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Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

I feel so torn on this one. The first half is genuinely terrible—completely antithetical to what makes Mission: Impossible so special—while the second half is some of the most thrilling, jaw-dropping, how-the-hell-did-Tom-Cruise-not-die cinema spectacle I’ve ever seen. The Final Reckoning perfectly illustrates the futility of asg numerical ratings to art. How do you quantify a movie that made you miserable for an hour and a half, only to have you leaning forward in your seat, white-knuckling the armrests, more exhilarated than you’ve felt in years for the rest of its runtime?

2.5 stars with a heart might be the coward’s rating, but it fits. I loathe half of this movie—and love the other half.

Watched on Monday May 19, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

The art is the artist.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Expected my first post-Andor rewatch of Rogue One to recontextualize the film—and it did, just not in the way I anticipated. If anything, Andor doesn’t so much deepen Rogue One as it exposes its cracks, spotlighting its flaws and codifying its shortcomings as a piece of rejiggered corporate triage. The first hour is shaggy as hell, a blur of exposition dumps as the story hyper-space jumps from beat to beat. It’s not until the second half that the film finds a rhythm—and once it does, it’s pretty damn entertaining. But even then, the empty-calorie nostalgia hits—digitally resurrected Peter Cushing in the uncanny valley, the Vader iso clear-out, the endless winks to A New Hope—feel especially hollow after the rich narrative protein of its prequel series. If nothing else, I’ve come away with an even greater appreciation for Andor—a truly rare and remarkable achievement in franchise storytelling. Thank you, Tony Gilroy, for making a Star Wars story for the people who actually grew up.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

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Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Really struggling to remain somewhat objective and not give myself over to True Romance’s movie-nerd wish fulfillment by slapping a big ol’ fiver on this. It makes me feel like a hypocrite for liking it—and ashamed of myself for loving it. Every glaring hole and problem washes away when that Hans Zimmer score swells and Tony Scott starts cooking with the colors. I can’t help that I have a huge crush on Patricia Arquette and share the same pathetic fantasies Tarantino clearly had when he was my age. This was pure cinematic crack for me.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

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1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. John Wick: Chapter 2
3. John Wick
4. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

I abuse the fuck out of the watchlist feature, so I made an immediate watchlist.

1. John Wick: Chapter 4

   June Prep

2. Anora

   4k Blu-ray

3. Mickey 17

   4k Blu-ray - May 13 (Pre-Ordered)

4. Sinners

   4k Blu-Ray - TBA (Pre-Ordered)

5. Bottoms

   Blu-ray - May 27 (Pre-Ordered)

6. Clueless

   4k Blu-Ray - July 8 (Pre-Ordered)

7. Companion

   4k Blu-ray 

8. A Complete Unknown

   4k Blu-ray 

9. Flow

   4k Blu-ray - TBA (Pre Ordered)

10. A Minecraft Movie

    4k Blu-ray - June 24 (Pre-Ordered)

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

1. Sinners
2. Warfare
3. Black Bag
4. Grand Theft Hamlet
5. Eephus
6. Presence
7. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
8. Mickey 17
9. Final Destination Bloodlines
10. Friendship

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

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

1. Licorice Pizza
2. Dune
3. The Worst Person in the World
4. Titane
5. West Side Story
6. The French Dispatch
7. The Last Duel
8. Shiva Baby
9. Malignant
10. The Suicide Squad

...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Get Out
3. Dunkirk
4. John Wick: Chapter 2
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
6. The Florida Project
7. Call Me by Your Name
8. Good Time
9. Lady Bird
10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Final Destination 5
2. Final Destination Bloodlines
3. Final Destination 3
4. Final Destination
5. Final Destination 2
6. The Final Destination

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

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

All the movies I own on physical media

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• 127 Hours
• 12 Angry Men
• 12 Years a Slave
• 13 Going on 30
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• 1492: Conquest of Paradise
• 1917
• 2001: A Space Odyssey

...plus 1340 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2. The Avengers
3. Avengers: Endgame
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
5. Captain America: Civil War
6. Avengers: Infinity War
7. Iron Man
8. Captain America: The First Avenger
9. Black Panther
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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

Movies that I own on standard Blu-ray or DVD that have received a 4k Blu-ray release.

• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• 28 Days Later
• Allied
• American Hustle
• American Sniper
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Angels & Demons
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beauty and the Beast
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Prisoners
4. Arrival
5. Sicario
6. Dune
7. Enemy
8. Incendies
9. Polytechnique
10. Maelström

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

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

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

1. The Dark Knight
2. Oppenheimer
3. Interstellar
4. The Prestige
5. Tenet
6. Inception
7. Memento
8. Dunkirk
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Batman Begins

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

1. Step Brothers
2. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
3. The Big Short
4. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
5. The Other Guys
6. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
7. Vice
8. Don't Look Up

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Hateful Eight
3. Ex Machina
4. Creed
5. Sicario
6. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
7. Inside Out
8. Steve Jobs
9. The Revenant
10. The Martian

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. La La Land
2. The Nice Guys
3. Your Name.
4. Arrival
5. Everybody Wants Some!!
6. Hell or High Water
7. Manchester by the Sea
8. Silence
9. The Witch
10. The Handmaiden

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Whiplash
2. Interstellar
3. Gone Girl
4. John Wick
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Boyhood
7. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
8. Nightcrawler
9. Enemy
10. Under the Skin

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

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Red Rooms
3. Anora
4. The Substance
5. Nickel Boys
6. Challengers
7. The Brutalist
8. Sing Sing
9. I Saw the TV Glow
10. Rebel Ridge

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Tenet
2. Da 5 Bloods
3. First Cow
4. Palm Springs
5. Sound of Metal
6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
7. Soul
8. Mank
9. She Dies Tomorrow
10. The Invisible Man

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

1. Scream
2. Scream 2
3. Scream 4
4. Scream 3
5. Scream
6. Scream VI

1. John Wick: Chapter 4
2. Oppenheimer
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. The Holdovers
5. The Killer
6. Beau Is Afraid
7. Poor Things
8. Past Lives
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. The Iron Claw

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

1. Ocean's Eleven
2. Ocean's Twelve
3. Out of Sight
4. The Limey
5. sex, lies, and videotape
6. Solaris
7. Contagion
8. High Flying Bird
9. Ocean's Thirteen
10. Erin Brockovich

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

1. Eastern Promises
2. Naked Lunch
3. Crash
4. Videodrome
5. The Fly
6. A History of Violence
7. Scanners
8. Dead Ringers
9. The Brood
10. A Dangerous Method

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

1. The Fabelmans
2. RRR
3. Babylon
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Avatar: The Way of Water
7. Aftersun
8. The Northman
9. Nope
10. The Batman

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

1. Planet of the Apes
2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
3. War for the Planet of the Apes
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
6. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
7. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
8. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
9. Battle for the Planet of the Apes
10. Planet of the Apes

Just the Fox stuff

1. Logan
2. X-Men: First Class
3. X2
4. X-Men: Days of Future Past
5. Deadpool
6. Deadpool 2
7. X-Men
8. The Wolverine
9. X-Men: Apocalypse
10. X-Men: The Last Stand

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

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. Uncut Gems
3. The Irishman
4. Parasite
5. Little Women
6. Knives Out
7. Marriage Story
8. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
9. Midsommar
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

...plus 74 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Annihilation
4. First Reformed
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. mid90s
7. A Quiet Place
8. Game Night
9. Black Panther
10. Hereditary

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

Here’s hoping all of these movies actually come out in 2025. 

Honorable Mentions: After the Hunt, The Ballad of a Small Player, Bugonia, Die, My Love, and The Materialists. 

1. One Battle After Another
2. The Smashing Machine
3. Avatar: Fire and Ash
4. Eddington
5. No Other Choice
6. The Phoenician Scheme
7. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
8. F1 The Movie
9. Sinners
10. Marty Supreme

1. Fast Five
2. 2 Fast 2 Furious
3. The Fast and the Furious
4. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
5. Furious 7
6. Fast & Furious 6
7. Fast X
8. The Fate of the Furious
9. Fast & Furious
10. F9

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

1. The Karate Kid
2. The Karate Kid Part II
3. The Karate Kid Part III
4. The Next Karate Kid
5. The Karate Kid

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
3. TMNT
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Spider-Man
4. Spider-Man 2
5. Spider-Man 3
6. Spider-Man: No Way Home
7. Spider-Man: Far From Home
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
9. The Amazing Spider-Man
10. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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

1. Batman: Under the Red Hood
2. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
4. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
5. Batman: Year One
6. Superman vs. The Elite
7. Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two
8. The Death of Superman
9. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
10. Wonder Woman

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Suicide Squad
2. Wonder Woman
3. Aquaman
4. Shazam!
5. Man of Steel
6. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
7. Zack Snyder's Justice League
8. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
9. Blue Beetle
10. Shazam! Fury of the Gods

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

1. Creed
2. Rocky
3. Rocky IV
4. Rocky III
5. Creed II
6. Rocky Balboa
7. Rocky II
8. Creed III
9. Rocky V

1. Alien
2. Blade Runner
3. Gladiator
4. Kingdom of Heaven
5. Thelma & Louise
6. The Martian
7. Prometheus
8. American Gangster
9. The Last Duel
10. Black Hawk Down

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

1. Predator
2. Predator 2
3. Prey
4. Predators
5. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
6. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
7. The Predator

1. Before Sunset
2. Before Sunrise
3. Boyhood
4. Everybody Wants Some!!
5. Before Midnight
6. Dazed and Confused
7. School of Rock
8. Hit Man
9. Bernie
10. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

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

1. The Godfather
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Conversation
5. Bram Stoker's Dracula
6. One from the Heart
7. Rumble Fish
8. The Outsiders
9. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
10. The Godfather Part III

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

In honor of the spookiest time of year, which for my money is the best time of year, here is a list of all the horror movies I watched leading up to Halloween. Movies are not ranked, just listed in the order that I watched them. I want to do this every year and kick off each year with the filmography of a horror-centric director — this year, it was John Carpenter.

• Halloween
• The Fog
• The Substance
• The Thing
• Christine
• Prince of Darkness
• Terrifier
• Terrifier 2
• In the Mouth of Madness
• Village of the Damned

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

1. The Thing
2. Halloween
3. They Live
4. Assault on Precinct 13
5. Big Trouble in Little China
6. Escape from New York
7. Prince of Darkness
8. In the Mouth of Madness
9. Christine
10. The Fog

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

1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Prometheus
4. Alien: Covenant
5. Alien: Romulus
6. Alien³
7. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
8. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
9. Alien Resurrection

1. Unbreakable
2. The Sixth Sense
3. The Village
4. Signs
5. Split
6. Trap
7. Knock at the Cabin
8. The Visit
9. Old
10. Lady in the Water

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

1. The Evil Dead
2. Evil Dead II
3. Army of Darkness
4. Evil Dead Rise
5. Evil Dead

1. Rushmore
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. Isle of Dogs
7. The French Dispatch
8. Asteroid City
9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
10. Bottle Rocket

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

The Mann. The Myth. The Legend.

1. Heat
2. Thief
3. Miami Vice
4. The Insider
5. Collateral
6. Manhunter
7. The Last of the Mohicans
8. Ferrari
9. Public Enemies
10. Ali

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

1. The Departed
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Taxi Driver
4. The King of Comedy
5. After Hours
6. Casino
7. GoodFellas
8. The Irishman
9. Raging Bull
10. Shutter Island

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