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jumping on my couch in joy, tom cruise style

great 7am movie

Adding McQuarrie and Ferguson(!!!!!!) was like giving Cruise his own Phil Jackson and Scottie Pippen

I watched this movie less than 48 hours ago, forgot to log it, just saw it in my watchlist, and have no recollection of anything meaningful about it. Poulter is pretty funny I think? Best left forgotten as a whole though. Luckily, that shouldn’t be a problem.

Had pretty much no idea what was happening at any given moment, but it looked cool! Fun!! Hot!!

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Still really good. A last hoorah for the practical accomplishments of Old Hollywood. Has both a necessarily lengthy runtime and a dreadfully slow pace at times. I’m glad musicals no longer reprise every single song.

Since Sellers gets to go (multi)generational here, we often overlook how close to the comedy sun George C. Scott is flying.

Hot but not much else

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 5, 2025.

hell yeah, I love being an unapologetic JJ lover

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

watched from 2:30am to 4am, odd time, was fully locked in but didn’t love it. and im not sure what day to count this log as. Karina is fucking awesome.

You learn to love the rope. 

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

so good that im texting people i know have me blocked telling them to see this movie

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

It’d be far more successful if it leaned more towards the Moonage Daydream style documentary, but for whatever reason (most of Led Zeppelin is alive; they’re involved in the film; it only covers through LZII) it takes that footage, cuts in bio-by-numbers interviews and churns out a doc more reminiscent of 60 Minutes. And hey, no slander against 60 Minutes. It’s just… placid? Stale? Led Zeppelin — as proven by the dynamite concert sequences throughout — deserves something more exciting, more explosive. They deserve Pompeii. The Blitz. The Hindenburg.

i didn’t kill the sorrow  and i didn’t kill the joy 
and i still call myself by your name when i run

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

Every scene stops me dead in my tracks. Phenomenal work on every level.

Mulgae movie on mulgae day

Made me feel small and ill and choked in a way that a film hasn’t for a very, very long time — years, maybe even decades.

Christopher Reeve is fucking electric here

Makes some really frustrating narrative choices (diminishing returns the longer the movie goes) and some even more frustrating cinema faux pas (a vague script, side characters who cease existing when the main character walks away, etc) — but it gets by on two strong performances. I think I’ll liking those more than the litany of things I don’t like, so… Three stars on wishful thinking.

Difficult to overstate the impact Get Out has had on film over the last 8 years. Already one of the ten most influential horror films ever made, inching closer to top five all the time.

I’m fucking with it

Watched on Tuesday March 18, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

lmao

Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.

There’s not a filmmaker on Earth who has their finger on the pulse quite like Radu Jude. There’s nobody else that can make the tragedy of being alive today as wryly funny. And while this isn’t my favorite of his, it’s probably his best.

It’s not that I didn’t care for the movie, it’s that I never really cared for the characters (which is a first for me with a Bong film). That’s okay, I had fun! Pattinson is great. Yuen is underused. Okja is a really good movie.

Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 6, 2025.

Started the film with a cup of coffee, and the combo had me shaking — that first hour-twenty is pure electricity. The rest works for me in decreasing ways, as it loses some of its plotting (and more importantly: messaging) in the third act. Bigelow said every scene they filmed made the final cut, and you can definitely tell. Mackie has never been better — the enger seat breakdown is his crowning achievement.

Watched on Wednesday March 5, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday March 4, 2025.

that's what the monkey is for

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

Wrote on the difficulty of depicting and sitting with trauma for ForReel

My own list based on how close a movie came to objectively achieving the perfect version of itself.

(Check my notes to see each movie’s score.)

1. Clue

   10

2. Get Out

   10

3. Ikiru

   10

4. The Godfather

   10

5. Steel Magnolias

   10

6. Moonlight

   10

7. Seven Samurai

   10

8. The Matrix

   10

9. Singin' in the Rain

   10

10. The Princess Bride

    10

...plus 1182 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films of 2024 ranked from my favorite to least favorite. To qualify the film must have been released to the public (theatrically/online) in 2024 in its country of origin.

1. Challengers
2. Nosferatu
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Anora

   
   

5. The Brutalist
6. The Substance
7. Evil Does Not Exist

   To be rewatched. 

8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. Dune: Part Two
10. Conclave

    
    

...plus 106 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The filmography of Chad Stahelski ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

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

Films of 2023 ranked from my favorite to least favorite. To qualify the film must have been released to the public (theatrically/online) in 2023 in its country of origin.

1. Past Lives
2. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

   
   

3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Asteroid City
5. May December
6. Poor Things
7. Barbie
8. Riceboy Sleeps

   
   

9. The Zone of Interest

   
   

10. Oppenheimer

...plus 130 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My selection for every film category at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Check notes for winners of multiple categories.

• Dìdi (弟弟)

  Best First Feature
  Best First Screenplay: Sean Wang
  Best Editing: Arielle Zakowski

• Nickel Boys

  Best Feature
  Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray

• The Brutalist

  Best Director: Brady Corbet

• Anora

  Best Lead Performance: Mikey Madison

• Sing Sing

  Best ing Performance: Clarence Maclin

• A Different Man

  Best Screenplay: Aaron Schimberg

• Black Dog

  Best International Feature

• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

  Best Documentary 

• My Old Ass

  Best Breakthrough Performance: Maisy Stella

• The People's Joker

  John Cassavetes Award

The filmography of Jia Zhangke ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. 24 City
2. A Touch of Sin
3. Ash Is Purest White
4. The World
5. Platform
6. Still Life
7. Pickpocket
8. Mountains May Depart
9. Caught by the Tides
10. Unknown Pleasures

Films of 2022 ranked from my favorite to least favorite. To qualify the film must have been released to the public (theatrically/online) in 2022 in its country of origin.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. The Menu
4. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
6. The Territory
7. Triangle of Sadness
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
9. Jackass Forever
10. RRR

...plus 171 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The filmography of Robert Eggers ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. Nosferatu
2. The Lighthouse
3. The Northman
4. The Witch

The filmography of Alex Garland ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. Ex Machina
2. Annihilation
3. Civil War
4. Men

My selection for every film category at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Check notes for winners of multiple categories.

• Past Lives

  Best Picture
  Best Director: Celine Song
  Best Screenplay: Celine Song
  Best Lead Performance: Greta Lee

• May December

  Best First Screenplay: Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik
  Best ing Performance: Charles Melton

• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

  Best First Feature
  Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray

• How to Blow Up a Pipeline

  Best Editing: Daniel Garber

• The Zone of Interest

  Best International Film

• The Holdovers

  Best Breakthrough Performance: Dominic Sessa

• Kokomo City

  Best Documentary

• Rotting in the Sun

  John Cassavetes Award

My selection for every film category at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Check notes for winners of multiple categories.

• TÁR

  Best Director: Todd Field
  Best Screenplay: Todd Field
  Best Lead Performance: Cate Blanchett
  Best Cinematography: Florian Hoffmeister
  
  

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

  Best Feature
  Best ing Performance: Ke Huy Quan
  Best Breakthrough Performance: Stephanie Hsu

• Aftersun

  Best First Feature
  Best Editing: Blair McClendon
  
  

• Fire Island

  Best First Screenplay: Joel Kim Booster

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

  Best Documentary

• Saint Omer

  Best International Film

• A Love Song

  John Cassavetes Award

The filmography of Adam McKay ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

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

The filmography of Gareth Edwards ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. The Creator
2. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3. Godzilla
4. Monsters

The filmography of Sofia Coppola ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. Lost in Translation
2. Marie Antoinette
3. The Beguiled
4. The Virgin Suicides
5. Priscilla
6. On the Rocks
7. The Bling Ring
8. Somewhere

The filmography of Ari Aster ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. Midsommar
2. Hereditary
3. Beau Is Afraid

The filmography of David Cronenberg ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. The Fly
2. Crash
3. Videodrome
4. Eastern Promises
5. The Brood
6. A History of Violence
7. Dead Ringers
8. The Dead Zone
9. Crimes of the Future
10. Rabid

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

Films of 2021 ranked from my favorite to least favorite. To qualify the film must have been released to the public (theatrically/online) in 2021 in its country of origin.

1. The Worst Person in the World
2. Judas and the Black Messiah
3. C'mon C'mon
4. Petite Maman
5. The Father
6. CODA
7. Drive My Car
8. Mass
9. Pig
10. West Side Story

...plus 181 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films of 2020 ranked from my favorite to least favorite. To qualify the film must have been released to the public (theatrically/online) in 2020 in its country of origin. 

(This makes films like Bacurau ineligible for example, as it is a Brazilian film released in Brazil in 2019, though it was released in the States in 2020.)

1. First Cow
2. Dick Johnson Is Dead
3. Mank
4. Mangrove
5. Sound of Metal
6. Quo Vadis, Aida?
7. Nomadland
8. Time
9. Shithouse
10. Lovers Rock

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The filmography of Damien Chazelle ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

1. Whiplash
2. Babylon
3. La La Land
4. First Man
5. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

Unofficially submitted.

• Man with a Movie Camera
• Ikiru
• Psycho
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Jaws
• The Ascent
• Do the Right Thing
• The Matrix
• There Will Be Blood
• Parasite

The filmography of Andrew Ahn ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

Average Rating: 7.8

1. Driveways
2. Fire Island
3. Spa Night

The filmography of Jordan Peele ranked from my favorite to least favorite. Unlike the Kubrick Rubric list, this has no sense of objectivity. (But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to disagree with me either.)

Average Rating: ~8.4

1. Get Out
2. Nope
3. Us

52 movies for 52 weeks - each week a different theme, all movies related to the Criterion Collection or Channel. Based on Ben’s challenge.

1. Blood Simple

   Released in 1984.

2. Drunken Angel

   Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

3. Breathless

   Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

4. House

   Horror.

5. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

   Released on Laserdisc.

6. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

   Made in Spain.

7. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

   Wes Anderson’s Top 10.

8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

   Romance.

9. The ion of Joan of Arc

   A silent film.

10. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    1920s.

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