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A ★★★★ review of The Secret Agent (2025) there are parts of this i didn't love (i get what the whole leg thing is standing in for and symbolizing but it just didn't make for super engaging filmmaking) but there are three scenes in this that ...

44. The Secret Agent - Kleber Filho, 2025, first watch ****

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A ★★★★★ review of It Was Just an Accident (2025) some of the best shots you'll ever see in your life in this thing, that also has totally harrowing sequences and big flowing dresses and lots of laughs. not to speak in memes but this really is total ...

43. It Was Just An Accident - Jafar Panahi, 2025, first watch *****

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A ★★★★ review of The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) Cuckoo bananas movie that really worked for me. The plot and general mechanics of the script feel like they are kept together in a soggy paper bag but who gives a fuck the cars go vroom and smoosh eac...

42. The Cars That Ate Paris - Peter Weir, 1974, first watch ****

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A ★★★★ review of Hoppers (2026) genuinely thrilling and unhinged movie. a true sicko made this for all ages. the fucking council sequence is out of this world. bobby moynihan ruled even though i thought it was judge john hodgman for...

41. Hoppers - Daniel Chong, 2026, first watch ****

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A ★★ review of Dead Man (1995) absolutely HATED this chapter of red dead redemption 2 cool black and white photography. awesome neil young score. love robert mitchum's voice. fuck outta here with everything else. i don't think jarm...

40. Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch, 1995, first watch **

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A ★★★½ review of Happy Together (1997) being married is awesome it's so nice to not be driven to the brink of insanity from your relationship on a daily basis beautiful looking movie. the characters are grating personalities so it can be a...

39. Happy Together - Wong Kar-wai, 1997, first watch ***.5
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A ★★★★ review of Blue Moon (2025) let us be so lucky to get another 20 years of linklater & hawke joints. bobby cannavale rocks. andrew scott surprisingly solid in a rare Plain role. the Musical Theater Cinematic Universe name drops a...

38. Blue Moon - Richard Linklater, 2025, first watch ****

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A ★★★★★ review of Sorcerer (1977) LOOK MAN if Anne-Marie Deschodt gave me a custom watch like that i don't CARE what kind of shit her brother gets me wrapped up in, im NOT leaving the country im hanging out at home and being cool and ...

37. Sorcerer - William Friedkin, 1977, rewatch *****

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When That Day Comes By YouTube video by Music City - Topic

Insane fucking hooks all over this Music City record

A ★★★★★ review of Hamnet (2025) and if i say this was the second best movie of last year and the gap between this and OBAA is more narrow than the gap between this and everything else? what then? paul and jessie just very clearly th...

36. Hamnet - Chloe Zhao, 2025, first watch, *****
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A ★★★★ review of Song Sung Blue (2025) knocked flat on my ass to find out that a) this was fun and not super weepy even during the kind of weepy parts and that b) kate deserved the best actress nom? look i loved other performances this yea...

35. Song Sung Blue - Craig Brewer, 2025, first watch ****
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A ★½ review of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) early frontrunner for worst of the year. 5* concept with its heart in the right place but executed about as poorly as possible. why was this shot with the filter of seemingly every CW show or Allstate...

34. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die - Gore Verbinski, 2026, first watch *.5

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Fazed on a Pony record is fantastic, easily my favorite release so far this year, basically how I wanted/expected Manning Fireworks to sound

Visions of Eight (1973) Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to re...

33. Visions of Eight - Eight different directors lol, 1973, first watch ***.5

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A ★★★ review of 3:10 to Yuma (2007) it's a good movie but coming out the same year as no country for old men and the assassination of jesse james, it just kind of feels like an Also Ran Western. the beginning and the ending are great - ...

32. 3:10 to Yuma - James Mangold, 2007, rewatch ***

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A ★★½ review of GOAT (2026) almost entirely empty AI writing but i kinda loved all the vocal performances. kevin love and d wade cameo lmfao let's go.

31. GOAT - Tyree Dillihay, 2026, first watch **.5

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A ★★★ review of Wuthering Heights (2026) First film of Fennel’s that felt successful and not like it was coming from perhaps the worst living filmmaker. Ultimately, I do think she has an eye and some flair, if inevitably not a ton of substan...

30. Wuthering Heights - Emerald Fennell, 2026, first watch ***

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I was soooo excited to watch it, really don’t know what happened

A ★★½ review of The Age of Innocence (1993) jesus christ dude just make her a mixtape and be DONE with it. maybe the most allergic i've been to a marty movie. i love a great many of his that are scumbag shoot 'em ups so I don't need this to be ...

29. The Age of Innocence - Martin Scorsese, 1993, first watch **.5
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A ★★★½ review of The Lego Movie (2014) Every bit in this just works how is that possible

28. The LEGO Movie - Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 2014, first watch ***.5

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A ★★★ review of Bergman Island (2021) really loved the movie within a movie pivot but then it ultimately just kind of becomes ... the movie, and makes it difficult to care about the other, ya know, movie movie happening. every time they c...

27. Bergman Island - Mia Hansen-Love, 2021, first watch ***

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A ★★★½ review of Wind River (2017) one of the bleakest movies. probably on the rushmore of renner performances. kind of thankless parts for everyone else but he really makes the most of it. pretty much tumblr cinematography posting in ...

26. Wind River - Taylor Sheridan, 2017, rewatch ***.5

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A ★★★★½ review of L.A. Confidential (1997) how do you like that valediction boyo man i loved everything about this. noir stuff can sometimes be hit or miss for me because, plot wise, it almost feels like if you've seen one, you've seen them al...

25. L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson, 1997, first watch ****.5

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A ★★★½ review of Carousel (2026) parts of this drag a bit but i love chris (history will prove us Pineheads correct that he won the Chris wars) and i love jenny and they're great here. fascinated with how this was shot, with extreme ...

24. Carousel - Rachel Lambert, 2026, first watch ***.5

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