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Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.
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What a life - a major presence in my childhood. An undercurrent of sadness pervades this whole thing.
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So goddamn solid
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Doesn't quite reach the heights of the previous two films, but it's still more Paddington, and for that I am grateful
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Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.
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This happened to me but instead of Brad Pitt it was Bluey
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Pretty good! Christoph Waltz obviously fucks and probably my favorite Brad Pitt performance.
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Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.
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THE perfect comedy
I don't know the last time my mom laughed this hard or this long
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Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.
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Very un-Black Mirror in the best way
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Didn’t fully connect with this one but I’m happy to see Will Poulter again
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Put me in The Court Jester and let me run away with Glynis Johns
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This review may contain spoilers.
Could have been a perfect episode if it ended literally 30 seconds sooner
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I don’t agree that this is a movie but I gotta boost my stats
Welcome back Black Mirror, I guess!!! I heard this new season was more like the early seasons, but this is especially bleak even by Black Mirror standards. Rashida Jones is the new queen of genre tv!
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There’s the meme of Pete being a literal monster in Mickey cartoons vs a suburban jerk in Goofy cartoons, but I think this Pete is the more insidious iteration. In this essay, I will
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Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.
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Greatest use of the kazoo in the history of cinema
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That kid’s going places
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Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.
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Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.
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Even better on second viewing
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Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.
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My mom recommended this - had a good time, I’m just not a horror guy
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Nasty little freak Steven Yeun
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The reason I don't have a drivers licence is I don't want to get Sunset Boulevarded and no one seems to understand that
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David Hyde Pierce is one of the best performers working today and I won’t hear anything to the contrary
Ewan McGregor is the perfect man
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holy shit it's a fucking train!!!!!
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Watched on Monday February 24, 2025.
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I was distracted by a Republican Online while watching this so I’ll circle back and give it the attention it deserves later but from what I can tell it’s a lot like The Terminator, and I like that movie
Shoutout to my buddy Alex who is one of the several people who reads these reviews
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Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.
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Can’t believe this guy was the Governor of California
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Unfortunately prescient. I think this is my first time watching since it was released in theaters- I was 15 years old at the time, so I didn't have the fullest understanding of what was really happening. Jesus Christ this thing is good!!!!
There's not much I can say to praise this film that hasn't been said hundreds of times already, but Fincher and Sorkin really are a match made in heaven. No attempt to portray Mark as any sort of hero. Casting is excellent across the board- after watching this and The Last Showgirl I think it's time for a Brenda Song renaissance.
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Watched on Saturday February 1, 2025.
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Why's everything gotta be so cynical these days? What happened to earnest, kind comedies like this?
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Lots of fun and insightful ideas, presented like a subpar youtube video essay.
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Not bad by any means, but didn’t do much for me. Might have enjoyed it more if I knew it was a true story going in, but I shouldn’t have to do homework to enjoy a movie right??
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Jesus Christ
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Just lovely! Great storytelling is its own reward. Farnsworth tugs the heartstrings.
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I can easily relate to the need to create art to survive - and very literally relate to the desire to create an online community to keep myself sane during COVID lockdown- so this was a very personal watch for me.
It’s not very often that I see all the joys of just having a bunch of people in a room together trying to make a play, riffing and goofing around, my favorite parts of the collaborative process. The need to innovate around unexpected obstacles, that I am dealing with constantly with my company.
Makes me want to do some quick and dirty Shakespeare, who’s in
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Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.
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Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.
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A detailed portrait of the sad, lonely person I’m terrified of becoming
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I’m am this movie’s exact target audience, the healing power of theater is incomparable
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Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.
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Welcome back, Brenda Song
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Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.
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Beautiful, beautiful film. Revolutionary. Haven’t been this bowled over by a new movie in ages. I’m speechless.
]]>The only true and correct ranking (feature length only)
]]>I demand to be taken seriously!
]]>A ranked list of new releases I saw in 2024, ranked by how much I liked them. You know what it is.
- Nickel Boys
- Sing Sing
- My Old Ass
- Wicked
- Anora
- Hard Truths
- A Different Man
- The Substance
- Juror #2
- Challengers
...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I absolutely adore this story, the novel, and most film and stage adapations - some are merrier than others. These are all of the ones I've seen. Tell me which one to watch next
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
- Mickey's Christmas Carol
- A VHS Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol
- Scrooge
- A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Another year, another list I won't finish. I'll try my best not to repeat entries from previous years.
1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset
2. Watch a film from the year you were born
3. Directed by Robert Altman
4. Watch a film that would be your first choice in the Criterion Closet
5. Great Soundtracks
6. John Turturro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
7. 1920s
8. Watch a film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025
9. 1930s
10. Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks
11. 1940s
12. Celine Song’s Top 10
13. 1950s
14. Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favorites lists
15. 1960s
16. Watch a film that is currently out of print from the physical collection
17. 1970s
18. William Friedkin’s Closet Picks
19. 1980s
20. Spine #451-499
21. 1990s
22. Documentary
23. 2000s
24. Janus Contemporaries
25. 2010s
26. Bill Hader’s Second Closet Picks
27. 2020s
28. Noir and Neonoir
29. All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks
30. Criterion Releases Never Picked in the Closet
31. North American film
32. Ayo Edebiri’s Closet Picks
33. Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing
34. South American film
35. Random Number Generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
36. AAPI Filmmakers
37. Watch a film shorter than 80 minutes
38. European film
39. Cult Movies
40. Isabella Rossellini’s Adventures in Moviegoing
41. Winona Ryder’s Closet Picks
42. African film
43. John Carpenter’s Top 10
44. Horror
45. Asian film
46. Dark Comedies
47. Rachel Kushner’s Adventures in Moviegoing
48. Australian film
49. Female Filmmakers
50. Ben Wheatley’s Closet Picks
51. A film by a director whose work you have not seen before
52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist
- Naked
- To Die For
- Short Cuts
- Throne of Blood
- La Bamba
- On the Waterfront
- Body and Soul
- Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
- Destry Rides Again
- Salesman
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>First Name Movies
- Annette
- Annie
- Anora
- Barbie
- Beetlejuice
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Coco
- Coraline
- Harvey
- Kiki's Delivery Service
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- 12 Angry Men
- 1776
- Amadeus
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Chimes at Midnight
- The Father
- Fences
- A Few Good Men
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Gaslight
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A ranked list of the movies I saw this year, you know what it is
(not including shorts)
- Poor Things
- The Holdovers
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Oppenheimer
- Barbie
- Asteroid City
- The Color Purple
- The Boy and the Heron
- Dream Scenario
- Killers of the Flower Moon
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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]]>I haven't completed one of these lists yet, but that won't stop me from making another!
1. Spine #351-450
2. Spine #601-700
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 (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
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
- Bicycle Thieves
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Ikiru
- Malcolm X
- The Flowers of St. Francis
- Shoah
- Fallen Angels
- The Housemaid
- Police Story
- The Exterminating Angel
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Magic Spot
- My Winnipeg
- Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
- Shutter Island
- Being There
- Inherit the Wind
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Ordinary People
- Lost Highway
...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My favorite part of this list is how clearly you can see when I was in middle/high school
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Birdcage
- Perfect Blue
- The Truman Show
- The Matrix
- Best in Show
- Spirited Away
- Lilo & Stitch
- School of Rock
- Shaun of the Dead
...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Movies for Jews
]]>On 2/3/2020, I began a chronological rewatch of every film released by Walt Disney Animation Studios. I'm ranking them by how much I like them on this rewatch. I'm also not including the WWII-era films that are just shorts put together.
- Lilo & Stitch
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Beauty and the Beast
- Alice in Wonderland
- Tarzan
- Sleeping Beauty
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Encanto
- Hercules
- Big Hero 6
...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My top 10 Best Picture nominees... ever
]]>New releases I saw this year, ranked by how much I liked them
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Glass Onion
- The Menu
- Women Talking
- RRR
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Decision to Leave
- The Whale
- TÁR
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I didn't finish the last two but I promise this one will be different
- Dreams
1. Random Number Generator
- Man Bites Dog
2. Made in Belgium
- A Brighter Summer Day
3. Made in Taiwan
- My Winnipeg
4. Made in Canada
- Colossal Youth
5. Made in Portugal
- Bringing Up Baby
6. Animals in the Collection
- L'Avventura
7. Films To Fall Asleep To
- About Tap
8. Black Music Films
- Mandabi
9. Black Lives Collection
- Scenes from a Marriage
10. Heartbreak Heaven: Films to Watch When You’re Questioning Love
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>As I create this list, I have not finished my 2021 list, but it can't hurt to dream
All first watches for me, you can do whatever you want
OP, including list of categories, here: letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/bslaby/list/the-criterion-challenge-2022/
- Dead Man
1. Watch a movie from the year you were born.
- Safety Last!
2. 1920s
- M
3. 1930s
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
4. 1940s
- Rashomon
5. 1950s
Watched 1/1/22
- Peeping Tom
6. 1960s
- Céline and Julie Go Boating
7. 1970s
- Paris, Texas
8. 1980s
- The Silence of the Lambs
9. 1990s
Watched 1/7/22
- Punch-Drunk Love
10. 2000s
Watched 1/2/22
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>That's my list and I'm stickin to it!
]]>Movies I watched for the first time this year that I liked a lot, excluding new releases (usually 4.5 or 5 stars but some 4-star movies could sneak in)
Listed in viewing order
- Matewan
- Ponyo
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Nashville
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- The Master
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Rear Window
- Train to Busan
- Amadeus
...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Best in Show
- Big Night
- Citizen Kane
- Do the Right Thing
- Fences
- Hamlet
- Jojo Rabbit
- Matilda
- A New Leaf
- A Quiet Place
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Silly Stunts
- The Blues Brothers
- The Cameraman
- Deadpool
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The General
- Hot Fuzz
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- RRR
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Shaun of the Dead
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>This list is definitive and correct, and if you think your favorite movie is ranked too low, I’m glad and I wish it was lower
(Full disclosure I still haven’t seen The Incredible Hulk or the first two Thors)
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Iron Man 3
- WandaVision
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Black Panther
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I’ve been trying to finish the Miyazaki catalog, so if it’s not on the list yet it’s because I haven’t seen it. I realize some of my opinions may be controversial, but that if we have a disagreement, I’m right
]]>Saw this on Twitter and wanted to contribute- some movies I like with fewer than 15,000 watches logged on letterboxd
- 1776
- The Band's Visit
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Brigadoon
- Chimes at Midnight
This one is just barely over 15k but it’s so good trust me
- Evil Under the Sun
- Hellzapoppin'
- The Last of Sheila
- Local Legends
- Matewan
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I love musicals and I'm gonna watch a bunch of em in the month of March- first watches and rewatches- let me know if you have any suggestions. These are some of the ones I'm thinkin about.
- The 3 Penny Opera
- Anchors Aweigh
- Annie Get Your Gun
- The Band Wagon
- Bugsy Malone
- Cabaret
- Camelot
- Cannibal! The Musical
- Carmen Jones
- Carousel
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Movies that make you say "hey, Alfred Molina's in this!"
]]>New releases I saw this year, ranked by how much I liked them
- West Side Story
- Drive My Car
- The Power of the Dog
- C'mon C'mon
- Encanto
- Licorice Pizza
- Flee
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Nine Days
- In the Heights
...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My friend Sarah can’t be bothered to update her own watch list, so this is a list of movies I think she would like. You can ignore this list if you’re not her.
- Adaptation.
- Dogville
- Perfect Blue
- Dead Ringers
- Sense and Sensibility
- Galaxy Quest
- Moonstruck
- Speed Racer
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- The Florida Project
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I've seen a few lists like this and I wanted to add my two cents. Some movies I liked that I watched for the first time this year, excluding new releases. Listed roughly in the order I watched them. I'll try to keep it concise.
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Perfect Blue
- Brazil
- The Young Girls of Rochefort
- All That Jazz
- Tokyo Godfathers
- Ran
- Boogie Nights
- A New Leaf
- My Dinner with Andre
...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Gonna see how many of these I can do. All first watches.
Completed: 30/52
OP: boxd.it/aqtYi
Categories:
1. 1984 - watch a film released the year of Criterion's inception.
2. Directed by Akira Kurosawa
3. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
4. Horror
5. Released on Laserdisc
6. Made in Spain
7. Wes Anderson's Top 10
8. Romance
9. A silent film
10. 1920s
11. 1930s
12. 1940s
13. 1950s
14. 1960s
15. 1970s
16. 1980s
17. 1990s
18. 2000s
19. 2010s
20. Directed by a woman
21. A film featured in the "Pioneers of African American Cinema" series
22. Documentary
23. Comedy
24. Any film on The Criterion Channel
25. Martin Scorsese's Top 10
26. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
27. Directed by Federico Fellini
28. The Merchant Ivory Collection
29. Oscar Winners
30. Black and white
31. Directed by Charlie Chaplin
32. Watch any film featured in the Godzilla Boxset
33. Western
34. Made in Italy
35. Made in the Soviet Union
36. Made in India
37. A film from the Eclipse series
38. Kelly Reichardt's Top 10
39. Directed by John Cassavetes
40. Watch a film between spine #100-200
41. Film Noir
42. Samurai
43. A film featured in the "Queersighted: Queer Fear" series
44. A film featured in the "New Korean Cinema" series
45. Directed by Ingmar Bergman
46. Directed by Agnes Varda
47. Based on a book
48. Foreign-Language Oscar Winners
49. Josh and Benny Safdie's Closet Picks
50. Watch a film with spine #1000 or higher
51. Watch a film featured in "Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits"
52. Any Criterion film on your watchlist
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
1. 1984 - watch a film released the year of Criterion's inception.
- Ran
2. Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Watched 2/3/21 - Band of Outsiders
3. Directed by Jean Luc Godard
Watched 9/8/21
- Eraserhead
4. Horror
watched 2/20/21
- Boogie Nights
5. Released on Laserdisc
Watched 2/28/21 - Pan's Labyrinth
6. Made in Spain
Watched 1/22/21 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle
7. Wes Anderson's Top 10
- A Room with a View
8. Romance
Watched 3/9/21 - Pandora's Box
9. Silent Film
- The Cameraman
10. 1920s
Watched 1/21/21
...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My favorites based on fairy tales (including some extremely loose adaptations)
- Cinderella
- Cinderella
- Enchanted
- Frozen
- Into the Woods
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Princess Bride
- Shrek
- Shrek 2
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Best TV-to-Film adaptations
- 21 Jump Street
- The Addams Family
- The Blues Brothers
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Get Smart
- Hey Arnold! The Movie
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Pokémon: The First Movie
- Popeye
- The Rugrats Movie
...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Favorite dance scenes in film (tried not to pick exclusively musicals, but c'mon)
- All That Jazz
- Anchors Aweigh
- Another Round
- The Artist
- Beetlejuice
- The Birdcage
- Call Me Madam
- Cats Don't Dance
- Chicago
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My ranked list of movies released in 2020 (according to the Academy), you know the deal
- Nomadland
- Minari
- Promising Young Woman
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Another Round
- Palm Springs
- The Father
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Soul
...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films with witches, wizards, and other assorted spellcasters
- Doctor Strange
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Hocus Pocus
- Into the Woods
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Over the Garden Wall
- Shrek 2
- Spirited Away
- The Sword in the Stone
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A ranked list of movies I saw that came out this year, based on how much I liked them.
Also not including documentaries because they don't give me the same kind of *feels* that I base most of my ratings on
- Little Women
- Parasite
- Jojo Rabbit
- Marriage Story
- The Peanut Butter Falcon
- The Farewell
- Knives Out
- Booksmart
- 1917
- Avengers: Endgame
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A ranked list of movies I saw that came out this year, based on how much I liked them
- The Favourite
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- A Star Is Born
- Paddington 2
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Black Panther
- BlacKkKlansman
- Widows
- Mary Poppins Returns
...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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