I love Christmas traditions

best actress for every year this decade:

2025: TBD… 👀
2024: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
2023: Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
2022: Cate Blanchett, Tár
2021: Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
2020: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

A ★★★★½ review of Resurrection (2025) Chicago International Film Festival 2025 My second Bi Gan movie, having only just watched Long Day's Journey Into Night approximately 24 hours prior. Resurrection is as ambitious as it is gorgeous, an...

Bi Gan's Resurrection is not just one of *the* movies of 2025, it's one of the best of the decade. Maybe a masterpiece.

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I once presented a “Top 5” ranking of my favorite Original Movie Songs of 1995 in a 6th grade project that included six total songs, two of which were tied at #4. I was immediately teased for “not knowing math,” and vowed never to include a tie in my rankings again.

I count 12

I can't believe how fortunate we are to have new movies from each of Kelly Reichardt, Lynne Ramsay, Claire Denis, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, Julia Ducournau, and Lucrecia Martel in the same season.

If MAGA had any culture, they'd be furious.

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This the type of content on this app?

Yeesh.

1. God creates man
2. Man places 104% tariffs on China
3. Apple moves factories to US and employs higher cost US labor
4. iPhone prices increase
5. Consumers buy fewer iPhones
6. Apple cuts US labor and returns factories overseas
7. Economy eats man
8. Woman inherits the earth

Last 5 Palme d’Or winners ranked:

1. Parasite

[major gap]

2. Titane
3. Anatomy of a Fall

[gap]

4. Anora

[fifty feet of crap]

5. Triangle of Sadness

No worries, Turk. I guess I won’t be suggesting you watch Belá Tarr’s Satantango anytime soon…

If this decade's Best Director Oscar winners were in the same category, who would get your vote? Here’s me:

1. Campion

…gap…

2. Nolan

…cavern…

3. Baker

…stopped ranking so I could fire into the sun…

Zhao
Daniels

Who’s in it?

15 films to know me as a CINEPHILE

Sherlock Jr.
Sunrise
Man with a Movie Camera
City Lights
Pinocchio
The Third Man
Lawrence of Arabia
Contempt
PlayTime
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Barry Lyndon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Piano
Mulholland Drive
Mad Max: Fury Road

Anora is fairly 'just fine' and one of Baker's lesser movies, but at least it passes for me. I'm happy for Baker.

Also, certainly happy The Academy have *not* embarrassed themselves for a second consecutive year. Let the nightmare of 2020-2022 remain a distant memory.
#Oscars

10 longest movies I’ve seen

1. Sátántangó (432 mins)
2. Trenque Lauquen (260)
3. ZS Justice League (242)
4. Hamlet (242)
5. Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros (240)
6. A Brighter Summer Day (237)
7. An Elephant Standing Still (234)
8. Gone with the Wind (233)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (228)
10. Ben-Hur (222)

A ★★★★★ review of Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch died today. And the world is worse off. Now it's dark. Alongside Spielberg, Kubrick, Tarantino, and Scott, Lynch was one of the 5 most influential directors to me in my mid-to-late formati...

Eraserhead is a fantasy horror that brilliantly distills the fear of raising a child and losing one's independence into a perfect surrealist nightmare, one that only David Lynch could've made.
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One of the most important, most innovative, and one of my most beloved filmmakers of the medium I love.

With Mulholland Drive, he changed the way I view cinema, when I first saw it at age 17.

Rest in Peace to the great David Lynch

Apologies, this order is incorrect; I was looking at images incorrectly

Upper left clockwise:
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Man with a Movie Camera
The Last Laugh
Sherlock Jr.

Upper left clockwise:
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sherlock Jr.
The Last Laugh
Man with a Movie Camera

Cinephiles after fighting over the quality of a movie, only to realize they gave it the same rating.

Four films I consider masterpieces.

Special Tip of the Hat to the movie I co-produced:

Major ‘24 movies yet to see:

All We Imagine is Light
Babygirl
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
A Different Man
Dogman
Hard Truths
Horizon Chapt 1
I’m Still Here
It’s Not Me
Megalopolis
Nickel Boys
Oh, Canada
Queer
Red Rooms
The Room Next Door
Seed of the Sacred Fig
Wild Robot

10 Worst 2024 Features I’ve seen so far:

1. Argylle
2. Tarot
3. Red One
4. Night Swim
5. This is Me… Now
6. Back to Black
7. Time Cut
8. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
9. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
10. The Garfield Movie

Not “good,” but there’s *something* here:

The Beekeeper
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The Bikeriders
Civil War
Emilia Pérez
Gladiator II
Heretic
How to Have Sex
Humane
Kung Fu Panda 4
Late Night with the Devil
Longlegs
MaXXXine
The Outrun
Rebel Moon: Part Two
Twisters
Wicked

Worth a Watch

Abigail
Anora
Carry-On
La Chimera
Conclave
The End
The Fall Guy
Here (Devos)
His Three Daughters
Inside Out 2
Lisa Frankenstein
Maria
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Monkey Man
Quiet Place: Day 1
Rebel Ridge
Robot Dreams
Transformers One
Trap
Woman of the Hour

More Good Movies

Blitz
Io Capitano
Challengers
Evil Does Not Exist
Hit Man
Immaculate
Kidnapped
Kinds of Kindness
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Look Back
Love Lies Bleeding
Made in England
My First Film
The Old Oak
The Promised Land
Smile 2
Terrifier 3
The War of the Rohirrim

Top 16 movies of 2024:

1. Flow
2. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
3. The Substance
4. Bird
5. Furiosa
6. Last Summer
7. Close Your Eyes
8. Pictures of Ghosts
9. Mars Express
10. The Beast
11. Nosferatu
12. Juror #2
13. Chicken for Linda!
14. Dahomey
15. Dune II
16. Promised Land