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Watched on Monday June 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

We all watch movies to experience violent spectacle without consequence. This is one of the best of its kind because it’s about an audience that experiences violent spectacle with consequence. A handful of earnest adventure, then the two kids get their shit rocked by a T-Rex and it’s totally awesome.

My first favorite movie <33

Watched on Saturday June 7, 2025.

Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Watched on Monday June 2, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Sally Hawkins is doing a late period Liz Taylor thing here and it’s…. it’s really something!!!

Huge step up from Talk to Me, which is not much different than this one but I found it to be a whole lot more dull. So so close to New French Extremity this time around but juuuuust misses…. trauma/grief horror is far beyond tired but this works best when it leans into Hagsploitation.

Leisl the Novitiate is perhaps Wes Anderson’s best character creation since Margot Tenenbaum. In fact, I would say Mia Threapleton blows just about any other Anderson heroine out of the water. I like this a lot in the moments where it becomes A Matter of Life and Death instead of the usual twee screwball antics. Otherwise, it’s a lot of the same: ornate, funny and tedious in equal measure. Wes must be so pissed every time he clicks on his wiki and sees Houston as his birthplace.

Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Is it a huge mess? Absolutely! Is it a greatest hits collection? Absolutely!! Was I completely gripped for two of the three hours? Absolutelyyy!!!! A dingy, convoluted, claustrophobic counterpoint to a franchise full of big, breezy set pieces. There are minimal mask reveals, no spy gadgets, no wires and harnesses, just Tom Cruise’s primordial superhuman metabolism.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Honestly kinda complete shit until it becomes a remake of The General.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

What do we even watch movies for, if not for this?

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

In a perfect world there was an Endgame-level applause and uproar over Hailee Steinfeld bringing back the word COOZE 

Feels like three different movies Frankensteined together. Not quite cohesive and not quite polished (action blocking, anyone?) and I’m not really sure what’s up with the editing here, but the inspired moments are worth its weight in gold. Delroy Lindo MVP as always.

Somewhere at some point in time, Lucas responded to the criticism of his movies’ acting by saying he views performance as “a soundtrack to the spectacle.” His actors don’t operate as characters, but rather instruments in a greater sensory symphony. The performances are certainly distracting, but what makes Revenge of the Sith so fascinating is that despite it all, it remains supremely affecting. What Phillip Glass is to Koyaanisqatsi is what John Williams is to this; he creates an astounding synthesis of action and music. Visually, it is a film built on iconography — hooded figures + fire = evil; lush green landscapes + white veils = good; Pe is our Ophelia, Palpatine is our Serpent. The actors play out the basic movements of Greek Tragedy amidst an explosion of digital expressionism. Whatever mess there is (and it’s a big one) is cleaned up beautifully by the editing; quick, smart cutting that favors rhythm over linearity. It’s a great big maximalist tapestry all together and it’s very hard to resist.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2. West Side Story
3. The Fabelmans
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. Jurassic Park
7. Minority Report
8. Jaws
9. Schindler's List
10. Catch Me If You Can

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

gay movies... the good ones.....

1. Tongues Untied
2. Funeral Parade of Roses
3. Paris Is Burning
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Song of Love
6. Female Trouble
7. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
8. The Blood of a Poet
9. The River
10. Tropical Malady

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Scarface
2. Hatari!
3. Only Angels Have Wings
4. Rio Bravo
5. Bringing Up Baby
6. His Girl Friday
7. The Big Sky
8. El Dorado
9. Red River
10. To Have and Have Not

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

1. Asteroid City
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

   all 4 included as one.

8. The Phoenician Scheme
9. The Darjeeling Limited
10. Rushmore

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

1. A Brighter Summer Day
2. Persona
3. Harakiri
4. Eraserhead
5. Certified Copy
6. Andrei Rublev
7. I Am Cuba
8. The Searchers
9. Belfast, Maine
10. Funeral Parade of Roses

...plus 190 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Eraserhead
• The Exorcist
• The Cremator
• Possession
• Rosemary's Baby
• Funny Games
• Inland Empire
• Demons
• The Thing

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Streetwise
2. Belfast, Maine
3. Paris Is Burning
4. Tongues Untied
5. Koyaanisqatsi
6. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
7. Cameraperson
8. Near Death
9. The Transformation
10. Canal Zone

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
4. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
6. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible II
8. Mission: Impossible III

1. The Searchers
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. The Quiet Man
4. Fort Apache
5. My Darling Clementine
6. The Sun Shines Bright
7. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
8. 7 Women
9. The Long Gray Line
10. Sergeant Rutledge

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

Favorites
The Stevie Canon
The Queer Canon
The Doc Canon
The Fear Canon
Female-Directed Favorites
 
Years
2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024

Decades
1990s • 2000s • 2010s 

Director Rankings
Chantal Akerman • Woody Allen • Pedro Almodóvar • Robert Altman • Paul Thomas Anderson • Wes Anderson • Kenneth Anger • Michelangelo Antonioni • Gregg Araki • Dario Argento • Andrea Arnold • Darren Aronofsky • Ingmar Bergman • Bong Joon Ho • Robert Bresson • Luis Buñuel • James Cameron • Jane Campion • John Carpenter • John Cassavetes • Charlie Chaplin • Joel & Ethan Coen •  Francis Ford Coppola • Sofia Coppola • Pedro Costa • David Cronenberg • Alfonso Cuarón • Brian De Palma • Guillermo del Toro • Cecil B. DeMille • Claire Denis • Xavier Dolan • Clint Eastwood • Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Federico Fellini • Abel Ferrara • David Fincher • John Ford • Terry Gilliam • Jean-Luc Godard • James Gray • Peter Greenaway • Michael Haneke • Howard Hawks • Todd Haynes • Werner Herzog • Alfred Hitchcock • Hong Sang-soo • Derek Jarman • Jim Jarmusch • Jia Zhangke • Alejandro Jodorowsky • Abbas Kiarostami • Harmony Korine • Stanley Kubrick • Akira Kurosawa • Fritz Lang • Yorgos Lanthimos • Ang Lee • Spike Lee • David Lynch • Terrence Malick • Michael Mann • Steve McQueen • Nancy Meyers • Hayao Miyazaki • Gaspar Noé • Christopher Nolan • Yasujirō Ozu • Park Chan-wook • Pier Paolo Pasolini • Satyajit Ray • Kelly Reichardt • Éric Rohmer • Ken Russell • Martin Scorsese • M. Night Shyamalan • Douglas Sirk • Steven Soderbergh • Todd Solondz • Steven Spielberg • Straub-Huillet • Quentin Tarantino • Andrei Tarkovsky • Tsai Ming-liang • Gus Van Sant • Agnès Varda • Paul Verhoeven • Denis Villeneuve • Josef von Sternberg • Lars von Trier • Lana & Lily Wachowski • John Waters • Apichatpong Weerasethakul • Orson Welles • Nicolas Winding Refn • Frederick Wiseman • Wong Kar-wai • Edward Yang • Zhang Yimou

Film Universe/Canon Rankings
Alien • Fast & Furious • Godzilla • Halloween • Harry Potter • James Bond • MCU • Mission: Impossible • Pixar • Planet of the Apes • Resident Evil • Saw • Scream • Star Trek • Star Wars • Studio Ghibli • Universal Horror

Festivals
2020 — Berlinale • NYFF • AFI
2021  — Sundance • SXSW • NYFF • Montclair • AFI

Best Picture & Palme d'Or Winners
Best Picture (completed)
Palme d’Or (in progress)

Best Picture Nominees
2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 •  2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025

• Man with a Movie Camera

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
4. Star Wars
5. Return of the Jedi
6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
9. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
10. Solo: A Star Wars Story

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

The COMPLETE feature film ranking.

1. Naked Lunch
2. Crash
3. The Shrouds
4. The Fly
5. Dead Ringers
6. Eastern Promises
7. A History of Violence
8. eXistenZ
9. Videodrome
10. M. Butterfly

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

1. Safe
2. Carol
3. May December
4. I'm Not There
5. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
6. Dottie Gets Spanked
7. Wonderstruck
8. The Velvet Underground
9. Velvet Goldmine
10. Far from Heaven

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

not yet ranked:
Bonfire of the Vanities
The Fury
Get to Know Your Rabbit
Greetings
Hi, Mom!
Home Movies
Murder á la Mod
Obsession
Raising Cain
Redacted
Snake Eyes
Wise Guys

1. Femme Fatale
2. Carrie
3. Blow Out
4. Carlito's Way
5. Dressed to Kill
6. Phantom of the Paradise
7. Scarface
8. Mission: Impossible
9. Body Double
10. Sisters

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

1. From the Clouds to the Resistance
2. Sicily!
3. Moses and Aaron
4. Othon
5. History Lessons
6. These Encounters of Theirs
7. Not Reconciled
8. Lothringen!
9. Class Relations
10. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

1. Weekend
2. Pierrot le Fou
3. Masculin Féminin
4. Notre Musique
5. In Praise of Love
6. Vivre Sa Vie
7. Breathless
8. Band of Outsiders
9. First Name: Carmen
10. A Woman Is a Woman

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

(a lot yet to be ranked)

1. Belfast, Maine
2. Near Death
3. Welfare
4. Canal Zone
5. Public Housing
6. In Jackson Heights
7. Juvenile Court
8. High School II
9. Essene
10. National Gallery

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Andrei Rublev
2. Mirror
3. Stalker
4. Ivan's Childhood
5. The Sacrifice
6. Solaris
7. Nostalgia

1. Hard Truths
2. The Beast
3. Close Your Eyes
4. Evil Does Not Exist
5. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
6. Red Rooms
7. Last Summer
8. Challengers
9. La Chimera
10. Eureka

...plus 78 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Vertigo
2. Psycho
3. Rope
4. Strangers on a Train
5. Rear Window
6. Notorious
7. North by Northwest
8. Shadow of a Doubt
9. To Catch a Thief
10. The Birds

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

(feature-length only for now. shorts may be added later)

not yet ranked:
- À l’est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton
- The Eighties
- Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy
- The Man with the Suitcase

1. The Meetings of Anna
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
3. Almayer's Folly
4. News from Home
5. No Home Movie
6. Toute une Nuit
7. Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels
8. South
9. The Captive
10. Je Tu Il Elle

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

1. The Beach Bum
2. Spring Breakers
3. Julien Donkey-Boy
4. Trash Humpers
5. Gummo
6. AGGRO DR1FT
7. Mister Lonely
8. Baby Invasion

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

not yet ranked:
And Everything Is Going Fine
Bubble
Full Frontal
Gray's Anatomy
The Informant!
Kafka
The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg
Ocean's Twelve

1. Che: Part One
2. Che: Part Two
3. Black Bag
4. sex, lies, and videotape
5. Let Them All Talk
6. Contagion
7. Magic Mike
8. Solaris
9. Ocean's Eleven
10. Erin Brockovich

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

1. Parasite
2. Mother
3. Snowpiercer
4. Okja
5. Memories of Murder
6. The Host
7. Mickey 17
8. Barking Dogs Never Bite

A Complete Ranking.

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Unforgiven
3. Amadeus
4. Annie Hall
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. The Godfather Part II
8. All About Eve
9. The Deer Hunter
10. Moonlight

...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Iron Man
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Black Panther
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Spider-Man: Homecoming
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
10. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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

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

1. Phantom Thread
2. Call Me by Your Name
3. Lady Bird
4. The Shape of Water
5. Get Out
6. Dunkirk
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8. Darkest Hour
9. The Post

1. The Irishman
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Parasite
4. Little Women
5. Marriage Story
6. 1917
7. Jojo Rabbit
8. Ford v Ferrari
9. Joker

• Roma
• The Favourite
• A Star Is Born
• BlacKkKlansman
• Black Panther
• Vice
• Green Book
• Bohemian Rhapsody

1. An Elephant Sitting Still
2. The Irishman
3. The Beach Bum
4. Climax
5. Uncut Gems
6. La Flor
7. Parasite
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
9. Our Time
10. High Life

...plus 107 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. You Were Never Really Here
2. First Reformed
3. Roma
4. Shoplifters
5. The Other Side of the Wind
6. The Favourite
7. Cold War
8. Vox Lux
9. Lean on Pete
10. Mission: Impossible – Fallout

...plus 114 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

1. Manhattan
2. Annie Hall
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. Husbands and Wives
5. Midnight in Paris
6. Sleeper
7. Everyone Says I Love You
8. Crimes and Misdemeanors
9. Love and Death
10. Blue Jasmine

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

not yet ranked:
Dark Habits
Flower of My Secret
High Heels
I’m So Excited!
Julieta
Kika
Labyrinth of ion
Live Flesh
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1. Volver
2. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
3. Law of Desire
4. Pain and Glory
5. All About My Mother
6. The Human Voice
7. The Skin I Live In
8. Bad Education
9. Matador
10. Parallel Mothers

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

1. American Honey
2. Red Road
3. Fish Tank
4. Wasp
5. Cow
6. Bird
7. Milk
8. Wuthering Heights
9. Dog

1. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
2. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
3. Metropolis
4. M
5. The Indian Tomb
6. The Big Heat
7. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
8. The Tiger of Eschnapur
9. Spies
10. You Only Live Once

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

not yet ranked:
too many to count

1. Right Now, Wrong Then
2. The Woman Who Ran
3. The Day He Arrives
4. Walk Up
5. A Traveler's Needs
6. In Another Country
7. The Novelist's Film
8. Tale of Cinema
9. On the Beach at Night Alone
10. Woman on the Beach

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

• Shame
• Lovers Rock
• Widows
• Hunger
• 12 Years a Slave
• Education
• Mangrove
• Red, White and Blue
• Alex Wheatle
• Blitz

1. The Young and the Damned
2. Un Chien Andalou
3. Viridiana
4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
5. The Brute
6. The Exterminating Angel
7. Belle de Jour
8. Simon of the Desert
9. That Obscure Object of Desire

not yet ranked:
Splendor
This is how the world ends
Three Bewildered People in the Night

1. Mysterious Skin
2. Nowhere
3. Smiley Face
4. The Living End
5. The Long Weekend (O' Despair)
6. The Doom Generation
7. Totally F***ed Up
8. Kaboom
9. White Bird in a Blizzard

1. Unforgiven
2. White Hunter, Black Heart
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. Gran Torino
6. Honkytonk Man
7. The Mule
8. Sudden Impact
9. A Perfect World
10. High Plains Drifter

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

1. Showing Up
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. May December
4. Fallen Leaves
5. Poor Things
6. ages
7. The Killer
8. Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros
9. The Zone of Interest
10. The Taste of Things

...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

not yet ranked:
I Wish I Knew
Pickpocket
Unknown Pleasures
Useless
The World

1. Platform
2. Mountains May Depart
3. Still Life
4. 24 City
5. Caught by the Tides
6. A Touch of Sin
7. Ash Is Purest White
8. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

RULES:
- 31 Horror Movies by the end of October / one a day average (new releases included)
- No distinct rules regarding specific movies that need to be watched, just 31 horror movies for the month
- A movie counts as horror if horror is listed as a genre on Letterboxd
- Movies that were watched in the LAST YEAR’S CHALLENGE are NOT eligible to qualify for this year’s challenge. Regular rewatches are welcome as long as they have NOT been watched for Cocktober. That goes for subsequent years as well. Once a movie is used once for Cocktober, it cannot be used again.

• The Discarnates
• The Demon
• The New York Ripper
• Lake Mungo
• Four Flies on Grey Velvet
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• Smile 2
• The Omen
• The Cat o' Nine Tails
• The Stendhal Syndrome

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

not yet ranked:
The Card Player
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Dracula 3D
The Five Days
Giallo
Jennifer
Mother of Tears
Pelts
Phantom of the Opera
Sleepless
Trauma
Two Evil Eyes

1. Tenebre
2. Opera
3. Suspiria
4. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
5. Four Flies on Grey Velvet
6. Deep Red
7. The Cat o' Nine Tails
8. The Stendhal Syndrome
9. Phenomena
10. Inferno

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

(features/solo directing work only for now)

not yet ranked:
The Cotton Club
Dementia 13
Finian’s Rainbow
Gardens of Stone
The Rainmaker
The Rain People
Rip Van Winkle
Tonight for Sure
Twixt
You’re a Big Boy Now

1. Apocalypse Now
2. The Godfather Part II
3. The Conversation
4. The Godfather
5. Rumble Fish
6. Bram Stoker's Dracula
7. Tetro
8. The Godfather Part III
9. One from the Heart
10. Megalopolis

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

not yet ranked:
The Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. A Serious Man
4. Raising Arizona
5. Fargo
6. Blood Simple
7. Barton Fink
8. True Grit
9. The Big Lebowski
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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

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

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