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Pretty much a perfect spy thriller and one of those films I never tire of watching.

Doesn't quite reach the peak that Fallout hit and Dead Reckoning maintained, with an exposition heavy script slowing things down a bit too much in parts. But this is still just as much of a superb technical achievement as any previous entry and I ired the sharper focus on personal stakes and Hunt as a character this time around. Cruise remains one of the most magnetic screen actors of any era and I'll gladly keep watching these as long he cares to make them.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

The 2nd act makes promises the 3rd doesn't keep, as it turns away from the kitchen sink premise and settles for a generic horror conclusion. But, for a film I had zero expectations of, this was fairly amusing and sufficiently gnarly in parts.

20th Anniversary screening

Amusingly violent but generally pointless horror comedy that isn't particularly scary or funny.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Still can't fully get behind this one, which you can chalk down to poor navigation between the light, comic MCU tone and the bleak political thriller one. It makes it very hard to take any of the stakes seriously which results in this feeling like a bunch of prolonged sequences of people punching each other.

Watching this closely after the first makes this one seem decent by default, as this one has elements it's predecessor does not, like story and character development. A really sluggish and drawn out story with pretty basic character development, but story and character nonetheless and combined with better production values and a definite step up in of gore gags (the only thing anyone is watching these for). Sort of reminded of a Rob Zombie movie at it's infrequent best, which is the best compliment I can give it.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Movie of the year so far, a galvanic and inspired genre-bender and easily Coogler's best work to date.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Almost heroically repulsive but unforgivably dull.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Pretty to look at and driven by three strong central performances, but everything thematically is bluntly stated through dialogue or obvious symbolism. Not necessarily a bad thing, but a limiting one that leaves little room for any thought or interpretation.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

A unfocused mess that introduces characters and ideas as quickly as it dismisses them, but a healthy dose of sweaty Nawlins atmosphere and one of Baldwin's better performances make it an intriguing and enjoyable mess.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

An unexpectedly low key espionage thriller elevated by Soderbergh's formal precision and strong performances across the board.

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

Very dull and obvious and the double De Niro act is more distracting than inspired. I generally like Levinson as a director, but he's one of the last people I would suggest to take es at Scorsese and Once Upon A Time In America.

This one has grown on me a bit. W.S' simple, elegant frames go a long way in elevating a stock horror survival picture. Would make a good double feature with John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Oh boy, what a mess. W.S has always been a formally dazzling filmmaker with a questionable taste in material, so it doesn't surprise that this is narratively and thematically all over the place, not to mention cobbled together from several better films. What does surprise me is how dreary this is visually. I won't call it flat-out ugly, but it's definitely amongst his least appealing films in that regard. Milla and particularly Bautista try their best to sell it, and I ire the ambition, but it just doesn't quite come together as Fury Road meets GoT that W.S obviously envisioned it as being.

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 10, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

RIP Gene Hackman.

Formally precise and gleefully violent, but constantly grating and obnoxious.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Intermittently cute and amusing and helped a lot by two solid leads, and I ire the attempt at fusing the two genres even if the final result is a bit too uneven to really stick the landing.

Watched on Tuesday February 18, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

Perfectly fine, although it is telling that the most resonant moments are when we're just hearing these classic songs being recreated. Chalamet is good, but he honestly deserved the Oscar nod for Dune Part Two over this.

Simultaneously grand and intimate, meticulously designed and composed and beautifully performed and THE pop masterpiece of the decade, maybe even this century, thus far.

A simple and effective horror served well by good performances and direction. Does exactly what you expect it to really well.

Watched on Tuesday February 4, 2025.

A perfect movie.

Woefully underrated and totally ahead of it's time. Despite it's many flaws, I never fail to get a kick out of this one.

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

1. Dune: Part Two
2. A Different Man
3. The Substance
4. Rebel Ridge
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. The Brutalist
7. Here
8. Trap
9. The Wild Robot
10. Anora

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

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. The Terminator
3. True Lies
4. Total Recall
5. Predator
6. Commando
7. Last Action Hero
8. Red Heat
9. Sabotage
10. Conan the Barbarian

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

Whoever wins, Aliens Vs Predator loses.

1. Aliens
2. Predator
3. Alien
4. Alien³
5. Predator 2
6. Prometheus
7. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
8. Alien Resurrection
9. The Predator
10. Predators

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

"I don't change my style for anybody. Pussies do that."

1. Armageddon
2. The Rock
3. Bad Boys II
4. Ambulance
5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
6. 6 Underground
7. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
8. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
9. Pain & Gain
10. Pearl Harbor

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

1. The Last Boy Scout
2. Days of Thunder
3. True Romance
4. Man on Fire
5. Crimson Tide
6. Domino
7. Revenge
8. Unstoppable
9. Déjà Vu
10. The Fan

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

1. The Thing
2. Escape from New York
3. Halloween
4. Assault on Precinct 13
5. Christine
6. Prince of Darkness
7. Starman
8. Big Trouble in Little China
9. Ghosts of Mars
10. Vampires

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

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. New Nightmare
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
7. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

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

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

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

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

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. The Terminator
3. Aliens
4. True Lies
5. The Abyss
6. Titanic
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
8. Avatar

"Cool party."

1. Batman Returns
2. Batman
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Batman
5. Batman Forever
6. Zack Snyder's Justice League
7. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
8. Batman & Robin
9. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
10. Batman Begins

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

• Superman
• Superman II
• Batman
• Batman Returns
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
• Batman Forever
• Batman & Robin
• Blade
• Blade II
• Spider-Man

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

"I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd."

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Jackie Brown
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Django Unchained
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
8. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Death Proof

Sequels/threequels/whatever-quels that are better than the first film in the series. All in my opinion, of course.

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Aliens
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Toy Story 2
• The Dark Knight
• Batman Returns
• Bad Boys II
• Death Wish 3
• Rocky IV

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

Ranking Cruise's best performances is nearly impossible, considering he brings 100% to every movie, but these 10, for me, make a pretty solid case for why he's one of the best of the best.

And no, Days Of Thunder is not a joke.

1. Born on the Fourth of July
2. Magnolia
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Rain Man
5. Jerry Maguire
6. Collateral
7. The Color of Money
8. Vanilla Sky
9. War of the Worlds
10. Days of Thunder