a downright terrifying performance that got her a well earned Oscar. You'll never look at a sledgehammer the same way after this one.

A really well-made, well-acted, well-directed look at childhood and childhood friendship, Rob Reiner crafts an excellent adaptation of the King novella.

Legitimately the best prison movie ever made, Shawshank has pitch perfect pacing, tremendous acting, and is a fantastic adaptation of the Stephen King short story. I am confident in my own masculinity to it that I sobbed.

No way, my childhood. Basic, but funny, with good referential humor. Bib Fortuna being a street phone salesman got me chortling back in 2012 and even today.

yeah it's aggressively bad, but in a good way. Ironically hilarious in an unintentional sense, this is great to rag on with friends.

Looking back, this does not hold up too well. Great visuals, as per usual, but the writing seems like they're cowing to the rabid last jedi critics, and sidelining the nonwhite actors felt way too deliberate. Cowardly move ngl. I liked Billy Dee tho. The performances were actually pretty good given the extremely mid script, but corpo messing around strangled this in its crib.

A cult classic great, Rocky Horror is a lovingly deranged homage to b movie horrors of yesteryear. Tim Curry knocks it out of the park.

Much better on stage. This was made years after the hype for the show died down and it shows. The guy playing Damien carried this and he alone is why this review has two stars. He was genuinely pretty funny.

This got me into DND. Mostly the creatures. Whatever formula they used for this hilarious banger of an action fantasy comedy should be studied. Love me a good Hugh Grant villain role.

"oh, you're stupid" *proceeds to act even stupider* Jones is such a delightfully petty man, but also a great actor. As time goes by, I take comic book seriousness less seriously and start to love camp. This is def camp, with a healthy helping of 90s. Michael Gough was such a trooper for stomaching this and B&R.

Everything about this screams Verhoeven in the best way possible. Schlocky, satirical, very cynical in a superficially cheerful way, and the special effects are great. I love in-your-face morbid satire, and this scratches that itch for me. Clancy Brown is such a great actor.

one of the most out-there, starkly bizarre mainstream scifis of the early 90s, Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger deliver a really fun, kinda hilarious, action packed joyride.

Comedies like this usually just don't do it for me, but something about Sandler and his buddies goofing off and doing dumb shit is a kinda fun vibe. Undemanding, relaxing, joyfully stupid. Some of the jokes are actually pretty decent.

felt like I was high watching this. Funny, if slightly disted. Good acting.

Masters of the Air has the misfortune of living in the shadow of two excellent masterpieces of World War 2 television, but this piece of the brave men in the sky is also a really great show. A gripping depiction of the carnage our flyboys went through and also very well acted, Masters of the Air is a very well made miniseries. It also does tackle the morality of bombing non-military targets in a way that feels natural and compelling. Also, not Rosenthal humming Artie Shaw while in the air being my favorite tv moment of 2024/25. I really want more people to watch this, it's very good. Anthony Boyle is a contender for a favorite actor of mine. Ok, yap over. Just watch this please.

The performances carry this movie. Robbie and Gosling absolutely nail their roles, and the set design(at least for barbie land) is very, very good. I just thought the script needed just a tiny bit of extra work. All in all, I liked it fine, and would watch again for sure.

Really fucking brutal in showing the chaotic insanity of the Pacific Theatre of WW2. Dinosaur kid really shows how actually talented of an actor he is.

The extra newly added relevancy aside(RIP Francis), this does hold up really well. Very good performances from Fiennes, Tucci, Lithgow, Diehz, Rossellini, hell, pretty much everyone brings their A game. A fascinating movie with a fantastic ensemble cast and surprisingly beautiful cinematography.

Juvenile comedy at its worst, Joe Dirt is a crime against nature with an absolutely horrid story.

A respectfully produced, expansive masterpiece that warrants a yearly viewing, Band of Brothers might be the best WW2 cinema made to date. It's also very damn funny with the banter, I love Ron Livingston's and Damien Lewis' chemistry on this. Ross from friends makes a great drill instructor also. It feels extremely authentic and lived in.

watching this with friends to shit on it is a delightful vibe. Roshi gooned so hard he forgot who he was and Bulma mag dumped Goku with an MP5. I hate this movie with a burning ion. Me and my friends cheered when pedo Roshi got his house blown up.

This surreal, vivid, unapologetically itself adaptation of the Burroughs book has Daniel Craig give the most achingly vulnerable, human performance of the past five years.

A delightful, extremely well acted little tale about the beginning of the turbulent romance between the Polish GOAT Chopin and George Sand. Hugh Grant was so fucking good as Chopin, and Judy Davis was superb as well.

This was my introduction to Dragon Ball. Yes, I DO hate myself, if you were wondering. All jokes aside, this is legitimately the worst movie I have ever seen. Actual pure unfiltered ass.

I slept on this for a while and sincerely regret that, because this is really really funny. Great acting, especially from Rachel McAdams.

The most batshit crazy Ghibli I have ever seen. Kinda loved it. Tim Curry is so hammy.

Pointless usage of 9-11 as a plot point/twist ending in a unnecessary way, this film was already melodramatic drivel before that. Pattinson was good though.

Terrifying decades after release, Alien also has great set design, sound, and acting. Truly a classic of science fiction horror.

An inspiring, heartwarming American fable with great performances from Zack Gottsagen and Shia LeBeouf.

Painfully forgettable, but the Reeves charm is still present enough to not make you hate yourself for watching this.

How do you make a Snyder script worse? Get Whedon to butcher it.

A transformers movie with a good script? Yeah, I'm surprised too. It's a good watch, it's funny, the performances are ok enough, I enjoyed it.

if not as good as the prior film in the Nolan Batverse, this is still very competently made superhero cinema, and its always a treat to see a performance from Aiden Gillen. I also liked Batman's wacky VTOL helicopter thing.

One of the few films to make the fabled "perfect oscars sweep" and deservedly so, Demme's horror adaptation of the crime thriller novel classic has great performances across the board and a really eerie vibe. I met the man who played Chilton, Anthony Heald. Couldn't have been a nicer guy.

A good polishing of some old fashioned horror tropes, the first entry in Wan's horror franchise has some decent scares and a good husband and wife team in the form of wellmatched performances from Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson.

An intelligent, witty, very humorous crime caper with a series of good performances, especially from Kevin Kline as an aggressively American antibritish criminal.

A lackluster, aggressively 2000's version of a classic slapstick spy series, this film at least has the agreeable charm of Steve Carrell.

One of the most batshit insane dubs I have ever seen. So offensive, it loops back around to being funny.

"She's a ghost AND a bitch!"

Branagh really captures the comedic, whimsical, charming feel of the original Shakespeare play, and has some great performances, especially from Michael Keaton as the legendarily buffoonish Dogberry.

I was really into this until the caricature asian played by the white dude came on.

A perfect brain turn off movie with robots and big booms. Nothing else to it.

Found footage horror, when done right(which is rare) slaps. This is one of those rarely made, great found footage horror bangers. This film is an anxiously shot, exhilaratingly terrifying masterpiece

This hippy update of the Gospel of Matthew is colorful, subversive, creative, and benefits tremendously from a wonderful performance by Victor Garber as the messiah himself.

the best 20 movies ever made, in my opinion. Might be wrong. I don't care. This is subject to change over time, as I am but a young lad, and there remains many movies to be seen. And some to be reevaluated. Merits for consideration on the list are quality, deep personal connection, enjoyment of the film as entertainment, glazing Willem Dafoe, and a light smidge of rose tinted glasses nostalgia

• At Eternity's Gate
• Amadeus
• The King's Speech
• RoboCop
• Impromptu
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• A Different Man
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Batman

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

My other favorites that could not make the best 20. Nothing else to it. There are just so many damn movies out there bruh

• The Zone of Interest
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• First Reformed
• Children of Men
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Ponyo
• Parasite
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Batman

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