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I guess Jason Statham is really bummed out that he didn’t get the John Wick contract

How is Fox still in business?!

Why were this surprising funny?

2025 ranked

“Kids” is a darker version of “Dazed and Confused” and similar coming of age movies. It provocatively explores youthful recklessness and exploitation, but its lack of clear condemnation of the characters’ actions leaves a troubling ambiguity. The film presents troubling behaviors—drugs, sexual recklessness, and violence—without offering a strong moral critique, which can make it feel more exploitative than insightful, undermining its potential message. 

2025 watchlist with Thindra #24

Todd Field is a truly singular voice in the movies. He has a neck for telling a layered, complex story that resonates in so many levels! “Little Children” is a haunting and emotionally complex film that explores suburban dissatisfaction, moral ambiguity, and forbidden desire. He is using the quiet despair of suburban life as a lens to explore themes of repression, conformity, and the yearning for escape. The title itself is a metaphor referring not only to the literal children but also to the emotionally stunted adults trapped in cycles of immaturity and denial. He really manages to make a point of adults not behaving better than children. 

2025 watchlist with Thindra #23

Charlie Kaufman always deliver a thought provoking and unique experience. “Anomalisa” is yet another example of his larger then life approach to filmmaking.

Charlie Kaufman ranked

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

An increasingly well acted and well shot movie!

Those Cad Bane episodes were awesome!

Loved the dialects😂

Ruben Östlund ranked

This review may contain spoilers.

May the fourth be with you

That was intense! There are some next level action building here! The sound and editing are just spectacular! The narrative feels very fresh and authentic. I’m certainly impressed with all the details here! They really made it as accurate as possible every detail is correct here! Especially the first aid scenes felt very genuine. Best movie of the year this far!

Alex Garland ranked
A24 ranked
2025 ranked

Not what I expected but a pretty fun time!

Richard Linklater ranked

It’s a good idea here for a movie and Marilyn Monroe gives a stellar performance! However the concept feels both dated and the movie is to short to effectively convey its message. Although a must watch for Marilyn Monroe fans!

Without a doubt Disneys best Star Wars movie!

I really thought that “The Monkey” would have some more substance after seeing Perkins last film, “Longlegs” which was great. However this one never reached those highs

When that message from Hayden Christensen played in the beginning of the move in the theatre… gooosbumps!!
A top ten cinema experience for sure!

I was unsure if Ryan Coogler would be able to top “Fruitevale Station” but then he makes “Sinners” the directing and storytelling are on such a high level! And all the crafts are great, especially the cinematography and score. Ludvig Göransson creates yet another all timer score here. There is this one scene in the middle that are just spectacular! The only thing that’s holding it back for me is the last 15 minutes. That felt a bit east after such an incredible movie! Can’t recommend it enough though, the best movie of 2025 this far! We need moooore original movies with high budgets!

Ryan Coogler ranked
2025 ranked

A great movie about the human pursuit of freedom! It’s a bit glorified like many old American movies, but that’s a part of its charm!

A bit to silly for my taste

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

Is this possibly the most underrated “Black Mirror” episode?

I really liked the promise of the episode!! I just wished it all would have come together a bit better

The references to “The Shining” was the highlight

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

I must say that there were a lot of interesting directing choices in here. I’m very eager to see more John Cassavetes movies! I just wish that the screenplay could have been a bit tighter

2025 watchlist with Thindra #22

If the characters would have been likeable, this might have been a banger!

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Happy Easter everyone!

Martin Scorsese ranked

Jack Black has a contract that says that he has to play himself and sing a song in all of his movies!

“Children of Men” uses its bleak, dystopian setting to powerfully explore themes of hope, survival, and the loss of innocence. The central metaphor of a world without children reflects society’s decline - both biologically and morally. The sudden appearance of a pregnant woman becomes a symbol of rebirth, a fragile beacon of hope in a world that has forgotten how to care for its future. The film also critiques immigration, as the desperate refugees are treated like cattle, showing how society dehumanizes those it deems foreign. Ultimately, the film uses its barren landscape and chaotic world to ask whether humanity can still find redemption.

“Children of Men” is one of the best dystopian movies ever! The central premise really captures the magic of children. Without them nothing matters… why should anyone care about anything if there is no future? This is Cuaróns masterpiece!

Alfonso Cuarón ranked

“Only Lovers Left Alive”: A vampire romance where the main plot is sipping wine, reading books, and existentially wondering why humans keep ruining everything. Mood

Jim Jarmush ranked

“Great Freedom” is a hard but very rewarding watch. It’s a hidden gem

2025 watchlist with Thindra #21

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

Not even Liam Neeson could save it!

Best ing actor nominations ranked

This feels like the definition of a sweet movie!

How the heck did this win over “Brokeback Mountain”!? It’s a very standard movie about racism. However most of the black characters feels very stereotypical… the acting was so off too. Probably among the 5 worst best picture winners of all time

Best picture winners ranked

Sadly this felt like a miss for me. The scenes drag and the story did little to capture my interest. I really wanted to like it so it was actually a major let down. Maybe o just missed something🤷🏽‍♂️

2025 watchlist with Thindra #20

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." 

David Fincher ranked

So what made them think this would be a good movie?

“Nightcrawler” is truly a great film! It felt like everything just clicked when they made it, from the acting to the screenplay and all the techs. The story is probably even more relevant now then it was 11 years ago when it was released. I mean it feels more and more like the media is more interested in clicks and selling a narrative than actually making news. Jake Gyllenhaal is given one of the best performances of the century in the modern masterpiece! I can’t recommend it enough!!

I watched this so all of you don’t have to! Probably the worst movie of Hitchcocks career

Alfred Hitchcock ranked

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

This one didn’t really work for me…

My second Luis Buñuel movie is just further showcasing his brilliance! The story is nothing out of the ordinary however the story is so refined and thoughtfully crafted that it takes the premise to the next level! The movie poses questions of what’s a relationship is worth when trust is met with lies and what’s the point with sex if there is no love? Instead we see a them craft a life of a lie, a life built on promises. We are left watching when it all comes crashing down. The quote: ”If I gave you what you wanted now, you would stop loving me” rings true in the end. It’s their unwillingness to express their real feelings and intentions towards each other that leads them down the wrong path.

I think that Buñuel tries to capture the danger of obsession and lust. He captures the movie in a somewhat surreal and ironic manner to further its messages in a very contradictory way. He confronts the viewer with our lust for what we don’t have. Which is further emphasised by the casting of two different woman for the same role as Conchita. He states that fulfilment is impossible and offers us a broken mirror to face ourselves in. 

Acting: 85/100
Direction: 90/100
Writing: 95/100
Editing: 85/100
Cinematography: 85/100
Production design: 85/100
Music: 75/100
Sound: 75/100
Enjoyment: 90/100
Emotion: 85/100
Engagement: 100/100

Total: 87/100

I loved how the dialogue were so layered and that you could puzzle everything together from it!! I’m in dire need of more good spy thrillers!

Steven Soderbergh ranked
2025 ranked

Acting: 80/100
Direction: 80/100
Writing: 85/100
Editing: 80/100
Cinematography: 70/100
Production design: 70/100
Sound: 85/100
Enjoyment: 80/100
Emotion: 80/100
Engagement: 90/100

Total: 80/100

So if you like movies with great dialogue, this is not it

Oliver Stone ranked

Although I hoped for something a bit more thought provoking, “Taste of Cherry” is a very solid movie. I just felt like the ending was a bit obvious and was pretty much what I expected after like 15 minutes. However true the message that it’s only in the end of life at the edge death we truly can appreciate everything we have to live for. Maybe it’s just me, but I just wished a slightly different approach.

Palme d’Or winners ranked
2025 watchlist with Thindra #19

1. Warfare
2. Sinners
3. Mickey 17
4. Black Bag
5. Novocaine
6. Companion
7. Nonnas
8. The Monkey
9. The Gorge
10. A Minecraft Movie

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

1. Magnolia
2. The Master
3. Boogie Nights
4. Pulp Fiction
5. A Few Good Men
6. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
7. Brokeback Mountain
8. Schindler's List
9. The Godfather
10. Twelve Monkeys

...plus 143 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Precious
2. TÁR
3. The Devil Wears Prada
4. I, Tonya
5. The Bridges of Madison County
6. Gone Girl
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. Jackie
9. Blue Valentine
10. American Beauty

...plus 115 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Prestige
2. The Departed
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Letters from Iwo Jima
5. Children of Men
6. Blood Diamond
7. The Fountain
8. Little Children
9. Casino Royale
10. The Illusionist

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Se7en
2. Heat
3. La Haine
4. The Usual Suspects
5. Twelve Monkeys
6. Fallen Angels
7. Pocahontas
8. Braveheart
9. Before Sunrise
10. Ghost in the Shell

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Revenant
2. Ex Machina
3. Spotlight
4. The Lobster
5. Amy
6. Room
7. The Big Short
8. Sicario
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Being John Malkovich
4. Adaptation.
5. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
6. Anomalisa
7. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Oldboy
3. Mystic River
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
5. Lost in Translation
6. Memories of Murder
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
8. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
9. Love Actually
10. Dogville

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

1. Warrior
2. Drive
3. The Tree of Life
4. Shame
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. The Skin I Live In
7. A Separation
8. Take Shelter
9. Midnight in Paris
10. Melancholia

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Triangle of Sadness
2. The Square
3. Play
4. Force Majeure

1. Hereditary
2. Ex Machina
3. First Reformed
4. Moonlight
5. A Ghost Story
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Amy
8. Red Rocket
9. The Brutalist
10. The Lobster

...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

1. Dazed and Confused
2. Before Sunset
3. School of Rock
4. Before Sunrise
5. Boyhood
6. Before Midnight
7. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
8. Hit Man
9. Bernie

1. The Shining
2. Misery
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Carrie
5. The Green Mile
6. Stand by Me
7. Gerald's Game
8. The Mist
9. Doctor Sleep
10. It

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

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Wild Strawberries
3. Rear Window
4. A Man Escaped
5. Sunset Boulevard
6. Paths of Glory
7. The Seventh Seal
8. The Night of the Hunter
9. North by Northwest
10. Seven Samurai

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Sinners
2. Fruitvale Station
3. Creed
4. Black Panther
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Graduate
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. Psycho
6. Persona
7. 8½
8. The Apartment
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Once Upon a Time in the West

...plus 81 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Nosferatu
3. Anora
4. The Brutalist
5. The Substance
6. Challengers
7. Civil War
8. Nickel Boys
9. The Count of Monte Cristo
10. I Saw the TV Glow

...plus 138 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Annihilation
2. Marriage Story
3. Don't Look Up
4. Gerald's Game
5. All Quiet on the Western Front
6. Klaus
7. The Irishman
8. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
9. BEEF
10. The Killer

...plus 111 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Best movies of 2019

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. Parasite
3. Marriage Story
4. Jojo Rabbit
5. Rocketman
6. The Farewell
7. The Lighthouse
8. Klaus
9. Ford v Ferrari
10. Us

...plus 87 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
3. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Road to Perdition
7. 28 Days Later
8. City of God
9. Infernal Affairs
10. The Pianist

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(80, 81, 82, 83, 84)

1. Return of the Jedi
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. The Shining
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Amadeus
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
7. The Thing
8. Raging Bull
9. The Elephant Man
10. The King of Comedy

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

(85, 86, 87, 88, 89)

1. Back to the Future
2. Aliens
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4. Platoon
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Cinema Paradiso
7. Blue Velvet
8. Do the Right Thing
9. Come and See
10. Rain Man

...plus 113 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

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

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Prisoners
3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Fruitvale Station
7. American Hustle
8. Under the Skin
9. Rush
10. The Conjuring

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

1. Children of Men
2. Roma
3. Gravity
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Great Expectations

1. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
2. V for Vendetta
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. Match Point
5. Lady Vengeance
6. Munich
7. Sin City
8. Batman Begins
9. Caché
10. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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

1. Paterson
2. Only Lovers Left Alive
3. Broken Flowers
4. The Dead Don't Die

1. Mommy
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Perfect Blue
5. Oldboy
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7. Parasite
8. La Haine
9. The Invisible Guest
10. Memories of Murder

...plus 339 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The best movies of 2021

1. Licorice Pizza
2. Red Rocket
3. The Last Duel
4. Don't Look Up
5. Nightmare Alley
6. West Side Story
7. The Worst Person in the World
8. Dune
9. C'mon C'mon
10. The Green Knight

...plus 103 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Million Dollar Baby
2. The Incredibles
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Before Sunset
6. The Aviator
7. Finding Neverland
8. Howl's Moving Castle
9. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
10. Collateral

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. American Beauty
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Silence of the Lambs
6. The Departed
7. Schindler's List
8. Amadeus
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. Gladiator

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The best movies of 2018

1. The Favourite
2. Hereditary
3. Annihilation
4. A Star Is Born
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
6. Eighth Grade
7. BlacKkKlansman
8. Shoplifters
9. Climax
10. Vice

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Arrival
2. Me Before You
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4. Nocturnal Animals
5. Moonlight
6. Manchester by the Sea
7. Deadpool
8. Hell or High Water
9. Train to Busan
10. The Invisible Guest

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Get Out
2. Phantom Thread
3. The Shape of Water
4. First Reformed
5. A Ghost Story
6. I, Tonya
7. Logan
8. The Greatest Showman
9. Coco
10. mother!

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

The best movies of 2020

1. The Father
2. Quo Vadis, Aida?
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Another Round
6. Palm Springs
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
8. Sound of Metal
9. My Octopus Teacher
10. A Quiet Place Part II

...plus 51 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Psycho
2. Rear Window
3. North by Northwest
4. Rope
5. The Birds
6. Notorious
7. Foreign Correspondent
8. Vertigo
9. The 39 Steps
10. Shadow of a Doubt

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

(75, 76, 77, 78, 79)

1. Star Wars
2. Nashville
3. Taxi Driver
4. Alien
5. Barry Lyndon
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Jaws
8. Halloween
9. Annie Hall
10. Network

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. sex, lies, and videotape
2. Traffic
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Black Bag
5. Erin Brockovich
6. Side Effects
7. Presence
8. Out of Sight
9. The Limey
10. Ocean's Thirteen

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

1. Platoon
2. JFK
3. Born on the Fourth of July
4. Natural Born Killers
5. Nixon
6. Wall Street
7. JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
8. The Doors
9. Snowden
10. Savages

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

1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. JFK
5. Jacquot de Nantes
6. Thelma & Louise
7. Cape Fear
8. Naked Lunch
9. My Own Private Idaho
10. Only Yesterday

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

1. Boogie Nights
2. L.A. Confidential
3. Titanic
4. Perfect Blue
5. Funny Games
6. Lost Highway
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Life Is Beautiful
9. Cure
10. The Game

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Taxi Driver
3. Parasite
4. Secrets & Lies
5. Anora
6. The Tree of Life
7. Shoplifters
8. Wild at Heart
9. Winter Sleep
10. Farewell My Concubine

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Gone Girl
2. Mommy
3. Nightcrawler
4. Whiplash
5. Edge of Tomorrow
6. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
7. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
8. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
9. Phoenix
10. Winter Sleep

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Excluding the winners

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Phantom Thread
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Master
5. The Aviator
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. Amadeus
8. Gangs of New York
9. The Godfather Part II
10. Get Out

...plus 138 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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

1. Zodiac
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
4. Ratatouille
5. Sunshine
6. Hot Fuzz
7. Eastern Promises
8. Gone Baby Gone
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. The Mist

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

1. Babylon
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Aftersun
5. The Menu
6. Decision to Leave
7. TÁR
8. Triangle of Sadness
9. The Fabelmans
10. Moonage Daydream

...plus 131 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Adaptation.
2. Closer
3. The Favourite
4. The Help
5. I'm Not There
6. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
7. The Hours
8. Almost Famous
9. Pulp Fiction
10. American Hustle

...plus 127 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Raging Bull
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. The Father
6. Capote
7. Manchester by the Sea
8. Amadeus
9. Training Day
10. The Brutalist

...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.