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Shaking my head when he builds the bomb to show I disagree, nodding my head when he regrets the bomb to show I agree.

2029 is optimistic at this rate

I would also risk it all for cupcakes

A wonderful movie that has no humility about itself whatsoever. Hate to say it earns that smug ass smirk.

I haven't seen this many beheadings since Hereditary.

good thing nobody needed anything from their closet in those five minutes they were all activated. that woula been a real 2319 if ya know what I mean.

Curse you Philippous for weaponising my love of Sally Hawkins against me.

Happy Pride to the guy who wants to bang Samnang

Comes on strong and it is visually dazzling, but overall this is just way too busy with lots of extremely different ideas at once.

Honestly, maybe it's a good thing that Andrew Dominik has been banished to the minimalist musician soliloquy jail.

This would have benefited from getting even further away from Succession. That was a satire that could take itself seriously. So, when you have something this farcical which takes itself too seriously, you just end up dulling all the edges.

Make a silly movie that's also smart, not a smart movie that's also silly... A few of the sight gags got me but that was about it.

As I suspected, a lot better on a rewatch. I had a different relationship to its tension and structure so all the setups and payoffs were much more satisfying. I like how Wes is writing like a novelist lately. It makes me feel more cultured. 🧐

when we thought Lin Manuel Miranda was the coolest for a year and he was like, "haha guys. no."

wait... who are these people?

I feeling that the MCU had already gone too far with the crossovers in 2012 lol. You expect me to watch four mediocre movies to understand one good one? Little did I know...

Try Everything is still a bop

"He brought the world to Kansas."

The best film of the decade.

One of a kind.

Watched on Saturday May 24, 2025.

I put so much butter on my popcorn you guys

Sauceless. The closest the MCU have come to a Disney Original TV Movie. Who thought having your women superheroes be literally interchangeable was a good idea?

I was reluctant to watch this one and even more hesitant to rave about it, but man, it's really my bag. I love these types of Americana stories where self-destructive people punish themselves over futile ego-driven goals (see: Whiplash, The Wrestler, All That Jazz, etc), especially when the approach is autism-coded like this. I found his inability to regulate his emotions and connect with others much more interesting in this lens than just thinking about them in simple of violence and loneliness. Those are colossal meltdowns and bodybuilding is basically Killian Maddox's special interest.

Of course, Jonathan Majors often imbues that kind of neurodivergence and physicality into his performances, thinking even to the first time I saw him in The Last Black Man in San Francisco. He deserves to lose his award campaigns, but it's hard to deny how what we know feeds into the subtext of the film, from the inner conflicts to the themes of legacy. I'm not going to conflate my comion for Killian with empathy for Jonathan though. I don't know what he's really like. All the best to his victims in their pursuit of justice.

I know this movie is basically irrelevant now but I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll be checking off all the MCU feature films eventually

Who knew Marvel’s strongest film in years would be about manic depression? It has its weak points, sure (not all the Thunderbolts are created equally), but it’s the step in the mature direction they’ve been needing for a while. I mean, the last Marvel I bothered to watch was Deadpool & Wolverine... That said, I don’t know if I can trust that they’ll keep it up. We’ve been burnt before.

Much better than my very low expectations, the trailer undersold the handling of the premise. I had fun.

The second season of The Rehearsal put me in the mood for a rewatch of Nathan For You, which I've just concluded with my sixth viewing of the feature-length series finale. This week's episode, where Nathan discovers he's accidentally an autism authority, moved me deeply. It did a profound job summarizing why both shows articulate autism-coded behaviour in a way that resonates with people, plus a bit on why autism acceptance is tough (he'll cross that bridge later).

The primary symptom of autism that it delved into is masking, which a lot of high-functioning people on the spectrum go through in their day-to-day finding it particularly draining to fit into society. It's easy to think you're just an introvert. When you're expected to behave or react in a certain way and you'd find it easier just reading off a script or taking complete control over the social situation, it feeds into a lot of anxiety. And life would be better if you got to rehearse every scenario in a consequence-free zone until you've perfected your mask.

That's what I find so fascinating about Nathan for You in how Nathan dives headfirst into those fears. The essence of the show is the humanity you find between those moments before you know what mask to be wearing. The awkward gaps where you don't quite know what to say or what the other person expects of you yet. Most shows edit those bits out since they set a strange tone, but this show finds them more interesting than anything someone might have prepared to say.

While that helps conquer reasons to avoid experiences, what the show also practises is a form of radical acceptance. The words "oh okay" are basically a catchphrase, both from Nathan and totally unprompted from participants as well. Even if something somebody says or does is totally weird or not that impressive, the other person tends to acknowledge it and move past the temptation to challenge what happened. It's primarily conflict-averse, but it also gives an opportunity to drop the pretence of masking and just be themselves. Every use of "oh okay" is unexpectedly funny and also a huge relief.

Now, these are two things that I noticed are also present in Finding s in a very different way. Here we see how it's a natural habit that elderly people have when it comes to interacting with each other to embrace and accept those odd fumbles. So, there might be a lot of cringeworthy comedy in the eccentric things people say or do and maybe we do see a side of people that feels more real, but perhaps there's a lot of wisdom we can learn from granting that type of grace more often. You might just get more out of life if you do.

Great ending, worth the watch for the payoff, but overall this frenetic style is way too exhausting for me.

bit of a poser movie tbh

Psychotic cinema. Just totally unhinged from top to bottom, operating on a surreal dream logic that defies expectations at every turn. A strong entry into A24's sad sack loser film canon including Dream Scenario, A Different Man, and more!

tbh my hot take is that Slanted & Enchanted is their worst/least best album

Very keen for a revisit because I was having a hard time that week (as grateful as I am to attend such an advanced screening) so I couldn't fully absorb it on one go. It seems that Wes made it this way intentionally. I agree with the consensus so far that it's lower tier Wes but even that means it's an all-time favourite for me. It's super entertaining and existential, though lacks the emotional core that attaches me to his other films. However, there's a part of me that just loves seeing Wes paint another on his great tapestry. We'll take a step back one day and be blown away by the body of work, in the same way I look at my lovely boxset of Roald Dahl books and smile. It's simply a perfect filmography with a lot more to come.

Watched on Sunday May 18, 2025.

Death always manages to squeeze a situationship into his plans 🤭

I liked the origin story that Bloodlines gave Tony Todd's character but it never really explained why he's so freaky

If only the co-pilot felt comfortable speaking up to the captain

I guess only theater kids survived this apocalypse

When I die I'm coming back as a gimbal

Grateful to have a relaxing movie to calm my nerves on such a stressful day. 😌

👐 👐 👐

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

A bit contrived in execution but sincerely human in intention.

Tom Green's influence is responsible for the best of the best (Nathan Fielder) and the worst of the worst (Joe Rogan) when it comes to contemporary entertainment so I have mixed feelings overall but it was interesting to dig into his TV work since I only knew him from Road Trip and Charlie's Angels. The doc is a bit self-congratulatory but at least they're compliments from people whose opinions mean a lot.

Do all British people become boring old fogies? Am I doomed to be dull??

Man, they wish they had even an ounce of Nathan Fielder's performance art aura. While the film does call attention to my core problem at some point, it really does just reek of white privilege, and it's very difficult to care about their goals while they're being so pretentious and annoying about them.

kinda wild they made a full feature length movie about this but it worked for me. i like quiz show movies because they feel so high stakes but they're actually silly. wish we had more of them.

I ired how much reverence and perspective this doc has for its main subjects without stooping to hero worship.

ONIONS

So, last night I got to see La Haine on 35mm for its thirtieth anniversary and I was thinking the whole time that it might just be my favourite movie. I got to see a D at Vidiots two years ago, but it never felt more like a classic movie to me than seeing its stark grit on nitrate. It had rocketed to my number one spot when I first saw it at 14 and it stayed as my #1 through the rest of 2007 until I saw The Assassination of Jesse James.

That internal debate quickly became irrelevant when ten minutes after the movie ended I tripped on the sidewalk, scared the shit out of my friend, and left the never broken a bone club. It’s just a radial fracture, but yeah, this is gonna suck. And then all I thought about was getting home and putting on my Criterion 4K of La Haine for another round. 

Even after over twenty-five viewings, I get more out of the film every time. For last night’s watch, I thought about the meaning of Grunwalski (eh, things could be worse), the meaning of motherfucker (a disregard for your mother’s love when they’re wasting you), the id/ego/superego dynamic of our primary trio, and most importantly, the power of cameras, imagery, and representation. It’s the way we see the world and ourselves. That’s the universal magic of cinema, even from news footage.

I’d write the full essay if I had both hands ready, and then we’d be 5,000 words down before I even got to its forever-relevant police oppression narrative. When I have a film like this that I understood it on a primal level as a teenager and on an even deeper level in my thirties, I just know it’ll mean more to me as I get older and wiser and continue to look to La Haine to recapture a youthful spirit. Even on a bare surface level, it’s a tragicomic masterpiece with a banger soundtrack that has the greatest shot you’ve ever seen in your life every other scene. 

What most stuck with me is an early scene during Hubert’s intro. He its that he knew his gym would go up in smoke, so Sayid asks why he even bothered running it, and Vinz answers that he just wanted to, it was worth it to him. All buildings crumble, all marriages part, all folks die, all empires fall. From stardust we came, to stardust we go. So, why go on living in the face of existential doom? Because it’s worth it.

Perhaps instead, it is the fall that matters. It depends on what you call the landing. It could be when I was face down on the pavement last night, or it could be when I picked myself up, put my sling on, and spent yet another cosmic night in Paris.

Or maybe we’re all still falling.

God blessed us the day Mathieu Kassovitz found a jib.

This would be literally half as good if it wasn't so completely sarcastic about everything.

To be updated on Mondays. It's ranked by avg l.b. rating, extracted from here.

Includes documentaries and festival films of 2024 that have their first national release in 2025 (i.e. The Life of Chuck, Friendship). Note: I only include confirmed 2025 releases, not generally undistributed 2024 films. Films can be added upon the official announcement of their release date. The list does not include films that had some national releases in 2024 but U.S. releases delayed for 2025 (i.e. I'm Still Here).

There is a 1,000-watch minimum threshold for any films to be eligible and films need a 'trusted' average rating (i.e. a rating not hidden from the page) before they enter the list. For a version of the list without documentaries and a lower minimum, see Rahat's roundup.

Further exclusions:
• Short films, TV specials, concerts, stand-up specials, live theater and web videos. Films need a valid IMDb and TMDb page.
• TV miniseries or making of featurettes, unless they had theatrical distribution.
• Music-adjacent documentaries are excluded unless they have a film festival premiere. They are prone to fan manipulation.
• Films that extend or conclude narratives from TV shows despite a theatrical release. Prequels, spin-offs, or standalone films are allowed.

See the Letterboxd Official tag for my other 'official' year lists. Each list concluded shortly after their respective Oscar ceremonies so their ranking is a permanent time capsule. More member-curated official all-time lists are found on the Letterboxd 'Official' List Network. This list will conclude the week after the Academy Awards.

Special credit to Mihir Nanda for sourcing additional eligible films.

1. The Encampments
2. Ocean with David Attenborough
3. Homem com H
4. From Ground Zero
5. Sinners
6. Deaf President Now!
7. Manas
8. Ne Zha 2
9. Southern Chronicles
10. Sorry, Baby

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

All of my 5 and 4½ star movies in one place, ranked. I'll cap this list at 500 films someday.

More of my personal lists:

• Top Directors.
• Top Film of Every Year.
• Top Albums.
• Top Artists.
• Top TV Shows.
• My Blu-Ray & Criterion Collections.

1. La Haine
2. All That Jazz
3. Synecdoche, New York
4. Magnolia
5. Hiroshima Mon Amour
6. Dog Day Afternoon
7. Taxi Driver
8. Whiplash
9. It's Such a Beautiful Day
10. Wings of Desire

...plus 412 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2025, ranked.

In theaters | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | → ⇉

1. The Phoenician Scheme
2. Friendship
3. Magazine Dreams
4. Bring Her Back
5. Deaf President Now!
6. The Life of Chuck
7. The Encampments
8. The Ballad of Wallis Island
9. Mickey 17
10. Bono: Stories of Surrender

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Project completed in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.

Films are listed in the order I saw them. Rewatches noted.

• Girls Will Be Girls
• Love in the Big City
• Nightbitch
• Sugarcane
• Lee
• Grand Theft Hamlet
• Babygirl
• Parachute
• In the Summers
• My First Film

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

Films of the 2020s I saw in theatres
Films I Saw with Regal Unlimited

First year stats: (from August 2nd, 2023 to August 1st, 2024)
• 41 trips total / 3.4 films per month
• average of $7.30 for my tickets from the total subscription cost ($299.40)
• 8 rewatches / 7 re-releases
• 15 in Dolby or IMAX / 26 in regular format
• 15 solo trips / 16 with family / 10 with friends / 28 additional tickets purchased

• Theater Camp

  Solo

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

  Solo

• Oldboy

  Re-release / Rewatch / with Austin

• Bottoms

  with Matt & Karl

• Stop Making Sense

  IMAX / Re-release / Rewatch / with Linda

• Dumb Money

  Solo

• Saw X

  with Austin

• The Royal Hotel

  Solo

• The Nightmare Before Christmas

  Re-release / Rewatch / with Linda

• Killers of the Flower Moon

  IMAX / with Linda

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

Listed chronologically by release date. Excludes all short films screened theatrically. My earliest memory of logging was writing down the 2003 comedies I saw in cinemas by hand. I've seen 39 films in cinemas multiple times, adding 47 more trips to my total.

My Cinema Bucket List
Classic films I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2020s I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2010s I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2000s I saw in cinemas
Films I Saw with AMC A-list
Films I Saw with Regal Unlimited
Films I Saw with Movie
Films I Saw at Vidiots

• Nosferatu
• The Maltese Falcon
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Spartacus
• West Side Story
• The Great Escape
• Pierrot le Fou
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Godfather

...plus 639 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In chronological order by screening date. See notes for multiple viewings & film festival citations.

Classic films I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2010s I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2000s I saw in cinemas

Year: (films seen from that year / cinema trips within that year incl. rewatches, etc)

2020: 3 / 5
2021: 22 / 24
2022: 21 / 26
2023: 28 / 36
2024: 39 / 59

• Saint Maud

  LA Press Screening

  [solo]

• In the Heights
• The Green Knight

  LA Press Screening

• Black Widow
• The Card Counter
• Titane
• The French Dispatch

  LA Press Screening

  x3

• No Time to Die
• A Hero

  LA Press Screening

  [solo]

• Dune

  IMAX

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some updates noted in the comments.

ALL-TIME TOP 20

01. Breaking Bad
02. 30 Rock
03. Succession
04. Nathan For You
05. The Simpsons
06. BoJack Horseman
07. The Sopranos
08. Peep Show
09. Watchmen
10. The Good Place
11. How to With John Wilson
12. Six Feet Under
13. Barry
14. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
15. Community
16. Better Call Saul
17. Futurama
18. Rick and Morty
19. The White Lotus
20. Silicon Valley

—

(All shows are listed alphabetically, ranked by rating tier.)

COMEDY

10/10
30 Rock
BoJack Horseman
Nathan For You
Peep Show
The Simpsons

9/10
Arrested Development
Barry
Blackadder
Community
Futurama
The Good Place
How to With John Wilson
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Rehearsal
Rick and Morty
Silicon Valley
The Studio

8/10
Abbott Elementary
Atlanta*
Big Mouth*
Bob’s Burgers
Bored to Death
Documentary Now!
Fleabag
Friends
Hacks
Louie
Malcolm in the Middle
Only Murders in the Building
Parks and Recreation
Party Down
Review
Scrubs*
South Park
Ted Lasso*
Veep

7/10
American Dad!*
Archer*
Black Books
Extras
Family Guy
Father Ted
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Human Resources
The Inbetweeners
The IT Crowd
Master of None*
Modern Family*
Mr. Bean
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
That Mitchell and Webb Look
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt*

* = not caught up with at least one season. I must have seen 50% of the show's episodes in order to rate it. Excludes 'live' shows i.e. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, QI, Whose Line is it Anyway?

Shows to watch: American Vandal, Better Things, Brass Eye, Call My Agent, Cheers, The Comeback, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Eastbound and Down, Episodes, Fawlty Towers, Flight of the Conchords, Fraiser, Freaks and Geeks, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Gravity Falls, Hello Ladies, King of the Hill, The Royle Family, Schitt's Creek, Search Party, Seinfeld, Spaced, The Thick of It, What We Do in the Shadows, You're the Worst.

Shows I watched a long time ago or half-watched recently: 8 Simple Rules, Everybody Hates Chris, Everybody Loves Raymond, Full House, Gilmore Girls, Green Wing, Just Shoot Me, Two and a Half Men, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Will & Grace.

—

DRAMA

10/10
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
Succession

9/10
Better Call Saul
Six Feet Under
The White Lotus

8/10
Boardwalk Empire
The Crown
Deadwood
Mad Men
Severance*
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Twin Peaks

7/10
The Last of Us*
Lost
The Mandalorian*
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Squid Game
Yellowjackets*

Shows to watch: The Americans, Broadchurch, Dark, Enlightened, Euphoria, Firefly, Glow, Hannibal, The Knick, The Leftovers, Narcos, The Newsroom, Oz, Ozark, Peaky Blinders, Russian Doll, Terriers, The Wire.

Started—watched at least one season: The Bear, Big Little Lies, Dexter, Game of Thrones, The Handmaid's Tale, Homeland, Justified, Mr. Robot, The Shield, Sons of Anarchy, Stranger Things, The West Wing, Westworld.

–

MINISERIES/ANTHOLOGY

10/10
Watchmen

9/10
American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson
Angels in America
Das Boot
The Night Of
Olive Kitteridge
Over the Garden Wall
Small Axe
Tear Along the Dotted Line
This Is Going to Hurt
True Detective—S1

8/10
Black Mirror
Chernobyl
Dekalog
Fanny and Alexander
Fargo—S1
Fargo—S2
The Godfather Epic
Horace and Pete
Mare of Easttown
Scenes From a Marriage (1974)
Twin Peaks: The Return
Unbelievable
Wandavision
When They See Us

7/10
The Act
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Fargo—S3
Modern Love
The Queen's Gambit

Excludes documentary or 'live' series.

Shows to watch: 11.22.63, Band of Brothers, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Feud, Fosse/Verdon, The Haunting, Heimat, I Claudius, I Know This Much is True, I May Destroy You, It's a Sin, John Adams, Lonesome Dove, The Night Manager, Roots, Sharp Objects, Show Me a Hero, This Is England 86-90, The Twilight Zone, The Young Pope.

• Nathan for You: Finding s

Feature-length films only. Listed in chronological order of my last viewing with my total amount of logs (not counting any pre-2010 watches because they're not documented).

My goal is to stay fresh and consistent with my all-time 10/10s. The ones I'm rustiest on will be listed first, ideally motivating me to watch them sooner rather than later.

Yes, there's a lot of Wes Anderson in here.

Amount of viewings to 5 stars: (2010 releases onwards)
1 viewing: The Brutalist, The French Dispatch, Asteroid City, Another Year, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2 viewings: The Phoenician Scheme, Triangle of Sadness
3 viewings: Anomalisa, La La Land, Parasite
4 viewings: Birdman, The Shape of Water, Everything Everywhere All at Once, O.J. Made in America
5 viewings: Whiplash, It's Such a Beautiful Day
6 viewings: I'm Thinking of Ending Things, The Grand Budapest Hotel
7 viewings: The Social Network
8 viewings: Moonrise Kingdom
12 viewings: Toy Story 3

Seen in the cinema (listed chronologically, special screening or re-release):
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• All That Jazz (1979) in 35mm
• Amadeus (1984)
• Stop Making Sense (1984) in IMAX
• Brazil (1985) in 35mm
• La Haine (1995) in 35mm
• Se7en (1995) in IMAX
• It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

Seen in the cinema (listed chronologically, original theatrical or festival run):
• The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) three times
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• The Wrestler (2008)
• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) two times
• Toy Story 3 (2010) three times
• The Social Network (2010)
• Another Year (2010)
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) two times
• Whiplash (2014) three times
• Birdman (2014)
• Anomalisa (2015)
• La La Land (2016) four times
• The Shape of Water (2017) two times
• Parasite (2019)
• The French Dispatch (2021) three times
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) two times
• Triangle of Sadness (2022) two times
• Asteroid City (2023) two times
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) segment only
• The Brutalist (2024) two times
• The Phoenician Scheme (2025) two times

My former 5-star movies.

• Le Bonheur

  Mar 26, 2018

  x1

• Wings of Desire

  Sep 5, 2018

  x1

• Yi Yi

  Apr 13, 2019

  x2

• On the Waterfront

  Apr 5, 2020

  x4

• Being John Malkovich

  Jul 19, 2020

  x3

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  Jan 8, 2021

  x6

• Judgment at Nuremberg

  Apr 11, 2021

  x2

• Network

  Jun 13, 2021

  x3

• Harold and Maude

  Aug 9, 2021

  x2

• Cool Hand Luke

  Nov 14, 2021

  x3

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This one. I have it in my bedroom, but I noticed it’s typically used in kitchen or office sets. Now seeing PUGG in a movie takes me right out of the scene — I’m like, “I know him!”

It’s more common in TV shows, you see it everywhere, but I haven’t tracked episodes yet. See notes for screenshots. Slight variations in the color etc are okay, as long as it has the distinctive font and no second hand. The list is chronological by the time on the clock, notwithstanding before and after noon. This generic clock transcends space and time.

• Blue Velvet

  In the coroner's office @ 12:00.

• Until the End of the World

  In the office @ 12:42.

• Fox and His Friends

  In the factory @ 1:05.

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

  In the sea-laboratory @ 10:10 + 4:10 + 7:10 + 1:10.

• Undine

  In the breakroom @ 1:20.

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

  In the studio @ 2:20 + 6:20 + 9:20 + 11:20.

• Elf

  In the doctor's office @ 2:47.

• The Goodbye Girl

  In the breakroom @ 3:30.

• Elvis

  In the studio @ 4:32.

• Better Man

  In the classroom @ 5:15.

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sorted chronologically by my last screening, see notes for more info.

• The Phoenician Scheme

  ×2 total: once at a press screening and once during the original run.

• Stop Making Sense

  ×2 total: once during the IMAX re-release and once at a special screening.

• La Haine

  ×2 total: once at a special screening and once during the 30th anniversary re-release.

• The Brutalist

  ×2 total: once at a press screening and once during the original run in 70mm.

• Whiplash

  ×3 total: once at a film festival, once during the original run, and once during the 10th anniversary re-release.

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  ×2 total: once during the original release and once at a special 20th anniversary screening.

• Challengers

  ×2 total: both during the original theatrical run (once in IMAX).

• Shrek 2

  ×2 total: once during the original release and once at a special 30th anniversary screening.

• Asteroid City

  ×2 total: both during the original release.

• Triangle of Sadness

  ×2 total: once at a press screening and once during the original release.

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

Avg Rating: 9.85 (excluding shorts) | Top Directors

10+ | Director Network

Completed filmography.

1. Rushmore
2. The French Dispatch
3. The Darjeeling Limited
4. Asteroid City
5. The Royal Tenenbaums
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

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

Updated: May 29, 2025 | In Theaters

1. Black Panther
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Avengers: Infinity War
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
6. Thunderbolts*
7. The Avengers
8. Ant-Man
9. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
10. Doctor Strange

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranked by average rating. The list was extracted largely thanks to this megalist of films directed by Black directors. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

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ELIGIBILITY RULES:

• This list includes Black co-directors or any Black directors on a diverse team.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and episodes are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

This list is by no means a definitive canon of Black directors in film history. This is merely a consensus list based off a specific criteria. It is, indeed, the tip of the iceberg. Please feel free to let me know any movies I've missed that fit the criteria or of any movies that do not belong. Please also feel free to recommend any films that need discovering.

See also, The ‘Official’ List Network on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Do the Right Thing
4. Malcolm X
5. Sinners
6. Moonlight
7. Who Killed Captain Alex?
8. 12 Years a Slave
9. Get Out
10. Mangrove

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

Ranked by average rating. The list was extracted thanks to here and here. This was not possible without the curation of these megalists, and special credit to Mihir Nanda for sourcing additional eligible films.

It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered and a version with popular films only.)

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ELIGIBILITY RULES:

• This list counts female co-directors, even if uncredited. The developers are considering a design change so that they can be credited on the main page instead of just the crew tab.
• Includes cis, transgender and female-identifying directors. Trans women are women, no examples necessary.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release.
• Documentaries of any kind, short films, theater/stage, TV movies, TV series or miniseries, and episodes are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

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NOTABLE INCLUSIONS:

• The #1 on the list, City of God was co-directed by Kátia Lund. However, Lund was snubbed for the Academy Award while only Fernando Meirelles was nominated due to their rules about director teams. Meirelles and Lund worked together closely, directing the short Golden Gate in 2001 together as a test run for City of God. They then collaborated on the City of Men TV series adapted from City of God where she directed four episodes.
• Werckmeister Harmonies and The Turin Horse were co-directed by Béla Tarr's wife and editor Ágnes Hranitzky. The credit developed because of the extent Hranitzky had to be on set to assist Tarr with the timings of his long takes in order to match other shots. She edited all his films since 1981 but the credit only began in 2000. I am not mistaking Béla to be a woman.
• Slumdog Millionaire is co-directed by Loveleen Tandan. While she did not receive an Oscar nomination, she does get a title card right after Danny Boyle.

See also, The ‘Official’ List Network on Letterboxd.

1. City of God
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. The Ascent
4. Werckmeister Harmonies
5. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
6. The Company of Strangers
7. Quo Vadis, Aida?
8. Aftersun
9. The Turin Horse
10. Persepolis

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

A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films which excludes documentaries from consideration. Ranked by average rating. The list was extracted from here. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

ELIGIBILITY RULES:
• Documentaries must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety.
• TV series, miniseries, and episodes are excluded but docs listed as 'TV movie' on IMDb are eligible. Exceptions made for series and episodes that also had a limited theatrical release.
• No behind-the-scenes featurettes unless theatrically distributed, even if feature-length (featurettes are marked as 'Video' on IMDb, such as 'making of' docs).
• In an attempt to combat unintentional fan manipulation, all music-adjacent films must have screened at a film festival to qualify.
• No standup comedy marked as a documentary, nor any stage shows. Exceptions may be made for borderline exceptions.
• Skateboarding compilations are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

See also, The ‘Official’ List Network on Letterboxd.

1. Stop Making Sense
2. No Other Land
3. Paris Is Burning
4. Shoah
5. Nathan for You: Finding s
6. As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
7. O.J.: Made in America
8. Hoop Dreams
9. The Act of Killing
10. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

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

A further companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films of all-time. To be updated once a month. The list is ranked by the number of fans on Letterboxd. A “fan” is a member with a particular film as one of their four favorites.

The Crew HQ will continue occasional check-ins of the most fans stats, including by gender identity and the ratio of fans to viewers. See also, the four favorites that the Letterboxd editorial and social teams have collected from actors and filmmakers. Drew keeps track of the 'most popular backdrops', which are the films most commonly placed as the first favorite by Patron and Crew so the backdrop is displayed at the top of their profile page.

Unlisted most fans list network:
• Top 100 Films from Patron (forty-nine dollar version)
• Top 100 Films from Pro (nineteen dollar version)
• Top 100 Films from Free (an even freer version)
• Top 100 Films from with 1,000+ Watched (cinephile version)
• Top 100 Below Average Films (3.42 rating or lower version)
• Top 100 Films of the 2020s (recency bias version)
• Top 250 Pre-1970 Films (non-recency bias version)
• Top 250 Non-English Language Films (international version)
• Top 250 Horror Films (spooky version)
• Top 100 Documentary Films with the Most Fans (true story version)
• Top 100 Music Documentary Films with the Most Fans (sing-a-long version)

See also, The ‘Official’ List Network on Letterboxd.

1. Interstellar
2. La La Land
3. Dead Poets Society
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Little Women
7. Fight Club
8. Whiplash
9. 10 Things I Hate About You
10. Pride & Prejudice

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

Top twenty films with their first national release in 2002, ranked.

This decade ⇇ ← | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | → ⇉

1. Adaptation.
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Lilo & Stitch
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. All or Nothing
6. Minority Report
7. Lost in La Mancha
8. 9/11
9. Far from Heaven
10. Russian Ark

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

Updated: May 26th, 2025

Animated features released theatrically only.

Watchlist: (* = seen when I was very young, I need a refresher before I rank it).

• Saludos Amigos (1943)
• The Three Caballeros (1945)
• Make Mine Music (1946)
• Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
• Melody Time (1948)
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
• The Rescuers (1977)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981)*
• The Black Cauldron (1985)
• The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
• The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
• Dinosaur (2000)*
• Treasure Planet (2002)*
• Brother Bear (2003)
• Home on the Range (2004)
• Chicken Little (2005)
• Meet the Robinsons (2007)
• Bolt (2008)
• Wish (2023)

+ = Watched/rewatched on Disney Plus. Will help me keep track of gaps I have.

1. One Hundred and One Dalmatians

   +

2. Lilo & Stitch

   +

3. Wreck-It Ralph
4. Hercules

   +

5. Zootopia

   +

6. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

   +

7. The Lion King

   +

8. The Emperor's New Groove

   +

9. Aladdin

   +

10. Oliver & Company

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2015, ranked.

This decade ⇇ ← | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | → ⇉

1. Anomalisa
2. The Lobster
3. Son of Saul
4. Victoria
5. The End of the Tour
6. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
7. Taxi
8. The Stanford Prison Experiment
9. Virgin Mountain
10. Carol

...plus 174 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The previous film released by the director of the Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival from 2024 to 1949 (excluding shorts, TV, and contributions to anthology films).

Most directors earn a place in competition through a well-established filmography, often building momentum by picking up smaller prizes before they win the Palme d'Or. A few directors win the big one twice in a row and a few directors seem to come from nowhere.

Directorial debut films that won the Palme d'Or:
• Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989), directed by Steven Soderbergh.
• The Long Absence (1961), directed by Henri Colpi.
• The Silent World (1956), directed by Jacques Cousteau & Louis Malle.
• Marty (1955), directed by Delbert Mann.

Read the notes for the winning directors, as well as other related Cannes precursors worth noting. The list doesn't necessarily contain their most acclaimed or notable work before winning the Palme d'Or but the listed film is the winner's most immediate predecessor.

• No Bears

  Directed by Jafar Panahi before winning for A Simple Accident (2025).

• Red Rocket

  Directed by Sean Baker before winning for Anora (2024).

  Red Rocket played in competition for the Palme d'Or in 2021.

• Sibyl

  Directed by Justine Triet before winning for Anatomy of a Fall (2023).

  Sibyl played in competition for the Palme d'Or in 2019.

• The Square

  Directed by Ruben Östlund before winning for Triangle of Sadness (2022).

  The Square also won the Palme d'Or in 2017.

• Raw

  Directed by Julia Ducournau before winning for Titane (2021).

  Raw won the FIPRESCI Prize at Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week in 2016.

• Okja

  Directed by Bong Joon-ho before winning for Parasite (2019).

  Okja played in competition for the Palme d'Or in 2017.

• The Third Murder

  Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda before winning for Shoplifters (2018).

• Force Majeure

  Directed by Ruben Östlund before winning for The Square (2017).

  Force Majeure won the Un Certain Regard in 2014.

• Jimmy's Hall

  Directed by Ken Loach before winning for I, Daniel Blake (2016).

  Jimmy's Hall played in competition for the Palme d'Or in 2014.

• Rust and Bone

  Directed by Jacques Audiard before winning for Dheepan (2015).

  Rust and Bone played in competition for the Palme d'Or in 2012.

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

On the big screen in Eagle Rock, California! All classic films I’ve seen in cinemas.

• Jaws
• La Haine
• Amadeus
• Halloween
• When Harry Met Sally...
• It's Such a Beautiful Day

  Q&A with director Don Hertzfeldt

  Preceded by the short film Me (2024)

• Brazil

  35mm

• Before Sunset
• Punch-Drunk Love

  35mm

• Unforgiven

  35mm

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

From memory, I'll it I'm very hazy between 2000-2002 though 2006-2009 should be solid. I always being so swept up by Big Fish and that's when I started catag every film I saw in the cinema by hand. I wish I still had that piece of paper.

Babel was the first grown-up film I saw in theaters, it was early 2007 and I was 14 and I went in blind. I started going to film festivals from 2008 and you can see my taste mature from there. But alas, I lived in England at this time, so a lot of the biggest and best films didn't come near me. A lot of the Oscar movies don't come out until February or March.

I really can't what I saw in the cinema in the 1990s, we watched a lot at home. I seeing Antz for my birthday and I probably saw The Phantom Menace. Maybe Toy Story, The Lion King and the first Pokemon movie. Hard to say. I was easily spooked.

I'm only including films where I have a strong recollection of seeing them in cinemas, there are some big ones where I'm not sure if I'm mixing it up with a VHS rental viewing. This is sorted by Letterboxd premiere date, so it's not exactly the order I saw them.

Classic films I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2020s I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2010s I saw in cinemas

• Digimon: The Movie
• Pokémon 3: The Movie
• 102 Dalmatians
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
• The Emperor's New Groove
• Shrek
• Monsters, Inc.
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

...plus 163 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In chronological order by screening date. See notes for multiple viewings & film festival citations.

Classic films I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2020s I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2000s I saw in cinemas

Year: (films seen from that year / cinema trips within that year incl. rewatches, etc)

2010: 17 / 21
2011: 24 / 32
2012: 21 / 25
2013: 31 / 38
2014: 31 / 35
2015: 33 / 30
2016: 38 / 35
2017: 41 / 49
2018: 41 / 48
2019: 31 / 34

Total trips: 346

• Shutter Island
• Kick-Ass

  x2

• Cemetery Junction
• Iron Man 2
• Get Him to the Greek
• Toy Story 3

  x3

• Inception

  x3

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• The Town
• Another Year

  London Film Festival

  Director Mike Leigh and full cast in attendance

...plus 301 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In chronological order since I started seeing them in 2007. Screening format in notes. Counting any 20th-century movie I don't recall seeing theatrically as a kid as a classic.

Films of the 2020s I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2010s I saw in cinemas
Films of the 2000s I saw in cinemas

• Chinatown

  35mm

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  35mm

• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Great Escape
• Cinema Paradiso
• Spartacus
• The Blues Brothers
• Toy Story
• Animal House
• Jurassic Park

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

I want to have marked all the films I currently rank in my all-time top films list as logged in this decade (since Jan 1, 2020). Some of these I'm very familiar with and last watched in 2018/19, while some of these I haven't seen in over a decade. I want to be as fresh as possible for my favourites as I approach my thirties. (Yes, I'm being neurotic.)

1. Wings of Desire
2. Yi Yi
3. Le Bonheur
4. Amélie
5. Sunset Boulevard
6. A Special Day
7. To Be or Not to Be
8. Harakiri
9. A Short Film About Killing
10. Pierrot le Fou

...plus 118 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Updated: May 23rd, 2025

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

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2023, ranked.

This decade | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | → ⇉

1. Asteroid City
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Dream Scenario
4. Poor Things
5. Robot Dreams
6. Killers of the Flower Moon
7. Past Lives
8. STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
9. The Zone of Interest
10. Postcard From Earth

...plus 195 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2017, ranked.

This decade ⇇ ← | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | → ⇉

1. The Shape of Water
2. The Florida Project
3. Phantom Thread
4. Coco
5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
6. Get Out
7. Lady Bird
8. You Were Never Really Here
9. Call Me by Your Name
10. Dunkirk

...plus 174 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Updated: May 19th, 2025

My top 100 films distributed by A24, ranked. Excludes their acquired re-releases.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. The Brutalist
3. The Lobster
4. The Florida Project
5. Uncut Gems
6. Dream Scenario
7. A Different Man
8. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
10. The End of the Tour

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

See notes for year list links. Up to a top 20 for years before 2010. Updated: May 18, 2025

Matches with the Best Picture Oscar: 10; Parasite (2019), The Shape of Water (2017), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Godfather: Part II (1974), Midnight Cowboy (1969), The Apartment (1960), Marty (1955), On The Waterfront (1954), It Happened One Night (1934) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).

Directors with multiple top films:
Wes Anderson – 7 (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The French Dispatch, Asteroid City, The Phoenician Scheme)
Charlie Chaplin – 6 (A Woman of Paris, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight)
Charlie Kaufman – 3 (Synecdoche New York, Anomalisa, I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
Fritz Lang – 3 (Metropolis, M, Scarlet Street)
Mike Leigh – 3 (High Hopes, Naked, Secrets & Lies)
Billy Wilder – 3 (Sunset Blvd, Ace in the Hole, The Apartment)
Paul Thomas Anderson – 2 (Boogie Nights, Magnolia)
Frank Capra – 2 (It Happened One Night, It's A Wonderful Life)
Damien Chazelle – 2 (Whiplash, La La Land)
Howard Hawks – 2 (Scarface, Bringing Up Baby)
Spike Jonze – 2 (Adaptation, Her)
Stanley Kubrick – 2 (Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Ernst Lubitsch – 2 (Design for Living, To Be Or Not To Be)
Sidney Lumet – 2 (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon)
Martin Scorsese – 2 (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)
William Wyler – 2 (The Heiress, The Big Country)

More of my personal lists:

• Top Directors.
• Top Film of Every Year.
• Top Albums.
• Top Artists.
• Top TV Shows.
• My Blu-Ray & Criterion Collections.

• The Phoenician Scheme

  Wes Anderson

  2025

• The Brutalist

  Brady Corbet

  2024

• Asteroid City

  Wes Anderson

  2023

• Triangle of Sadness

  Ruben Östlund

  2022

• The French Dispatch

  Wes Anderson

  2021

• I'm Thinking of Ending Things

  Charlie Kaufman

  2020

• Parasite

  Bong Joon-ho

  2019

• Thunder Road

  Jim Cummings

  2018

• The Shape of Water

  Guillermo Del Toro

  2017

• La La Land

  Damien Chazelle

  2016

...plus 96 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Updated: May 18th, 2025

1. Final Destination
2. Final Destination 2
3. Final Destination Bloodlines
4. Final Destination 3
5. Final Destination 5
6. The Final Destination

Avg Rating: 6.81

10+ | Director Network

Films Left To See: Kafka, King of the Hill, The Underneath, Schizopolis, Gray's Anatomy, The Limey, Full Frontal, Solaris, Eros, Ocean's 12, Bubble, The Good German, Building No. 7, Ocean's 13, Che, The Girlfriend Experience, The Informant!, And Everything Is Going Fine, Haywire.

1. Logan Lucky
2. Out of Sight
3. Behind the Candelabra
4. Ocean's Eleven
5. Side Effects
6. No Sudden Move
7. Unsane
8. Magic Mike
9. Contagion
10. sex, lies, and videotape

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

Films I want to see on the big screen at least once in my lifetime, listed alphabetically.

Some will simply look spectacular, some will be fun communal experiences, and some will hopefully recapture the magic of their first run. Excludes any film I've already seen once in cinemas, even if I'd be keen for a revisit. Capped at 100 films (crossed off the list).

• 12 Angry Men
• 8½
• Adaptation.
• American Beauty
• An American Werewolf in London
• Amélie
• The Apartment
• Apocalypse Now
• Babylon
• Back to the Future

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

Avg Rating: 6.42 | Top Directors

10+ | Director Network

Films Left To See: The Sugarland Express, 1941, Always.

1. Schindler's List
2. Jaws
3. Minority Report
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Duel
6. Lincoln
7. Jurassic Park
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. Hook
10. The Color Purple

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

Top twenty films with their first national release in 1987, ranked.

This decade ⇇ ← | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 | → ⇉

1. Wings of Desire
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Au Revoir les Enfants
4. Withnail & I
5. Where Is the Friend's House?
6. Broadcast News
7. Evil Dead II
8. Raising Arizona
9. Working Girls
10. Prince: Sign O' the Times

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

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2024, ranked.

In theaters | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | → ⇉

1. The Brutalist
2. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
3. A Different Man
4. Memoir of a Snail
5. Challengers
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. I Saw the TV Glow
8. A Real Pain
9. La Cocina
10. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

...plus 190 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Also included in my Blu-Ray and Criterion collection lists.

✔ = Watched my 4K copy.

• Uncut Gems

  ✔

• The Piano

  ✔

• Citizen Kane
• For All Mankind
• Sound of Metal
• The Power of the Dog
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

  ✔

• The Lighthouse

  ✔

• Triangle of Sadness

  ✔✔

• After Hours

  ✔

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Now that I'm settled in the U.S. I'm starting my collection from scratch. Blu-Ray only. Ideally I'm only collecting all-time favourites that I will rewatch often and no blind buys. Films are listed below in the order I got them, and they're alphabetical on my shelf.

This list includes only the feature films listed on the spine and excludes the additional shorts and documentaries in the bonus features. Three shorts that I'm allowing are The Bakery Girl of Monceau, La Jetee and Toby Dammit.

My Blu-Ray collection / My 4K UHD collection

✔ = Watched my copy.

Previously owned and traded:
Rushmore (2nd copy, for Broadcast News)
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (for They Live By Night)
Kiss Me Deadly (for Young Mr. Lincoln)
L'Avventura (2nd copy, for Dick Johnson is Dead)
The Emigrants/The New Land (for My Darling Clementine)
Walkabout (for The Friends of Eddie Coyle)
Ministry of Fear (for Heaven Can Wait)
Young Mr. Lincoln (for The Fugitive Kind)
Nothing But a Man (for Lost in America)

Previously owned, now sold:
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

  ✔✔✔

• The Darjeeling Limited

  ✔✔✔✔

• Rushmore

  ✔✔✔

• 12 Angry Men

  ✔✔

• Punch-Drunk Love

  ✔✔

• Before Sunrise

  ✔

• Before Sunset

  ✔

• Before Midnight

  ✔

• The Royal Tenenbaums

  ✔✔✔

• On the Waterfront

  ✔

...plus 311 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I need to watch more miniseries. Excludes documentary series, renewed series, anthology series (that Letterboxd doesn't authorize hosting), and miniseries that were edited into feature films (i.e. Das Boot, The Godfather Epic).

1. Watchmen
2. The Night Of
3. This Is Going to Hurt
4. Baby Reindeer
5. Olive Kitteridge
6. Angels in America
7. Over the Garden Wall
8. Tear Along the Dotted Line
9. Chernobyl
10. Landscapers

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

I mean, maybe one inspired the other, but I doubt that for a lot of these. Here’s a playlist.

• Sick of Myself

  ‘Sick of Myself’ — Matthew Sweet

• Party Girl

  ‘Party Girl’ — Elvis Costello & The Attractions

• Air

  ‘Air’ — Talking Heads

• Civil War

  ‘Civil War’ — Guns 'N Roses

• Badlands

  ‘Badlands’ — Bruce Springsteen

• High Fidelity

  ‘High Fidelity’ — Elvis Costello & The Attractions

• Big Boys

  ‘Big Boys’ — Elvis Costello & The Attractions

• Better Man

  ‘Better Man’ — Pearl Jam

• Elephant

  ‘Elephant’ — Tame Impala

• Real Life

  ‘Real Life’ — Cayucas

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

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2018, ranked.

This decade ⇇ ← | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | → ⇉

1. Thunder Road
2. The Favourite
3. Roma
4. Cold War
5. Isle of Dogs
6. The Kindergarten Teacher
7. Hereditary
8. Searching
9. Eighth Grade
10. Burning

...plus 165 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2011, ranked.

This decade ⇇ ← | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | → ⇉

1. Shame
2. The Artist
3. Drive
4. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
5. Submarine
6. Life in a Day
7. The Tree of Life
8. Beginners
9. Melancholia
10. The Skin I Live In

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

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2020, ranked.

This decade | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | → ⇉

1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2. Lovers Rock
3. Minari
4. Sound of Metal
5. Soul
6. Mangrove
7. Dick Johnson Is Dead
8. The Climb
9. Quo Vadis, Aida?
10. The Metamorphosis of Birds

...plus 192 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2021, ranked.

This decade | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | → ⇉

1. The French Dispatch
2. Titane
3. Licorice Pizza
4. The Worst Person in the World
5. C'mon C'mon
6. Spencer
7. The Power of the Dog
8. The Novice
9. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
10. Life in a Day 2020

...plus 245 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2022, ranked.

This decade | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | → ⇉

1. Triangle of Sadness
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Return to Seoul
4. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
5. After Yang
6. Aftersun
7. The Banshees of Inisherin
8. Babylon
9. Women Talking
10. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

...plus 235 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The list was updated weekly and ranked by avg l.b. rating, extracted from here.

Included documentaries and festival films of 2023 that had their first national release in 2024 (i.e. Problemista, Sing Sing). Note: I only included confirmed 2024 releases, not generally undistributed 2023 films. Films can be added upon the official announcement of their release date. The list did not include films that had some national releases in 2023 but U.S. releases delayed for 2024 (i.e. The Taste of Things, Perfect Days).

There was a 1,000-watch minimum threshold for any films to be eligible and films needed a 'trusted' average rating (i.e. a rating not hidden from the page) before they enter the list. For a version of the list without documentaries and a lower minimum, see Rahat's roundup.

Further exclusions:
• Short films, TV specials, concerts, stand-up specials, live theater and web videos. Films need a valid IMDb and TMDb page.
• TV miniseries or making of featurettes, unless they had theatrical distribution.
• Music-adjacent documentaries are excluded unless they have a film festival premiere. They are prone to fan manipulation.
• Films that extend or conclude narratives from TV shows despite a theatrical release. Prequels, spin-offs, or standalone films are allowed.

See the Letterboxd Official tag for my other 'official' year lists. Each list concluded shortly after their respective Oscar ceremonies so their ranking is a permanent time capsule. More member-curated official all-time lists are found on the Letterboxd 'Official' List Network. This list will conclude the week after the Academy Awards.

Special credit to Mihir Nanda for sourcing additional eligible films.

1. No Other Land
2. Dune: Part Two
3. I'm Still Here
4. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
5. Sing Sing
6. Look Back
7. The Wild Robot
8. Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
9. Daughters
10. Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal

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