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Bombastic and big, as Cruise promised, but I have no idea why it was so lore heavy. Does anyone care? I don't even know what the character of Ethan Hunt is beyond "a great spy". Here they talk about him like some kind of Messiah, pure and peerless and without the pesky faults that humans are inundated with, like temptation of power.

Still, that's neither here nor there. This is an action movie that just wants to entertain, and entertain it does. The analog airplane sequence is great, as expected, but I loved the wordless interlude in the submarine. And I think it's a massive improvement over the previous entry which got bogged down in its own story threads, and this rightly spends a lot of time untying those knots and making things leaner (while still a bit bloated).

Enjoyable as hell, and definitely a franchise that has kept up an extraordinary quality throughout its run. I still much prefer the first one, with its 60s Euro thriller Melville meets Hitchcock as interpreted by De Palma ethos.

A valiant attempt to revive the National Treasure/Mummy/Indiana Jones/Uncharted style of adventure flick but definitely lacking a lot in of charm and jaunt that makes those movies work.

It's enjoyable enough fluff, I like the globetrotting element of it, but not very memorable, and the writing is terribly stock (some of the dialogue from Kransinski is really bad, although he is committed to ham it up). I think the whole subplot with Portman's family is complete deadweight. Her character also spends way too much time as a naysayer who doesn't want to go on an adventure. You don't need that kinda stuff in this kinda movie, or at least not this limp attempt.

And Krasinski, who was so great at flirting with Pam all those years on The Office has zero chemistry with Eiza Gonzales. Nic Cage had more chemistry with Sean Bean.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Coens Retro - Ethan only

Among their solo efforts, I much prefer this loosey-goosey romp with transitions like a porn parody from Ethan as compared to the strict and bare formalism of Joel's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

It helps that the cast is filled with some grand names, in small and big parts, all willing to make goofs out of themselves for Coen (much like Clooney did for the brothers back in the day), chiefly an incredibly randy Margaret Qualley and deadpan Geraldine Viswanathan.

I enjoyed it a lot and am looking forward to Honey, Don't! which adds Aubrey Plaza, someone who fits so well in Coens' world that I am surprised they haven't worked together before.

Coens Retro - Joel only

Purely as an aesthetic exercise, this is grand (the light and shadow work alone), aided by an always reliable Denzel, but as someone who is a complete philistine when it comes to Shakespeare, the faithful text-as-dialogue had me straining a lot. Hence, my enjoyment was limited. I much prefer Shakespeare adaptations in the style of Ran or Throne of Blood.

A solidly made solo entry by Joel, but I am sure I am not alone in saying that I hope the brothers get back together soon.

Paolo "I'm not perverted, I'm just Italian" Sorrentino strikes again (hey, I get it, man) with this tale of beauty, youth, existentialism, sex, desire, pretty privilege, but no Toni Servillo. What is even the point?

On a side note, with the first time American Pope elected, it's time to re-earth this Sorrentino gem. I might be persuaded to jump ship if this is how baptism works.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

I find it a bit sad that a sequel to a moderately commercially successful movie that is pretty fondly ed is just unceremoniously dumped, even though it has all the same principals involved. I would have thought it would be a bigger deal but apparently I am mistaken. Or maybe it is because the first one didn't warrant a sequel and hence anticipation for this is low? I mean there was barely any publicity for this, or maybe I missed it altogether?

The movie itself is fine, not as fun as I the first one being, but does coast on Blake Lively's sexually confident and in your face performance - she plays every scene like it can turn into a sex scene, whereas all the others treat it like one of those Paul Feig comedies from 2010s that belong in the last decade.

The plot is ludicrous and at times clumsily goofy which is also something I do not from the first one. Almost feels like a spinoff of Mamma Mia! - not a joke, and at times Feig shoots it like a tourism ad. The movie is best when it is just Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. The rest is so mediocrely bland that it is retrospectively making me think poorly of the first one. It literally borrows a plot point from Intolerable Cruelty, and we all know the Coens are not serious people.

However, still sad to see it dumped into the landfill of streaming only content by the service that also delivers your toilet rolls! The art form lives. Eat your heart out, Marty!

Far better than what I was expecting mainly because the central group of misfit heroes is quite good when they are in a The Thick of It style insult comedy rather than this four quadrant side piece of middle brow entertainment franchise that basically boils down to this.

Made more interesting by its structure, like early Iñárritu movies, and the specificity of its setting - you can see this crime drama unfold in a number of settings (especially gritty urban crime settings) but here the Irish shepherd angle makes it novel. Good stuff.

Good casting, too, and Abbott continues to impress in roles that stand apart from other actors of his generation by how uncommercial they are (minus Kraven and Wolf Man, a man's gotta eat!). He will be next seen in East of Eden, I believe with Florence Pugh and Mike Faist.

Toronto plays itself and the movie makes plenty of use of all the landmarks afforded in and around Downtown and that was my main interest in this.

In addition it is pretty twee and whimsical in parts, a mix of modern rom com vibes and some old school touches (it is based on an 18th century novel), something that would tickle Wes Anderson a lot.

It's a charming, light, breezy good time and enjoyed seeing unabashed display of Toronto a lot.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Farm Girls @ Paradise

Uncommonly beautiful looking. I was struck by image after image. And Malick was ahead of his time: shooting in Alberta.

It took me about 20 minutes to get on the wavelength of this, but by the end I was riveted. The plot isn't that unique (it's basically a glorified love triangle to be very reductive), but it's the visual eloquence which has always been Malick's forte, sometimes to his actors' dismay (cue clip of Colin Farrell and Christopher Plummer complaining about it), but there's something about the images that just captures you. It hasn't always worked for him since The Tree of Life but here it did for me.

Glad I waited to see this on the big screen for the first time. It was really something else.

For Gareth, the action is the juice.

If I looked like Javier Bardem, I would also be far more open to propositioning strangers without batting an eye.

Rebecca Hall does a good Woody Allen particularly in a lot of earlier scenes when she's arguing with Javier Bardem. I think this has enough of variation and spark in the usual Allen formula that it stands apart from the pack and he was still early in his European phase. The performances are uniformly great: Rebecca Hall in one of her earliest and still best roles, and Javier Bardem who plays the part of a seductive-bohemian-artist-soul-with-sad-eyes to perfection. Not to mention Penelope Cruz in her Oscar winning role as she goes for broke and has that volatile chemistry with Bardem for obvious reasons.

I have always found Allen's ruminations on the messiness of romance enveloped in an entertainingly comedic package very appealing. They often start and end at the same point for their characters, the mysteries of love remain tangled, love is undefinable, terribly mercurial and transient, and there's no ing for what the heart desires, and often you don't even know what it is.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

I absolutely loved it. I have a soft spot for siege movies (probably because of a childhood playing shoot 'em up video games that inevitably involved sieges) and this movie is steeped so much in a time and a place, letting the tension build and build, releasing in controlled amounts here and there and then opening the valves full throttle.

This is a B-movie concept (I am sure there will be comparisons to From Dusk till Dawn) elevated to some grade A filmmaking and a phenomenal lineup of people especially Michael B. Jordan pulling double duty. The use of blues as a critical driver of plot was great because it resulted in the best sequence of the movie, and the music overall was tremendous.

It's solid filmmaking, swing for the fences, something crowd pleasing and entertaining as hell. Looks beautiful. When that aspect ratio change hit, that was the shit. And like all siege movies, the build up in your head is way more epic than the final result, but still, doesn't mean it's not good.

20th Anniversary screening

Remains such a delightfully charming and heartwarming adaptation with an amazing Keira Knightley. I hadn't seen it in years, and this was as good a time as any to revisit, with a jam packed crowd, all zealous irers clearly.

There is no surprise this has endured for all these years. It's just so well made, and looks damn good - I had forgotten that element. This strikes that balance between the optimism of finding a swooning romance with your intellectual match, yet also keeping the practicalities of status and class in mind, because after all, marriages for centuries were meant to maintain a social structure. Love was hardly the point.

Missing that Tony Gilroy touch who's always great in merging bureaucratic detail in a thriller story and have both of them be equally interesting.

This one has an interesting hook: the surveillance state and the uneasy (and rights encroaching) alliance between tech and state, but I think shoehorning Bourne doesn't work, particularly with a hackneyed story about finding truth about his father who has connections to whatever we learned in the original trilogy, and also absolving Bourne in his part in the actions prior to his amnesia, making him less interesting, in my opinion. I liked Bourne as he realizes that he wasn't some hero on a journey to make the world a better place, but basically a hired gun and he has to live with that information. It was a happy ending for the Bourne we knew but not for Bourne the character.

In a way this is a more personal story for Bourne but somehow also less interesting. Damon remains great in the role as ever, even if the material doesn't ask of him to do anything special. And Greengrass has a few great set pieces which has always been the meat of this franchise, with the gravy being the story. But the gravy wasn't good this time.

The new cast is solid. Damon's old cast-mates (the man has worked with everyone - we should make a six degrees game with him like we have with Bacon) Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones are fun additions, with Alicia Vikander as the hotter, younger, sexier Pamela Landy (I am just repeating the casting notes that went out!), and Riz Ahmed is a stereotypical, but all too familiar, tech guy.

All in all disappointed that Damon and Greengrass returned for such a weak story, and didn't bring along Gilroy. Let's see if Damon returns for Edward Berger's rumoured update. I would always like to see Damon in this role, and the thought of a grizzled Bourne is not unappetizing, but the enthusiasm is at an all time low after this entry (although this made a lot of money - was second highest grossing of the franchise, so it didn't kill the franchise financially, but maybe the creative strains were too obvious).

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Coens retro

And thus ends my Coens retro (still got their individual efforts to get to), and it just reinforced my iration for them. They are without a doubt wholly original and unique, and have maintained an unusually high quality of output nearing on 30+ years which is rare and impressive. They may have collectively peaked with Inside Llewyn Davis but anyone willing to write them off would be a fool, and I am eagerly awaiting their reunion (which they've hinted at but not confirmed).

This anthology, like all anthologies, wavers in quality across its six tales, but even a somewhat mediocre Coens brother piece of work is suitably well made and not without its merits. This feels like a bunch of stories they didn't know how to extend to feature length and the compromise was to do an anthology, which is a good compromise, I guess. The stories don't overstay their welcome (The Gal Who Got Rattled is the longest and probably the least interesting despite solid performances from Kazan and Heck). All of them touch different facets, clichés and characters of Old West that we have come to know from movies and stories, but with their own twist of melancholy, dark humour and most of all, the wanton violence that accompanied life in the Wild West.

All in all, I hope this isn't the last Coens collab we see. The world of movies is a poorer place with them not contributing in it.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

A solid if unremarkable update of the Thai original, definitely lesser than its progenitor. What works is Callina Liang (who was also a highlight in Soderbergh's Presence) and Benedict Wong. Rest of the cast is a bit weak, and the movie as a whole is not as slickly made as a heist thriller like the original. Feels more like a teen drama at times. But not a bad 95 minutes (which is around 30 minutes shorter than the original).

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

Detour @ Fox Theatre

Been a while since I saw this. I ed it being very grimy and gritty and that remains true. Also remains the detail oriented procedural that Friedkin creates (which he would repeat in Sorcerer and To Live and Die in L.A.) with an absolutely gut punch of an ending, mostly for what it conveys: the futility of a lost cause.

Hackman (whose ing prompted this, and many other, screenings across Toronto) is terrific and he doesn't make Popeye likeable or heroic or any of those adjectives that are supposed to convey mass appeal. Instead it's a man as dirty and rotten as the streets he is meant to protect.

On rewatching this and Sorcerer, I think I favour the latter a bit more when considering Friendkin's work, but they are neck to neck.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Another trek across the sun. Something very near and dear to my heart to numb the pain.

This was my first Scorsese back in the day. I saw when it came out and I am not lying when I say I didn't even understand half the curses in it. But I knew I loved it and in hindsight it's baffling this very, very elevated self-declared B-picture is what got Scorsese all the accolades. But then again the Oscars were in the mood for something bloody in the years 2006 and 2007, giving Best Picture to this followed by only the greatest movie of 21st century: No Country for Old Men.

It moves like a bullet train on fire, is acted with some high calibre actors let loose by a director who wanted to get gritty and dirty (Nicholson is completely unhinged, Wahlberg didn't even know when the cameras were rolling, Damon should play more villains, and Leo is almost Shakespearean in his tragedy), edited with no love for any conventions of editing (fuck you, continuity), written in some extreme flowery language and uses The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd (okay, Roger Waters) and pièce de résistance I'm Shipping up to Boston. It's a perfect cocktail.

I think De Niro was offered Queenan but instead opted for The Good Shepherd with Damon, which is a triumph as well, but would have been great to see De Niro in this, not least because he would have shared the screen with Nicholson ... again (The Last Tycoon fans, anyone?).

Immensely goofy as Dante's work is wont to be and a very game cast, led by Tom Hanks when he was squarely doing comedies and light hearted fare. It's no Gremlins or Matinee but a lot of fun.

Coens Retro

Tons of fun, and as Coens comedies go, very stuffed and fast moving, with a vast array of colourful characters. Is not considered top shelf Coens, but for me, definitely falls in that category, with another buffoonish Clooney performance and some great Golden Age behind the scene shenanigans.

I enjoy this goofy comedy quite a bit. Nothing more to it.

Between this and Wolfman, Christopher Abbott must be running out of residuals from James White.

Coens Retro

Llewyn is the cat.
No, Llewyn HAS the cat. I am Llewyn. I have the cat.

In a lesser movie Llewyn would have taken a detour to Akron. but not in a Coens brother movie. There's no closure or neat lessons in life, especially for someone like Llewyn.

Even by Coens' standards, this is devoid of a traditional story or narrative. It has a plot and things happen, but there's no build up, no end point where this is heading, a true "it's the journey not the destination" kinda movie.

Yeah, sorry, Papi. I am an asshole.

Coens Retro

A very reverential Western from the Coens, after the two very idiosyncratic and very much their "own" movies they made after No Country for Old Men. This is not without the Coens' trademark dark humour and character work, and hence has their imprint in a very traditional cinematic genre (they will make a much weirder Western soon after, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for Netflix back when Netflix was writing carte blanches for auteurs, short lived that turned out to be).

A really good Western which benefits from excellent casting, especially Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld (what a find), and Roger Deakins' beautiful cinematography (maybe his best work with the brothers beyond No Country for Old Men).

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

My favourite of the original three (they never should have made the fourth one and for the longest time Damon and Greengrass kept saying no, until they caved - not sure why, beyond the money, of course).

So many memorable moments: the Waterloo station set piece, the amazing Tangiers sequence - special shoutout to Bourne stealing clothes off of clothesline before revealing the reason, the finale at the rooftop, Julia Stiles' smile at the end, the call backs to the first one: cutting hair to go incognito, Bourne ending up in water by the end, look at us, look at what they make you give, the additions of Albert Finney, Scott Glen (another White Lotus season 3 star - this franchise is just loaded with them) and the perennially unsung David Strathairn.

The black sheep of the trilogy (until the fourth one), I think because Greengrass, who took over the reins from Liman, drastically changed the style, made it more gritty (the much discussed handheld style) along with more geopolitical clandestine angle as compared to one man just trying to figure out who he was in the first one.

Tony Gilroy's script is tight, and is filled with great moments and lines, delivered by some very capable actors (Joan Allen is a fantastic addition to an already solid cast).

Plus the ending is one of my favourites, get some rest, Pam. You look tired. and extreme ways starts playing, which seems like a song made for this trilogy. Other great moments splintered throughout (Joan Allen and Brian Cox battling it out is great), but this is a great exchange:

What if I can't find her?
It's easy. She's standing right next to you.

No one does a mic drop over a phone quite like Bourne.

This was a perennial favourite of mine two decades ago, and saw it many, many times on cable re-runs, the whole trilogy (along with Ocean's trilogy - is it any surprise Damon is one of my favourite actors?).

I I used to love moments like Bourne looking at the exits on a fire escape plan, the monologue where he shows off his observational aptitude despite amnesia, and I couldn't get enough of Look at us, look at what they make you give line from Clive Owen. The hand-to-hand fights were well choreographed, the plot while familiar wasn't hackneyed, at least at that point in the evolution of this sort of movie.

This movie transcends the genre trappings it was borne (sorry!) out of: airport thriller by one of the OG airport thriller writers, Robert Ludlum. It's kinetic, it's almost got no fat, a terrific lineup (apart from Damon it has Brian Cox and Chris Cooper, plus a can't-do-any-wrong Julia Stiles), amazing European locales.

P.S. Walton Goggins has an unnamed bit part in this as an analyst, and Michelle Monaghan has a similar role in The Bourne Supremacy. Currently, both of them are starring in season 3 of The White Lotus. If you want other useless pop culture factoids like this, please email me at: [email protected]

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

The poster makes it look like a David Decoteau t but in reality it is a tremendously little known Ridley Scott movie. Feels a bit like Dead Poets Society where a bunch of boys come-of-age with the help of a wise, older sage teacher/father figure, facing personal and external demons.

As is Sir Ridley's wont, the visuals and direction is pretty solid and the movie has some great adventure moments in it, but I am generally not big on maritime movies, especially of the survivor bent (more Pirates, less Titanic even though I really enjoy the latter), and this is very much that.

However, this thing is not a dud at all, and had I seen this around the same time I saw Dead Poets Society, I am sure I would have liked it a lot more. It's a bit maudlin and dull in parts, episodic events that are not too interesting filled with interchangeable characters (only 2 are probably distinguishable), but there is a simplicity and positive spirit at its core which is not often a gear I see Ridley employing.

Jeff Bridges is, unsurprisingly, great though.

Coens Retro

Even though you can’t figure it out, you will be responsible for it in the mid. 

You can’t understand the physics without the math. Let the mystery be.

2025: 40
2024: 115 (17 @ TIFF 2024)
2023: 107 (17 @ TIFF 2023)
2022: 87 (19 @ TIFF 2022)
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Oct 2021 - Dec 2021: 21
Pre Oct 2021: 77

1. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
2. Friendship
3. Thunderbolts*
4. The ant²
5. Days of Heaven
6. Warfare
7. Sinners
8. Pride & Prejudice
9. The French Connection
10. Misericordia

...plus 434 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Irishman
2. Parasite
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
4. Marriage Story
5. Uncut Gems
6. Knives Out
7. Little Women
8. Sorry We Missed You
9. 1917
10. Deadwood: The Movie

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mank
2. Sound of Metal
3. The Father
4. Another Round
5. The Nest
6. Minari
7. The Kid Detective
8. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
9. Soul
10. The Trial of the Chicago 7

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Drive My Car
2. Licorice Pizza
3. Dune
4. Red Rocket
5. C'mon C'mon
6. The French Dispatch
7. West Side Story
8. Boiling Point
9. The Worst Person in the World
10. The Green Knight

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

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Miller's Crossing
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Fargo
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Barton Fink
7. True Grit
8. Raising Arizona
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. A Serious Man

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

1. Jason Bourne

   The Bourne Collection

2. Inside Llewyn Davis

   Criterion

3. Before Midnight

   Criterion

4. The Bourne Legacy

   The Bourne Collection

5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Bourne Ultimatum

   The Bourne Collection

7. Ocean's Thirteen
8. No Country for Old Men

   Criterion

9. The Departed
10. Ocean's Twelve

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

1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Before Sunset
4. Memories of Murder
5. The Departed
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Memento
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. The Dark Knight
10. City of God

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

1. GoodFellas
2. Heat
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Schindler's List
6. Good Will Hunting
7. Unforgiven
8. The Matrix
9. Before Sunrise
10. Jackie Brown

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

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

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

1. Seven Samurai
2. High and Low
3. Rashomon
4. Ran
5. Throne of Blood
6. Ikiru
7. Red Beard
8. Yojimbo
9. The Bad Sleep Well
10. Sanjuro

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

1. Challengers
2. All We Imagine as Light
3. A Different Man
4. Anora
5. Dune: Part Two
6. I'm Still Here
7. Nosferatu
8. Snack Shack
9. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
10. Kneecap

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

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

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

Sorted by release date.

This list isn't really anti-romance.

Rather it is more about movies that are not your usual candy-coated-sappy-studio-mandated-PG-13-four-quadranted-to-shit-happy-ending-closure-obsessed rom-coms that give love a bad name.

• Love in the Big City
• Babygirl
• All We Imagine as Light
• Anora
• Challengers
• One Day
• Hit Man
• The Beast
• All of Us Strangers
• The Taste of Things

...plus 231 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. His Three Daughters
2. Oppenheimer
3. Perfect Days
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Poor Things
6. The Holdovers
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. BlackBerry
9. Past Lives
10. Ferrari

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Schindler's List
3. Munich
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Jurassic Park
6. Jaws
7. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
10. West Side Story

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

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

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

1. Locke
2. Boyhood
3. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
4. Nightcrawler
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Whiplash
7. Gone Girl
8. Interstellar
9. Inherent Vice
10. Selma

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

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Big Short
3. Steve Jobs
4. Spotlight
5. Ex Machina
6. The End of the Tour
7. The Martian
8. Bridge of Spies
9. Inside Out
10. Sicario

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Year 3.
In order of scheduled viewing.

• The Life of Chuck

  Sep 7
  11.30 am @ Princess of Wales Theatre

• Bird

  Sep 8
  11.45 am @ TIFF Lightbox 1

• On Swift Horses

  Sep 8
  9pm @ Scotiabank 1

• The Order

  Sep 9
  2.30 pm @ Scotiabank 14

• Emilia Pérez

  Sep 10
  11.30 am @ Princess of Wales Theatre

• Rumours

  Sep 10
  4.30 pm @ Scotiabank 2

• All We Imagine as Light

  Sep 11
  2.45 pm @ TIFF Lightbox 1

• The Shrouds

  Sep 11
  9.30 pm @ Roy Thompson Hall

• Nightbitch

  Sep 12
  12 noon @ Scotiabank 4

• We Live in Time

  Sep 12
  3 pm ET @ Princess of Wales Theatre

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

Year 2.
In order of scheduled viewing.

• My Mother’s Wedding
• How to Have Sex
• American Fiction
• Boy Kills World
• Monster
• Hit Man
• Next Goal Wins
• The Royal Hotel
• Evil Does Not Exist
• The Promised Land

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

Year 1.
In order of screening dates

• Emily
• Butcher's Crossing
• The Lost King
• Glass Onion
• Causeway
• The Good Nurse
• Sanctuary
• The Son
• Empire of Light
• Women Talking

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

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

Tracking all first time watches during COVID lockdown.

From March 20, 2020 to September 11, 2021.

• California Split
• Paper Moon
• The Hunt
• Emma.
• Onward
• The Invisible Man
• The Way Back
• Just Mercy
• Downhill
• A Woman Under the Influence

...plus 290 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Network
2. Dog Day Afternoon
3. 12 Angry Men
4. The Verdict
5. Serpico
6. Prince of the City
7. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
8. Running on Empty
9. Fail Safe
10. Night Falls on Manhattan

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

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

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

1. Scarface
2. The Untouchables
3. Carlito's Way
4. Casualties of War
5. Blow Out
6. Mission: Impossible
7. Phantom of the Paradise
8. Carrie
9. Body Double
10. Hi, Mom!

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

1. Decision to Leave
2. TÁR
3. The Banshees of Inisherin
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. The Fabelmans
6. Glass Onion
7. Argentina 1985
8. Women Talking
9. Babylon
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once

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

1. Parasite
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. A Separation
4. The Irishman
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Before Midnight
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Whiplash
9. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
10. The Handmaiden

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

1. Annie Hall
2. Manhattan
3. Husbands and Wives
4. Blue Jasmine
5. Crimes and Misdemeanors
6. Midnight in Paris
7. Hannah and Her Sisters
8. Bullets Over Broadway
9. Radio Days
10. The Purple Rose of Cairo

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original:

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• Being There

  For Ebert Week (Sept. 6 to Sept. 13)

• Gold Diggers of 1933

  For 30’s Musicals Week (Sept. 13 to Sept. 20)

• Throne of Blood

  Week 3: Unseen Kurosawa movie

• Doctor Zhivago

  Week 4: Unseen 60s Blockbuster.

  Always wanted to see it. Now I have a reason.

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  Week 5: PUNQ Week

• The Double Life of Véronique

  Week 6: Eastern Europe Week

• Avalon

  Week 7: Midnight Eye Week
  This was a really hard movie to pick.

• Frankenstein

  Week 8: Classic Horror Week

• Badlands

  Week 9: Hardboiled Week
  About time that I see the debut of Malick!

• Stagecoach

  Week 10: Western Week

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

1. Scenes from a Marriage
2. Autumn Sonata
3. Winter Light
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. The Seventh Seal
6. Wild Strawberries
7. Cries and Whispers
8. Persona

Favorite movies from 2018.

Honorable Mentions:

A Private War
A Quiet Place
A Simple Favor
All About Nina
American Animals
Apostle
Black Panther
Blockers
Bumblebee
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Everybody Knows
Game Night
If Beale Street Could Talk
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Night Comes for Us
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Ready Player One
Searching
Set it Up
the Girls
The Guilty
The Old Man & the Gun
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Vox Lux

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. A Star Is Born
3. The Favourite
4. BlacKkKlansman
5. Bad Times at the El Royale
6. Widows
7. First Reformed
8. Avengers: Infinity War
9. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
10. Wildlife

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Before Midnight
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Her
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Rush
6. American Hustle
7. The World's End
8. Gravity
9. Prisoners
10. Nebraska

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original Article: IndieWire: The 25 Best Sexy Movies of the 21st Century

List is arranged in descending order: 25 to 1.

• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Shortbus
• Brokeback Mountain
• In the Cut
• Hustle & Flow
• Beyond the Lights
• In the Mood for Love
• Ex Machina
• Quills
• A Bigger Splash

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

1. The Social Network
2. I Saw the Devil
3. Inception
4. Certified Copy
5. Shutter Island
6. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
7. Black Swan
8. Beginners
9. Animal Kingdom
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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

1. A Separation
2. Drive
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
4. The Raid
5. Warrior
6. Moneyball
7. Midnight in Paris
8. Margaret
9. The Adventures of Tintin
10. Margin Call

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

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Magnolia
3. Boogie Nights
4. Licorice Pizza
5. Phantom Thread
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Inherent Vice
8. The Master
9. Hard Eight

1. Memories of Murder
2. Parasite
3. Snowpiercer
4. Mother
5. The Host
6. Okja

1. The Apartment
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Double Indemnity
4. Ace in the Hole
5. The Lost Weekend
6. Some Like It Hot
7. One, Two, Three
8. Witness for the Prosecution
9. Sabrina
10. Stalag 17

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

Honourable Mentions:

Captain American: Civil War
Everybody Wants Some!!
Imperium
Indignation
All the Way
Keanu
Midnight Special
Deadpool
Love & Friendship
Eye in the Sky
Allied
War Dogs
Elle
10 Cloverfield Lane
Things to Come
Denial
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Swiss Army Man
The Handmaiden
Jackie
Moonlight
Don't Think Twice
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Lion
Hail, Caesar!
Silence

1. La La Land
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Sing Street
4. The Salesman
5. Hell or High Water
6. Arrival
7. The Nice Guys
8. Captain Fantastic
9. I, Daniel Blake
10. The Edge of Seventeen

1. The Master
2. Killing Them Softly
3. Django Unchained
4. Game Change
5. Argo
6. Zero Dark Thirty
7. Lincoln
8. Looper
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Silver Linings Playbook

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Honourable Mentions

Brad’s Status
Brigsby Bear
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Get Out
I Love You, Daddy
Last Flag Flying
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
T2 Trainspotting
The Beguiled
The Disaster Artist
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Party
The Shape of Water
The Trip to Spain
The Wizard of Lies
Thelma

Atomic Blonde
It
Logan
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Spider-man: Homecoming
Thor Ragnarok
War for the Planet of the Apes

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Phantom Thread
3. The Death of Stalin
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
5. The Post
6. Wind River
7. Paddington 2
8. Mudbound
9. I, Tonya
10. Lady Bird

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