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Two cell mates with very different personalities, one a revolutionary the other a gay window dresser, bond in a Brazilian prison. Most of this is essentially in one room and is character driven and dialog heavy. That is my kind of movie. It also is anchored by two really strong performances by William Hurt and Raul Julia. The movie walks a precarious tone between a traditional drama, an over the top melodrama and dipping into paranoid thriller.
It doesn't all work. There are some outstanding moments and I think the characters are incredibly created. I don't think its always well written and I don't think its necessarily directed well. A lot of the structure relies on retelling of movie scenes and we get the reenactments. I love this mechanism. Unfortunately none of these scenes worked. I didn't feel the escape the inmates clearly do. The movie goes places. The characters go through a big personal arc. I'm not sure what I am supposed to be taking away from it though. This is almost, but not quite, an incredible movie.

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Barbara Loden's examination of an aimless woman who drifts into a relationship with a criminal. The plot points with the criminal and their eventual robberies is almost inconsequential to this movie. This is purely a character examination, and that's where it left an impact on me. Loden's Wanda is an interesting character. She is neither completely pitiful nor pitiless. She is very flawed. She drifts through life seemingly not feeling deserving enough or capable enough of anything that is meaningful, and yet she isn't apathetic. She is still searching in her own way.
She makes terrible choices and does things that make you question her character. She can't stop mes. She can't stop self-sabotaging. Yet at her core its apparent that she is also damaged. That she has absolutely no self confidence. She thinks she is nothing and that she will only be met with ruin and pain. I feel like I've known Wanda's before and for as much as they are infuriating there is also a deep sadness to them. This is all captured so perfectly in the final shot. A warn out, tired woman. It won't stop men from trying to take advantage of her, or making es at her. A woman who can see no future.

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Of the experimental New York underground art movement films, this one is at least somewhat entertaining at times as Jack Smith rambles on. It's at times almost coherent and there is some interesting imagery. It's not a movie I'd say I enjoyed, but appreciate getting a glimpse of Jack Smith's art and of the movement in New York in the 60s.

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I appreciated this movie much more reading about it its history and influence then I did watching it. That's fine, not all art is meant for all people. Especially experimental art.
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I thought the movie was good enough for all the quadrants it's trying to check. It might not be a masterwork, but lets Jack Black go full Jack Black and that is pretty fun. More importantly the kids thought it was awesome.

A stop motion avant-garde animation made from paper cutouts from Victorian catalogs. There is apparently some narrative here and symbolism. All of it was lost on me. The animation style is tolerable only if it were about 30 seconds. This unfortunately goes on for over an hour. The sound track is grating and the animation is repetitive and opaque. There are a couple interesting compositions, but it did not justify an entire movie. This one was difficult to get through.

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What I like about this movie is that its character driven first. There are lots of Wyatt Earp movies out there, but I don't think there are more indelible portrayals of the Earps and Doc Holliday than this movie. Kilmer especially gives a performance that I don't think I will ever be able to disassociate with Holliday. The plotting of the movie I think is a little messy with timeline compression and confusion that kind of irked me. Outside of the core few good guy group the rest of the characters, especially the women, really get short shrift. But regardless of some of the messiness, it nails most of the key dramatic moments (and really fumbles others) and action sequences and really hits with the character work, and really that's most of the ingredients for a really good movie.

An experimental short film using news footage of the JFK assassination. The news itself does most of the heavy lifting here, but the editing by Conner and the experimental flourishes does add to the chaotic and almost surreal aspect of the event.
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Frank Capra makes movies that capture your heart and fill you with a feeling of warmth. This movie is about a missionary who gets captured in China during a civil war by a powerful general. This being a love story under those circumstances should clue you into the problems this movie has.

There is hardly a moment or a choice made where the horrible racism is not on display. That is to say nothing of the twisted love story at the center. There are some fine performances here, especially by Barbara Stanwyck. The story does feel like any other Capra, with maybe some sharper edges given the war setting. It is engaging, and I felt myself getting pulled into his emotional web. Unfortunately, there is just too much wrong from a plot and casting perspective to forgive. Despite the craftsmanship, I could not get on board with this. It hasn't aged well, to say the least.

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I have gone cold on mafia movies. Even if they are great movies, I find myself intensely disliking the characters and their motivations. This one is very gritty and full of bad characters. I was surprised to find myself enjoying this one, though. I think it might be because the loathsome characters are the point. I find it hard to say this movie glorifies the lifestyle in any way. It is bleak - no one is having a good time. Everyone in this, both the police and the gangs, knows that they probably aren't long for it. They do it mostly out of momentum. To get the next win. To survive another day. To maybe make a difference before they are gone.

This is one bleak and dark Robin Hood story. I liked the twist that Walken's character is trying to use his evil for the greater good. That the cops are corrupt, the governor is corrupt. They’re just gangs with official power. When everyone is bad, no one is good, and there’s no use trying to figure out who has the moral authority. The movie’s opinion is no one does.

Most of all, this movie is awesome because of the performance. This is among the best I’ve seen Christopher Walken, and the ing cast is really phenomenal. Laurence Fishburne in particular makes for an incredible good-bad-guy henchman. Even if these people are reprehensible, at least they are compelling. This movie has a nihilism to it that works—and is somehow very enjoyable on top of it.

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I think its hard not to like this movie. Colman Domingo is amazing in it. The depth he gives the character is essential and he brings so much warmth to the role. The movie itself has a great warmth to it. In an environment where there is not a lot of warmth this movie is filled with humanity and people taking life one step at a time and finding something that is good that they can hang on to.

About two immigrant brothers struggling to keep their restaurant afloat and they have one more shot at a big party to ignite interest in it and pull them back from the brink. It's a character study between the two brothers, Tucci and Shalhoub. Tucci the one fully embracing the American dream, always on the move, always trying to get ahead and Shalhoub who is more reserved and just wants to make the best food. Minnie Driver also steals scenes in this as Tucci's love interest. This movie just feels comfortable. Like its embracing you. Not that is all warm and fuzzy. It is actually fairly melancholy. But the food, the atmosphere and ultimately the underlying theme of relationship and family really make this a welcoming and warm movie.

This was a lot of fun. Tonally it is all over the place, but Gosling is magnetic and the action was really well done. It's a bit long and the plot is a little unwieldy, but it delivers on making it a very entertaining watch. I feel like all the pieces are there to take this movie to an even higher tier, but its got some shaggy edges that felt out of place. Still just a really good time.

I love the premise of this movie. The actors are very good too and I kind of just want the film to hang around in suspense of incredibly awkward conversation and not spill out into a traditional horror movie. It has some really great moments, and while I think the horror elements of the movie are well done and I appreciate the plot, I couldn't help but wish certain pure horror elements were nixed completely. Its just not needed, and the movie does a lot more with dialog then it does with jump scares.

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I read this as a brutal condemnation of men. Almost to the point (but not quite) of satire. That men's happiness is supreme. We are only treated to Francois' point of view. His idyllic life. He lounges in the woods. He leaves for work for days at a time. He loves his family and his life. He just constantly takes what he wants and offers no consideration for the desires of the women in his life. He isn't shown really toiling at his work or really having much conflict at all. He's just floating through because he is a man.
Oh, the wife is doting and the children are nice and everything is perfect? Well guess what the man will still cheat since its not enough. Why can't he be even happier? Surely he will face some wrath and be jostled from his perfect world he has constructed. But no, not in this story. It is much more bleak. He will be rewarded. Even if his wife dies, she can be replaced. The family steps in and helps with the kids. His new love will just slip right in.
Where this is really hammered home for me is how he interacts with his kids. He likes doting on them, and having them feed his ego on what an ideal happy family looks like. But he doesn't do anything with them. It's always his wife caring for them. When she dies there is panic about who is going to take care of the children, even though he is perfectly capable. Then he just foists his new love on them as the new mom. She's a woman so she will figure it out. Even on the first meeting he just almost abandons them with her as she scrambles to figure out what to do. She can only smile.
Francois wields love like a sword. Manipulating women to make his life better. They are cogs in the machine of his life and happiness. There is a dark bleakness to this that is obscured by the guise of happiness. It's almost like she is saying "yup, yup. Life is great. Life is happiness... if you are a guy". Francois gets his happy ending. But how does that make us feel? Brilliant subversion. Excellent movie.

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I kind of feel the same way about this one as I did about Songs From the Second Floor-- I like the vibes and everything scene to scene, but I wish it made a bigger thematic impact to me. This movie could very easily be unwatchably boring if Anderson didn't have such mastery of the scene. It is never boring, its entrancing. I love the authenticity of each vignette no matter how absurd the setup. It's a kind of magic that Anderson has to make everything feel grounded even when the actual things happening are over the top. There is an odd sense of connection you feel that no matter where you live or the scenario you are in, people are- by in large- the same.

I had a great time with this movie! I do think it struggles with tone sometimes, but I kind of enjoyed the weird mix of melodrama and a kind of punk energy. I think the movie struggled to know how to end this, but I kind of like it in broad strokes even if the final confrontation is a bit of a mess. I don't think James Marshall is good in this, but he does have a unique presence that somehow makes it work regardless. Applegate is great though and I like the rest of the cast.
One of my biggest gripes though is that Cyberstorm's actual set is kind of lame. He looks great, but the music just doesn't really match the scene. And they already showed they could get good music sequences with some of the other DJs, so this was kind of weird.
It's not the best movie, but one that really doesn't have any hard edges and sometimes that is refreshing. Just a really easy and cool watch.

I like this one a little bit more each time I watch it. Such a great cast. One of the most charismatic casts I can think of.

I like a lot about this movie but I think I hate even more. I just have a really hard time with the specific vile masculinity and terrible people that the movie is about. I hated pretty much everyone and it got in my way of having a good time with it for most of the time.
I also totally missed what happened with the wrap-up bit since I don't think its told very well with the quick flashbacks. I didn't really fully get it until listening to the podcast on it. It doesn't help that the movie does so many absolutely dumb things I just assumed the ending was falling into a similar vein.
It has its good moments, and I like the dynamic they were going for. I do actually think the good parts ultimately raise to the top and I think I will like this movie more in my memory of it than actually watching it. So a mixed bad.

This is an incredibly tense and riveting political thriller. The attention to details in the ceremony and the varying lives of the Cardinals was fascinating. For a political thriller based on religious ceremony mostly confined to one setting the acting need to be great and it is. There is so much character development that takes place in a single scene because of the subtle acting.
There is one scene where a Papal candidate is being lightly questioned about a possible scandal. He goes from being arrogant and dismissive, to scared and pleading to resigned and devastated over the course of a couple minutes, while Fiennes' character goes from being angry to pitying in the same span. There are so many scenes like this that are just incredible capsules of conveying character and story.
I think in parts it bites off a little more than it can chew and it's strengths in the subtle small moments can lost in some slightly tonally off bigger melodrama moments. But there is enough work done in laying a perfectly crisp and grounded thriller that the bigger wilder swings still land.

I knew I would like this movie and I did. It's a talky character study with Eisenberg and Culkin playing familiar feeling roles to them, but giving great performances. Watching them play off each other and interact never gets old.
I could not stop thinking about Il Soro while watching this. The dynamic, while not exactly the same, is familiar. Two opposites who at times repel each other and yet are linked and each has a kind of yearning for the qualities the other one possesses. However here the two have a history. They were once very close and they have grown apart. It's an interesting ripple into dynamic since they know each other very well. They know their strengths and weaknesses. They can each other and also cut each other down with a word.
Like in Soro, Culkin's character has a feeling of danger to him. He is so free, so sociable, so ready to speak his mind that there is always an awkward tension in every scene with him. That he might dare to be too honest and make things uncomfortable. That he might ruin things.
I do feel that there is a bit of an unsatisfying character arch for Culkin. If you view the two characters as more of a metaphor for the two sides of one person, I think the movie works a little bit better. The warring sides of a conscious wanting to feel and empathize with everything and everyone, but feel the anguish and emptiness associated with it, and the other side that stays in the lines, distances, does the right things and puts things out of their mind, but is lacking verve. This movie is a great examination of those two dynamics which I think exist in all of us to some degree.

This is about as generic as it comes as far as action thriller goes. There are monsters that kill you almost immediately if you go below 8,000 feet. Its a perfectly fine premise. The problem is the character work, which the movie tries to lean into, is absolute garbage, the dialog is bad and the acting is subpar. There are some decent action sequences, but other than that this is just utterly bland.

Watched on Saturday November 16, 2024.

This is a unique biopic of Michelangelo Caravaggio. It depicts scenes from Caravaggio's life, but leans hard into the atmosphere and sets, recreating his most famous pictures with models as he paints them. The style and the acting are standouts here. There are really interesting visual flourishes where there are fleeting anachronistic moments, intentionally confusing when this is supposed to be set, or at least allude to how it connects to modern life. It's an interesting take on telling this story. Unfortunately despite its stellar atmosphere I never really felt connected to Caravaggio or really anything in his life. I didn't understand his motivations and it all felt a little forced. I wish this worked on a character level better than it ultimately did.

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This is a decent movie, but is decidedly less fun than White House Down. Some of the action is great and I enjoyed Aaron Eckhart as the president, but it just felt less than in almost every aspect to White House Down when watching them back to back. Gerard Butler is fine here, but from a character level rarely does he ever do much for me.

I really love Hepburn and could watch her in anything. I thought this was a pretty decent relationship drama. I liked the structure of the simultaneous timelines of the different points in their relationship and thought the editing was effective. I like the whimsical touch Donen brings in what could have been a pretty dour and bitter movie.
I don't really like Finney in this. I just don't find him charismatic and I didn't think he had any chemistry with Hepburn. I have no idea why she falls madly in love with him, but completely understand why she becomes disillusioned. I like the examination of the breadth of the relationship, but thought it was lacking the insight or bite of something like Scenes From a Marriage or even Marriage Story. It was good, but didn't really hook me or emotionally invest me in their relationship as much as I would have liked.
I also really didn't like two things towards the end. One was Hepburn cheating on Finney. It wasn't the cheating so much as the cruelty she displays when he finds her. That matched with the whiplash of her coming back to him just didn't really match and washes out her character a bit. I also thought it was kind of unfortunate that the movie kind of ends on a happy note, but clearly these two are in a toxic relationship. Maybe that was the intent, but it was an odd note to end on.

This movie has broad popcorn appeal. I think the action scenes are very well done and the plot catches your attention. I'm not sure that I ever fully bought Channing Tatum in the John McClane role, but he is charismatic enough to make it kind of work. The biggest downside to this movie is that it goes full-cheese in some spots and the homages to things like Die Hard are a little heavy. All of the plotting around Tatum's daughter is pretty excruciating really. But its Die Hard mixed with Air Force One and it mostly delivers on that.

What a cast! There are few that play a creep as well as Tobey Maguire. You are quite sure if he's just an awkward outcast or psychopath in a lot of these 90's roles. But the entire cast is really great. More than the plot the feeling of suffocating boredom and angst about how to inject some life into perfectly pleasant lives really hits.

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This, apparently, was one of my larger pop culture blindspots. I've known of the film but didn't really feel it was one that was required viewing in this century. I was wrong! This movie still packs a punch. It's a propulsive thriller with great performances by Smith and Hackman. There is a lot of tech nostalgia back when Seth Green and Jack Black were the personification of nerds and Barry Pepper and Jake Busey the prototypical henchmen, Everyone fits their role perfectly and the action is on point. There is almost literally no missing beats here. And to top it off it is actually making a point about abuse of surveillance that is still very relevant today. The one misstep is the writing is at times a little sloppy. But even with the uneven plotting its an excellent popcorn movie!

It's a really cool concept and its amazing what this tiny film was able to achieve telling a complicated story with time travel in one take. I think the premise is a little too big for the movie and the writing isn't too strong. A lot of character work and plot gives way to technical details. That's where this movie did not work for me. While the one take nature is impressive, it felt like a burden while watching it. I was entirely too aware of the the two minutes and the moving pieces and characters jumping in and out. I couldn't enjoy the movie because I was too stressed out by things needing to happen and also kind of being bored by the repetition.
Feeling anxiety for the time structure of the movie could be a great thing if it was commenting on something. I'm not sure that it was. It felt more like a gimmick gone wrong than something meaningful in the story telling. Yes, it was an interesting way to tell the story, but I felt it got more in the way than it helped.

This is an interesting Cuban movie made at an interesting time in Cuba. It's set in the early years of Castro's reign and the tension with the United States is high. It follows the life of an upper class middle age man soon after his divorce where is wife fled North. It mixes in documentary footage and flits in and out of timelines as he reflects on his time with his wife and his womanizing ways with young girlfriends. There is an almost Godard feeling to this film which I enjoyed.

I wish I had more of a political and cultural grasp of the material. The writing is strong and I think there is a lot of context here that just blew right past me. Even without that its still a well made film with an interesting perspective.

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This might be the best of the hard science space movies? It takes a lot of what is great in Apollo 13 from a story perspective and amps it up. I loved the book, I love the movie. What's not to love about a well made problem solving movie which also happens to have some amazing looking and thrilling space action sequences?

I'm not a fan of period drama, and I particularly struggle with this sub-genre of Japanese acting period dramas which I've somehow seen a lot of. Also I seem to respect the craft of Mizoguchi more than enjoy his movies. This is exactly the type of movie that I thought I would be getting. A well made, often dry, period drama. It's well executed, the themes are clear, its beautifully shot, and yet it didn't really move me.

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This movie is incredible! Using the single-take visuals makes you feel like you are taking a journey with these soldiers, and you feel every step, every cut and understand the weariness by the end. You are surrounded by the bleakness, the death and the decay.
The movie does a good job showing stillness in contrast to our protagonists constant movement. There are endless soldiers just waiting. Tired, miserable. Waiting for their time to die. This contrasts the dynamic nature of a solider on a mission with those that are just waiting. You can understand why, and feel why, the soldiers both want to go on leave but also dread heading home to a family that doesn't understand the war and the pain that leaving them once more would bring. It's a constant push and pull of ecstasy and agony.
While I ire the filmmaking for both its visuals and storytelling the single take also has its drawbacks. It's hard not to feel sometimes that you are on one of those dynamic motion rides at an amusement park. You always are part of the action, but not really. Everything needs to happen in a way so the storytelling is clear, which is great, but also feels artificial at points. The same goes for the dialog which isn't the strongest. The writing in general is a bit mediocre and I'm not sure I ever fully understood all of the plot points or why they needed to play out the way they did.
That said, it nails what it is going for. This is a ride. An emotional, kinetic, awesome and horrifying ride.

This is an example of how to really nail a historic event movie. It doesn't do anything all that innovative, but it tells the incredible story of that mission perfectly. Ron Howard knows how to build characters, make us care about them and their families, rachet up tension and stick the landing all within a reasonable running time.

A perfectly fine movie that highlights some incredible women. These pioneering rocket scientists were amazing and critical to the space program and I am happy they have a movie about the work they did. I wish the movie did something a little more. The acting is ok. The writing is pretty bad. Every cliche that you would expect is here. A completely average movie.

Rewatching this for the first time since it came out. It's perfectly fine! Twisters destroy things and its a fun ride. I do think the chasing crew is a bit overstuffed. There's just too many of them! On the plus side they are all great actors, so its not really a detriment, I just wish we got a little more by having a little less.
The other obstacle is the repetition. You can only chase so many tornados and almost die before it becomes monotonous. I think it just barely skates by. It's good, but doesn't have anything special that makes it great or a movie that I want to continue to revisit.

Villeneuve recaptures everything that made part 1 great. This is a really solid movie. It's well told, all the pieces fit together. The problem I have with this movie is the same problem I had with the book. It's just not the most interesting story to me. Dreams and prophecies are some of my least favorite storytelling devices. This movie has to get through a lot of story and a lot of growth. It is only partially successful. I'm not sure I fully buy the arc of Paul and felt like his relationships were not fully given the chance to develop. That's at the heart of my core problem which is everything felt a bit stunted. It wasn't difficult to follow, but it moved so quickly that the emotional arc didn't have time to fully settle. There were too many of these arcs and none felt satisfying. Especially the villains who really seem to get an incomplete treatment.
That said, this still feels like its building towards a grand story. I wonder if my iration for the total story when its all done will be greater than any individual chapter.

Still thought this was a very solid sci-fi movie. Villeneuve creates an incredibly cool looking world. Everything about this is well made. The cast is great, the digital effects are flawless. It is an epic movie. It gets you invested in this story. It's only flaw is that it's a Part One and it kind of feels like it.

I was kind of avoiding this since I knew it was going to be bleak. And it is very bleak. But also incredibly well done. Capturing how utterly alone and vulnerable these girls are, just trying to get medical care. Never have men seem so lecherous. Every man that shows up or es by feels like a threat. They take it in stride since they always deal with this danger. I'm not sure that any other movie I've seen has captured that steady-state of anxiety as well as this one.
The movie is stripped down. There is almost no emotion between the girls, or really from anyone. Most bits of dialog are short. The reality and weight of their journey is really always kept forefront. The coldness is intentional and is used really effectively. It's a really difficult movie but one that is incredibly impactful. I think this one will linger with me for a long time.

1. 1917
2. The Clock
3. Enemy of the State
4. Past Lives
5. Le Corbeau
6. The Window
7. Panic
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. The Naked City
10. Joe Versus the Volcano

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

1. Roman Holiday
2. The Big Country
3. Detective Story
4. Wuthering Heights
5. The Children's Hour
6. The Heiress
7. The Little Foxes
8. The Letter
9. The Best Years of Our Lives
10. Funny Girl

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

1. Past Lives
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
4. Barbie
5. Oppenheimer
6. The Holdovers
7. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
8. Bottoms
9. Poor Things
10. Theater Camp

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My ranking of pre-1963 Westerns.

1. The Ox-Bow Incident
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. Westward the Women
4. The Big Country
5. Winchester '73
6. Bad Day at Black Rock
7. Ride Lonesome
8. Hud
9. The Naked Spur
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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

1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
2. Trouble in Paradise
3. It Happened One Night
4. Holiday
5. The Thin Man
6. Ninotchka
7. To Be or Not to Be
8. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
9. His Girl Friday
10. The Shop Around the Corner

• Air Force One
• Aliens
• Atomic Blonde
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Casino Royale
• Con Air
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Demolition Man
• Die Hard

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

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Ikiru
3. Seven Samurai
4. The Seventh Seal
5. Lola Montès
6. Dial M for Murder
7. Rear Window
8. Kanal
9. Europe '51
10. Ballad of a Soldier

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

• A Tale of Winter
• Real Life
• Kanal
• The Mortal Storm
• Shoeshine
• He Who Gets Slapped
• Ballad of a Soldier
• The Mother and the Whore
• Europe '51
• After the Wedding

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1. Incendies
2. Maelström
3. Prisoners
4. Arrival
5. Dune
6. August 32nd on Earth
7. Polytechnique
8. Sicario
9. Blade Runner 2049
10. Enemy

1. Dial M for Murder
2. Rear Window
3. Strangers on a Train
4. Psycho
5. North by Northwest
6. Rope
7. Rebecca
8. The Wrong Man
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Shadow of a Doubt

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

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• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Back to the Future
• Die Hard
• Big
• Get Out
• Groundhog Day
• Jaws
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Lawrence of Arabia
• On the Waterfront

1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Castle in the Sky
3. Spirited Away
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Ponyo
6. Kiki's Delivery Service
7. Whisper of the Heart
8. Howl's Moving Castle
9. Porco Rosso
10. Princess Mononoke

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

• Peter Pan

A ranked list of Herzog's films as decided by the Slashfilmcast Slack Community.

1. Grizzly Man
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
4. Little Dieter Needs to Fly
5. The Enigma of Kaspar Ha
6. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
7. Stroszek
8. Lessons of Darkness
9. My Best Fiend
10. Encounters at the End of the World

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

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Aliens
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Oldboy
5. Annie Hall
6. Taxi Driver
7. Die Hard
8. Three Colours: Red
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
10. Network

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

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Annie Hall
3. Aliens
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Oldboy
6. Taxi Driver
7. Network
8. Die Hard
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
10. Three Colours: Red

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A list of my favorite film for each year.

• Let Me Dream Again
• The Man with the Rubber Head
• A Trip to the Moon
• The Great Train Robbery
• The Impossible Voyage
• The Black Imp
• Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
• Tunneling the English Channel
• The Electric Hotel
• Those Awful Hats

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5 years ago I made it a goal to watch every film on the Empire Top 500. It's been a long, but rewarding, film journey. This is the Empire List in order of my preference.

It should be noted that a portion of the films were watched before my original goal 5 years ago. Some I've only seen once maybe 10 or 15 years ago. My thoughts and opinions have changed over time, but I tried to adjust for that as much as possible when ranking this list.

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Annie Hall
3. Three Colours: Red
4. Taxi Driver
5. Oldboy
6. The Dark Knight
7. Aliens
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
9. The Thing
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark

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The Western is not a genre I typically like, but there are exceptions to the rule. Here are my favorite films of the classic genre.

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. The Ox-Bow Incident
4. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
5. Slow West
6. The Great Silence
7. The Big Country
8. Unforgiven
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
10. True Grit

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• Chungking Express
• Gravity
• Children of Men
• Diabolique
• The Lost Weekend
• The Act of Killing
• The Hunt
• Adaptation.
• Schindler's List
• Persona

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1. L'Avventura
2. The Young and the Damned
3. Belle de Jour
4. Brief Encounter
5. Cabaret
6. Fantasia
7. Come and See
8. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
9. Kind Hearts and Coronets
10. Stalker

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1. 12 Angry Men
2. Annie Hall
3. Aliens
4. Taxi Driver
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. Oldboy
7. Network
8. Die Hard
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
10. Three Colours: Red

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Of the films by director Robert Bresson that I've seen, this is how I rank them.

• A Man Escaped
• Mouchette
• L'Argent
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Pickpocket

My favorite films from the 1990's. I'm sure the order could be juggled around a lot. It's been a long time since I've seen some of these movies, so when I get around to rewatching them they might jump up or drop out.

1. Three Colours: Red
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Before Sunrise
5. Three Colours: Blue
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Jurassic Park
8. Audition
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Chungking Express

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A ranked list of Kevin Smith's movies that I've seen.

• Clerks II
• Chasing Amy
• Clerks
• Mallrats
• Dogma
• Red State
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• Jersey Girl
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Cop Out

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