My MUBI: 700+ films rated over the course of 15 years

MUBI is a films streamer/social network I joined in 2008 because of an Olivier Assayas interview. Here is a copy of my activity on the site, complete with subjective ratings and the occasional silly comment.

Title	Year	Director	Country	Rating	Comment	Image
Oppenheimer	2023	Christopher Nolan	United States	1	The cinematic equivalent of nuclear fallout. Still better than the real thing, I guess.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	2023	James Gunn	United States	5
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	1985	George Miller, George Ogilvie	United States	3	It’s mad, all right, and way too many other things. Too bad its wild ambitions don’t quite mesh as a whole.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	2023	Christopher McQuarrie	United States	4	Superior old school analog action/thriller extravaganza. Dead Reckoning wipes the floor with poor Indy 5. The floor of a train car, hanging from a ledge 50m up in the air, and on fire.
Fast X	2023	Louis Leterrier	United States	4	Leterrier knocked this one out of the park. Colourful ridiculous non stop fun.
The Year of Living Dangerously	1982	Peter Weir	Australia	2	A fascinating, half-successful minefield of ideas. Proceed with caution.
John Wick: Chapter 4	2023	Chad Stahelski	United States	5	Yeah, this is unbelievable. Insanely consistent world building with incredibly exciting action set pieces. Beautiful compositions, perfect timing, crystal clear action and an all-time great one shot sequence. Ukiyo-e repainted by blood. Everything clicks, including flirting with cheesy Hillywoodisms, while wisely avoiding any trendy nonsense. A literally Sysiphean effort which cuts the crap and sticks to its guns.
Five Easy Pieces	1970	Bob Rafelson	United States	3	This uber hater’s self destructive spiral might or might not be linked to family and modern society at large.
Avatar: The Way of Water	2022	James Cameron	United States	3	A talented filmmaker who started out as a painter, is now a supervisor of a Disney theme park, where imaginary song-composing whales are the real artists. Check out John Boorman’s The Emerald Forest instead.
The New World: The Extended Cut	2006	Terrence Malick	United States	5	Peak Malick
Storks	2016	Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland	United States	4	Highly effective baby formula
Ambulance	2022	Michael Bay	United States	4	Dr Bay is obsessed by keeping your pulse up in a Tony Scott meets GTA crazy ride. Incredibly real-feeling LA streets with a touch of working class Unstoppable vibe. Good apology for Six Underground, but falls short of Pain & Gain by strongly insisting on flipping cars.
Spider-Man: No Way Home	2021	Jon Watts	United States	2	Remix + memes + trailer
Gemini Man	2019	Ang Lee	United States	4	I am so over Smith’s daddy obsession, but this was killer entertainment and a sincere love letter to the genre. Top notch spectacle, as breathtaking as the same year’s Alita: Battle Angel, where every dollar is on the screen.
Cloud Atlas	2012	Tom Tykwer & 2 more	Germany	3	Equally fascinating and embarrassing, comic book spirituality disguised as a historical epic with terrible makeup.
Cry Macho	2021	Clint Eastwood	United States	2	Should’ve been something like an abstract reverie. Currently it’s lost between too much genre, plotting and miscasting.
The Protege	2021	Martin Campbell	United States	2	Leon v183 has better staged and lit indoor talk scenes than the outdoor action in painfully fake-looking Vietnam.
Escape from Alcatraz	1979	Don Siegel	United States	3	Very entertaining and engaging, but doesn’t seem to hold any deep ideas.
6 Underground	2019	Michael Bay	United States	1	A big loud pile of Nothing.
Ant-Man and the Wasp	2018	Peyton Reed	United States	3	The titular relationship is nowhere to be seen and the super hot wasp(s) swept under the CGI avatars.
Doctor Sleep	2019	Mike Flanagan	United States	4
The 15:17 to Paris	2018	Clint Eastwood	United States	3	Fascinating experiment.
Soul	2020	Pete Docter, Kemp Powers	United States	3	Poor man’s Inside Out. Dazzling but numb.
Tenet	2020	Christopher Nolan	United Kingdom	4	Temporal solipsism is when someone believes everything they encounter is triggered by their timeless ego. A feeling coming from people’s secret desire to control their own fate. Selfish laissez-faire.
Aladdin	2019	Guy Ritchie	United States	3
Wasp Network	2019	Olivier Assayas	France	1	An embarrassing misfire by the great Assayas, who actually brought me to this site originally, to read his interview ca 2008.
American Dharma	2018	Errol Morris	United States	4	Confused? Outraged? Desperate? Media painting the world as a nightmare you can’t wake up from? Buckle up, it’s going to get much worse, according to Errol Morris and Steve Bannon.
The Traitor	2019	Marco Bellocchio	Italy	5
Keep Cool	1997	Zhang Yimou	Hong Kong	4
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw	2019	David Leitch	United States	3	Nicely framed and edited, if a little juvenile, action extravaganza.
The Kid Who Would Be King	2019	Joe Cornish	United Kingdom	4
Joker	2019	Todd Phillips	United States	2	Wow, the less than subtle sequel to Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky really missed the point.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood	2019	Quentin Tarantino	United States	4	… Hollywood uses violence as a wake up call and a return to reality for a society lost in escapist culture and politics.
Mustang	2015	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	France	2	Trite scene, cliché scene, trite scene, cliché scene. Yol this ain’t.
Domino	2019	Brian De Palma	Denmark	3	Detractors and the fans are both right about Domino. It’s in turns weird (dialogue delivery), wild (the climax), bad (scenes seem to go nowhere) and wonderful (De Palma doing guerrilla filmmaking 50 years later).
Love Education	2017	Sylvia Chang	China	3
Identity Thief	2013	Seth Gordon	United States	3	Better than expected.
Gods of Egypt	2016	Alex Proyas	United States	3
Burning	2018	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea	2	First disappointment from the master. The emptiness between modern and rural country could have been a short film. There is beauty in things unsaid but there is a limit too. Come Rain, Come Shine was a bolder exercise in minimalism.
Cirkus Columbia	2010	Danis Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Interstellar	2014	Christopher Nolan	United States	3
The Mothman Prophecies	2002	Mark Pellington	United States	3
Mission: Impossible – Fallout	2018	Christopher McQuarrie	United States	4	Pure Sisyphusanity
Phantom Thread	2017	Paul Thomas Anderson	United States	4	Bless your soul, Douglas Sirk.
Avengers: Infinity War	2018	Anthony Russo, Joe Russo	United States	3	Shocking – a decent Alan Silvestri score!
R.I.P.D.	2013	Robert Schwentke	United States	3	Interesting and fun, doesn’t deserve the hate.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	2017	Martin McDonagh	United States	3	Mixed-up mix of genres
The Shape of Water	2017	Guillermo del Toro	United States	2	Shallow subservient PC fable goes with the flow and flushes all subtlety and imagination down the drain.
Thor: Ragnarok	2017	Taika Waititi	United States	3	Disney’s new Tron is amazing, but it needed Primal Scream’s Miss Lucifer instead of the second Immigrant Song.
Meet Joe Black	1998	Martin Brest	United States	3	They sure did milk that premise.
Logan Lucky	2017	Steven Soderbergh	United States	4	I want Steve’s wide-angle lens. It does magic.
Spielberg	2017	Susan Lacy	United States	3	OK, but doesn’t dive into what makes him a great artist, just like the recent Altman doc.
Red Istanbul	2017	Ferzan Özpetek	Italy	3	Enigmatic mix of Antonioni’s L’Avventura and Assayas’ Summer Hours.
The Last Witch Hunter	2015	Breck Eisner	United States	4	Surprisingly, a lot of fun! 1. Grab a beer, 2. Watch The Last Witch Hunter, 3. Thank me later.
Life	2017	Daniel Espinosa	United States	3
Dunkirk	2017	Christopher Nolan	United States	4	Existential anxiety of being trapped and thrown into chaos, desperately counting on machines and people for survival. Howard Hawks’ men on a boat.
Dust in the Wind	1986	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan	4	Deceptive simplicity, tremendous direction and fabulous images, getting down to the essence of life in Taiwan.
Your Name	2016	Makoto Shinkai	Japan	3	Good, but too busy. I prefer The Garden of Words.
Top Gun	1986	Tony Scott	United States	3	The danger zone between cinema and music video can occasionally take your breath away.
Personal Shopper	2016	Olivier Assayas	France	3	The void isn’t concerned about us, but we are anxious about the void, because we are preoccupied with what’s beyond our unsatisfactory world.
Ghost in the Shell	2017	Rupert Sanders	United States	5	Corporations domesticate free spirit and stick it into a machine, supposedly for our own collective good. Tremendous, brilliant remake. Full review.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter	2016	Paul W.S. Anderson	Germany	4
The Wolverine	2013	James Mangold	United States	3
Logan	2017	James Mangold	United States	3	A visceral Xperience about a salad chef with nothing to lose, anticipating the spin-off about one of the nameless mercenaries who risked everything.
Captain Phillips	2013	Paul Greengrass	United States	3
River of Exploding Durians	2014	Edmund Yeo	Malaysia	4
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	2010	Edgar Wright	United States	4
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back	1980	Irvin Kershner	United States	5
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children	2016	Tim Burton	United Kingdom	4
Sicario	2015	Denis Villeneuve	United States	4	After transcending the genre with Prisoners, Villeneuve does it again. A boring premise is turned into a chilling masterpiece. What would he do with an alien invasion film?
American Pastoral	2016	Ewan McGregor	United States	3	It’s OK, but it’s not Waking the Dead.
Salvador	1986	Oliver Stone	United States	4
Now You See Me	2013	Louis Leterrier	United States	3	Not sure if cinema is Charlatanism or Shamanism.
The New World	2005	Terrence Malick	United States	5	The Malick Pinnacle
Torque	2004	Joseph Kahn	United States	4	Pop matters
Drag Me to Hell	2009	Sam Raimi	United States	4
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	2016	Michael Bay	United States	4
Beginners	2010	Mike Mills	United States	3
Happy-Go-Lucky	2008	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom	4
Crossing Over	2009	Wayne Kramer	United States	3
The Driver	1978	Walter Hill	United States	4	“…”
Lion Standing Against The Wind	2015	Takashi Miike	Japan	4
Joint Security Area	2000	Park Chan-wook	South Korea	4	Quintessential Korean military melodrama with superior cinematic craftsmanship.
The Revenant	2015	Alejandro González Iñárritu	United States	2	Making a half-spiritual film is worse than a spiritless one. Pasting Malick/Tarkovsky images over conventional dramaturgy and storytelling. The Grey is still a daring masterpiece.
Macbeth	2015	Justin Kurzel	United Kingdom	4	Killer soundtrack
When Marnie Was There	2014	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	Japan	4	Wait for the twist
Youth	2015	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy	2	If this cute-at-best film is today’s 8½, I want the 1960s back.
Bridge of Spies	2015	Steven Spielberg	United States	3	The cold dark road downwards from Munich to this OK talkie.
Face Down	2015	Kamen Kalev	Belgium	3	The ghetto landscape as a tapestry of misery.
3 Days to Kill	2014	McG	United States	3	Almost like a Jonathan Demme picture
Terminator: Genisys	2015	Alan Taylor	United States	2	Now every human and every machine dreams this had been directed by Paul Verhoeven.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	2015	Guy Ritchie	United Kingdom	3	How amusing: the third face of masculinity is… a woman.
The Crossing : Part I	2014	John Woo	China	1	An artist who influenced an industry 25 years ago, is completely transformed by today’s industry. Toothless, boring and meaningless. The house always wins.
Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	George Miller	Australia	4
Black Coal, Thin Ice	2014	Diao Yi’nan	China	5
Like Father, Like Son	2013	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	4	Kore-eda’s excellent crowd pleaser is the polar opposite of his mood pieces like Maborosi.
Queen and Country	2014	John Boorman	United Kingdom	3	Good old-fashioned tale with touching humanism and fairy-tale feel. Not as great as The Tiger’s Tale though.
Fury	2014	David Ayer	United Kingdom	2	Oh Fury, where were you when I was 11?
Horrible Bosses	2011	Seth Gordon	United States	2	The destruction of contemporary family starts in the office.
Clouds of Sils Maria	2014	Olivier Assayas	France	2	Honest title: Nervousness, Confusion and Drunk Women.
Lucy	2014	Luc Besson	France	3
The Devil Wears Prada	2006	David Frankel	United States	1	WTF is this shit? I need to watch some John Carpenter now.
The Unknown Known	2013	Errol Morris	United States	4
Sanctum	2011	Alister Grierson	United States	3	Nice one if a little hollow.
The World’s End	2013	Edgar Wright	United Kingdom	4	Best almost-great pop-cinema in a long time. The joke obsession and glamorous makeup/lighting weaken its mighty social/humanist punch, but it shines otherwise. A fun trip and more.
Like Someone in Love	2012	Abbas Kiarostami	Japan	4	Mise-en-scene as a map of personal spaces, their trajectories and intersections.
Into the Blue	2005	John Stockwell	United States	4	Unapologetic b-movie perfection.
Fast Five	2011	Justin Lin	United States	4	Momentous action-cinema insanity that brakes for nothing. High fives all around.
16 Blocks	2006	Richard Donner	United States	4	A breathless crafty police corruption action-drama, worthy of Sidney Lumet.
Source Code	2011	Duncan Jones	United States	5	A fascinating meditation on Plato’s Republic, Solipsism and military brainwashing. Compelling from start to finish. Full review.
Norwegian Wood	2010	Trần Anh Hùng	Japan	2	“In the Wood for Love” tries to paint people’s inner world and emotions with outside environment and nature… with variable success.
Certified Copy	2010	Abbas Kiarostami	France	5	A delightfully incomprehensible, existentially confounding and beautifully staged celebration of connected lives.
Air Doll	2009	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	1	A rare misfire by the great director. Later he managed to balance edginess better with Shoplifters.
Red	2010	Robert Schwentke	United States	4
The Men Who Stare at Goats	2009	Grant Heslov	United Kingdom	1	Very poor. Nothing to see here…
Network	1976	Sidney Lumet	United States	5
Anonymous	2011	Roland Emmerich	Germany	3
The Last Flight	2009	Karim Dridi	France	4
The Island	2011	Kamen Kalev	Bulgaria	4	Official Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OstrovatTheMovie
Please Teach Me English	2003	Kim Sung-su	South Korea	4
Together	2002	Chen Kaige	China	5
Mr. Nobody	2009	Jaco van Dormael	Canada	5	A beautiful, emotional and intelligent Sci-Fi masterpiece, which matches the greatest genre titles. Please stop complaining that they don’t do them like that anymore and watch this gem.
Crossing Hennessy	2010	Ivy Ho	Hong Kong	2	Avoid Crossing Hennessy and rather stay in Sha Tin, where the previous and great Ivy Ho film, Claustrophobia, takes place.
The Beautiful Country	2004	Hans Petter Moland	United States	5
Das Boot	1981	Wolfgang Petersen	West Germany	5
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	1997	Jay Roach	United States	5
Dark Water	2002	Hideo Nakata	Japan	5
The Good Thief	2002	Neil Jordan	United Kingdom	5
Gamer	2009	Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor	United States	5	Gamer has great skills and is more relevant than reputable films, restoring the glory of B-movies.
The Last Samurai	2003	Edward Zwick	United States	4
Glasses	2007	Naoko Ogigami	Japan	5
Tron: Legacy	2010	Joseph Kosinski	United States	4
Heaven	2002	Tom Tykwer	Italy	5
Zhou Yu’s Train	2002	Sun Zhou	Hong Kong	5	If you love Gong Li, you need to watch this now! It’s wonderful beyond words. Widely available on DVD.
The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean	United Kingdom	5
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	1984	Steven Spielberg	United States	5	A drugged father figure turns against his family. Temptation leads to the depths of depravity. A once careless adventurer discovers emphatic responsibility. Whip anyone who tries to convince you this is simple mindless entertainment!
Happy Times	2000	Zhang Yimou	China	5	When I grow up, I’ll explain how great this is. It’s an incredible and indescribable fusion of cinema, reality and tough love.
Equilibrium	2002	Kurt Wimmer	United States	2
Raising Cain	1992	Brian De Palma	United States	5
After This Our Exile	2006	Patrick Tam	Hong Kong	5	wonderful film. please fix the 2 entries for its cinematographer. he’s the same as this one: http://mubi.com/cast_members/14065
Perhaps Love	2005	Peter Ho-Sun Chan	China	5
Pulse	2001	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	5
Carlos	2010	Olivier Assayas	France	5
The Shanghai Gesture	1941	Josef von Sternberg	United States	5
Carlito’s Way	1993	Brian De Palma	United States	5	What can I say? It’s Carlito, man, a straight-up guy, like you and me. Unsurpassed poetic/existential/crime drama cranks up the suspense and makes us believe in an impossible deliverance and escape to paradise. During one of the greatest endings in cinema history.
Not One Less	1999	Zhang Yimou	China	5	Too great to put into words, but it seems pretty unknown so check it out if you have the chance. Emotional Italian neo-realism.
Body Double	1984	Brian De Palma	United States	5	I dreamt I was explaining to somebody how great Body Double is. Fitting, as It’s all about the subconscious.
CQ	2001	Roman Coppola	Luxembourg	5
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore	1974	Martin Scorsese	United States	5
Rocky	1976	John G. Avildsen	United States	5
Showgirls	1995	Paul Verhoeven	United States	5
Dances with Wolves	1990	Kevin Costner	United States	5
Lost in Translation	2003	Sofia Coppola	United States	1
Rhapsody in August	1991	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	5
Eternity and a Day	1998	Theodoros Angelopoulos	Greece	5
Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	James Cameron	United States	5
Big Trouble in Little China	1986	John Carpenter	United States	5	The ultimate kick-ass action comedy asks why are Americans so arrogant and clueless when they are so new and are stomping on millenia of history/culture they don’t understand. What the hell.
Casino Royale	2006	Martin Campbell	United Kingdom	5
Fearless	2006	Ronny Yu	Hong Kong	5	Flawless.
Frenzy	1972	Alfred Hitchcock	United Kingdom	5
The Scent of Green Papaya	1993	Trần Anh Hùng	Vietnam	5
Rachel Getting Married	2008	Jonathan Demme	United States	5	Great contemporary masterpiece by a genius director.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird	2008	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea	5	What cinema was invented for. One incredible set piece after another make this a tour-de-force action-adventure. A glorious and unforgettable experience.
Witness for the Prosecution	1957	Billy Wilder	United States	5
The Trial	1962	Orson Welles	France	5
And the Ship Sails On	1983	Federico Fellini	Italy	5
The Story of Qiu Ju	1992	Zhang Yimou	Hong Kong	4
House of Flying Daggers	2004	Zhang Yimou	China	4
Infernal Affairs III	2003	Alan Mak, Andrew Lau Wai-keung	China	5
The Banishment	2007	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia	5
Children of Heaven	1997	Majid Majidi	Iran	5
The Iron Giant	1999	Brad Bird	United States	5
The Butcher Boy	1997	Neil Jordan	United States	5
Palermo Shooting	2008	Wim Wenders	Germany	5
The Player	1992	Robert Altman	United States	5
The Sheltering Sky	1990	Bernardo Bertolucci	United Kingdom	5
3 Women	1977	Robert Altman	United States	5
The Hudsucker Proxy	1994	Joel Coen	United Kingdom	5
Burn After Reading	2008	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen	United States	5
Woman Is the Future of Man	2004	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea	5
Edward Scissorhands	1990	Tim Burton	United States	4
Only Yesterday	1991	Isao Takahata	Japan	5
Millennium Mambo	2001	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan	5
The Passenger	1975	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5	Modern man looking for salvation, or the meaning of life, in all the wrong places. When identity is broken and there is no connection to _why_ you really are, life is nothing but a long struggle to escape. The soul ultimately breaks through the bars of the body and merges with the outside world. A cosmic existential thriller.
Dressed to Kill	1980	Brian De Palma	United States	5	the best psycho-thriller of all time shows people hidden in the city, wandering through streets, gender identification, life and death. uncompromising, tour de force cinema from start to finish.
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Steven Spielberg	United States	5
Schindler’s List	1993	Steven Spielberg	United States	5
Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	Steven Spielberg	United States	5	That’s dedication
Il grido	1957	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5
Tokyo Drifter	1966	Seijun Suzuki	Japan	5
Peppermint Candy	1999	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea	5
Homework	1989	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	5
The Wind Will Carry Us	1999	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	5
Bitter Moon	1992	Roman Polanski	United Kingdom	5
Ashes of Time Redux	2008	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	5
CJ7	2008	Stephen Chow	Hong Kong	5	the ultimate film about dreams.
Broken Embraces	2009	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	5
12 Monkeys	1995	Terry Gilliam	United States	5
Cyclo	1995	Trần Anh Hùng	Vietnam	5
The Tiger’s Tail	2006	John Boorman	Ireland	5	This is how the Irish feel the whole Denial/Financial Assimilation/Acceptance. A GREAT film by the legendary John Boorman.
Boarding Gate	2007	Olivier Assayas	France	4
Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese	United States	5
Crash	1996	David Cronenberg	Canada	5
Collateral	2004	Michael Mann	United States	4
A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2001	Steven Spielberg	United States	5	i am… i was. it’s not what we are called – human – only by name or symbols, it’s what we do and feel that defines us. one of the greatest, a timeless philosophical examination/critique of human nature.
Munich	2005	Steven Spielberg	United States	5	The world is one big dysfunctional family.
After Life	1998	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	5
Little Dieter Needs to Fly	1997	Werner Herzog	United Kingdom	5
Shanghai Express	1932	Josef von Sternberg	United States	5
Videodrome	1983	David Cronenberg	Canada	5
Tropical Malady	2004	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand	5
Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese	United States	5
Syndromes and a Century	2006	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand	5
Still Life	2006	Jia Zhangke	China	5
Sisters	1972	Brian De Palma	United States	5
The Shining	1980	Stanley Kubrick	United States	5
The Science of Sleep	2006	Michel Gondry	France	5
Sanjuro	1962	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	5
Rosemary’s Baby	1968	Roman Polanski	United States	5
The Return	2003	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Russia	5
Rashōmon	1950	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	5
Persona	1966	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	5
Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	Sergio Leone	Italy	5
La notte	1961	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5	Two imperfect souls do not make a healthy one. Night and day, satisfaction and distraction change places forever.
Napoleon Dynamite	2004	Jared Hess	United States	5
Mulholland Drive	2001	David Lynch	United States	5
Mon oncle	1958	Jacques Tati	France	5
L’avventura	1960	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5
The Last Emperor	1987	Bernardo Bertolucci	China	5
Kikujiro	1999	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	5
Infernal Affairs	2002	Andrew Lau Wai-keung, Alan Mak	Hong Kong	5
In the Mood for Love	2000	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	5
Hero	2002	Zhang Yimou	China	5
Fireworks	1997	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	5
Grave of the Fireflies	1988	Isao Takahata	Japan	5
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence	2004	Mamoru Oshii	Japan	5
Flight of the Red Balloon	2007	Hou Hsiao-hsien	France	5
Eyes Wide Shut	1999	Stanley Kubrick	United States	5
Double Indemnity	1944	Billy Wilder	United States	5
Chungking Express	1994	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	5
Café Lumière	2003	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Japan	5	Internalisation Station, where the characters’ drama and conflicts simmer deep inside and never surface, like most of their society, which continues moving on track no matter what. Best foreigner film in Japan and an antidote to that crime against humanity called Lost in Translation.
Three Colors: Blue	1993	Krzysztof Kieślowski	France	5
Blade Runner	1982	Ridley Scott	United States	5
Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom	5
The Flash	2023	Andy Muschietti	United States	3	What’s the point? Occasional pleasing visual wit can’t overcome genre fatigue and fails to recapture lightning in a bottle.
Asteroid City	2023	Wes Anderson	United States	4	creativity → spirituality ← creation A delightful rediscovery of the beauty, truth and optimism in the world, both real and imagined, which exposes the BS of today’s ultra dark cynical culture
The Big Country	1958	William Wyler	United States	5	McQ brought me here
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off	1986	John Hughes	United States	2	I don’t get it
Apollo 13	1995	Ron Howard	United States	3	A super production of an emotional buttons pusher that is more interested in pushing physical buttons. Glossing over the drama potential and barely suspenseful. James Horner embarrassing again.
Memoria	2021	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Colombia	3	Well…
West Side Story	2021	Steven Spielberg	United States	3	It’s OK. Distractingly aggressive lighting. Fantastic end credits.
Prey	2022	Dan Trachtenberg	United States	3	Terry Malick’s Predator is a refreshing and entertaining take on familiar tropes.
The Dark Knight	2008	Christopher Nolan	United States	1	An inane exploitation of people’s fascination with darkness, ridiculously trying to make Batman grounded, while having no insight into politics or humanity or anything at all. As unfunny as irrelevant. (Nolan got better afterwards, though)
No Time to Die	2021	Cary Joji Fukunaga	United Kingdom	2	So, so average. Next to zero humour (provides exactly one short chuckle). Drains the fun out of the series. O tempora, o mores!
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy	2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan	4
Nobody	2021	Ilya Naishuller	United States	2	An entertaining showcase of everything wrong with the streaming era: ugly, derivative, smug, cynical, meaningless.
Dr. Brain	2021	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea	4	Apple: We want a mind-bending Rashomon with epic scope, bonkers concept, stunning presentation, gorgeous actors, lots of thrills and more than a little Satoshi Kon. Kim Jee-woon: Say no more!
Planes, Trains & Automobiles	1987	John Hughes	United States	3
The Foreigner	2017	Martin Campbell	United Kingdom	4
Old	2021	M. Night Shyamalan	United States	2	Seems quickly scribbled while on vacation. OK but far from his best. So much potential wasted in editing so fast there is hardly a second left to let the implications sink in.
Army of the Dead	2021	Zack Snyder	United States	4	Cynicism is a one way road to self destruction. Netflix is cynical. And Zack Snyder knows it. That’s what makes Army of the Dead so scary.
Three Crowns of the Sailor	1983	Raúl Ruiz	France	2	Couldn’t stomach it past the middle. Constant contradicting confessions, ugly primary colours and the voiceover rarely shuts up. Occasional interesting deep focus compositions. Time Regained it ain’t.
La Cupola	2016	Volker Sattel	Germany	5	Brilliant documentary about Antonioni’s seaside villa. Architecture and cinema fans should stream it now. Mubi too.
An Officer and a Spy	2019	Roman Polanski	France	4
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds	2020	Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer	United Kingdom	3	The good parts (obsessed characters) are some of the best documentary footage ever filmed, but the ending left me hanging.
Sherlock Holmes	2009	Guy Ritchie	United States	4
The Gentlemen	2020	Guy Ritchie	United Kingdom	4	This entertaining Rashomon-like examination of masculinity exposes and makes fun of its good, bad and ugly aspects, consistent with the criminally underrated The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Coup 53	2019	Taghi Amirani	United Kingdom	4	A most engrossing documentary about one of the key events of the 20th century. Check it out.
The Truth	2019	Hirokazu Koreeda	France	3	Better than Sils Maria, short of Summer Hours.
Pain and Glory	2019	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	4	Best film about an ageing gay junkie artist ever?
Parasite	2019	Bong Joon Ho	South Korea	1	A super-slick yet superficial production that lacks any trace of humanity and has total contempt for all its characters. Don’t believe the hype and watch Elena and The Quiet Family instead. Or Kiarostami’s Close-Up. Or Zhang Yimou’s Shadow. Or Kore-eda’s Shoplifters… Full review.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	2019	J.J. Abrams	United States	3	Can’t hate a film with extreme yachting. A mildly entertaining creative capitulation.
Suzhou River	2000	Lou Ye	China	4
Rambo: Last Blood	2019	Adrian Grunberg	United States	3	This is average, but I want you to know that Kim Jee-woon’s The Last Stand is the best old action hero film by far. Imagine a Rambo by the director of I Saw the Devil…!
Long Shot	2019	Jonathan Levine	United States	3	Poor cinematography notwithstanding, it successfully transitions from a forced comedy with 2 or 3 laughs into an okay if formulaic romance drama. As the title says…
Greta	2018	Neil Jordan	United States	1	The real mystery is how this script went into production. Some interesting ideas about aristocracy are wasted in a failure on every level. Should have been a comedy.
The Yakuza	1974	Sydney Pollack	United States	4
The 9th Life of Louis Drax	2016	Alexandre Aja	Canada	4	Best De Palma film since Femme Fatale. High level expressionistic mastery with a great respect for the pure mystery genre.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back	2016	Edward Zwick	United States	1	Couldn’t believe the bad reviews, but now I do. What an incredible embarrassment. Everything here is wrong, including sound.
Shoplifters	2018	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	4	Kore-eda veterans will be startled by the dark turns, all will be seduced by the smooth editing and story development and a bit more careful with the people around us.
Alita: Battle Angel	2019	Robert Rodriguez	United States	4	Needs 20′ more or less but the dark ending is earned, because few things are as tragic as corrupted optimism.
Glass	2019	M. Night Shyamalan	United States	4	Night pushed himself towards the impossible, a trilogy that doesn’t suck, to inspire us all.
The Nun	2018	Corin Hardy	United States	3	A slick theme park ride where you get your money’s worth of scares – nothing more, nothing less.
Indochine	1992	Régis Wargnier	France	4
Hanna	2011	Joe Wright	United Kingdom	3
Solo: A Star Wars Story	2018	Ron Howard	United States	3	Get on board, this is the good, fun one, finally.
Black Panther	2018	Ryan Coogler	United States	3	Colonialism is not an issue, third world people are their own worst enemy and the CIA is your friend HAHAHA
Ready Player One	2018	Steven Spielberg	United States	4	Surprisingly adequate Alan Silverstri with a little help from a few pop songs. Full review.
Downsizing	2017	Alexander Payne	United States	2	Overreaching
Justice League (Whedon Cut)	2017	Joss Whedon, Zack Snyder	United States	3	Not bad. The usual Snyder vision is a little watered down here, but it still has enough eye-popping compositions, clearly defined moving parts and slow motion goodness to please this viewer. Interesting unpretentious characterization too.
In My Country	2004	John Boorman	United Kingdom	4
Journey to the Shore	2015	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	4	KK still going strong. He takes a tired premise and imbues it with gentle humanity in wonderful compositions. A companion piece to Kore-eda’s Afterlife.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi	2017	Rian Johnson	United States	1	A lot of Star Wars here, but the original elevator scene in Return of the Jedi alone is better than the whole The Last Jedi.
CHiPs	2017	Dax Shepard	United States	2	GTA5 DLC
Atomic Blonde	2017	David Leitch	United States	2	Woeful on so many levels. See Black Book again instead.
The November Man	2014	Roger Donaldson	United States	3
Baby Driver	2017	Edgar Wright	United Kingdom	2	Relive the bad old days when everybody had to be like Tarantino. Half of this is an unsettling ugly loud cacophony. Sadly it has nothing to do with the elegance and simplicity of The Driver.
Hacksaw Ridge	2016	Mel Gibson	United States	3	Couldn’t serve in the administration?
Patriots Day	2016	Peter Berg	United States	3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	2017	James Gunn	United States	3	My God, it’s full of colours!
Silence	2016	Martin Scorsese	United States	3	The voiceover could use some silencing.
The Fate of the Furious	2017	F. Gary Gray	United States	3	Brian Tyler on point.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine	2009	Gavin Hood	United States	3	Can’t believe the popular backlash. This one has the best character development of all Wolverine films and the most imaginative and fun action scenes.
The Garden of Words	2013	Makoto Shinkai	Japan	3	This notable Club 27 (years old woman), after Only Yesterday, looks like an anime directed by Tran Anh Hung, because of the elements playing a leading part.
Transcendence	2014	Wally Pfister	United States	3
Loom	2012	Luke Scott	United States	3
T2: Trainspotting	2017	Danny Boyle	United Kingdom	4	Not bad, not bad at all. Well done lads.
Split	2016	M. Night Shyamalan	United States	4	Superior craftsmanship kept dozens of wild teenagers focused and quiet in the cinema for 2 hours.
David Bowie: The Last Five Years	2017	Francis Whately	United Kingdom	4
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi	1983	Richard Marquand	United States	5
Allied	2016	Robert Zemeckis	United States	3	It’s OK. A little too PC feminist, a little too serious during ridiculous passages. Black Book it ain’t.
Arrival	2016	Denis Villeneuve	United States	5	The true meaning of peace, inner or outer, is feeling no anger or regret towards the world and your life and accepting them as they are.
Pompeii	2014	Paul W.S. Anderson	Canada	3
Our Kind of Traitor	2016	Susanna White	United Kingdom	3	Why did it remind me of The Conformist?
Sully	2016	Clint Eastwood	United States	4
De Palma	2015	Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow	United States	4
A Hologram For The King	2015	Tom Tykwer	United Kingdom	3	Tykwer does an uncynical Assayas
The Millionaire Tour	2012	Inon Shampanier	United States	3
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	2016	Zack Snyder	United States	3
Letter from an Unknown Woman	1948	Max Ophüls	United States	5
Hail, Caesar!	2016	Ethan Coen, Joel Coen	United States	1	A creepy and out of tune ode to Hollywood
Running Scared	2006	Wayne Kramer	United States	4
Point Break	2015	Ericson Core	United States	3	I like the Point Break remake, so sue me. It’s different enough, keeps the attention and the very long stunts have a documentary quality.
Our Little Sister	2015	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	4
Black Swan	2010	Darren Aronofsky	United States	3	Aronofsky is a bigger Perfect Blue fan than you.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	John Huston	United States	4
Creed	2015	Ryan Coogler	United States	4	Knockout dramaturgy under extremely confident direction.
The Martian	2015	Ridley Scott	United States	4	Masterclass in pacing.
The Tailor of Panama	2001	John Boorman	United States	4
Hot Pursuit	2015	Anne Fletcher	United States	4	Finally the truth about minibars.
The Assassin	2015	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan	5	This is the reason cinema is more than photography and drama. Bow to the great masters Hou Hsiao Hsien and Mark Lee Ping Bin.
Coming Home	2014	Zhang Yimou	China	3	Leaky eyes, earned smiles.
Self/less	2015	Tarsem Singh	United States	3	Tarsem goes a little Shyamalan in a nice Starman remake with more chases.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	2015	Christopher McQuarrie	United States	4	Just: For – Fun
Jurassic World	2015	Colin Trevorrow	United States	2
The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese	United States	3	Cinematography was perfect: classical glamour without the flaws of old times’ lighting. Finally something good to come out of the Mexican wave.
Arbitrage	2012	Nicholas Jarecki	United States	3	Good, but please understand how the b-movie Armored surpasses it in honesty and social/moral awareness.
Wild	2014	Jean-Marc Vallée	United States	2	Wildly middle-of-the-road.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	2003	Peter Weir	United States	4	Raw, linear, uncomplicated, authentic – a breath of fresh air.
The Imitation Game	2014	Morten Tyldum	United States	4	More than a simple outsider biopic, this is a story about stories and their huge influence over people’s fates. Full review.
Exodus: Gods and Kings	2014	Ridley Scott	United Kingdom	3	Careful when exploring the boundaries of humanity, because outside there is only horror and coldness.
Conspiracy Theory	1997	Richard Donner	United States	3	Alice through the Looking Glass
Maleficent	2014	Robert Stromberg	United States	3	Secretly wants to be Giallo.
Jack Reacher	2012	Christopher McQuarrie	United States	4
Grand Piano	2013	Eugenio Mira	Spain	1	The many false notes in filmmaking completely crash the nice idea.
Dallas Buyers Club	2013	Jean-Marc Vallée	United States	4	Impressive use of natural lighting.
Drug War	2012	Johnnie To	Hong Kong	5	1972: No, really, the Mafia has integrity. 2012: No, really, the government has integrity.
Snow White and the Huntsman	2012	Rupert Sanders	United States	3	Feminist androgyny defeats female vanity.
Out of Time	2003	Carl Franklin	United States	4	100% pure suspense.
Avé	2011	Konstantin Bojanov	Bulgaria	3	Mumblecore of misery.
The Grandmaster	2013	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	3	It’s OK I guess, but dwarfed by the earlier Ashes of Time.
I Saw the Devil	2010	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea	5	Full review.
Strip Search	2004	Sidney Lumet	United States	5	Best post-9/11 film ever. Check it out.
Kingdom of Heaven	2005	Ridley Scott	Spain	5	It washes away the shame of Gladiator and redeems its director. Excellent brisk filmmaking with outstanding smooth editing.
Babel	2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu	United States	1	Drivel.
Swimming to Cambodia	1987	Jonathan Demme	United States	4
The Chaser	2008	Na Hong-jin	South Korea	5
The Day the Earth Stood Still	2008	Scott Derrickson	United States	1	Bullshit. Shinkansen would never break down.
Druids	2001	Jacques Dorfmann	France	1
The Grey	2011	Joe Carnahan	United States	5	This is perfect: commercial art cinema shows its teeth. Brilliant all the way. And how about that ending!
Memoirs of a Geisha	2005	Rob Marshall	United States	2
Beyond Rangoon	1995	John Boorman	United Kingdom	5	A beautiful, heart-pounding drama-adventure about the nature of heroism that goes beyond all expectations. Another delicate Boorman masterpiece.
I Love You	2002	Zhang Yuan	China	5	This profound study of the uncharted psychological territory between romance and madness would make Bergman proud.
Happy Feet	2006	George Miller & 2 more	United States	5	The Lawrence of Arabia of animated adventures.
The Diamond Arm	1968	Leonid Gaidai	Soviet Union	5
The Terminal	2004	Steven Spielberg	United States	4	Nobody read the sign in America
Dog Day Afternoon	1975	Sidney Lumet	United States	5
This Charming Girl	2004	Lee Yoon-ki	South Korea	5
Mystery Men	1999	Kinka Usher	United States	5	The only superhero film you’ll ever need.
Breakfast on Pluto	2005	Neil Jordan	United Kingdom	5
Unleashed	2005	Louis Leterrier	United States	5
Ju Dou	1990	Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang	China	5	Ju Dou is a miracle of a film that can’t be put into words.
Quintet	1979	Robert Altman	United States	5
HaHaHa	2010	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea	5
Taken	2008	Pierre Morel	France	5	Pro-active action-thriller blasts the hypocrisy of political correctness, enlightens more than most social documentaries, saves the bruised genre.
Vincent & Theo	1990	Robert Altman	Germany	5
Exit Through the Gift Shop	2010	Banksy	United States	5	Ha, a new F for Fake! Brilliant.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989	Steven Spielberg	United States	5
Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	Robert Benton	United States	5
Hot Fuzz	2007	Edgar Wright	United Kingdom	5	absolutely epic action-comedy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	2005	Tim Burton	United Kingdom	5
Planet of the Apes	2001	Tim Burton	United States	5	The point is that history is written by the brutally powerful and naive heroes only run around doomed, until the same truth is realised again and again.
Besieged	1998	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy	5	Sadly mislabeled as minor Bertolucci film, this rousing masterpiece outdoes Wong Kar-wai.
Blue Gate Crossing	2002	Yee Chih-yen	Taiwan	5	Everyday poetry carried on the breeze by the bicycle, in the cosy warm neighbourhood evening and on the zen blue-green beach.
Waking the Dead	2000	Keith Gordon	United States	5
Nothing But the Truth	2008	Rod Lurie	United States	5
Mission: Impossible	1996	Brian De Palma	United States	5	O_O
Hamlet	1996	Kenneth Branagh	United Kingdom	1
Casualties of War	1989	Brian De Palma	United States	5
In Which We Serve	1942	David Lean, Noël Coward	United Kingdom	5
The King of Comedy	1982	Martin Scorsese	United States	5
Duel	1971	Steven Spielberg	United States	5
Gladiator	2000	Ridley Scott	United States	1
Avatar	2009	James Cameron	United States	5
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring	2003	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	5
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles	2005	Yasuo Furuhata, Zhang Yimou	China	5
Akira	1988	Katsuhiro Ôtomo	Japan	5	It’s a blast and as great as ever.
Titanic	1997	James Cameron	United States	5
They Live	1988	John Carpenter	United States	5	an eye opening masterpiece by the Master that is incredibly relevant today. a rare politically minded film (expertly masked as a b-movie) that hits hard right on target. don’t believe the hype and fight the power!
Total Recall	1990	Paul Verhoeven	United States	5
The Tenant	1976	Roman Polanski	France	5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939	Frank Capra	United States	5
The Vertical Ray of the Sun	2000	Trần Anh Hùng	Vietnam	5
Tokyo Fist	1995	Shin’ya Tsukamoto	Japan	5
The Maltese Falcon	1941	John Huston	United States	5
The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder	United States	5
8½	1963	Federico Fellini	Italy	5
Days of Being Wild	1990	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	5
Shanghai Triad	1995	Zhang Yimou	China	5	the pinnacle of form-as-story filmmaking. it doesn’t get any better than this.
Curse of the Golden Flower	2006	Zhang Yimou	China	4
Red Cliff	2008	John Woo	China	5
Andrei Rublev	1966	Andrei Tarkovsky	Soviet Union	5
The Thing	1982	John Carpenter	United States	5
The Dead Zone	1983	David Cronenberg	United States	5
Tokyo-Ga	1985	Wim Wenders	West Germany	3
M*A*S*H	1970	Robert Altman	United States	5
A Prairie Home Companion	2006	Robert Altman	United States	5
The Dreamers	2003	Bernardo Bertolucci	France	5
Barton Fink	1991	Ethan Coen, Joel Coen	United States	5
Intolerable Cruelty	2003	Joel Coen	United States	2
Woman on the Beach	2006	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea	5
Tale of Cinema	2005	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea	5
The Nightmare Before Christmas	1993	Henry Selick	United States	5
Ponyo	2008	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	5
Red Desert	1964	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5	Antonioni’s vision doesn’t condemn or vindicate the features of modern life. Industrialisation and urbanisation are not simply themes or issues, they are the world the way it is here now. Human condition is something that just is and it happens to be intertwined with our everyday environment. The machines, factories, muddy roads, fog, confusion and everything else construct the grand canvas, home of humanity today.
Identification of a Woman	1982	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5
Jaws	1975	Steven Spielberg	United States	5	Masculinity matters and male anxiety is real
Empire of the Sun	1987	Steven Spielberg	United States	4
Saving Private Ryan	1998	Steven Spielberg	United States	4
Femme fatale	2002	Brian De Palma	France	5
Paris, Texas	1984	Wim Wenders	West Germany	5
Sonatine	1993	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	5
Oasis	2002	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea	5	Where all Manhattan-based glamourous romantic comedies go to die, return as the zombies that they are and are washed from their sins against humanity.
Crimson Gold	2003	Jafar Panahi	Iran	5
A History of Violence	2005	David Cronenberg	Germany	4
Hidden	2005	Michael Haneke	France	5
Kung Fu Hustle	2004	Stephen Chow	China	4
Tokyo Sonata	2008	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	5	great, great, great. really, this film is great!
The Fisher King	1991	Terry Gilliam	United States	5
Tideland	2005	Terry Gilliam	Canada	1
Distant	2002	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey	5
The Big Lebowski	1998	Joel Coen	United States	5	Ultimately, it’s about Friendship – if you are into that whole brevity thing.
Clean	2004	Olivier Assayas	France	5
Once Upon a Time in America	1984	Sergio Leone	United States	5
3-Iron	2004	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	5
After Hours	1985	Martin Scorsese	United States	5
Carrie	1976	Brian De Palma	United States	5
Maborosi	1995	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	4
Little Red Flowers	2006	Zhang Yuan	Italy	5
All or Nothing	2002	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom	5
Zatoichi	2003	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	5
Vertigo	1958	Alfred Hitchcock	United States	5
That Obscure Object of Desire	1977	Luis Buñuel	France	5
Taste of Cherry	1997	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	5
Sunset Blvd.	1950	Billy Wilder	United States	5
Stalker	1979	Andrei Tarkovsky	Soviet Union	5
The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Jonathan Demme	United States	5
Secrets & Lies	1996	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom	5
Scarface	1983	Brian De Palma	United States	5	It’s not about Gangsters, it’s a Capitalism horror-opera.
The Sacrifice	1986	Andrei Tarkovsky	Sweden	5
RoboCop	1987	Paul Verhoeven	United States	5
Three Colors: Red	1994	Krzysztof Kieślowski	France	5
Psycho	1960	Alfred Hitchcock	United States	5
The Passion of Joan of Arc	1928	Carl Theodor Dreyer	France	5
Oliver Twist	1948	David Lean	United Kingdom	5
Notorious	1946	Alfred Hitchcock	United States	5
My Neighbor Totoro	1988	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	5
Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones	United Kingdom	5
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	1971	Robert Altman	United States	5
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean	United Kingdom	5
La dolce vita	1960	Federico Fellini	Italy	5
La jetée	1962	Chris Marker	France	5
Irma Vep	1996	Olivier Assayas	France	5
Ichi the Killer	2001	Takashi Miike	Japan	5
Hard Boiled	1992	John Woo	Hong Kong	5	Sit back, relax and try to take it all in with eyes wide open. This mind-blowing extravaganza is the pinnacle of super-stylized, hyper-kinetic, crazy HK action films. It changes the world of action cinema forever, never bothering to stop and reload.
La Haine	1995	Mathieu Kassovitz	France	5
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966	Sergio Leone	Italy	5
Ghost in the Shell	1995	Mamoru Oshii	Japan	5
Fight Club	1999	David Fincher	United States	5
L’Eclisse	1962	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5	An achievement in modernism to be equalled on the other side of never.
The Crying Game	1992	Neil Jordan	United Kingdom	5
Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski	United States	5
Bright Future	2002	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	5
Blow-Up	1966	Michelangelo Antonioni	United Kingdom	5	OI! WAKE UP! it’s a timeless masterpiece forever
Beyond the Clouds	1995	Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	5
Audition	1999	Takashi Miike	Japan	5
Extreme Prejudice	1987	Walter Hill	United States	4	Walter Hill to B-movies is what Douglas Sirk is to soap operas – superficially similar, but with great integrity, conviction and craftsmanship
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	2023	James Mangold	United States	2	Stilted filming style which fails to master both time and space. Exactly one good joke. A sincere attempt, but the director should go back to school and study Tintin’s Moroccan action sequence.
The Quiet American	2002	Phillip Noyce	United States	4
When Forever Dies	2020	Peet Gelderblom	Netherlands	5	An original, poignant look at the mysteries of life and love, and the magic of cinema. Not in a cringy projector-beam-over-a-smiling-face way, but with ingenious juxtaposition, honesty and compassion. It’s the ultimate super cut and the potency of its editing will make Kuleshov blush.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream	1988	Francis Ford Coppola	United States	3	Beautiful, expensive, entertaining, subversive and iconic, but also rushed and dramatically understated. It needs at least half an hour more with this potentially wonderful ensemble.
The Offence	1972	Sidney Lumet	United Kingdom	3	Way too dark
Black Bird	2022	Michaël R. Roskam & 3 more	United States	4
The Rainmaker	1997	Francis Ford Coppola	United States	4	While everybody was busy admiring The Godfather and the streets became cleaner, FFC scrutinised the increasingly mafia-like intimidation tactics employed by Big Corp and the justice system. Who is the bigger gangster now?
Killing Them Softly	2012	Andrew Dominik	United States	3	OK, but too self-indulgent, talky and obvious. A poor man’s political gangster analogy.
Top Gun: Maverick	2022	Joseph Kosinski	United States	3	Outgunned, broke, increasingly irrelevant? Hollywood got your back with illusions of heroism and a bucketload of spirit. And it honestly works, however hysterical and ridiculous.
Speed	1994	Jan de Bont	United States	4	Fastest rewatch I ever did.
The Matrix Resurrections	2021	Lana Wachowski	United States	2	Nice try, but no. The ambition and intriguing concept are crushed by the weight of very poor action staging, lack of propulsion, constant rehashing and general meaninglessness.
A Bittersweet Life	2005	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea	4
Dune: Part One	2021	Denis Villeneuve	United States	2	Not sure about the decision to relinquish directing duties to Hans Zimmer in the last 30-40 minutes…
Family Romance, LLC	2019	Werner Herzog	United States	3	This film looks like s***, has an intriguing concept and provides a few compassionate moments of profound sadness.
February	2020	Kamen Kalev	Bulgaria	4	A beautiful opportunity to take a look at a life without ambition and liberate yourself from the daily grind for 2 hours. Full review.
Predestination	2014	Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig	Australia	2	OK but too much talking.
Zardoz	1974	John Boorman	United Kingdom	4	Probably the most far out film where all the craziness somehow makes perfect sense in political, social, religious, sexual and human context.
Angel Has Fallen	2019	Ric Roman Waugh	United States	1	Remember the operatic, magnificent camera work in Die Hard? This is the exact opposite. Action scenes here are an unimaginative ugly chore. The only saving grace is the Nick Nolte dynamic, which is admittedly pretty cool.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night	2018	Bi Gan	China	4	Lower class wasteland lined with hardship, dotted by fleeting doses of entertainment and supported by dreams of escaping.
Vice	2018	Adam McKay	United States	2	Barely watchable thanks to the amazing story. The creative flourishes are mildly amusing and largely cringe-worthy. The uninspired cinematography is a chore. Watch Errol Morris’ wonderful The Unknown Known instead.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	2017	Guy Ritchie	United Kingdom	3
Deadpool 2	2018	David Leitch	United States	4	No matter how good, some blockbuster sequels just can’t shake the sameness and pointlessness (Guardians 2, Red 2). DP2, on the other hand, is as worthy a sequel as it can be, while staying amazingly fresh. For fans of the original and Mr Reynolds, it’s a must.
Da 5 Bloods	2020	Spike Lee	United States	3	Messy, but entertaining and occasionally poignant. If you really must watch a group of mentally tortured black veterans return to Vietnam and s*** hit the fan, you won’t be disappointed.
Richard Jewell	2019	Clint Eastwood	United States	4
Bad Boys For Life	2020	Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah	United States	3
Godzilla: King of the Monsters	2019	Michael Dougherty	United States	2	I could only stomach about 40′ of intense reaction close ups against murky CGI mayhem. Why bother?
The Irishman	2019	Martin Scorsese	United States	3	This OK elegy is not a patch on Carlito’s Way.
Terminator: Dark Fate	2019	Tim Miller	United States	3	Genuinely amusing character interplay in what appears to be a great high school play based on the originals. Minus two points for uninspiring CGI/staging of the action and general pointlessness.
Avengers: Endgame	2019	Anthony Russo, Joe Russo	United States	2	A little mischievousness can’t offset the blur of countless throwaway scenes and gags that try to create emotion in 3 seconds and it’s off to the next one.
The Last Battle	1983	Luc Besson	France	5
Fellini’s Roma	1972	Federico Fellini	Italy	4	A delirious, inherently cinematic time capsule with terrible sound.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	2018	Juan Antonio Bayona	United States	3
Safe	2012	Boaz Yakin	United States	4	One of the best action films ever made.
Shadow	2018	Zhang Yimou	China	5	From chamber drama to Shakespearen tragedy to Impressionism to wuxia silliness to Grand Guignol bloodshed to a holy shit ending, Yimou is unwavering.
The Mule	2018	Clint Eastwood	United States	5	A beautiful picture of the expansive country where all roads lead back home, eventually. An Americana masterpiece.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote	2018	Terry Gilliam	Spain	3	The Fisher King lite, Baron Munchausen lite and a moving theme of affecting people around you with your fantasies. Too busy, stylistically bland and edited too quickly, but very entertaining indeed.
Bodied	2017	Joseph Kahn	United States	3	The irony here is that these clowns chose to appropriate Disney of all cultures, with a superhero origin story where fighters use words.
Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino	United States	4	Unabashed belief in the mythical power of semiotics.
The Equalizer 2	2018	Antoine Fuqua	United States	4	Smaller, better and the most this time it’s personal sequel since Infernal Affairs 3. Harry Gregson-Williams is a star.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	1984	W.D. Richter	United States	2	The end credits are a fantastic little scene.
Ayla: The Daughter of War	2017	Can Ulkay	Turkey	3	Turkey torn between its historical Asian roots (Korean melodrama) and desired Western future.
The Salesman	2016	Asghar Farhadi	Iran	4	Sharp social drama. Lean with no superfluous filler.
Annihilation	2018	Alex Garland	United Kingdom	3	Remember when cinema had hot women?
The Post	2017	Steven Spielberg	United States	4	See, Guillermo? It’s possible to fantasize about your beliefs without forcing propaganda down our throats. Spielberg, Kaminski, John Williams, Michael Kahn and the great cast have crafted an excellent, restrained film whose only flaw is it didn’t happen during Obama’s atrocities.
Eternité	2016	Trần Anh Hùng	France	3	Cruel. The price for humanity’s eternal life is the grief for the loss of those who didn’t make it.
The Commuter	2018	Jaume Collet-Serra	United Kingdom	3	Very solid if not quite as great as Non-Stop.
Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan	United States	5
Dear John	2010	Lasse Hallström	United States	3	Better than Sorrentino’s Youth.
The Light Between Oceans	2016	Derek Cianfrance	United Kingdom	3	Slightly contrived, but very moving and full of quasi David Lean landscapes. The lights is happiness and the oceans are families. Can it shine on both at once?
Blade Runner 2049	2017	Denis Villeneuve	United States	5	The rift between sentimentality and rationality holds the full spectrum of the human experience. Full review.
The Last Face	2016	Sean Penn	United States	3	Not as bad as they say. Occasionally poignant and ridiculous. You’re better off with Takashi Miike’s The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015), though.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	2017	Luc Besson	France	3	An arresting experience, but what’s with the inane dialogue and unfunny jokes? Embarrassing voice-over one liners in split seconds. 🙁 Pacing also didn’t work for me in the first half.
The Great Wall	2016	Zhang Yimou	China	3
Alien: Covenant	2017	Ridley Scott	United States	3	Jed Kurzel is my jam. Trans humanism doesn’t get any better/horrifying than this
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk	2016	Ang Lee	United States	3	Good, but I wish Ang Lee would stop trying to force spirituality down our throats, Life of Pi style. That’s not how it works.
The Age of Shadows	2016	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea	4
Prisoners	2013	Denis Villeneuve	United States	5	Trapped by their own faith(lessness).
Assassin’s Creed	2016	Justin Kurzel	United States	3
The Hangover	2009	Todd Phillips	United States	5
Moana	2016	John Musker & 3 more	United States	4	Now this is more like it and washes away the bad taste from awful Finding Dory.
Finding Dory	2016	Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane	United States	1	An obnoxious, unfunny, merciless barrage of shouting and tic action.
Doctor Strange	2016	Scott Derrickson	United States	3	Breaking the rules of auteur cinema has never been more fulfilling.
Train to Busan	2016	Yeon Sang-ho	South Korea	4	Almost as terrifying as that time when I had kimchi for breakfast on the KTX.
Masterminds	2015	Jared Hess	United States	3
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	2016	Gareth Edwards	United States	1	I’m the pilot!? WTF. Full review.
Suicide Squad	2016	David Ayer	United States	3
The Handmaiden	2016	Park Chan-wook	South Korea	3	Needs more twists
Saving Mr. Wu	2015	Sheng Ding	China	3
Star Trek Beyond	2016	Justin Lin	United States	1	Beyond indifferent
Snowden	2016	Oliver Stone	Germany	3
War Dogs	2016	Todd Phillips	United States	3	Full review.
Warcraft: The Beginning	2016	Duncan Jones	United States	3
The Mermaid	2016	Stephen Chow	China	3
Captain America: Civil War	2016	Anthony Russo, Joe Russo	United States	3	Good tough throwback. -1 for immortality and -1 for 3D.
Carol	2015	Todd Haynes	United States	3	Way to suck the life out of Douglas Sirk.
Pawn Shop Chronicles	2013	Wayne Kramer	United States	4
The Cooler	2003	Wayne Kramer	United States	3
Room	2015	Lenny Abrahamson	Canada	4
Deadpool	2016	Tim Miller	United States	3
Steve Jobs	2015	Danny Boyle	United States	3	Dynamic talkie keeps attention.
The Raid 2	2014	Gareth Evans	Indonesia	3
The Hateful Eight	2015	Quentin Tarantino	United States	4	Also Robert Altman’s Quintet.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens	2015	J.J. Abrams	United States	4	Score was better than expected, just great.
About Elly	2009	Asghar Farhadi	Iran	3
Spectre	2015	Sam Mendes	United Kingdom	3	Feed the DP, score and song composer to the laser sharks.
This Is the End	2013	Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen	United States	3
Inside Out	2015	Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen	United States	4	If it takes the full spectrum of the human condition to get Pixar’s groove back, so be it.
Avengers: Age of Ultron	2015	Joss Whedon	United States	1	Enjoyed the line “None of this makes any sense”.
Spy	2015	Paul Feig	United States	1	1 star for some inspired insults. The rest ”twitchy contrasts comedy, numbing reaction shots, throwaway explanation lines again and again“ is an insult to arts and humanity.
Chappie	2015	Neill Blomkamp	United States	4	The right kind of b-movie.
Jupiter Ascending	2015	Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski	United States	3
Ex Machina	2014	Alex Garland	United Kingdom	3	If an extended music video presents itself as a film, does it believe it or is it pretending?
Big Eyes	2014	Tim Burton	United States	2
Blackhat	2015	Michael Mann	United States	5	From the ashes of the bandits/cops genre arises a modern western where the frontier is no longer geographical, cultural or racial. It’s a rabbit hole to the underground cyberspace which literally changes the face of the Earth.
Taken 3	2014	Olivier Megaton	France	2	Solid story, but what’s with the insane editing?
Apocalypto	2006	Mel Gibson	United States	5
Happy Feet Two	2011	George Miller & 2 more	Australia	2	Messaging overdrive left me cold to this passable, but inferior and unnecessary sequel to a masterpiece.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier	2014	Anthony Russo, Joe Russo	United States	3
Sorcerer	1977	William Friedkin	United States	4
Non-Stop	2014	Jaume Collet-Serra	United States	4	Awesome thriller.
The Hangover Part III	2013	Todd Phillips	United States	3	Don’t mess with Todd Phillips. The man knows how to compose shots.
Gravity	2013	Alfonso Cuarón	United States	1	I picked the wrong week to quit drinking space vodka. Zero G awards for this terrible long unpleasantness. Next time, take the Lifeboat.
The Flowers of War	2011	Zhang Yimou	China	4	Invading a country is unnatural, like masking corruption as innocence. War is deception for all parties involved and they can never go back to decency. Only pretend.
The Emerald Forest	1985	John Boorman	United Kingdom	5	The greenest film ever made (in all senses of the word)
The Hangover: Part II	2011	Todd Phillips	United States	3	The decline of this series has been greatly exaggerated.
Under the Hawthorn Tree	2010	Zhang Yimou	China	4	Gently devastating Cultural Revolution drama proves Yimou haters wrong (again).
Bad Boys II	2003	Michael Bay	United States	4	This is totally ridiculous in every way. Loved it!
The Social Network	2010	David Fincher	United States	3	This shadow-society essay is no doubt fascinating, with its blank characters with faces, lit only from aside and the overbearing feeling of aimlessness. But why such a somber and endlessly depressing tone? The Hudsucker Proxy is superior to this, plus it’s actually entertaining.
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope	1977	George Lucas	United States	4	Never underestimate the power of Cool Sh!t™️
M	1931	Fritz Lang	Germany	5	M(asterpiece)
The Road	1982	Şerif Gören, Yılmaz Güney	Turkey	4	Misery, fear and honour.
The Skin I Live In	2011	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain	5	This full-on virtuoso psycho drama is the best De Palma film since Femme Fatale.
Iron Man 3	2013	Shane Black	United States	2
Tony Takitani	2004	Jun Ichikawa	Japan	5	playful, careful and considerate meeting of literature and cinema.exquisite framing, underlined by a constant slow pan. nary a trace of colour. gentle minimalistic piano by sakamoto-sensei. in tony takitani, it feels like the outside world is but a whisper from far away
Arsenic and Old Lace	1944	Frank Capra	United States	5
Monsters, Inc.	2001	Pete Docter & 2 more	United States	5
Eagle Eye	2008	D.J. Caruso	United States	1
Mr. Cinema	2007	Samson Chiu	Hong Kong	4
Claustrophobia	2008	Ivy Ho	Hong Kong	5
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle	2004	Danny Leiner	United States	5
Cast Away	2000	Robert Zemeckis	United States	5
A Moment of Innocence	1996	Mohsen Makhmalbaf	Iran	5	On par with Close-up (!) – the very best of self-reflexive cinema as a link between passion in politics and humanism in history.
Time	2006	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	4
The Namesake	2006	Mira Nair	India	4
A Scene at the Sea	1991	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	5
Mrs. Doubtfire	1993	Chris Columbus	United States	1	A crime against humanity.
Kin-Dza-Dza!	1986	Georgi Daneliya	Soviet Union	5
Something Wild	1986	Jonathan Demme	United States	5
Vampires	1998	John Carpenter	United States	5
Poetry	2010	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea	5	“Poetry” is Heart is That little something we’re always looking for in order to make life worthwhile.
Open Range	2003	Kevin Costner	United States	5
Minority Report	2002	Steven Spielberg	United States	5	a cinematic miracle that never slows down. the dizzying action routine is shattered, after we find an important, personal image in the ocean of visual noise. yes, it’s blow-up as sci-fi, plus a bold criticism of democracy: the majority is not always right. almost as great a film as a.i.
GoldenEye	1995	Martin Campbell	United States	5
Serpico	1973	Sidney Lumet	United States	5
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	2010	Mike Newell	United States	1
The Ghost Writer	2010	Roman Polanski	France	5	The man, who already is a Ghost, takes the ferry over the river Styx, and goes into the post-apocalyptic afterlife, that is contemporary America imagined by Polanski, who shows us an intense feeling of disconnection, alienation and suspicion. Full review.
The Ninth Gate	1999	Roman Polanski	United States	5
Eastern Plays	2009	Kamen Kalev	Bulgaria	5	Some day, you will see a fresh landscape outside your bus window. But when and how, is a mystery. Because time is cyclic and man is an impenetrable multi-faceted crystal.
Blow Out	1981	Brian De Palma	United States	5	“I’m a sound man – I know what an echo sounds like.” – and so begins De Palma’s search for echoes of integrity in society and media.
A Passage to India	1984	David Lean	United States	5
The Manchurian Candidate	2004	Jonathan Demme	United States	5	Unflinching dissection of political schizophrenia and brainwash. Current political games are so far away from the ideals they should follow that they render (patriotic) people confused and completely lost. A cinematic revelation with narrative as fragmented and harrowing as the reality it represents.
Mission to Mars	2000	Brian De Palma	United States	5	Fearless exploration of the unknown is the ultimate release.
Hi, Mom!	1970	Brian De Palma	United States	5
Dead or Alive 2: Birds	2000	Takashi Miike	Japan	5
The Wrong Man	1956	Alfred Hitchcock	United States	5
Do the Right Thing	1989	Spike Lee	United States	5
Jurassic Park	1993	Steven Spielberg	United States	5
Tokyo Godfathers	2003	Satoshi Kon	Japan	5
Shirin	2008	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	5
To Live	1994	Zhang Yimou	China	5	Nothing can prepare you for this surprising, moving and ultimately devastating masterpiece of cinema.
Ulysses’ Gaze	1995	Theodoros Angelopoulos	Greece	5
The Terminator	1984	James Cameron	United States	5
Terminator Salvation	2009	McG	United Kingdom	2	Broken beyond any hope for salvation.
Escape from New York	1981	John Carpenter	United States	5
Black Book	2006	Paul Verhoeven	Netherlands	5
Black Cat, White Cat	1998	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia	5
The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	William Wyler	United States	5
The Killing Fields	1984	Roland Joffé	United Kingdom	5
A Snake of June	2002	Shin’ya Tsukamoto	Japan	5
The Night of the Hunter	1955	Charles Laughton	United States	5
Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles	United States	5
Fellini Satyricon	1969	Federico Fellini	Italy	5
Raise the Red Lantern	1991	Zhang Yimou	China	5	Acclaimed, celebrated, canonised… and still underrated!
The Road Home	1999	Zhang Yimou	China	5
Infernal Affairs II	2003	Alan Mak, Andrew Lau Wai-keung	China	4
Comrades: Almost a Love Story	1996	Peter Ho-Sun Chan	Hong Kong	5	most touching romance/drama since brief encounter. surprising, awesome and unforgettable
Eastern Promises	2007	David Cronenberg	Canada	4
The Fly	1986	David Cronenberg	United States	5
Interview with the Vampire	1994	Neil Jordan	United States	4
Land of Plenty	2004	Wim Wenders	Germany	5
The Long Goodbye	1973	Robert Altman	United States	5
1900	1976	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy	5
The World	2004	Jia Zhangke	China	5
Raising Arizona	1987	Joel Coen	United States	5
No Country for Old Men	2007	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen	United States	5
Like You Know It All	2009	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea	5
Chopper	2000	Andrew Dominik	Australia	5	The best Hulk film by far.
Ed Wood	1994	Tim Burton	United States	5
A Short Film About Love	1988	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Poland	5
Zabriskie Point	1970	Michelangelo Antonioni	United States	5
Obsession	1976	Brian De Palma	United States	5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg	United States	5
Always	1989	Steven Spielberg	United States	5	The ultimate Geek romance.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	2008	Steven Spielberg	United States	3
Tokyo Story	1953	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan	5
Point Blank	1967	John Boorman	United States	5
Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys	2000	Michael Haneke	France	5
Where Is the Friend’s House?	1987	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	5
Close-Up	1990	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	5	This wonderful Close-up encompasses everything about humanity, art and society. Wow indeed.
The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski	Germany	5
Lost Highway	1997	David Lynch	United States	5
Shaolin Soccer	2001	Stephen Chow	China	4
The International	2009	Tom Tykwer	Germany	5	Makes the recent attempts at grounding Bond as ridiculous as Nolan’s Batman. They have nothing on Tykwer’s unflinching relevance, astonishing exactness and one of the most amazing action sequences of all time. Bullet spray repaints a museum of art. Civilisation is built upon violence. Absolutely brilliant.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	1988	Terry Gilliam	United Kingdom	5
Sparrow	2008	Johnnie To	Hong Kong	5
2046	2004	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	5
Achilles and the Tortoise	2008	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	5	the best film by kitano (!) and one of the best films about art (together with vincent and theo). anyone interested or involved with art should check it out. it goes as deep in the matter as it gets.
Aliens	1986	James Cameron	United States	4
Back to the Future	1985	Robert Zemeckis	United States	5
The Matrix	1999	Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski	United States	5
Catch Me If You Can	2002	Steven Spielberg	United States	5
The Untouchables	1987	Brian De Palma	United States	5
Still Walking	2008	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	5	awesome, sublime, triumphant. if anyone doubted that kore-eda is as good as any japanese director in any time, here is the proof… served with immense aesthetic and humanistic pleasure
Seventeen Years	1999	Zhang Yuan	China	5	a great film by the great zhang yuan, the best young chinese director along with jia zhang-ke
Demonlover	2002	Olivier Assayas	France	5	this is the in-depth re-definition of modernism and l’avventura of this century
Yi Yi	2000	Edward Yang	Taiwan	5
Underground	1995	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia	5
Ten	2002	Abbas Kiarostami, Mania Akbari	Iran	5
A Tale of Two Sisters	2003	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea	5
Summertime	1955	David Lean	United States	5
Spirited Away	2001	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	5
Short Cuts	1993	Robert Altman	United States	5
Secret Sunshine	2007	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea	5	Any kind of social order – religion, politics etc – will always be at odds with the individual because, as the stunning post-tragedy scenes show, the human spirit can never be rationalised and tamed.
Scandal	1950	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	5
Rushmore	1998	Wes Anderson	United States	5
The River	1951	Jean Renoir	France	5
Rear Window	1954	Alfred Hitchcock	United States	5
Princess Mononoke	1997	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	5
Paths of Glory	1957	Stanley Kubrick	United States	5
Oldboy	2003	Park Chan-wook	South Korea	5
Nobody Knows	2004	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	5
My Blueberry Nights	2007	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	5	great film, i find its rejection funny and ironic (as his classic films were influenced by the culture we see here)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975	Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam	United Kingdom	5
The Man Who Wasn’t There	2001	Ethan Coen, Joel Coen	United States	5
Last Tango in Paris	1972	Bernardo Bertolucci	France	5
The Killing	1956	Stanley Kubrick	United States	5
Ivan’s Childhood	1962	Andrei Tarkovsky	Soviet Union	5
Into the Wild	2007	Sean Penn	United States	5
Howl’s Moving Castle	2004	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	5
Happy Together	1997	Wong Kar Wai	Hong Kong	5
Great Expectations	1946	David Lean	United Kingdom	5
Gone with the Wind	1939	Sam Wood & 2 more	United States	5
Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom	5
Fargo	1996	Joel Coen	United States	5
Dr. Strangelove	1964	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom	5
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles	United States	5
Céline and Julie Go Boating	1974	Jacques Rivette	France	1
Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean	United Kingdom	5
Blood Simple	1984	Joel Coen	United States	5
Be Kind Rewind	2008	Michel Gondry	United States	1
Summer Hours	2008	Olivier Assayas	France	5	great film! assayas with even more subtlety