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Part of my Nicolas Cage watchthrough.

A script that forgets to finish its thoughts and has some pretty ham fisted dialogue but everyone involved knows what kind of movie they're making and still gives their best effort. It's not good but it us entertaining, Cage and Perlman are fun together. The finale is pretty dumb but once again, they're all in at least. The effects aren't great but the cinematography is surprising decent.

Nicolas Cage

Prosecutor becomes disillusioned with the system and goes off on his to be a defender, only to begin defending criminals because the honest people can't pay the bills. Not really an original story but at 75 minutes, it moves quickly and tells it effectively. Brent and Bruce are good.

1985.

There's an interview Jack Nicholson did where he said he was offered the part of Michael Corleone in The Godfather but turned it down, partly because he thought the part should be played by someone Italian. 13 years later, he played a Sicilian mobster in Prizzi's Honor.

Not sure what made him do this one but to me, he's incredibly miscast. He just doesn't work here. The whole movie feels off. It's supposedly a satire but it doesn't land as one. It's played too safe to be satire but it's too goofy to be a crime drama. If it's satire, it feels like Miller's Crossing did it better 5 years later.

Turner, Huston, Hickey, and Randolph are all terrific though and carry the movie. The second half does get wild enough to be fun too. John Huston has done much better work but he still has his moments here.

1985

There are a lot of mustaches in this.

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I didn't know this was animated going in but it works, animation can make some action doable that defy physics in reality. Three basic but effective stories that drop the predator in the middle of them. Animation is good, really dug the the fight scenes.

Would have been a higher rating if it weren't for the finale. What seems like a cool twist at first gets worse the more I think about it. While the action was fun, it felt a lot like Star Wars and the more they expand on Predator lore, the less interested I am. The beauty of them is they just show up and cause mayhem. Showing us more just raises a bunch more questions.

The last shot in particular kind of trivializes any previous Predator installment. Looking at other reviews it seems like I'm in the minority but I hated it so much. This is where fanfiction has gotten us I guess.

2025

How do you make Harry Callahan seem less toxic? Have a police squad that brutally assassinates criminals and anybody in their vicinity.

It's a pretty good premise and makes for a good sequel to Dirty Harry. The opening credits alone makes it worth watching.

Definitely one of my favorite baseball movies.

Starts with a bunch of guys just playin ball and bullshitting, then becomes more somber as the game goes on and they want to hold onto this just a little bit longer. Really feels like they've all been playing together on this field for years, the conversations and personalities are so genuine. It's also just incredibly shot. I love how the framing and filming juxtaposes such a simple, chill premise.

Reflecting on routines and traditions eventually ending, mourning the loss of 3rd places, and glowing with a love of baseball. Bill "Spaceman" Lee showing up and Franny's closing moments are the highlights for me.

2025

Watching through 1984.

The farther we get from this being made, the better it ages. Every metal band documentary is basically this, amazing how well it nailed the formula. Not as laugh out loud funny for me as it is for many others but definitely clever and it is funny. Christopher Guest especially.

A vital part of movies about fake bands is making effective songs and they captured the spirit of the music they were spoofing/celebrating. Stonehenge is really a banger.

1984

A Western about gun violence that is still very relevant today. Every conversation has happened and will happen through eternity unfortunately. Neat twist on the Wyatt Earp story. McCrea in his old man Westerns era being a more versatile version of John Wayne. Falls to some lazy Western tropes but still pretty good. Vera Miles! I love that Jacques Tourneur had a solid run making genre films. Also Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves are here which is always enjoyable.

Romcoms and screwball comedies often blur the lines of acceptable behavior. We cheer on characters that may not be making the best choices or might be displaying behavior that would get you exiled in the real world.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith can't quite walk that line, every character kind of sucks and there's not much to root for. Its biggest crime though is it's just not particularly funny. Montgomery and Lombard do their best but it's just not enough. Hitchcock adds a few bits of flair but nothing about it stands out. Hitch can do a lot but screwball maybe just wasn't his bag.

A lot of promise here and it's still entertaining but the speeches by the grandfather about patriotism and wars get to be a lot and the plot gets ridiculous. Was waiting for the typical speech about the nobility of saving others in the future but they went with the wild ones instead. Hard to know if it was about the U.S. and WWII or something else. Making the socialist teenager going on about the proletariat a big coward was a blatant choice. Some pretty gritty stuff hidden here for 1939 though, good movie outside of the propaganda.

Watched on Tuesday June 3, 2025.

Part of my Nicolas Cage watchthrough.

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After an intro scene that gets you all ready for a cool medieval magic movie, it's the year 2000 and The Middle by Jimmy Eats World is playing. As far as these things go, this one's not bad. Some of the magic stuff is fun and Cage and Molina are good. A young Omar Benson Miller shows up a few times too!

Nicolas Cage

Sometimes watching beautiful people fucking off around Europe smoking cigarettes, stealing jewels, and falling in love is enough. Love the score too.

Double feature with The Day the Earth Blew Up.

Soderbergh with Fassbender and Blanchett? How did we get so lucky? Plus we get Pierce Brosnan, Naomi Harris, and Regé-Jean Page.

Feels like Soderbergh really wanted to make another Ocean's movie but didn't want to just make another Ocean's movie so made a spy movie instead.

His consistency of cranking out these incredibly solid mid budget genre movies is such a blessing.

2025

Double feature with Black Bag.

Sadly, this didn't really hit for me. Was so excited with all the rave reviews but it just never felt like Looney Tunes outside of a couple gags. Felt more like a movie written for Ed, Edd, and Eddy or Courage the Cowardly Dog that had Daffy and Porky subbed in. Think I might have liked it more if it wasn't LT.

Maybe I'll try again someday. Very happy for all the people that loved it.

2025

Difficult to rate this after first watch. So much happens and so fast there's no time to think. Possibly too ambitious, both plot-wise and visually. Every sequence has 20 different things happening and goes on past the point most movies would go. But that's not necessarily a negative here.

This really does feel like final movie, highest stakes end of the world stuff. The real match for Ethan and his team. The action is incredible, visually stunning, some really cool camera work, and good new characters. The biggest issue is that due to the pace, there's no time for the movie to breathe. Characters flit in and out and the emotional beats are rushed. Still, a pretty impressive penultimate film. Also might be the funniest in the franchise.

I learned a new term! Poliziotteschi, the genre of Italian crime films which this partially fits under. I went in expecting a Giallo and got something very unique. The kills are not the focal point here, most of the actual killing takes place off screen. We see the aftermath, which is almost more chilling. This is really a procedural with Giallo flair. Add in the common Italian theme of corruption in the highest levels and you get a thriller with a cynical streak.

My first Massimo Dallamano and there's some really good stuff. The foot chase through the hospital is awesome and the music playing gives it a completely different vibe. The parking garage scene is really tense and so well directed too. Speaking of the music, I adore this score.

Such a good entry to the genre. Though it's definitely questionable how much they show the naked body of a character that's 14. The actor is older and I understand the intention but it's pretty glaring. Goes with the argument that at a certain point are you crossing that line and becoming or indulging what you're critiquing.

1974

I just really vibe with this Fellini more than his 60's more ambitious but self-indulgent work. Fausto is an all time shitheel and you can't look away. Love Fellini's little asides sprinkled throughout. Great ending that hits more than expected. This looks so good, par for the course with Federico.

Kind of love how bare bones and workmanlike this is. Just takes you through the boring parts of a murder investigation while keeping it interesting. Fun repartee between the old vet and the rookie college boy. Decent 64 minutes.

Watching through 1984.

Just absolutely nonsensical. For starters, Buckaroo is half Japanese but his group is the Hong Kong Cavaliers?

Everyone seems to be having fun though, especially John Lithgow. Pretty loaded cast here in retrospect. Some cool concepts and costumes too. I it I enjoyed the running John Bigboote gag as well.

1984

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Every MI film has plot conveniences of course but the ones in Fallout were the most distracting for me. There are a lot of twists, reveals, and double crosses, and some very dumb decisions or reasons to make them work. Ethan says multiple times "I'll figure it out," and that's how the writing feels.

Still, this installment does have that special sauce. The team does what they do and you csn feel they've been doing this plenty of times now they really are a family. It's so well shot and the action is still too notch. Cavill is good here and the back and forth between him and Hunt at the end is great stuff. I can forgive a lot when there's this much care and effort put into something and it's still this entertaining.

Weird that I ed this one as the weakest one. Glad I'm doing this rewatch because this rips. The first fight scene is well choreographed but poorly shot and overly edited but everything after this is flawless. The opera, the underwater digital bank, the motorcycle chase, even the climax which is more in line with the first movie than anything since. Kind of amazing that this both starts going the way of Fast and the Furious and is a more traditional spy thriller than the last 3 at the same time.

The villain is decent, Lane is played well and has a menacing air, the Syndicate just doesn't quite deliver on the promise of the first 15 minutes. We do get Ilsa Faust though, a top 3 character in the franchise played so well by Rebecca Ferguson. Her relationship with Ethan is the best in the series. I also appreciate the classic "separate the party and make them find each other again" story.

Think this is the first one to truly build up the Ethan Hunt mythos in film too. We've seen him do improbable things and heard people talk about him but nothing like this. Between the agent in the bookstore and Hunley's little speech, they really go for it.

Alec Baldwin is great here too.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Imagine needing to go to the theater to watch music videos.

It's kind of amazing each of the first four of these came out around 5 years after the previous one. It's one more part of why each one feels unique yet connected.

The prison break to open the movie is just really fun. The Kremlin is good too. The whole Dubai sequence though is one of the greatest set pieces in movie history. From Ethan climbing the Burj Khalifa, which still makes me sweat, to the dust storm chase. Still have to rewatch the rest of the series but it's hard to that anything beats that.

Unfortunately, it makes the actual climax feel a little decaffeinated. The palace is fun and the garage is cool but still anticlimactic. The villain is pretty lame too. Sabine is more interesting and even she was kind of weak when considered how she was talked up.

I enjoyed the team, Simon Pegg being officially part of the team and Paula Patton is good. I'm not usually a big fan of Renner but I like him here. Really missing Ving though. The bits with Josh Holloway really make me sad we never got a good spy movie with him as the lead.

Very good installment in the franchise.

Like most Mickey Spillane, Dashell Hammett, Raymond Chandler etc. films, this one winds all over the place and has 50 characters to keep track of. This actually does a pretty good job of keeping it on the rails though and enjoy this version of Hammer that has a real moral com and is just a cynical softy.

Really liked Whitney Blake and Donald Randolph as Colonel Holloway, the best character in this.

My Gun is Quick is an elite title.

Wondered after seeing so many panning this one if it really wasn't that good and my love for it was of a younger frame of mind. I'm convinced a lot of people hate this simply because it has JJ Abrams on it. I know it's cool to hate him now but when this came out, he was still doing interesting things.

The shaky cam, extreme close ups, and chaotic editing were all the rage in the mid 2000's and I guess I loved it at 19 years old but it's pretty jarring now. Luckily, after the Berlin mission, which is JJ at his worst, he reins it in and the movie is really good from then on. Vatican City, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and Shanghai are all great sequences and the story overall is decent. I love that the Macguffin is transparently that and we never know what it actually is.

I love Julia's action scene at the end, how they had her adapt to the situation in a pretty real way. Also loved the total Lost piano riff from Giacchino towards the end, complete with the Lost extremely dramatic R bit.

Enjoyed this version of the team too, though wish Maggie Q had gotten more to do.

I totally forgot this had a Kanye West/Twista song in the end credits. Very 2006.

I was a MI 2 detractor at one point but every time I watch it, I appreciate it more. After a relatively grounded, slim first installment, this one says fuck it and goes off the rails. Never is Ethan Hunt trying to be more like Bond.

Written by Robert Towne, who wrote the first movie along with a multiple classics and directed by John Woo. The script is honestly the weakest link but Woo directs every moment like his life depends on it. From the flamenco dance heist to the motorcycle piece de resistance, every frame is fantastic. Cruise gets to do a little villainy on the side and Thandie Newton is fun. Dougray Scott isn't the best villain though.

This is a very unique installment in the franchise but it's insane in the best way. The unmasking gets completely unhinged but it's so cool and the scene with Newton at the Biotech lab is really good stuff. Plus this is the only MI film to have a big rock soundtrack and I unabashedly live the Limp Bizkit Mission Impossible theme.

Justice for Mission: Impossible II!

Mild but entertaining. Good plane effects for a lower budget film from 1936 and the whole plane hijacking plot was pretty fresh. Favorite part was Rita Moore, the attendant, played by Jean Muir. She was a badass! The last twist is fun too.

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Decided to rewatch the series with the final (?) one coming out. I didn't love this when it came out but I love it now. Think it's even better having been there in the 90's and knowing how big Cruise was and the movies he'd do over the next 10 years.

This movie flies, 2 hours feels like 20 minutes. Love seeing Ethan and Luther team up for the first time. Always forget Jean Reno is part of the heist team. Still wild they just kill off Emilio Estevez and Kristin Scott Thomas right away, I was shocked seeing it for the first time at 11 years old and an Emilio fan.

The aquarium scene is so damn good and of course the classic Langley and train sequences. De Palma was the perfect person to start this series off. Not sure what's more impressive, that it's still going 30 years later when this being a franchise was barely an idea or that they've only made 8 movies in those 30 years.

Seen on TCM's Noir Alley.

Eddie Muller was right that first 6 minutes is fantastic. The rest of the movie can't match it. Enjoyable and looks so good but can't quite figure out what kind of movie it really wants to be. Nice job by the cast, Jeffreys and Slezak especially.

Watching through 1984.

Definitely not what I expected but I enjoyed it. Feels like it was written by SCTV guys but maybe it's just because John Candy and Eugene Levy are in it. It does share some humor with what I've seen from Canada during the 80's. Tom Hanks shows why he's going to be a star and Daryl Hannah is fun, does a great job as the literal fish out of water.

I'm bullish on 80's comedies but romantic comedies were doing pretty well in that decade.

1984

Watching through 1984. Did not know Joe Don Baker was in this, was a perfect way to honor his ing.

In my opinion, baseball is the most cinematic sport. The amount of down time and the space between pitches allows things to build like no other sport. It's why I hate the pitch clock.

I'm also maybe biased because baseball was my favorite sport growing up and I loved baseball movies best.

The Natural proves the cinema of baseball more than any other film. The baseball helps make a mediocre movie timeless. While the plot where the rich are the villains, ing together to control the less wealthy is great and all but the script is pretty rough. It's also tough to tell if it's supposed to be taken straight up. There is some odd story beats, especially the part where Roy takes over the spot in the lineup. Maybe it's written for dark humor but knowing Levinson, he may have just framed it that way.

The baseball parts are great though, from Redford's Roy Hobbs striking out The Whammer, played by Joe Don Baker, to the infamous finale.

What really makes this work though is the cast and the fact they had Barry Levinson direct this. He's not an auteur but he knows how to shoot a movie like this. He know blocking and the lighting is exquisite.

What's interesting is the crew. Roger Towne, brother of Robert Towne, wrote this and then only wrote three other movies, all years later. His co-writer, Phil Dusenberry, never wrote anything else. The cinematographer had shot Being There and The Right Stuff before this but then his resume got steadily worse. Going to It Could Happen to You and National Treasure to ion of the Christ, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, and the live action Lion King. Weird career.

Anyways, this is not a great movie, but it's a great baseball movie from what might be THE baseball movie decade.

1984

Mack Truck Turner is an apt name because he basically just runs over everyone. I love that Truck is talked up throughout the movie but most of his success is more due to the bad guys just being absolutely terrible at killing him. And these bad guys are supposed to be the best of the best.

This movie is incredibly ridiculous. Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, and Nichelle Nichols (in a role that's so far from Uhura) are all so much fun. Great action and a killer soundtrack from Hayes this is towards the top of the genre.

Action Monday!

Had low expectations going into this and it actually wasn't bad. Fun premise and they did a decent job with it. Besides looking a lot like Bill Hader, Dennis Quaid has some juice here. Cool to see Amber Midthunder too.

2025

There is so much going on here! Brilliant work from Nyoni. I love the way some of it is shot and scored it really has that unease and almost dread. Susan Chardy is amazing as Shula, constantly having the sadness, exhaustion, anger, and almost resignation on her face but still caring for her cousins.

I wish I could say more on this that's meaningful. The family stuff is almost overwhelming at times. Grief, anger, and trying to reckon with someone close being a horrible person and how family loyalty can be a sticky and toxic thing.

2025

Kind of wild this was directed by Lloyd Bacon and done by the same comic duo that made Hellzapoppin' because it's just not good or funny. Some of the jokes make me think of some of the modern humor of non sequiturs and jokes bad on purpose.

Ultimately this was a slog but the climax was pretty good!

Watching through 1984.

Miyazaki would improve on certain aspects of his filmmaking but there's an argument to be made this is his best. It's at least him at his best even if he did it better later on. This is a movie built completely on vibes and they're immaculate. The eclectic score is exceptionally good. Pretty clear video game RPGs were heavily influenced by this.

1984

Watching through 1984.

I had trouble engaging in the first half, just didn't have much interest in another movie about war in an Asian country told through a white dude because they didn't think audiences could empathize otherwise.

The second half was much better. Mostly following Dith Pran after the journalists have left Cambodia. Between that and some reckoning with the actions and motivations of the U.S. it was much more interesting. Sam Waterston did well enough but the film drags most of the time he's on screen.

Harrowing and harsh, I do wish this focused more on Pran throughout but I get it. Haing S. Ngor is incredible.

Young John Malkovich, Craig T. Nelson, and Juloan Sands all have small roles.

The score was very good. Only complaint is what's now only the 2nd most awkward use of John Lennon's Imagine at the end.

1984

So many of these Westerns depend on someone just believing something the villain tells them with almost zero hesitancy, which, honestly isn't that unbelievable at this point. Not a lot of real thought goes into these but they are fun and extremely quick.

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The backstory section tries to give more depth to a story that doesn't really want it, the government investigation plot was silly, and some of the autism treatment, while at least trying, was questionable. But when it's focused on Affleck, Kendrick, Bernthal, and the action, it's at its best.

Better than expected. Peak Dad cinema. Bernthal really should just be in everything.

Watching through 1984.

Always a fan of the "the best hit man in the world has a rough day" genre of film. John Hurt's man of many aliases has done this for years but so many things line up perfectly to make this mission not go according to plan. Between Stamp's smug, intriguing mark, waxing philosophical and smiling relentlessly, Roth's (in his film debut) rookie driver that's still very young and impulsive, and Del Sol's beautiful but ferocious fourth wheel, Hurt has his hands full.

A great mix of crime and dark humor, Frears does a very good job directing this. A clever script, great camera work, and a top notch cast. Plus that awesome flamenco score!

Honestly surprised this isn't mentioned more.

1984

Seen on Noir Alley.

Heflin in total sleazebag mode and Keyes with perhaps her best as and most interesting role of her career. I love how the second half is directed and scored like a romance after what has already transpired. A seemingly simple story with a lot of complexity scattered throughout.

One of three classic noirs Trumbo wrote before going to prison due to the Communist trials going on, he also does the voice of the husband over the radio, recorded by Losey as a way to credit Trumbo since he was not as writer. Losey, also blacklisted, shows a lot of what he'd helm while directing in England. The third blacklisted member of the crew, production designer John Hubley, has a really cool career story as well.

Anyways, what's billed as a kin to Double Indemnity, The Prowler really is it's own unique film.

Watching through 1984.

I'm not sure what I think about this one. Felt a lot like a French New Wave film with some American sensibilities. Watching boring people somehow isn't boring? People talk about how friends all get together but spend their time together on their phones but even before cell phones, people just sat together doing nothing together.

Surprisingly funny, the direction from Jarmusch is the best aspect of this. Eva helps bring some level of interest to the characters. Didn't love this but I did dig it.

1984

Watched on Wednesday April 30, 2025.

Love how this meanders between normal drama and weird indie film. Has a very clear 70's Jewish humor to it and it works, there's some pretty funny stuff. Very low budget but Martin Priest is great and I really dug it.

Lubitsch and Wilder together make for some clever bits. Drags a little at times but Cooper and Colbert have good chemistry. Not top tier Lubitsch but still pretty good.

Every part of the plot is goddamn ridiculous and everyone but Holt has unlimited ammo but can't hit anything with it. Still mildly entertaining though. There are some funny moments.

Action Monday!

Cryptocurrency and AI deepfakes becoming staples in action films isn't something I'm excited about but it was bound to happen. It was wild looking up the writers/director and their resumes, especially with some of the political commentary.

It's pretty fun seeing Viola Davis, and to a certain extent Anthony Anderson, kick ass. I guess Homelander is only given villain roles for the time being. Some of the action scenes are all over the place but some of it is decent.

A good "happen upon it on cable and just keep it on" genre of movie.

2025

• Matchstick Men
• Adaptation.
• Raising Arizona
• Moonstruck
• Rumble Fish
• The Rock
• Bringing Out the Dead
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• The Cotton Club

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

• Flow
• Paid
• The Guilty
• Plan 9 from Outer Space
• Going Hollywood
• Anora
• Juror #2
• Cain and Mabel
• Belle Starr's Daughter
• The Order

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Philadelphia Story
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Fantasia
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Pinocchio
• Rebecca
• His Girl Friday
• The Thief of Bagdad
• The Great Dictator
• Foreign Correspondent

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

• Day of the Dead
• Fright Night
• Prizzi's Honor

• You Can't Take It with You
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Lady Vanishes
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Holiday
• La Bête Humaine
• Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
• The Mad Miss Manton
• Carefree
• Boys Town

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

• Sinners
• Eephus
• Hard Truths
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
• Black Bag
• One of Them Days
• Broken Rage
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
• Predator: Killer of Killers
• Novocaine

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

• The Spirit of the Beehive
• The Wicker Man
• Scarecrow
• Badlands
• Touki Bouki
• Don't Look Now
• The Last Detail
• The Exorcist
• Lady Snowblood
• The Long Goodbye

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

• Flow
• Paid
• Anora
• Juror #2
• The Order
• The Outrun
• A Soldier's Story
• Memoir of a Snail
• The Weather Man
• The Brother from Another Planet

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Blood Simple
• Paris, Texas
• The Terminator
• Top Secret!
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Streets of Fire
• The Hit
• Gremlins
• Repo Man
• A Sunday in the Country

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

• The Lady Eve
• The Maltese Falcon
• Citizen Kane
• Sullivan's Travels
• Hellzapoppin'
• The Sea Wolf
• High Sierra
• How Green Was My Valley
• Ladies in Retirement
• Suspicion

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

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Wizard of Oz
• Only Angels Have Wings
• Ninotchka
• Stagecoach
• The Rules of the Game
• The Roaring Twenties
• Young Mr. Lincoln
• Destry Rides Again
• Midnight

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

• The Third Man
• White Heat
• Late Spring
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• A Letter to Three Wives
• On the Town
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
• Obsession
• The Set-Up
• The Window

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

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Rosemary's Baby
• Faces
• Night of the Living Dead
• Memories of Underdevelopment
• The Swimmer
• Targets
• Planet of the Apes
• The Great Silence

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

My M:I ranking. Love them all, including 2 and 3. They may be at the bottom of the list but not by much.

• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Mission: Impossible II
• Mission: Impossible III

• The Holdovers
• May December
• Past Lives
• The Killer
• Fallen Leaves
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Return to Seoul
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Poor Things
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Young Frankenstein
• Chinatown
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• The Conversation
• A Woman Under the Influence
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• The Godfather Part II
• The Phantom of Liberty
• Blazing Saddles
• Black Christmas

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

• Ugetsu
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• The Wages of Fear
• Shane
• The Band Wagon
• The Big Heat
• Summer with Monika
• Touchez Pas au Grisbi
• House of Wax
• I Vitelloni

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

• All About Eve
• In a Lonely Place
• Sunset Boulevard
• Wagon Master
• Gun Crazy
• Rashomon
• The Gunfighter
• Harvey
• Woman on the Run
• The Asphalt Jungle

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

• Wild Strawberries
• 12 Angry Men
• Sweet Smell of Success
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Seventh Seal
• Le Notti Bianche
• Nights of Cabiria
• Paths of Glory
• The Cranes Are Flying
• Throne of Blood

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

• Modern Times
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Swing Time
• A Day in the Country
• The Preview Murder Mystery
• Libeled Lady
• Camille
• Wife vs. Secretary
• The Petrified Forest
• Bullets or Ballots

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

• Out of the Past
• Black Narcissus
• Brute Force
• Odd Man Out
• Kiss of Death
• Nightmare Alley
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Jenny Lamour
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Monsieur Verdoux

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

• City Lights
• M
• La Chienne
• The Smiling Lieutenant
• The Public Enemy
• Frankenstein
• Little Caesar
• Dracula
• Tokyo Chorus
• Le Million

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

• The African Queen
• An American in Paris
• Ace in the Hole
• Strangers on a Train
• The Lavender Hill Mob
• The Thing from Another World
• A Place in the Sun
• The River
• Alice in Wonderland
• A Streetcar Named Desire

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

• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• The Last Picture Show
• A Touch of Zen
• Harold and Maude
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Wake in Fright
• Klute
• A Clockwork Orange
• Duck, You Sucker

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

• Challengers
• A Real Pain
• Nickel Boys
• The Outrun
• Flow
• I Saw the TV Glow
• His Three Daughters
• Fancy Dance
• Evil Does Not Exist
• Hundreds of Beavers

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

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Aftersun
• Nope
• Ambulance
• RRR
• Decision to Leave
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• After Yang
• The Quiet Girl

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Bride of Frankenstein
• The 39 Steps
• Top Hat
• The Informer
• Mad Love
• Hands Across the Table
• The Whole Town's Talking
• Gold Diggers of 1935
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• The Devil Is a Woman

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

• Star Wars
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• House
• 3 Women
• Suspiria
• Eraserhead
• Opening Night
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Killer of Sheep
• That Obscure Object of Desire

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

• To Be or Not to Be
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• The Palm Beach Story
• Bambi
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• This Gun for Hire
• Cat People
• I Married a Witch
• The Glass Key
• The Pride of the Yankees

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

• The Red Shoes
• Bicycle Thieves
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Rope
• Red River
• , Year Zero
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• They Live by Night
• The Lady from Shanghai
• Key Largo

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

• Grand Illusion
• History Is Made at Night
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• The Awful Truth
• Make Way for Tomorrow
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Pépé le Moko
• Dead End
• You Only Live Once
• The Hurricane

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

• Mirror
• Barry Lyndon
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Jaws
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Dersu Uzala
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The enger

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

• Rear Window
• Seven Samurai
• La Strada
• Sansho the Bailiff
• On the Waterfront
• Johnny Guitar
• Journey to Italy
• A Star Is Born
• Godzilla
• Salt of the Earth

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Big Sleep
• Notorious
• A Matter of Life and Death
• My Darling Clementine
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Paisan
• The Killers
• Gilda
• I See a Dark Stranger

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

• Days of Heaven
• Halloween
• Blue Collar
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs
• Watership Down
• The Deer Hunter
• Girlfriends
• Dawn of the Dead
• In a Year with 13 Moons
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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

• It Happened One Night
• L'Atalante
• The Black Cat
• The Thin Man
• A Story of Floating Weeds
• The Scarlet Empress
• Twentieth Century
• Dames
• Babes in Toyland
• The Merry Widow

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

• Metropolis
• The Gold Rush
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Sherlock Jr.
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Strike
• Battleship Potemkin
• The General
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Nosferatu

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

• Grand Hotel
• Trouble in Paradise
• Freaks
• Scarface
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• Vampyr
• Shanghai Express
• Island of Lost Souls
• I Was Born, But...
• Union Depot

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Duck Soup
• 42nd Street
• King Kong
• Design for Living
• The Invisible Man
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
• The Sin of Nora Moran
• Gold Diggers of 1933
• Footlight Parade
• Hold Your Man

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

• Ashes and Diamonds
• Some Came Running
• Vertigo
• The Music Room
• Dracula
• Big Deal on Madonna Street
• Ice Cold in Alex
• Touch of Evil
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Murder by Contract

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

• Repeat Performance
• Maestro
• Blast of Silence
• Saltburn
• Seven Keys to Baldpate
• Losing Ground
• Sabotage
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• Safe in Hell
• Poor Things

...plus 407 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Big House
• The Blue Angel
• The Divorcee
• Morocco
• Hell's Angels
• The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
• Paid
• Street of Chance
• Our Blushing Brides

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

• Singin' in the Rain
• Ikiru
• High Noon
• Limelight
• The Quiet Man
• The Narrow Margin
• Casque d'Or
• Umberto D.
• The Bad and the Beautiful
• Bend of the River

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

• Local Hero
• The King of Comedy
• El Sur
• Nostalgia
• Sleepaway Camp
• Videodrome
• Rumble Fish
• Return of the Jedi
• The Ballad of Narayama
• WarGames

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

• Network
• Assault on Precinct 13
• Taxi Driver
• All the President's Men
• The Ascent
• Kings of the Road
• Rocky
• Mikey and Nicky
• Cria!
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

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

• The Prestige
• The Dark Knight
• Memento
• Insomnia
• Batman Begins
• Following

• The Night of the Hunter
• Ordet
• Pather Panchali
• Smiles of a Summer Night
• Diabolique
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• All That Heaven Allows
• French Cancan
• Lola Montès
• Kiss Me Deadly

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Casablanca
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• The Big Sleep
• In a Lonely Place
• The Maltese Falcon
• To Have and Have Not
• The Roaring Twenties
• The African Queen
• Key Largo
• High Sierra

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

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Woman in the Dunes
• Gertrud
• Red Desert
• Goldfinger
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
• The Gospel According to Matthew
• The Train
• Kwaidan

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

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• The Godfather
• Cabaret
• Cries and Whispers
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
• What's Up, Doc?
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Solaris
• Deliverance
• The Heartbreak Kid

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