Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.

Oh my Lord, Doctor Who 1000000% stole its regeneration look from Shrek.

2025 Resolution
Scores I've Listened to in Full
From Kid to Kino

Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 22, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 19, 2025.

Watched on Monday February 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 6, 2025.

My 2024: 67 (64 films)
Goal for 2025: 68

Every feature-length narrative film or single season I watched for the first time this year, ranked in answer to the question: "How much did I love watching the story?"

That doesn't necessarily correlate with star ratings (which usually weigh "objective" quality more heavily), so ratings don't always descend down the list.

1. GoodFellas
2. The Notebook
3. The Iron Claw
4. Nosferatu
5. Donnie Darko
6. Anora
7. Thunderbolts*
8. Sinners
9. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
10. Black Bag

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

MA'24: 15/19

The goal is to see everything on this list in 2025. It may not be in theaters, and I may see other releases instead; but I don't want to let the movies I'm most excited for me by, so I'm aiming for a 100% by December 31, 2025.

Rules for alterations are as follows:

1. Films can shift positions in this list until I see one of them, at which point the list ceases to be "Anticipated" in its entirety.
2. I can, however, add releases that I discover throughout the year in any spot below the first four (in keeping with LB's "Four Faves"), unless a film was already above the top four's places in my all-time list and simply received a 2025 release late.
3. Any releases of which I was aware before the year began that didn't make the list until a trailer or buzz got me excited must go on the bottom, below those that had my attention from the start.
4. Buzz from pre-release showings puts such additions below even those of the prior variety, since it's a reaction to the finished film, not the expectation.

#1 ensures that the list is still reflective of my feelings at the beginning of the year when the releases I was anticipating still held that status, while #2-#4 allow the later films of the year to be represented in a list that is meant to cover the entire year without undercutting the long-awaited arrivals.

1. Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

   Season 2 watched - streaming

2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

   Watched - theatrical

3. Thunderbolts*

   Watched - theatrical

   Daredevil: Born Again S1 ranked beneath

4. Superman

   TBW - theatrical

5. Avatar: Fire and Ash

   TBW - theatrical

6. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

   TBW - theatrical

7. Cunk on Life

   TBW - streaming

8. The Fantastic Four: First Steps

   TBW - theatrical

9. Now You See Me: Now You Don't

   TBW - theatrical

10. The Phoenician Scheme

    TBW - theatrical

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

2025 | 2026 | 2027

This list is for showing everything I'm excited for instead of just one year's releases, and allows me to cycle titles out as I see them and cycle new announcements in. That's as opposed to my "Most Anticipated" lists for each year, which I still do so that I can have a record of my hopes for that year and compare my projection to how I felt at the end.

1. Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

   Season 2

2. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

   TBW - theatrical

3. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97

   Placeholder for Season 2/'98?

4. Dune: Part Three
5. Untitled The Batman Sequel

   TBW - theatrical

6. The Odyssey
7. Cunk on Life
8. Spider-Man: Brand New Day
9. The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender

   TBW - theatrical

   The only reason this isn't higher is because I don't know how confident I am about making stories in this world feature-length.

10. Avatar: Fire and Ash

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

I present to you the very real, very accurate, very complete timeline of our universe! From the edges of space and time to the moments that ed just out of the corner of your eye, these movies are proof that everything they document most certainly happened. If you don't it...how'd you miss all the action? What a boring life that must be.

Contributions and corrections are appreciated! (Shows and shorts, too.) Please include the title (love a link), the story's setting in time (the more exact the better, but at least the year for anything within a century of today; less precision needed the farther out the setting lies), and the source (i.e. dialogue, deductive process walk-through).

Submission rules:
1. A film must treat its baseline reality as a depiction of our own world.
2. There must be some on-screen or in-universe evidence for a year. Internal disagreement on dates doesn't disqualify a film, but the logic for why to favor one possible date over others must be provided - no splitting the difference here. No "present day = release year" either.
3. No documentaries/other "non-fiction", but "true stories" are OK since it's already a step removed from reality.
4. The following are accepted on a case-by-case basis:

a) Contemporary-set epics. With how crowded the near-present day is, the thought of placing modern figures' biopics and such alongside single points on the timeline is daunting.

b) Time travel. The course of history should be relatively unchanged by the movie for it to work here.

• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

  Begin "A long time ago"

• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Wars
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Return of the Jedi
• The Book of Boba Fett

...plus 251 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The scores I'm shuffling in my screening playlist to extract the gems and add them to the treasure trove. LCC has gotten the assist on a number of them!
These are all the scores that have gone through the same process. And I'm taking recommendations here! (Difference being that's a to-do list and this is an in-progress list, and will thus be much more dynamic.)

Other media:

• The Boy and the Heron
• Pride & Prejudice
• Luca
• The Matrix
• RRR
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• Agatha All Along
• Kung Fu Panda
• Here
• Interstellar

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

All the movies I'd like to own in physical format, in 4K wherever possible and Blu-ray if not, and with the most extras available included. I better start making some good money.
Unranked, in case that wasn't clear.

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Django Unchained
• The Emperor's New Groove
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Inside Out
• Ratatouille
• The Breakfast Club
• Nomadland

...plus 188 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

One day, my future children will thank me for ensuring they have cinematic taste.
If you see something notable left out, let me know! It might have been an intentional omission though ;) cough SW prequel trilogy cough
Listed in order of introduction, the latest being a late-teens first watch (in progress).

• Finding Nemo
• The Emperor's New Groove
• Monsters, Inc.
• Ratatouille
• The Polar Express
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• Tangled
• Cars
• Toy Story 3

...plus 160 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I've ranked the most notable of these here. These are the scores I'm currently listening to, and please recommend me more here! I've listened to every available album front-to-back for every film on this list, so don't be shy about giving me even more to hear.

Film scores are my favorite genre of music; it's easily 90% of what I listen to, and 95% is probably closer to the truth. I've compiled The Sound of Stories over about half a decade at this point, ever since a junior-year (of high school) French class indirectly led to my rediscovery of the music of Star Wars. In that time, I've listened to cumulative months' worth of scores, whittling countless cues down to the very best of the best for my ever-growing playlist. I've listened to The Sound of Stories itself so much that I practically know all its 48+ hours (36+ at time of initial list publication) by heart.

This list could never be complete, for a couple of reasons: 1) I've also listened to TV scores, video game scores, even theme park scores, and those aren't listed on LB (but the TV scores can, in fact, be found listed here); 2) there's no way I'll be able to every score I've ever listened to. But the majority of stuff I can listening to comes from film, so there's no better place to put this list. I just want to make sure I don't forget any more albums in the future.

It's worth noting that not everything here was even good enough to make my playlist, but if a film is here, I gave it a fair shot and listened to its whole album.

Most recent addition is at the top, with recency of completion (I listen to multiple scores at once) decreasing down the list until The Boss Baby, which was the latest listen upon publishing. Finish dates are in the notes once I started tracking them. After Boss Baby, films are organized roughly in increasing recognizability of the scores. First are films with no sequels whose scores are the only ones of those composers that I've heard; then come und scores from the same composers, by increasing quantity of movies; then franchises whose installments I haven't collected completely - and finally, complete franchises - by increasing scale of the property. Regardless of future additions affecting the tally of those categories, existing positions will not change because the new additions will remain in the dated section of the list.

Other media soundtracks:

- Videogames

1. Spider-Man PS4
2. Miles Morales
3. Marvel's Avengers
4. LEGO Universe
5. Jedi: Fallen Order
6. Ghost of Tsushima (Iki album - 3-18-2023)
7. Undertale
8. The Last of Us (2013) - 2-20-2023
9. Hogwarts Legacy (both albums) - 2-27-2023
10. Journey - 6-22-2023
11. Jedi: Survivor (both albums) - 6-22-2023
12. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - 11-1-2023

- Theme Parks

1. The Disneyland Legacy Collection
2. Pandora

Podcasts

1. Blockbuster

• We Live in Time

  5-21-2025

• Thunderbolts*

  5-6-2025

• Challengers

  12-19-2024

• Flow

  12-27-2024

• Spider-Man 3

  9-12-2024 (YouTube bootleg edition, since there was never an official release?!)

• Psycho

  9-3-2024 (Complete OMPS)
  9-7-2024 (2017 Recording)

• Thelma

  8-1-2024

• Deadpool & Wolverine

  7-27-2024 (Deluxe)

• Logan

  7-24-2024 (Deluxe)

• Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97

  5-24-2024
  Placeholder for X-Men '97 Season 1

...plus 276 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In anticipation of Letterboxd's full implementation of TV, this is the ranking (by average Letterboxd rating) of the best episodic non-documentary series currently ed on the platform.

<— Episodes | Seasons —>

Eligibile series must:

- have concluded their run
- meet a 5,000-rating minimum.

1. Band of Brothers
2. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
3. Monster
4. Cowboy Bebop
5. When Life Gives You Tangerines
6. Samuel
7. Over the Garden Wall
8. Dekalog
9. Vinland Saga
10. Berserk

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In anticipation of Letterboxd's full implementation of TV, this is the ranking (by average Letterboxd rating) of the best non-documentary individual television seasons currently ed on the platform.
This is for the moment very similar to the companion list for series, but there will only be so much overlap until the vast majority of ed seasons are not necessarily also miniseries.

<— Series | Episodes —>

Eligibile seasons must:

- not be contained within longer seasons (apologies to the Adventure Time miniseries)
- not be a "season" of specials
- have concluded their release
- meet a 5,000-rating minimum.

1. Band of Brothers
2. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
3. Monster
4. Cowboy Bebop
5. When Life Gives You Tangerines
6. Samuel
7. Over the Garden Wall
8. Twin Peaks: The Return
9. Dekalog
10. Vinland Saga

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In anticipation of Letterboxd's full implementation of TV, this is the ranking (by average Letterboxd rating) of the best non-documentary episodes currently ed on the platform.
Notable episodes are at this moment in short supply on Letterboxd, hence the smaller pool. Upon the proper arrival of episodic storytelling, this list will expand to 250 entries like its companions below.

<— Seasons | Series —>

Eligible episodes must:

- not have debuted as anything other than an installment of a larger series
- not be a distinct film by release, be it one under a show's title, one in continuity with a show, or a TV movie
- meet a 5,000-rating minimum.

1. Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
2. Smiling Friends
3. A Very Sunny Christmas
4. Decalogue I
5. Decalogue V
6. The Owl House: Watching and Dreaming
7. Decalogue VI
8. The Owl House: Thanks to Them
9. Sherlock: A Study in Pink
10. BoJack Horseman Christmas Special: Sabrina's Christmas Wish

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

This is every film, season, and Disney+ special in the Marvel Cinematic Universe listed on Letterboxd, sorted from highest avg rating to lowest. (Here, "MCU" refers to every release set in the universe Marvel Studios most often depicts, as well as its productions in the multiverse it's created.) Individual seasons of multi-season series will be added once TV has been implemented on Letterboxd.
As I use this comment section for recording updates, any responses to this list can be left under the watch order this was cloned from and I'll get back to you there!

1. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Agatha All Along
6. Spider-Man: No Way Home
7. Loki
8. Guardians of the Galaxy
9. WandaVision
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The companion/counterpart to My 2025, these are all my non-feature-length/-single-season or non-narrative first watches in 2025. Same ranking principle applies.

1. The Old Man and the Sea
2. Kitbull
3. Tangled Ever After
4. Santa and Death
5. How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
6. VeggieTales: Lord of the Beans

It's all here: a no-spoiler first watch; designated essentials and tangents; & more than a chronological or release order, a rewatch crafted for a universe. Welcome to the MCU - this list (and description) is the guide you've waited for!

Vital Disclaimers:

1. First-timers, check each entry's notes before playing: they detail which credits scenes to skip/watch. These small adjustments prevent severe spoilers. (Otherwise, always stay for the credits!)

2. This visual aid provides a structural understanding of the order that can't be represented here. Each row is a self-serving arc, best approximated below by groups of patterned posters, where entries that don't fit into their surroundings are inessential. Still, the graphic can't replace the list thanks to Disclaimer #1.

This list is my endeavor to best realize the "U" in MCU. Where release and chronological orders both delegate their arrangement to some calendar or another, my conceit here is to involve chronology, settings, and themes in distilling coherent arcs—or "Phrases", if you're a cheeky MCU nerd. The result: the dissonant leaps of subject and tone that pepper a march down the timetable instead give way to organic development of an interconnected story. In being guided by the larger narrative over a detached datebook, I hope to bring forth the most cohesive and expressive telling of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

If you're new to the MCU and spoilerphobic, set that concern aside: I've carefully curated each detail so that the only spoiler here is the inevitable "Who's on the next poster". You can read every word without worry! (But do tread carefully in unlinked comments.) Look out for bolded phrases in notes: those are especially relevant to first watches. As well as preventing spoilers, notes add other (optional) dimensions to the watch. Where needed, TV episodes are coded as ###, read [season #][episode ##].

Although they have deviated over time, this list wouldn't exist without the rewatch order created by Robby Earle, co-host and resident rewatch order craftsman of the (superb) Friends from Work Podcast.

That's everything you ought to know before you begin! The following links contain extra insight into this list and ways to broaden, tailor, or trim your watch. If none of them interest you, then continue on to the story and enjoy a new MCU experience!

Additions
Incorporating Marvel Television
Tags: Filters and Recommended Material
Tags: Phase Breakdown
Determining Dates
Chronological vs. Release Order and Spoilers
A First-Time Order and a Rewatch Order

(If you're on the app, visit the comments to find this information. If you'd like to avoid that hassle, please this ticket!) Bonus links: the best of the MCU scores | the collected Awesome Mixes | my MCU ranking | the MCU by avg LB rating.

If you've made it this far, I have compensation for your persistence: buttons to transform this list into the release and chronological (by the span of in-universe time most heavily occupied by the story) orders. I sincerely believe the sequence I've laid out is an improvement upon both, but if I've failed to convince you, something called The Ultimate MCU Watch Order should still be the only MCU aid you'd ever need.

• Captain America: The First Avenger

  Phrase 1: Breaking the Ice

  Skip credits scene (End playback during credits)

  What If...? rewatch-only: Watch 101 next.

  Timeline Outline:
  The majority of the plot is set from 1943 to mid-winter 1945, though it covers some years in either direction.
  The first Phrase of the MCU is an arc of ice-breaking 1) between the audience and the onscreen universe, 2) between integral characters, and 3)...well, you'll see. The MCU's opening entry facilitates these introductions at a significant moment in the timeline: the inception of story threads that will bear fruit for the entire Infinity Saga.

  First Watch Pro Tip: Just in case you're not feeling these early entries, give it through Iron Man before deciding whether or not to continue. There's a reason it catalyzed the MCU!

• Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter

  What If...? rewatch-only: Watch 302 after the Agent Carter series.

  Timeline Outline:
  Winter 1946. One year has ed since the last scene shared by Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger.

  This is a convenient place to begin the series Agent Carter (MCU Periphery), the canon show following Peggy after the events of the One-Shot. It need not be finished before continuing onto Iron Man, but doing so would ensure the full picture of MCU history is carried forward in your watch. Covering both seasons, this is the

  Agent Carter Timeline Outline:
  101-108: April-May 1946. Some time has ed since the One-Shot as Peggy and Howard Stark's situations have changed, but the year is explicitly the same. 105 is on April 25th and 108 on May 8, both given in dialogue.
  201-210: July 1947. The year is given by on-screen text, and 203 takes place on July 15 according to one newspaper date acknowledged in dialogue.

• Iron Man

  What If...? rewatch-only: Watch 106 next.

  Timeline Outline:
  2008. The latest references to this story double down on this original intended date, despite some other attempts to construe it as nearer to its follow-ups. Dialogue in the film indicates a three-month age between the beginnings of the first two acts.
  The ignition of the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes on even weightier implications thanks to elements encountered in the prior entries.

• Iron Man 2

  Timeline Outline:
  Late summer 2010; Part 1 of "Fury's Big Week". Much of this film, The Incredible Hulk, and Thor's events occur across the same seven days. The three movies reference each others' ongoing events, so despite these and more contributing warring evidence for the year in which this week es, all three are placed in 2010: some time cards and dialogue are stretched beyond sense, but they're all less wrong than they would be if the contradicting evidence were made to work perfectly.
  Characters continue to collide unexpectedly with each other as greater agendas reveal themselves to those observing.

• The Incredible Hulk

  No credits scenes

  Timeline Outline:
  Late summer 2010; Fury's Big Week, Part 2. The events of these three movies overlap to the point where it's impossible to say which happens "first", but this is best watched after Iron Man 2 for continuity.
  What seems the green sheep of the franchise still bridges characters not only across this Phrase, but across Sagas.

  And no spoilers here, but in case it's your first watch and you weren't aware: the very next instant after the final frame, Bruce Banner fucking dies. His tongue hulks out before the rest of his head can catch up and he chokes to death on the gigantic green squishy tube in his mouth that is his tongue. He's jerking all around with a hand down his throat, trying to yank a piece of his own body out from his gullet, but he starts losing vigor until his hand drops from his mouth to hang by his side and he just kinda sags against the wall, motionless, with what looks like an enormously thick and prickly garden hose still forcing his mouth open and hanging past his chin.
  Then Bark Buffalo, ancient deity of the Democraticsocialistgyptians, emerges from the Twittervoid and inhabits the dead body to make the Hulk his Avatar on Earth, because Bark Buffalo is all about that green energy.
  Unfortunately, this footage was lost in a targeted attack by the Credible Folk extremist group, an attack that thankfully left the rest of the film in a reparable state. Disturbed by the prospect of his story going unfinished, though, Bark Buffalo appeared to me while I slept and presented visions of the destroyed scene. Before the awe of witnessing such a tragic and triumphant display of divine demise and rebirth woke me, he called me to go forth and spread word of the truth through my platform on Letterboxd, promising blessings of immense musculature and self-defeating progressive government policies upon my bloodline - and the bloodlines of those who like this list - should I perform my duties to his satisfaction. (He was very insistent on using Letterboxd.)
  And that's why Bruce Banner looks different in his later MCU appearances.

• Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant

  Timeline Outline:
  2012. Technically set after the events of Thor (indeed, well after the end of Fury's Big Week), the events of The Incredible Hulk are more relevant here.

• Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer

  Timeline Outline:
  May 31, 2010; Fury's Big Week, Part 2.99. The short is set between the end of Iron Man 2 and its credits scene, early in the events of The Incredible Hulk and Thor (but without spoiling anything that isn't revealed earlier in the list).

• Thor

  What If...? rewatch-only: Watch 107 next. | Watch 207 next. | Watch 304 next.

  Timeline Outline:
  Late summer 2010; Fury's Big Week, Part 3. Several other dated installments reference the amount of time that has ed since this movie, setting it in this year. Its relevance to The Avengers suggests it be watched very near to the universe-defining crossover.
  Thor breaks the last barrier before the Phrase finale.

• Captain Marvel

  Skip only mid-credits scene (Fast-forward after credits title card)

  Timeline Outline:
  1995. A prop indicates June. Although it's bookended by entries set in the present day, Captain Marvel's being removed from the present does not create discrepancies in the causality between entries. (This holds true for any entry placed out of accordance with the timeline.)
  While a step back in time might appear a step through already-broken ice between most characters and plot elements here, their status in 1995 recontextualizes those relationships as they're carried into the present day.
  

  The new Marvel Studios card may be unexpected without context, but this film was the first MCU project released after Stan Lee's ing; the unique sequence is a tribute to his persona and spirit.

• The Avengers

  Phrase 1 Finale

  Rewatch-only: Watch Loki 101-206 after reaching 2:09:37 in this entry, then complete the film after 206.

  What If...? rewatch-only: Watch 103 next. | Watch 204 next. | Watch 203 next.

  Timeline Outline:
  2012. It is one of the most firmly-entrenched dates in the MCU.
  This is it: the great experiment, the ultimate icebreaker between the characters and ideas across the Phrase, as well as between the audience and the possibilities offered by the MCU.

  This diagram, although its dates have now been retconned by the movies themselves, is still handy for deciphering the order of events contained within Fury's Big Week. All time intervals in the diagram that do not correlate with the dates in this list are inaccurate, since the dates in this list are based off of the most up-to-date understanding of the timeline.

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Three live-action remakes this year is three too many. What animated movies should I watch instead? I have so many classics to discover, or to re-experience for the first time since eeeearly childhood. If you've got obscure avant-garde stuff from any period that flips the medium on its head, all the better. The only reason I might not add something is if I'm familiar with it enough to not need a rewatch.

Any live-action stuff you see is just to serve the general "2025" purpose of the list as prep for a couple new releases I plan to catch.

I figure I won't 100% the list, but it'll be the first pool I pull from when I sit down to watch movies at home this year.

• Scavengers Reign

  Watched in 2025

• Shrek

  Watched prior to 2025 and in 2025

• Anastasia

  Watched in 2025

• Look Back

  Watched in 2025

• The Old Man and the Sea

  Watched in 2025

• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• Santa and Death

  Watched in 2025

• Rise of the Guardians

  Watched in 2025

• Ponyo
• Alice in Wonderland

...plus 228 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my to-do list for my film score listening. Its initial state is those scores of the Showdown № 63 winners that I haven't already heard, but I'll be using this page to keep track of all the scores I've had suggested to me, or have become interested in myself. Doesn't have to be a movie I've seen - plenty I've listened to and loved aren't!
For reference, these are all the scores I've already heard, and these are the most recent ones to make it off this list and onto my screener playlist.
This isn't limited just to movie music! I'll happily take recs from TV, video games, audio dramas, even theme parks. I've listened to scores from all of those before, and I certainly will again - especially if you comment your favorites!
The very best tracks I find go into The Sound of Stories. There, you'll find over two days' worth of the best film music ever, for your listening pleasure and mine.

Up next:
- Television

Taboo Season 1 ("The Inexorable Advance of Mr. Delaney" and "The Onrush of Events")
The Boys
Westworld
Babylon Berlin
Devs
Galavant
Daredevil S2&3
Agent Carter
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Game of Thrones
Legion
The Man in the High Castle
The Cry
Outlander

- Video games

God of War
Squadrons
Uncharted
Ori and the Blind Forest

• The Social Network
• Halloween
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Suspiria
• Phantom Thread
• Inception
• Jaws
• Batman
• Batman Returns
• Batman Begins

...plus 164 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

If there are multiple credits stingers, the best of them decides the entry's position.

1. Spider-Man: Far From Home

   Mid-Credits Scene (THE RETURN OF J.K. SIMMONS AS J. JONAH JAMESON AND Spider-Man's name is...PETER PARKER!)

2. Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

   Season 1's

3. Sinners
4. Deadpool 2

   Just...all of it.

5. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

   Post-Credits Scene (It's over!)

6. Avengers: Infinity War

   Motherf-

7. Thunderbolts*
8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

   Post-Credits Scene (2099.)

9. Deadpool
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming

    Post-Credits Scene (Patience.)

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

My submission for the fortnightly challenge. Entries for the current showdown occupy only the top ten (which are the only entries sampled for the results), with those for past showdowns listed in descending order of recency. The first of every selection has the showdown category in its notes. Movies can be reused in up to three later showdowns, so older categories may now contain fewer than ten entries due to some of their films having moved into a more recent selection. (The notes for a film will detail its past appearances.)

These are ranked, but in groups of ten(ish, as enumerated above) before it resets for the previous Showdown's group, so the ranking feature wouldn't make much sense (and the ranking doesn't matter for the results either).

Since this page seems to have some eyes on it once in a while, I'll plug a list on which I've actually worked quite hard, and these top TV charts.

• The Empire Strikes Back

  Grand Illusion
  Also:

  High Score #1
  Great White #5
  Barbershop #5 [Character: Princess Leia Organa
  ...AND Chewbacca]

• Star Wars

  Also:

  High Score #2
  The Face of Another #1

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  Also:

  Monkey Business #9

• Metropolis

  Also:

  Multiplicity #5

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Alien
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Wizard of Oz

  Also:

  Monkey Business #7

• Planet of the Apes

  I pulled a surprising number of items from the "Monkey Business" entries. Case in point...
  Also:

  Monkey Business #1
  The Face of Another #3

...plus 167 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Here's hoping I get to make the most of this list this year.

• Adolescence
• Scavengers Reign
• Marvel's The Defenders

Naming a character in your movie "Lance" = I personally am the inspiration for your movie

• Pulp Fiction

  Literally me.

• Licorice Pizza
• Tropic Thunder
• the Titans

  Well it's not "Lance", but you would think this movie is about me based on how many times I've been asked if I'd seen it after telling people my full name.

• The Menu

  I'm no doctor, but I am a Sunshine. Although I'm not sure if this meets the list criteria if Dr. Sunshine was a character's character.

• Superhero Movie
• Inside Out 2
• Sing
• Carry-On
• Mr. Sunshine

All the physical media on my shelves, ordered by most recent acquisition (the last [but first] ten to the best of my memory).

• Collateral

  4K steelbook pack

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  4K two-pack

• Pulp Fiction

  4K two-pack

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  4K two-pack
  DVD (received from Yaya and Poppa between The Force Awakens and John Williams: Live in Vienna)

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  4K two-pack

• Ape vs. Monster

  Weed DVD

• Top Gunner: Danger Zone

  Weed DVD

• Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

  Season 1 4K steelbook

• Arrival

  4K two-pack (Xmas 2024 - Thank you Mom!)

• Babylon

  4K two-pack (Xmas 2024 - Thank you Savannah!)

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My ranking of this franchise I cling to with continuously diminishing returns, possibly out of fealty to my hard work on The Ultimate MCU Watch Guide.

The following is where every series - to the extent of them I've seen - would lie in this list (positions not adjusted by higher insertions):

Daredevil (2015) at #6.
Jessica Jones Season 1 at #21.
Agent Carter at #31.
Luke Cage Season 1 at #33.

This is the ranking for all individual seasons I've watched.

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97

   Placeholder for X-Men '97 Season 1
   Followed by The Punisher Season 1

5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

   Followed by Daredevil S1

6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Spider-Man: No Way Home
8. Avengers: Endgame
9. Spider-Man: Far From Home
10. Iron Man

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

PLEASE RECOMMEND MORE

• The Mean One
• Anna and the Apocalypse
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Family Stone
• Love Actually
• Paddington 2
• Santa Buddies
• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
• Arthur Christmas
• Black Christmas

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

Ranked by increasing (from the bottom) disparity in quality from trailer to movie. I.e. in first is TRoS, with an all-time great trailer for one of the most repulsive products of all time; and in last is Eternals, with an excellent teaser for a movie that was quite good without fully realizing the trailer's promise.
(Specific trailer for each in notes.)
Tremendous Trailers ranks every great trailer on their own .

1. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

   Official Teaser

2. Suicide Squad

   Official Trailer 1

3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

   Official Teaser

4. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

   New Trailer

   Just promised a completely different, and way more compelling, motivation for Scott.

5. Captain America: Brave New World
6. Hawkeye
7. Echo

   Official Trailer

8. Lightyear

   Official Teaser

9. Eternals

   Official Teaser

Spider-Man titles, ranked by preference.

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

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

One-Shots and other shorts, now that they do those.

1. Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2. Peter's To-Do List
3. Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
4. Team Thor
5. Team Thor: Part 2
6. Team Darryl
7. Groot Takes a Bath
8. I Am Groot: Magnum Opus
9. Marvel One-Shot: Item 47
10. I Am Groot: Groot's Sweet Treat

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

My favorite scores of all time. Listen to The Sound of Stories to hear the best of these (and more).
If you're doubting my familiarity with film music, hopefully this imparts at least some credibility.
Based on experience of listening outside of the film. (So yeah, not much Hans Zimmer here.)

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
• La La Land
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

MA'23: 17/31

The goal is to see everything on this list in 2024. It may not be in theaters, and I may see other releases instead; but I don't want to let the movies I'm most excited for me by, so I'm aiming for a 100% by December 31, 2024.

Rules for alterations are as follows:

1. Films can shift positions in this list until the time that I see one of them, at which point the list ceases to be 100% "Anticipated".
2. I can, however, add releases that I discover throughout the year in any spot below the first four (in keeping with LB's "Four Faves"), unless it was given a 2024 release late and was already above the first four in my all-time list.
3. Any releases of which I was aware before the year began that didn't make the list until a trailer or buzz got me excited must go on the bottom, below those that had my attention from the start.
4. Buzz from pre-release showings puts such additions below even those of the prior variety, since it's a reaction to the finished film, not the expectation.

#1 ensures that the list is still reflective of my feelings at the beginning of the year when the releases I was anticipating still held that status, while #2-#4 allow the later films of the year to be represented in a list that is meant to cover the entire year without undercutting the long-awaited arrivals.

1. Music by John Williams

   Watched - streaming

2. Dune: Part Two

   Watched - theatrical

3. Joker: Folie à Deux

   Watched - theatrical

   This is just a guess that it'll end up coming out in 2024, can't wait to be proven right.

   Edit: I was proven right on this one too

   Cannot WAIT to see a Joker musical, it's gonna be something for sure

4. Deadpool & Wolverine

   Watched - theatrical

   This coming out in 2024 is speculation, but I think it's pretty safe speculation given what we know about production for this one.

   Edit: I was riiiiiiiight

5. Monkey Man

   Watched - theatrical

6. We Live in Time

   Watched - theatrical

7. My Old Ass

   Watched - theatrical

8. Moana 2

   TBW - theatrical

9. Anora

   TBW - missed theatrical

10. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Watched - theatrical

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

All the narrative feature-length or single-season 2024 releases in the U.S. that I watched in 2024.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
3. Challengers
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. My Old Ass
6. We Live in Time
7. Conclave
8. A Real Pain
9. Inside Out 2
10. Thelma

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

My 2023: 87 (82 films)
Goal for 2024: 88 (83 films)

Every feature-length narrative film or single season I watched for the first time this year, ranked in answer to the question: "How much did I love watching the story?"

That doesn't necessarily correlate with star ratings (which usually weigh "objective" quality more heavily), so ratings don't always descend down the list.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. The Iron Giant
3. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
4. 21 Jump Street
5. Pride & Prejudice
6. Challengers
7. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
8. The Matrix
9. The Boy and the Heron
10. My Old Ass

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The companion/counterpart to My 2024, these are all my non-feature-length/-single-season or non-narrative first watches in 2023. Same ranking principle applies.

1. Music by John Williams
2. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
3. Doctor Who: Joy to the World
4. Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation
5. Lincoln
6. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
7. X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men

   The eventual X-Men: The Animated Series would be #1 on this list.

8. Voices of Midway
9. Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death
10. Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut Prequel

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

Idea stolen from Andrew
Criteria to make the list: whether the movie is filled with leaps through the years or only has a single sequence that brushes with time-bending, the warping of physical time must be integral to the entire plot. For example, I considered putting both 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie on this list, but 2001's hotel room of compressed time isn't necessary to the earlier happenings of the story, and Wizards just sort of replaces events in the past without actually enacting a physical process that alters the flow of time. And no version of, say, "A Christmas Carol" could make the list, because the time travel there is metaphysical.
What "time-warping" entails here is the traversal of time at different rates or in different directions by separate characters or settings.
The stories are ranked by the neatness and/or intrigue of the system of time travel utilized, and how well-realized the consequences are. Quality of the film itself has no bearing on its placement, but a great movie likely has more impactful consequences.

1. Arrival
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Ms. Marvel
4. Planet of the Apes
5. Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of What If...?

   Stand-in for What If...? Episode 4: "What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?"

   IIRC, there are two "timelines" but one self-consistent version of events. That's the kind of inventive - but still perfectly logical - stuff we deserve in our time travel stories.

6. Midnight in Paris
7. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
8. Doctor Strange
9. The Boy and the Heron
10. The Polar Express

    My headcanon is that the Conductor is the literal future self of the Believer, and as the express clearly has the ability to freeze time, I don't see that as being all that farfetched a notion. And so I rank it thus here.

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A record of every theater I've visited. Trying to make the listed film be the first one I saw at that theater, but I've gone to some of these theaters for so long that I can't what the first flick was.

There are some pretty cool cinemas out there that I haven't been to, and I plan on seeing a movie at each of them some day. Here are the ones I know of, and I'll add more as I learn about them. Please recommend any great theaters you know!

- Paris Theater (NYC)
- Film Forum (NYC)

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

  Boulevard 14 Cinemas - Petaluma, CA

  As well as

  The Hollywood Bowl

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

  Regal Cinemas 10 - Sonora, CA

• Life of Pi

  Reading Cinemas - Rohnert Park, CA

  This is the only multiplex I can recall having movie scores playing in the bathroom. Taking a leak while hearing bits from the Wizarding World or Pandora around you is euphoric.

• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

  Northstar Village Cinema - Truckee, CA

• Mission: Impossible – Fallout

  High Point, NC

• Avengers: Endgame

  High Point, NC

• Raiders of the Lost Ark

  Weill Hall at the Green Music Center - Rohnert Park, CA

• Parasite

  IV Theater - Isla Vista, CA

• Jurassic Park

  Pollock Theater (Carsey-Wolf Center) - Santa Barbara, CA

• Joker

  Camino Real Cinemas - Goleta, CA

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

I got sentimental at 1am, so I decided to make this little walk down Memory Lane to commemorate all the good times I've had in theaters.

Spoilers for, like, everything. Duh.

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

  I'd listened to the score many times before going to see this, but I still wasn't prepared to be hit with the one-two punch of "Hedwig's Theme" and then JNH's original theme for FB. It was instant magic, and I was back in the Wizarding World like no time had ed at all.

• The Lego Batman Movie

  I, at 15 years old, went with a bunch of other 15- and 16-year-olds, and we couldn't stop laughing throughout the whole thing. My friend Kyle started laughing ironically at the "Buttler" line and then wasn't able to stop laughing at himself for like two minutes. It was glorious.

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  I laughing in sheer giddiness at seeing Leia reach out with the Force. I still love Carrie Poppins.

• Avengers: Infinity War

  Of course it was silent through the credits, but it it said "Thanos will return", I blurted out, "Oh, you just had to rub it in!" and a guy or two in front of me heard and laughed.

  Also, back when I thought Captain Marvel was going to be a good movie, I'd been reading up about it so I recognized the symbol when it appeared on Fury's pager. I went "Oh! Oh! Captain Marvel!" - full on Leonardo-Dicaprio-in-Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Hollywood-ing - and got to talk excitedly to the friends I saw it with (my best friend and a couple folks from my youth group) about what it meant.

  Those were the days.

• Avengers: Endgame

  I more details from this night than any other theater experience ever.

  I'd put off getting tickets for weeks as I tried to get my friends to see it opening night with me, but for one reason or another, none of them would/could. That was how I found myself sitting in the very front row, one seat away from the far right end, staring almost straight up at the screen when the lights went down. The man who occupied the far right end seat, who wasn't much older than I was, suddenly roared, "LET'S KILL THANOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!!" and the entire audience was set ablaze with cheers.

  So many moments had audible responses from all of us that night, but when Cap caught that silly flying hammer...it was transcendent. One single thought was being screamed in the minds of every single one of us, all at the same moment, and it came bellowing out of our mouths in one simultaneous, bombastic noise of ecstasy. Then Portals hit, and it was just constantly building pandemonium at every reappearance. I don't even know if we heard Cap say, "...Assemble." I don't care. It was practically the genesis of a physical form for unadulterated enthusiasm.

  Then the crying started at Tony's death. I wasn't moved the way others were, but the whole theater gained a subtle layer of sound from the backs of hands being brushed against cheeks and the wiping of running noses. I'm nearly certain it remained all the way through Steve's dance with Peggy.

  I doubt anyone left the theater during the credits that night (not that I would know for sure, since I was in the front row - that's the section in front of the main walkway to the exits). We all paid our respects and allowed our hearts to swell once again when Silvestri's fanfare introduced the curtain call for the Avengers, and watched the Infinity Saga part from us with the softening echo of Tony's forging.

  That was three years ago now. As demonstrated by what I've written, it was unforgettable.

• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

  On here because of the solidarity formed between me and a few strangers when we bonded over roasting this movie. It was a true camaraderie only possible at the movie theater.

  Then I went and got ice cream at Safeway to convince myself I still had reasons to live after realizing this was the end of the Skywalker Saga.

• Dune

  The Paseo Nuevo theater rocked my seat with Zimmer's score and it was transporting.

• Spider-Man: No Way Home

  The cheers and tears were real.

  My friends said they wished they'd recorded my reactions because I had the biggest "WHOA"s and "YEAH!"s of all of them. And I instigated no small number of the cheers in the audience.

• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

  I heard some of the loudest, and simultaneously some of the most varied in tone, audible responses from this audience ever.

• Thor: Love and Thunder

  I wanted to scream out, "DARRYL! IT'S FUCKING DARRYL!" but nobody else seemed to recognize him. It HURT.

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The best trailers of all time (links in notes); the ones that legitimize trailers as their own art form.

Ranked by the quality of each entry's best trailer, not by the combined merit of every teaser and trailer.

Derived from the playlist I put together on YouTube over the years of all my favorites.

Free advice on making a great trailer:
1) Use John Williams themes
2) Profit

1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

   Official Trailer (The greatest trailer ever.)

   Honorable Mention: Teaser Trailer

2. Joker

   Teaser Trailer

   Honorable Mention: Official Trailer

3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

   Official Trailer

   Honorable Mention: Teaser Trailer #2

4. Avengers: Endgame

   Official Trailer (Marvel didn't even put the full title of the movie in the video title and made us wait till the card at the end for the reveal. Absolute chads.)

5. WandaVision

   Official Trailer

   Honorable Mention: Official Trailer 2

6. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

   Official Trailer

   Honorable Mention: Teaser Trailer

   If only I could still watch this like I did before the movie came out: without being repulsed by every image and sound that reminded me the Emperor is in this. An even greater gap in quality between trailer and movie than there was between Suicide Squad.

7. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

   Official Teaser

8. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

   Official Teaser

9. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

   Teaser Trailer

   So un-Marvel-like, and the unexpected result is...beautiful.

10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    Official Trailer

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

Obligatory.

1. The Batman
2. The Lego Batman Movie
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Suicide Squad
5. Joker
6. Joker: Folie à Deux
7. Batman Begins
8. Wonder Woman
9. Zack Snyder's Justice League
10. Man of Steel

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

I've seen many more than these, just not recently enough to trust myself when ranking them all.
Ranked by preference.

1. Soul
2. Ratatouille
3. The Incredibles
4. WALL·E
5. Inside Out
6. Inside Out 2
7. Luca
8. Lightyear

This is a clone of the very first list I published on Letterboxd. I'd like to preserve that one and see how long it goes without change, so this is the one I modify if I want to adjust it or add new tags.

Basically, I just want to maintain the publication date on the original - no edits.

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

   Andor Season 1 stand-in

4. Return of the Jedi
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
7. The Mandalorian & Grogu
8. Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies

   The Mandalorian S1 and 2 stand-in

9. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
10. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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

You can listen to the list in order here (just keep in mind that some themes are part of longer suites).
Idea being shamelessly stolen from the fantastic Friends from Work Podcast, this is a ranking of the (or a) main theme in each MCU project (that has at least a decent theme). It may be for a specific character, a group of characters, or a place or idea. They're ranked in their purest form, which means I'm not considering variations that may be better or worse than the themes themselves or other variations. Check notes for the specific track.

1. Black Panther

   "Wakanda" - Ludwig Göransson

2. Guardians of the Galaxy

   "Black Tears" - Tyler Bates

3. The Avengers

   "The Avengers" - Alan Silvestri

4. Spider-Man: No Way Home

   Found between 7:01 & 9:32 in "Arachnoverture" - Michael Giacchino

5. Moon Knight

   "Moon Knight" - Hesham Nazih

6. Werewolf by Night

   "Mane on Ends" - Michael Giacchino

7. Doctor Strange

   "Go for Baroque" - Michael Giacchino

8. Eternals

   "Eternals Theme" - Ramin Djawadi

9. WandaVision

   "Wanda's Theme" - Christophe Beck

10. Thor: Love and Thunder

    "Mama's Got a Brand New Hammer" - Michael Giacchino

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

So, you want more out of the Whoniverse than whatever streamer you use for Who, or my basic how-to for the revival era, can offer? That list only incorporates the most influential minisodes, and I made sure their notes won't be missed any more than the shorts themselves should you neglect them. Here, I operate under the assumption that you're at least reading - if not watching - everything! So if you do skip a short, don't also skip the contents of its notes (whose viewing precedes the associated entry). The system will be much more intuitive when TV is implemented on Letterboxd, of which this list exists in anticipation.

The only rule is that you can on anything without golden rods or a blue diamond on the bottom logo and still get all you need - as long as you read their notes!

• Doctor Who: Born Again

  Lead with Season 1

  Then watch the short here!

• Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion

  Every Season 2 episode is preceded by a brief "Tardisode". If interested, consult this playlist before starting each of the next 13 episodes after "The Christmas Invasion".

• Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

  Lead with Season 2 episodes 5-13

• Doctor Who: Time Crash

  Lead with Season 3

  Then watch the short here! (The best-quality rip has been taken down; if a better version than that linked rematerializes, then the link will switch to that video.)

• Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
• Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

  Lead with Season 4

• Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
• Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
• Doctor Who: The End of Time
• Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 1

  Lead with Season 5 episode 1

  Then watch the minisode here!

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a clone of the third list I ever published on Letterboxd. I'd like to preserve that one and see how long it goes without change, so this is the one I modify if I want to adjust it or add new tags.

Basically, I just want to preserve the original - no edits.

(Seeing as the most recent two FB movies are not canon, they may be removed from this Wizarding World list in the future.)

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
10. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

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

MA'22: 29/30*

The goal is to see everything on this list in 2023. It may not be in theaters, and I may see other releases instead; but I don't want to let the movies I'm most excited for me by, so I'm aiming for a 100% by December 31, 2023.

Rules for alterations are as follows:

1. Films can shift positions in this list until the time that I see one of them, at which point the list ceases to be 100% "Anticipated".
2. I can, however, add releases that I discover throughout the year in any spot below the first four (in keeping with LB's "Four Faves").
3. Any releases of which I was aware before the year began that didn't make the list until a trailer or buzz got me excited must go on the bottom, below those that had my attention from the start.
4. Buzz from pre-release showings puts such additions below even those of the prior variety, since it's a reaction to the finished film, not the expectation.

#1 ensures that the list is still reflective of my feelings at the beginning of 2023 when the releases I was anticipating still held that status, while #2-#4 allow the later films of 2023 to be represented in a list that is meant to cover the entire year without undercutting the long-awaited arrivals.

*I'm gonna give myself a on the last one, since I'm not sure if it came to theaters near me and I never found it available for rent.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

   Watched - pre-theatrical

2. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

   Watched - theatrical

   Reasoning: Hayley Atwell.

   That, and Mission Impossible: Fallout.

3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

   Watched - theatrical

   Hamlet Trailer
   
   Alexis: "KEEP IT FOR THE MEME LANCE!"

4. Asteroid City

   Watched - theatrical

5. Doctor Who: The Star Beast

   Watched - streaming

6. Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

   Watched - streaming

7. Doctor Who: The Giggle

   Watched - streaming

8. Barbie

   Watched - theatrical

9. Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

   TBW - theatrical

10. Oppenheimer

    Watched - theatrical

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

All the narrative feature-length or single-season 2023 releases in the U.S. that I watched in 2023.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. The Holdovers
3. I Like Movies
4. Oppenheimer
5. Making of The Last of Us

   Season 1

6. Asteroid City
7. Barbie
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
9. Gen V - Prime Premiere

   Season 1

10. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

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

The companion/counterpart to My 2023, these are all my non-feature-length/-single-season or non-narrative first watches in 2023. Same ranking principle applies.

1. John Williams: Live in Vienna
2. Grounded: Making The Last of Us

   Stand-in for The Last of Us: Part I

   The Grounded doc itself would be at #21.

3. Daniel Sloss: X
4. Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
5. Star Wars: Visions – Screecher's Reach
6. Michael Che Matters
7. Cunk on Britain
8. Poison
9. Gen V - Prime Premiere
10. Norm Macdonald: Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Trickery

...plus 84 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My 2022: 108 (101 films)
Goal for 2023: 109 (102 films)

Every feature-length narrative film or single season I watched for the first time this year, ranked in answer to the question: "How much did I love watching the story?"

That doesn't necessarily correlate with star ratings (which usually weigh "objective" quality more heavily), so ratings don't always descend down the list.

This is everything else I watched.

1. Chernobyl
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Before Sunrise
4. The ion of Joan of Arc
5. Blade Runner
6. Titanic
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Blade Runner 2049
9. The Holdovers
10. I Like Movies

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
5. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Intoxicated is a great word. These are the movies that leave me feeling intoxicated.

Ordered by most recent addition to the list. They come pretty rarely, so I want to highlight the new ones! Favorites become longer-standing as you work downwards, barring the bunch at the end: those are the current Four Faves and past of the club.

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Aftersun
• Little Women
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Lady Bird
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Whiplash
• Jojo Rabbit
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Her

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

And the shows.

1. Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

   Hasn't seen:
   - Lance

2. Swing Kids

   Hasn't seen:
   - Lance

3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

   Hasn't seen:
   - Alexis

4. Singin' in the Rain

   Hasn't seen:
   - Alexis
   - Andrew

5. Jojo Rabbit

   Hasn't seen:
   - Alexis

6. The Iron Giant

   Hasn't seen:
   - Lance

7. The Nightmare Before Christmas

   Hasn't seen:
   - Lance

8. John Williams: Live in Vienna

   Hasn't seen:
   - Andrew
   - Alexis

9. Knives Out

   Hasn't seen:
   - Alexis

10. Gladiator

    Hasn't seen:
    - Lance

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All my first watches in 2022. These are the 2022 releases.

Of my first watches, these are the feature-length narrative films and single seasons/miniseries, ranked in answer to the question: "What left the biggest impression on me?"
(Fair warning: that means that something so bad it's awesome will be above everything that's pretty good.)

Any shorts, documentaries, specials, etc. can be found in Everything Else from My 2022, Ranked.

When it comes to star ratings, I try to be generous to a movie if it's clearly well-crafted, even if it didn't speak to me as much as another did; here I'm ranking solely by how much I enjoyed a movie or how memorable it was, so stars actually increase while going down the list in some places.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Babylon
3. Oldboy
4. Jurassic Park

   Okay, I'm nearly certain I've seen this before; I just have so little familiarity with it that watching it this year might as well have been the first time I did.

5. RRR
6. Lady Bird
7. Aftersun
8. Moonlight
9. Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

   Andor Season 1 stand-in

10. Your Name.

...plus 98 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the narrative feature-length or single-season 2022 U.S. releases that I watched in 2022.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Babylon
3. RRR
4. Aftersun
5. Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

   Andor Season 1 stand-in

6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
7. TÁR
8. The Batman
9. Avatar: The Way of Water
10. Nope

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