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I have no idea why Jason Statham keeps doing the same movie over and over again.

It's a knock off of both John Wick and Taken series so the only reason you should watch this if you have access to Amazon prime but somehow can't find the four glorious John Wick movies on there.

Still, I can't hate this movie as it gave me some unintentional laughters I wasn't expecting.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

I actually get why this wasn't well received - it's like watching a random hour of Succession in isolation from the rest of the show, but guess what, you've been living in the same hellscape molded into reality by unelected tech oligarchs and their designated presidents that the smartest show on TV already familiarized you with.

To me, Succession and The Boys were the two shows that captured the zeitgeist to perfection. I adored Jesse Armstrong's eerily prescient writing on the show, and I like it here a lot with the tech bros unleashing an AI monster that will bring about the end of the planet on which they don't even have to live... a real life event that will unfold before our eyes not too long from now.

The idea, and the concept is there, but the execution and the pacing feel inevatibly clunky as this film is screaming as if it's tailored for a TV screen.

Overall, don't mind the haters, watch either this film or an episode of Succession and in the misery of human suffering of early 21st century.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

Countdown to Ballerina: John Wick Marathon #4

The greatest accidental action franchise comes to its... close?

3 hours is way too long for this, Keanu should have kept his mouth shut during those exposition scenes and kept on killing bad guys... as opposed to killing acting.

It appears that only box office numbers can actually kill John Wick. The one question keeps boggling my mind after watching so many of these movies back to back is who would win in a fight, John Wick, Ethan Hunt or James Bond? That crossover right there, would be my Avengers...

2023: Year of the Barbenheimer - An Unconventional Ranking

Countdown to Ballerina: John Wick Marathon #3

The final showdown with the Asian guys was too long. Halle Berry has a very inconsequential role not utilized anything more than 'girl power' kicking ass theme.
Other than that, yes I like the John Wick movies. Keep them coming.

2019: The Last Great Movie Year - An Unconventional Ranking

I had just watched Skyfall, and I get that there is a drop off in quality in certain aspects but I genuinely enjoyed this almost as much as I did Skyfall.

My biggest gripe is the cheesy lines given to Lea Seydoux to deliver to force a cheesy Bond-girl relationship in the movie.

2015: Worst Movie Year of the Decade? - An Unconventional Ranking

So, I apparently have the pleasure of seeing the new Wes Anderson movie in the theater before the general American public gets to see it, but that seems to be it for my enjoyment of this movie.

Just when I thought Wes Anderson was going to go in a more emotional and personal direction with Asteroid City, he switches gears and goes all the way cold, impersonal and mechanical with this latest film very much in the vein of The French Dispatch, which also left me stone cold.

At this point Wes Anderson is doubling down on his identity not as the artist with meticulous craftsmanship but as the craftsman with artistic endeavours on the side.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

Wes Anderson - An Unconventional Ranking

Countdown to Ballerina: John Wick Marathon #2

I never expected that I would like these movies this much.

Keanu Reeves using his wooden acting to his advantage with minimal dialogue, shooting silenced bullets first and not even asking questions later.

Such intricate world building for an accidental franchise like this.

A disorienting but solid ending that makes me want to push the play button for the next movie immediately after this is finished.

2017: Call Me By Your Lady Bird - An Unconventional Ranking

Countdown to Ballerina: John Wick Marathon #1

Hollywood's most charming and wooden acting man shooting his way through Russian mobsters in the New York underground.

I didn't think I would be interested in this but, a little mindless action fun doesn't hurt anyone.

2014: The Year of the Birdhood - An Unconventional Ranking

A very intricate and expansive (and expensive) stage adaptation of the iconic black comedy masterpiece of all time.

No one can rival Peter Sellers’s comedic genius, of course — but Steve Coogan holds his own with a charming, committed performance, even taking on Slim Pickens’s role from the film. His take on all four characters is exaggerated and overtly goofy, giving the stage version a distinct, heightened tone that sets it apart.

As with many stage comedies, it runs out of steam past the first hour. I found myself laughing loudly through the first half, then slowly settling into fatigue.

My biggest gripe? It squanders a golden opportunity. In our post-truth, populist-fascist era, this could’ve been a satirical goldmine. A single throwaway Trump line doesn’t cut it.

Light & Magic Inc. - Steven Spielberg Marathon #3

This was the only Spielberg movie from the recent years that I haven't seen. It's clearly a kids movie through and through and I'm usually not a fan of dumbing things down, but somehow I found this delightful with Mark Rylance's charming and eccentric giant roleplay.

The little kid also fit right into this role, too bad she wasn't in anything else after this, it could have been a great find for kids movies.

One step closer to completing the filmography of America's 78 year old wunderkind.

2016: Year of the Movie Nerds - An Unconventional Ranking

Steven Spielberg - An Unconventional Ranking

This is one of those movies that you regard in awe but when it comes down to actually getting into it, it's underwhelming as hell.

I appreciate that authentic quirky movie tone even if it ends up devouring the story of the film. Breadcrumbs leading into Amelie are so visible with every directional choice and staging.

The French Wes Anderson!

I have no idea why I didn't see this grand action-thriller modern classic in the theater when it came out.

The first chase sequence teleports the characters from Istanbul to Adana - about 600 miles in the blink of an eye, but hey if you're not Turkish, this is not going to take you out of the movie.

Javier Bardem adding another mythical villain figure into his cannon as if he's not already mastered the genre with Anton Chigurh.

I have two more to go for Daniel Craig James Bond movies and I'm not looking forward to them as it's supposedly all down hill from here.

2012: The Year the World Did Not End - An Unconventional Ranking

Ultimately a disappointment and a let down in the grand scheme of the Mission Impossible franchise and also the shit show of a movie year we're living in expecting something better to come our way finally.

Much like a half hour of Rocky IV was montages of previous Rocky films, almost a full hour of this is directly call backs, expositions and incessant montages of previous films, all in service to weave together a plotline that is nearly impossible to grasp.

The AI villain of the whole story being so vague and its machinations so nebulous, it becomes impossible to root for the good guys and understand what their objective is.

Every single ing character and even Ethan Hunt at times felt like they weren't needed for large chunks of the movie.
The war room assembly of the shadowy figures? Consisting of some of the best character actors of our lifetimes, yet their roles are reduced to few line deliveries that have no sensible impact on the story or the action itself.

Where has the humor gone? The previous film was probably the funniest in the whole franchise. This is dead serious from start to finish with not a moment of relief to recognize the world building.

Having said all of this, the one redeeming quality of this movie still manages to save it, because it's probably the greatest action sequence in the whole of franchise. Held my breathe watching every second of it.

Last thoughts: Dead Reckoning is much more of a cooler and definitive feeling title than Final Reckoning. Does anyone really believe this was the last one of the franchise... Really?...

Sadly I'm going to have to rank it second to worst for my final Mission Impossible rankings:

MI: Dead Reckoning
MI: Rogue Nation
MI: Fallout
MI: Ghost Protocol
MI: III
MI
MI: Final Reckoning
MI: II

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #18 - End of Watch

I was more sympathetic toward Captain Marvel than others but this movie does very little to elevate itself from a kids movie to a proper comic book adventure adaptation.

The musical sequence nearly broke me.
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And here my MCU movie marathon comes to a close, with a lousy whimper instead of a roaring thunder!

2023: Year of the Barbenheimer - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

I should have waited for the reviews to come in before delving right into this.
A made for TV knock off of The National Treasure with not even a swing at proper character development.

I watched this out of the corner of my eye after I recognized the dialogues were getting cringe inducing and the final fantasy showdown is nowhere near enough to save this.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #17

There are so many nits to pick with this movie starting with uninspiring acting apart from Harrison Ford, Madam Web level cheap and corny dialogues, heavy references to Marvel movies from eons ago but this could all have been forgiven if the main role was played by someone charismatic, charming and engaging and not Anthony Mackie...

The weaker Iron Man and Captain America movies are still watchable thanks to RDJ's and even Chris Evans's immense charismas and gravitas.

Sam Wilson behind the shield looks not less goofy than A-Train from The Boys in a promotional super hero parody movie in the series.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #16.5 Bonus Round

Season 1 Review:
Loki is definitely worthy of its hype because it does bring the much needed fresh energy into the MCU especially in the TV sphere. Having said that, the finale reveal and the intricately weaved throughline with the end of the godawful Quantumania movie now seems to have gone to waste all because... Jonathan Majors is now dead?

2021: Miniseries and TV Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #16

So I came into this expecting it to be the Taiki Waititi - Thor movie that doesn't work and buckling up for a shit show, but for some reason I liked it... a lot!

I like my Thor movies absurd, over the top and making fun of themselves.

Natalie Portman finally seeming to be enjoying herself, along with Russell Crowe ripping into his Italian cosplay like no one's watching.

Christian Bale bringing his method acting to an arch villain elevating the performances in all of these movies by the spades.

Maybe the ending was a bit too overlong and overly dramatic contrary to the general vibe but I almost laughed with the movie from beginning to end, as opposed to laughing at the movie as I did in too many of these movies.

2022: This Is Cinema - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #15

The grand conclusion to one of the grandest cultural phenomenons of our lifetime.

On a rewatch, the heros assembly made more sense and carried more emotional weight.

Tony Stark and the kid - Peter Parker could be the most heartfelt relationship in all of this series.

I like the science fiction in these stories, but the solving time travel bit is way too easy and deus ex machina-y. I wish there was a stronger setting for the whole time-travel aspect that at least satisfied some pseudoscientific underbelly the audiences had. It's frustrating that the science in Wandavision makes more sense than in Endgame.

Same thing with the Captain delivering the stones in the end. How did that work?... Well it just happened.

Overall very entertaining and fulfilling, I wish it was a little nerdier too.

2019: The Last Great Movie Year - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #14

An overhated Marvel movie for all the wrong reasons.

I have come to the realization that any space movie other than Star Wars looks kitsch as hell if it's not adapted from a strong source material like Dune.

Thor Ragnarok actually realized that it's the feature and not the bug and went all in and made sense of the kitsch by making fun of it. It's too bad that Captain Marvel takes a step in the wrong direction with its cosmic setting and gets too close to the earlier Thor.

Other than all the cosmic stuff, this becomes a fun and engaging action movie in with every scene set on earth. I wish it went even further into the Supergirl stuff with a few homages to the actual movie by triggering the incel fan boys further into oblivion.

2019: The Last Great Movie Year - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #13

Probably the biggest cinematic event of our lifetime... so far.

Rewatching this after getting the backstory from eleventy other previous films does pay off. Thanos is really a remarkable villain with authentic portrayal from Josh Brolin. Every scene with him in it shines in the movie.

The climax could not have worked better with no music, almost no sound and just pure dread and cataclysmic sorrow.

2018: A Rome Is Born - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

A beautifully stupid film with idiotic plot mechanics and borderline mentally challenged characters still delivers an immensely entertaining and fun thrill ride of a fantasy horror with insanely hilarious deaths blowing up on the screen one after the other.
I wish these movies had at least a couple of non unknown actors so that they could be elevated to something a little more than a B movie.

Funniest movie of the year both intentionally and unintentionally.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #12

Nowhere near as worthy as its original hype, still a very well made clever fun action movie playing safe within its genre.

2018: A Rome Is Born - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #11

Wow... The difference between this and the previous other Thor movies is like going from Freddy Got Fingered to Citizen Kane... Although Thor: Ragnarok would be more on the side of Freddy tonally.

Such a relief that the Marvel guys finally figured Thor was such a ridiculous character in the Marvel universe, that they played into the ridiculousness of it all. If I were them I would retcon the whole thing and claim that those first Thor movies were also ridiculous, ironically!

2017: Call Me By Your Lady Bird - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #10

Probably the most fun Marvel movie up to this point. Not knowing any of the backstories coming into this I would have assumed Iron Man would be on the bad ass rebel side and Captain America would be the goody two shoes boy scout. It turns out Cap's libertarian-nationalist persona is way more toxic than I had figured.

2016: Year of the Movie Nerds - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

Watching this again right after finishing Andor is weird. Especially Mon Mothma character continuation is uncanny.

It's almost like the direct connection from Revenge of the Sith to A New Hope, but with much less fanfare.

Also, I hadn't noticed the first time around but Michael Giacchino's overly playful score going up and down in tone with every action sequence is just so annoying. Especially after getting used to Nicholas Britell's amazing subtle score in Andor.

2016: Year of the Movie Nerds - An Unconventional Ranking

As superbly written and executed as Andor is, its heavy, realistic portrayal of everyday struggle and the ever-present specter of fascism somewhat undermines the original escapist soul of Star Wars. This is just too real to take in.

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #9

I watched Wandavision without knowing any of their backstory. Now I'm enlightened.

2015: Worst Movie Year of the Decade? - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

So, this is very obviously a kids movie and I'm not going to pretend to know what a good kids movie is like, but I really don't think this is one.

I do like Jack Black's insane energy showing up intermittently in these mediocre movies though.

Very much like Super Mario Bros. from a couple of years ago - a giant box office hit but mediocre at best. Sad state of affairs for the movie industry.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #7

Definitely better than Iron Man 2 with its slick villain in Guy Pearce much more effective than Sam Rockwell in the previous movie.

I find Robert Downey Jr. more and more charming with every one of these films.

2013: Blue Is The Coolest Color - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

Having just seen Wild at Heart and Pulp Fiction, True Romance fits perfectly in the middle as if it's part of a spiritual trilogy from the early 90s.

Heavily stylized atmosphere, almost a comic book movie of its own. Christian Slater's zero to hero story is borderline absurd and unbelivable, but in the atmosphere of the movie doesn't look out of place.

Acting masterclasses from all of the young, then unknown - now superstar actors.

A love child of Tony Scott and Tarantino in the best possible way.

Lewis Pullman character is actually a nice addition but David Harbour's heavy Russian caricature was tiring to watch.

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #8

Thor 2 is one of the lowest rated MCU movies and the reason should be the over reliance on CGI not just on screen, but in the plot and character motivations as well.

Get rid of all of the stupid computer effects, and I assure you Thor wouldn't look any goofier than it is now.

2013: Blue Is The Coolest Color - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

İyi niyetle çekilmiş, senaryosunun klişelerinden kurtulamamış, gereğinden çok uzun bir son dönem Türk filmi.

2024: Just ’A Nora’mal Year - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #6

You know what, once you get past the costumed super heros silliness of it, these movies can become very entertaining. As long as it's not a total CGI fest, I'm down with Avengers avenging stuff.

Still not cinema though.

2012: The Year the World Did Not End - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

Almost a twin brother to last year's Woman of the Hour, The Luckiest Man in America also works on a great build up and an authentic atmosphere. I'm ultimately left unsatisfied with the ending but it's definitely worth your 90 minutes for its genuine tension building.

Paul Walter Ha is currently my go-to character actor in any movies or series.
The dude has this bizarre presence that translates into roles no other actor could play.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

Mixed feelings...

Technical achievement and the filmmaking aspect is impeccable just like it was in last year's Civil War, but outside of the action, the lack of a full fledged story that keeps the plot going makes this look like war propaganda. To be fair, this criticism can be relayed to Full Metal Jacket, but at least in that movie there was the boot camp sequence that built up one of Kubrick's greatest psychological examinations.

All in all, Warfare is a very close young brother to Black Hawk Down, with its superb technicality, the all star young male casting and the lack of a narrative that prevents the movie from stepping forward.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #5

This movie could have worked beautifully if they did away with all of the Asgard stuff and just set it all on earth with Thor something like a Kevin Spacey from K-Pax figure trying to convince others that he is an alien/spacegod and not a crazy person and puzzling the skeptics with scientifically unexplainable chance occurences.

But hey, this is an industry after all and Kenneth Branagh and Anthony Hopkins need their pay checks cashed.
You can't afford not to dumb down with this many zeros in the price tag.

2011: The Tree of Artist - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is NOT Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #4

These movies are turning out to be much better than I expected.

RDJ continues to be infinitely charming with his non-chalant arrogance and impeccable genius.
Mickey Rourke's villian is cartoony but not nowhere near as Sam Rockwell.

I wasn't planning on it, but I might end up watching all of these ridiculous films after all.

2010: Inception of a Decade - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

Probably a little too heart warming overall, still always a joy watching Steve Coogan mastering the cynical archetype.

Unfortunately it involves one of my pet peeves from movies set in foreign countries, where every local speaks grammatically perfect english to the American/English protagonist.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

My first time revisit of this modern classic and in the movie theater!

I was surprised that I didn't almost any of this movie except for some iconic dialogues like 'royale with cheese'. This was like seeing this classic for the first time.

The revolutionary screenplay may have been ahead of its time, but today it's every bit iconic.

The meandering dialogues make some of the most naturalistic gangster scenes with Jules and Vincent but also drops the tempo down low with the Uma Thurman scenes.

Butch's story was by far the best, outdoing the Coen cinema in their own turf.

I also had forgotten what an amazing black comedy this was. Probably one of the greatest dark comedy films ever written.

Bad release weeks have blessings in disguise with these classics playing again in the theaters.

Every Palme d'Or Winner Ranked

I was prejudiced against this solely based on the low rating, but it's nowhere near as bad as you'd expect.

The character build up and the overall exposition is severely lacking, but it makes up for it with the glorious action sequences that probably will remain the best of the year for a long while.

The only thing that really bothered me was the insanely exaggerated pistol shots. Watching regular ass pistols going off like machine guns with a never ending supply of bullets nearly takes you out of the movie.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is Not Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #3

Apart from the final showdown with a cartoony Jeff Bridges this was actually pretty fun and well made.

I actually do laugh at Tony Stark's jokes and begrudgingly find his snarky jerkyness charming.

I guess this will remain the best in the series until Infinity War or Endgame movies.

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is Not Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon #2

This is a sizeable step up from the first Captain America, but nowhere near as good as I expected it to be.

The spy thriller concept with the spying minimized doesn't nearly satisfy me as it should.

2014: The Year of the Birdhood - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

Dream a Little Dream | David Lynch Marathon #4

Such a mixture of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks almost in equal parts. Willem Dafoe character alone is almost a spiritual continuation of Dennis Hopper's in Blue Velvet.

My understanding coming into this movie was that this is one of the 'straight-up' Lynch films. No way man, this is as Lynchian as it gets with its dream visions, a bombardment of Wizard of Oz references, and just the relentless insanity on display from every single character.

Another Lynch movie that I need more time to digest.

David Lynch - An Unconventional Ranking

Watching Every Palme d'Or Winner: 59 More to Go!:

Every Palme d'Or Winner Ranked

Comedy Tuesday

The latest entry in 2025's ambitious but lackluster comedies after Opus and Riff Raff, this is just another one that takes on a concept too good for its own sake and wastes whatever potential it might have had.

Apart from few of Anthony Carrigan's one liners none of the jokes land and the feel goody wrap up feels way too spongey.

Don't Look Up feels like a masterpiece from here.

2025: A Quarter Into the Century - An Unconventional Ranking

This Is Not Cinema: MCU Movie Marathon#1

So, I've got a month of Disney+ hip and I decided to make the most of it and watch these MCU movies that I hadn't seen out of the corner of my eye.
The first Captain America turns out to be super mid with a very plastic look and an over the top propagandistic script.
A little more than a children's movie.

2011: The Tree of Artist - An Unconventional Ranking

This is NOT Cinema: MCU Movies - An Unconventional Ranking

Silent Sunday

Another film in cinema history that deserves its place in the pantheon because it's much more of a museum artifact than a conventional movie.

Somehow I had missed this gem from Fatih Akın filmography and it's every bit gut wrenching and heart breaking as you'd expect it to be.
Maybe one flaw in Fatih Akın filmography is every German travelling to Istanbul ends up falling love with the city. Which also makes for a very melodramatic beautiful movie making.

Current Week: 2 - 8 June

1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. Mountainhead
3. A Working Man
4. No Time to Die
5. Zodiac
6. Ballerina
7. It
8. The Green Mile
9. It Chapter Two
10. Wings of Desire

...plus 166 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film that will be released in the futuristic year of 2025 that I will have seen.
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Having seen 30 films 4 months into the year, 2025 has proved to be the worst movie year of the decade so far. Summer blockbusters have got a really heavy lifting to do.

2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Sinners
2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
3. Companion
4. The Penguin Lessons
5. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
6. Mountainhead
7. The Monkey
8. One of Them Days
9. Final Destination Bloodlines
10. The Luckiest Man in America

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every movie I've seen from 2023. Ranked based on a very specific and personal taste.
Check out: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011

Favorite soundtrack of the year: The Holdovers

1. Poor Things
2. BlackBerry
3. Perfect Days
4. Dream Scenario
5. About Dry Grasses
6. Oppenheimer
7. Infinity Pool
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. Inside
10. How to Have Sex

...plus 149 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Years in Review: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Joker
2. Uncut Gems
3. Parasite
4. Les Misérables
5. 1917
6. I Lost My Body
7. Ford v Ferrari
8. Little Women
9. The Irishman
10. Jojo Rabbit

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2025| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013| 2012| 2011 | 2010

1. Mustang
2. Anomalisa
3. Ex Machina
4. The Revenant
5. Rams
6. Steve Jobs
7. Tangerine
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Sicario
10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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

Every movie in the quirky filmography of Wes Anderson. Ranked in a very asymmetrical fashion.

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Bottle Rocket
3. Isle of Dogs
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. The Royal Tenenbaums
6. The Darjeeling Limited
7. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
8. Asteroid City
9. Rushmore
10. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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

Every movie I've seen from the year 2017.
A pretty good year for movies.
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018| 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. I, Tonya
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
3. Darkest Hour
4. The Insult
5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
6. The Florida Project
7. Dunkirk
8. mother!
9. The Square
10. Blade Runner 2049

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Probably the greatest movie year of the 2010s along with 2019.
Man, was this a good time to be a cinephile!
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018| 2017| 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Whiplash
3. Interstellar
4. Gone Girl
5. Wild Tales
6. Nightcrawler
7. Winter Sleep
8. Predestination
9. Boyhood
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Check out An Unconventional Ranking for every year in the decade: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Roma
4. Nebraska
5. Les Misérables
6. I, Tonya
7. Blue Jasmine
8. Manchester by the Sea
9. Nightcrawler
10. Whiplash

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

Years in Review: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Nomadland
2. Sound of Metal
3. Collective
4. There Is No Evil
5. Corpus Christi
6. The Father
7. Quo Vadis, Aida?
8. I'm No Longer Here
9. The King of Staten Island
10. Bad Education

...plus 96 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Schindler's List
3. Jaws
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Catch Me If You Can
6. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
7. The Color Purple
8. Munich
9. War Horse
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The year in which every movie nerd's favorite movie is from.

2025| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015| 2014 | 2013| 2012| 2011 | 2010

1. Manchester by the Sea
2. Raw
3. American Honey
4. Julieta
5. La La Land
6. Arrival
7. I, Daniel Blake
8. Nocturnal Animals
9. The Unknown Girl
10. 61 Days

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

2025| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. s Ha
2. Ruby Sparks
3. Looper
4. Django Unchained
5. Life of Pi
6. The Master
7. The Patience Stone
8. Starlet
9. The Hunt
10. The Dark Knight Rises

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Manhunt
3. Napoleon
4. In Search of Tomorrow
5. Seven Samurai
6. Giant
7. Doctor Zhivago
8. Judgment at Nuremberg
9. The Green Mile
10. Short Cuts

...plus 410 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mare of Easttown
2. The Shrink Next Door
3. Q: Into the Storm
4. Station Eleven
5. Dopesick
6. Maid
7. Squid Game
8. The Beatles: Get Back
9. WandaVision
10. Loki

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

All the movies I've seen from 2022.
Ranked in a roughly accurate order of how much I liked them.
Check out: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
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Not to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty proud of my 2022 list, especially my top 10 and 20s. I've been checking out many professional critics and haven't heard one single mention of Tchaikovsky's Wife or The Eight Mountains in their 2022 wrap-ups. And so many other worth mentioning important films from the year.
The constant same movies show up on everybody's top 10 lists and I feel like it's a disservice to us cinephiles to confine the taste in movies in one conventional elite bubble.

1. Babylon
2. Brother's Keeper
3. Triangle of Sadness
4. The Beasts
5. Funny Pages
6. Burning Days
7. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
8. War Pony
9. Black Night
10. All Quiet on the Western Front

...plus 144 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every movie I've seen from the year 2018.
Top 10 includes some of the greatest movies of the decade.
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Roma
2. Cold War
3. Capernaum
4. Happy as Lazzaro
5. Border
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7. Arctic
8. Vice
9. Kursk
10. Sorry to Bother You

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

Every movie in the entertainment franchise known as Marvel Cinematic Universe in chronological order with matching posters!
Will be ranking them once I have seen it all.

1. Iron Man
2. The Incredible Hulk
3. Iron Man 2
4. Thor
5. Captain America: The First Avenger
6. The Avengers
7. Iron Man 3
8. Thor: The Dark World
9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
10. Guardians of the Galaxy

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

2025| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012| 2011 | 2010

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Blue Is the Warmest Color
3. Nebraska
4. Tangerines
5. Blue Jasmine
6. Omar
7. Locke
8. 12 Years a Slave
9. Gravity
10. Ida

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every movie released in the year of our lord 2024 I have seen so far, ranked.

135 movies in and I'm officially declaring 2024 to be a bad movie year. I doubt another 15 or 20 decent movies would overturn my verdict.

2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Anora
2. Crossing
3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
4. The Brutalist
5. Sing Sing
6. The Dead Don't Hurt
7. Dune: Part Two
8. Challengers
9. The Girl with the Needle
10. Dìdi (弟弟)

...plus 134 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the movies I've seen from 2021.
All the movies are ranked in roughly accurate order of how much I like them.
(Up to 20 pretty accurate ranking, after some point I lose track...)
Check out: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011

1. Red Rocket
2. A Hero
3. The Card Counter
4. Spencer
5. Dune
6. Lost Illusions
7. Flee
8. The Worst Person in the World
9. The Hand of God
10. Benedetta

...plus 112 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Take Shelter
2. Shame
3. The Skin I Live In
4. The Kid with a Bike
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. War Horse
7. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
8. The Adventures of Tintin
9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
10. A Separation

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2010s. We had it good back then.
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018| 2017| 2016 | 2015 | 2014| 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

1. Inception
2. Biutiful
3. Black Swan
4. Incendies
5. 127 Hours
6. Majority
7. The Social Network
8. Buried
9. The King's Speech
10. In a Better World

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Child
4. Scarecrow
5. Dancer in the Dark
6. Paris, Texas
7. The Class
8. Parasite
9. Winter Sleep
10. Pulp Fiction

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

1. Adolescence
2. American Primeval
3. Dope Thief
4. Zero Day
5. Rewriting Trump

Includes every movie, every Coen brother ever made.

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Barton Fink
3. The Man Who Wasn't There
4. Fargo
5. Blood Simple
6. No Country for Old Men
7. The Big Lebowski
8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
9. To Each His Own Cinema
10. A Serious Man

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

1. Black Mirror: White Christmas
2. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
3. Black Mirror: San Junipero
4. Black Mirror: Nosedive
5. Black Mirror: The Entire History of You
6. Black Mirror: USS Callister
7. Black Mirror: Be Right Back
8. Black Mirror: Black Museum
9. Black Mirror: Men Against Fire
10. Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation

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

The ultimate film nerd challenge along with completing Every Best Picture Winner.

Seen every Kubrick film ever.
New Film Nerd Level Unlocked: Kubrick Disciple

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Lolita
4. Paths of Glory
5. The Shining
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Barry Lyndon
8. Eyes Wide Shut
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Spartacus

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

All of the Richard Linklater films that I have seen so far. Ranked.

1. School of Rock
2. Tape
3. Before Sunset
4. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
5. Boyhood
6. Everybody Wants Some!!
7. Bernie
8. Before Sunrise
9. Hit Man
10. Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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

1. Taxi Driver
2. GoodFellas
3. Casino
4. Raging Bull
5. The Aviator
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. The Irishman
9. Hugo
10. The King of Comedy

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

Every movie nominated for anything at the 97th Academy Awards.
Everything... Everywhere... Ranked... All At Once.

1. Anora
2. Memoir of a Snail
3. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
4. The Girl with the Needle
5. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
6. No Other Land
7. The Brutalist
8. Sing Sing
9. Dune: Part Two
10. A Different Man

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Last Repair Shop
• Poor Things
• Perfect Days
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• The Holdovers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Teachers' Lounge
• Napoleon

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

No, I will not be watching hundreds of short films David Lynch has made over the years... Ok maybe some of them.
I will be watching and rewatching and cherishing every feature film he has ever made though.
This filmography marathon has been dedicated to the memory of David Lynch.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. The Elephant Man
3. Lost Highway
4. Blue Velvet
5. Eraserhead
6. To Each His Own Cinema
7. Dune
8. Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
9. Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
10. More Things That Happened

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

1. Daisy Jones & the Six
2. The Curse
3. Kaleidoscope
4. Great Expectations
5. BEEF
6. Bodies
7. Time Bomb Y2K
8. A Murder at the End of the World
9. Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
10. George Michael: Outed

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

This is supposedly a ranked list but every Dardenne movie is so good there actually are only three tiers for them: 4 star, 4,5 star and 5 star.

1. The Child
2. The Son
3. Rosetta
4. Tori and Lokita
5. Lorna's Silence
6. The Kid with a Bike
7. The Unknown Girl
8. Young Ahmed
9. La Promesse
10. Two Days, One Night

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

Every film Jonathan Glazer ever made.
Ranked.

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Birth
3. Sexy Beast
4. Under the Skin
5. The Fall
6. Strasbourg 1518

Celebrating the films of America's foremost social realist director and the champion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Part of Sean Baker Marathon.

1. Red Rocket
2. Anora
3. Starlet
4. Tangerine
5. The Florida Project
6. Khaite FW21
7. Take Out
8. Prince of Broadway
9. Snowbird
10. Hi-Fi

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

This may very well end up as my biggest accomplishment as a film nerd.
There are so many great movies here, ranking them one over the other makes little sense at times.
Especially the top 10 and the next 10 are all interchangable. They are all unequivocal masterpieces.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. All About Eve
3. Schindler's List
4. On the Waterfront
5. Gone with the Wind
6. The Godfather
7. The Silence of the Lambs
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai
9. Platoon
10. The Godfather Part II

...plus 85 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Ripley
2. Baby Reindeer
3. The Penguin
4. Say Nothing
5. The Sympathizer
6. Shōgun
7. The Regime
8. Expats
9. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
10. Disclaimer

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

The ranking is based on how well the mindf*ck is pulled off and how f*cked the mind was after the film.

1. Predestination
2. Timecrimes
3. Coherence
4. Open Your Eyes
5. Ruby Sparks
6. Vanilla Sky
7. Ex Machina
8. God's Crooked Lines
9. 10 Cloverfield Lane
10. Looper

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

1. The Plot Against America
2. ZeroZeroZero
3. I May Destroy You
4. Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults
5. The Undoing
6. McMillion$
7. Mrs. America
8. The Queen's Gambit
9. Unbelievable
10. Devs

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

1. The Skin I Live In
2. Volver
3. Talk to Her
4. Julieta
5. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
6. All About My Mother
7. Law of Desire
8. Live Flesh
9. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
10. High Heels

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

Single location movies ranked.
In which, the most of the movie takes place in one single location.
Excluding survival movies and play adaptations as they have already lists on their own:
Favorite Survival Movies
Favorite Play Adaptations

1. Locke
2. Rear Window
3. Phone Booth
4. The Breakfast Club
5. Panic Room
6. The Guilty
7. Misery
8. mother!
9. Funny Games
10. The Man from Earth

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

Films that take place in a 24 hour window or a similar timespan.
Excluding play adaptations or single location movies because they have a list on their own:
Favorite Play Adaptations
Favorite Single Location Movies

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Run Lola Run
4. Magnolia
5. Collateral
6. Dazed and Confused
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. Night on Earth
9. Margin Call
10. Superbad

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

1. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2. Poor Things
3. Dogtooth
4. The Favourite
5. The Lobster
6. Nimic
7. Kinds of Kindness
8. Alps
9. Necktie
10. Kinetta

1. Manhattan
2. Match Point
3. Blue Jasmine
4. New York Stories
5. Small Time Crooks
6. Sweet and Lowdown
7. Annie Hall
8. Celebrity
9. Husbands and Wives
10. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. Paprika
3. Perfect Blue
4. Paranoia Agent
5. Millennium Actress
6. Ani*Kuri15: Good Morning
7. Ani*Kuri15

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Magnolia
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Boogie Nights
5. Hard Eight
6. The Master
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Phantom Thread
9. Inherent Vice

Every movie Denis Villeneuve ever made.
Ranked.

1. Incendies
2. Dune
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Sicario
6. Arrival
7. Prisoners
8. Next Floor
9. Polytechnique
10. 120 Seconds to Get Elected

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

1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. The Social Network
5. The Game
6. Gone Girl
7. Zodiac
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9. Panic Room
10. Alien³

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