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First time watching since the world premiere at TIFF and nearly 9 months later, I still think about the Subway sequence. Watching it again made my night. This film is nuts, you should go see it.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

If this is what Dean Fleischer Camp had to do in order to fund his next masterpiece, then so be it. 

Stitch is so fuckin’ cute though. Can’t hate that little guy.

Austin Butler’s Elvis and Jacob Elordi’s Elvis will never match Stitch’s Elvis. We know it’s true.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

What the fuck is “The Weeknd”? This guy looks stupid.

Not since Cast Away has a movie made me so glad to have all my teeth.

I need a duel between Alan from Barbie and Bjorn from The Phoenician Scheme to happen.

The Phoenician Scheme is a delightfully sharp blend of corporate espionage and eccentric adventure. The ensemble shines—especially Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera. Wes Anderson’s trademarks are in full force, but this felt like a real return to form for me.

Am I supposed to just go about my evening as if I didn’t just watch this?

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is a massive adrenaline rush that beautifully cumulates one of cinema’s greatest franchises. While the set pieces will leave you buzzing, it’s the emotional heft that left me shaken to my core. Yes, it is a mess. No, it’s not perfect by any means. But, I can confidently say it gave me what I wanted. What more do you want when watching a freakin’ Mission: Impossible film? You can feel however you want, but no one can change how I felt about this film. Perhaps I’m an idiot and am oblivious. If this is the absolute end, I will miss seeing Ethan Hunt and team on their misadventures.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

HE’S THE BRAINS, SWEETHEART

Watched on Sunday May 4, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

What happens in Capri, stays in Capri.

See? Not every MCU movie needs to rely on horrible humor. When we get something like this, where it tackles deep themes maturely, it can be rewarding. 

The MCU is back… for now…

I felt so alive watching this on the big screen tonight. It brought me back to being 7 years old and watching it opening weekend with my folks 20 years ago. What a gift to see this again in the theater.

TW: suicide

The year before this came out, I lost one of my best friends from childhood to suicide that summer. That also happened to be the year before I started my freshman year of high school. Whenever I revisit this film, it brings back those painful memories, not just because I was still grieving over my friend being gone. But, because I was holding in my pain, not opening up to anyone and constantIy being bullied. I saw so much of myself in Charlie. There’s something painfully real about how Logan Lerman portrays that character, to where I forget I’m watching an actor. I feel like I’m a fly on the wall, watching Charlie go through his highest of highs and lowest of lows. One of the best performances I’ve honestly seen in any coming-of-age. This film is really fantastic and while it may be a difficult one to revisit for myself, it’s always rewarding simultaneously.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

There’s something very euphoric about the shot of Mr. Darcy walking with that beautiful landscape behind him. Goosebumps every time I watch Pride & Prejudice.

Let’s keep creature puppetry alive, thanks.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

To any scene this year that tries to top that in Sinners, good fuckin’ luck.

I AM A GOLDEN GOD!

“I'm so tired of pretending everything is okay. It sucks being in so much pain. It sucks. Everything sucks. I don't want to be a memory for you. I don't want to be a voice in your head. I want to be happy together.”

Fucking gut punch of a film. Masterful.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

This Ryan Coogler guy, he just has it.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

I haven’t seen every film ever made, nor will I ever. It’s impossible. But, I genuinely believe, with every fiber of my being, that the best performance I have seen by an actor is Roy Scheider in All That Jazz.

I hope Joseph Quinn's vocal chords were okay after the filming of this. Talk about having to scream from the top of your lungs for 98% of your screen time.

- I'm not sure I've done much to be proud of. I've muddled through at best.
- But you've got through it. Some very tough times, I'm sure. And you're still here. That's what we're proud of.

- “Guess why I smile a lot.”
- “Why?”
- “Uh, 'cause it's worth it.”

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

It was jarring to see a cybertruck in the film.

I’M AS REAL AS A DONUT, MOTHERFUCKER

This is going to clean up next awards season, so get your ballots ready.

I wasn’t familiar with your game, Peyton Reed. More of this and less of the Ant-Man please?

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

To think Dopey had a more compelling arc than a majority of the characters in this.

Also, please stop hiring Gal Gadot. Thanks.

I think Anthony Carrigan is a national treasure and more people need to recognize that.

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

“‘Rage. Fury. Irritation. Humiliation.’ - Squidward Tentacles” - Bryan Sudfield, as he was watching The Electric State.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

The two stars are for Ayo Edebiri’s presence and John Malkovich’s outfits.

Your mission, shall you choose to accept it?

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

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• Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  
  

• Licorice Pizza

  
  

• Cha Cha Real Smooth

  
  

• Call Me by Your Name

  
  

• Y Tu Mamá También
• The Breakfast Club
• Boyhood
• Sing Street
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Grease

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

Films listed in alphabetical order.

• 12 Angry Men
• 2046

  Part of the WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI boxset. 

• 3 Women
• 8½
• Ace in the Hole
• After Hours
• After Life
• The Age of Innocence
• All About My Mother
• All of Us Strangers

...plus 119 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

1. Oppenheimer
2. Past Lives
3. The Holdovers
4. May December
5. Poor Things
6. BlackBerry
7. John Wick: Chapter 4
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. The Iron Claw
10. The Killer

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

2024, let's get it on.

All first-time watches for me, minus the Before trilogy - which my friend Matthew (my collaborator in this challenge) hasn’t seen. 

Watch in any order you’d like, at whatever pace you’d like, as long as it’s completed by 12/31/2024. 

Categories:

1. Spine #351-450 (randomizer)
2. Spine #601-700 (randomizer)
3. Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher
4. First film in your watchlist
5. Most recently added film in your watchlist
6. Longest runtime in your watchlist ✓
7. Most popular film in your watchlist
8. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
9. Criterion Staff Picks
10. New York Film Festival Favorites
11. Watch a film in the Saturday Matinee series "Observations on Film Art"
12. First Films - watch a directorial debut
13. Virtually Reality ✓
14. Random Number Generator ✓
15. Technicolor
16. Women Auteurs
17. Criterion Sight and Sound
18. Dreaming of a Holiday Movie Marathon
19. Watch a Netflix Original released by Criterion
20. 100 Years of Olympic Films
21. LGBTQ+ ✓
22. Directed by Luis Buñuel
23. Directed by Mai Zetterling
24. Starring Liv Ullmann
25. Italian Neorealism
26. Hong Kong Cinema
27. Made in Brazil
28. Ari Aster’s Closet Picks
29. Yo La Tengo’s Closet Picks ✓
30. Charlie Day’s Closet Picks ✓
31. Michael Shannon’s Closet Picks
32. Aubrey Plaza’s Top 10
33. Anthony Bourdain’s Top 10 ✓
34. Alan Arkin’s Top 10
35. Tunde Adebimpe’s Top 10
36. Genre: Made for TV
37. Genre: Family
38. Genre: Animation ✓
39. Genre: History
40. Guillermo del Toro’s Twitter Film recommendations
41. 1920s
42. 1930s
43. 1940s
44. 1950s
45. 1960s
46. 1970s
47. 1980s
48. 1990s
49. 2000s
50. 2010s ✓
51. 2020s
52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist ✓

Films completed:
Eyes Without a Face
Watership Down
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Daytrippers
F for Fake
Seven Samurai 
Personal Shopper
Moonage Daydream
Cruising
It Happened One Night

• The Last Emperor

  1. Spine #351-450

• La Promesse

  2. Spine #601-700

• All About Eve

  3. Watch a film with a rating of 4.3 or higher

• Funny Games

  4. First film in your watchlist

• The Last Days of Disco

  5. Most recently added film in your watchlist

• Seven Samurai

  6. Longest runtime in your watchlist

• The Before... Collection

  7. Most popular film in your watchlist

• Touki Bouki

  8. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project

• History Is Made at Night

  9. Criterion Staff Picks

• Irma Vep

  10. New York Film Festival Favorites

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Titanic
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Avatar
• The Abyss
• Aliens
• The Terminator
• True Lies
• Avatar: The Way of Water

A ranking of the films I watched at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.

1. The Holdovers
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Hit Man
4. Sing Sing
5. Dream Scenario
6. The Zone of Interest
7. American Fiction
8. The Boy and the Heron
9. Close to You
10. How to Have Sex

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

• Oppenheimer
• Memento
• The Dark Knight
• The Prestige
• Inception
• Dunkirk
• Batman Begins
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Interstellar
• Tenet

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

• 12 Angry Men
• 2046
• 8½
• Ace in the Hole
• After Hours
• After Life
• The Age of Innocence
• All About My Mother
• All That Jazz
• As Tears Go By

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

*subject to change at anytime, minus the top 10*

1. Catch Me If You Can
2. Back to the Future
3. Sideways
4. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
5. GoodFellas
6. The Breakfast Club
7. Hot Fuzz
8. The Social Network
9. The Shining
10. Garden State

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

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Return of the Jedi
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Solo: A Star Wars Story

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

• Evil Dead II
• The Evil Dead
• Army of Darkness
• Evil Dead
• Evil Dead Rise

*only including features (minus The Worst Person in the World, since I saw that at NYFF in 2021)*

1. Cha Cha Real Smooth
2. After Yang
3. Fresh
4. Emily the Criminal
5. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
6. Girl Picture
7. Am I OK?
8. Breaking
9. Happening
10. Emergency

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

• Ad Astra
• Two Lovers
• The Immigrant
• The Yards
• We Own the Night
• The Lost City of Z

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

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

Ranking the films I saw at the 57th New York Film Festival in 2019.

1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. Uncut Gems
4. Marriage Story
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
6. Pain and Glory
7. The Whistlers
8. Wasp Network

1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. Uncut Gems
4. Marriage Story
5. The Lighthouse
6. 1917
7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
8. Waves
9. Knives Out
10. Avengers: Endgame

• 1917
• Ad Astra
• Aladdin
• Alita: Battle Angel
• The Angry Birds Movie 2
• Apollo 11
• Avengers: Endgame
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• Blinded by the Light
• Bombshell

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

*Updated on March 22, 2017*

1. Sing Street
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Moonlight
4. Captain Fantastic
5. Nocturnal Animals
6. La La Land
7. Arrival
8. Silence
9. Paterson
10. Swiss Army Man

Watch this video for in-depth thoughts on the list - youtu.be/f3Set8XyIHc

1. The Martian
2. Inside Out
3. Creed
4. Steve Jobs
5. The Hateful Eight
6. The Revenant
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8. Spotlight
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Straight Outta Compton