A list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen recently.
List is ordered chronologically backwards.
★★★★★ Masterpiece / Classic / Favourite
★★★★½ Exceptional
★★★★ Great
★★★½ Entertaining but some flawed elements
★★★ Interesting but flawed
★★½ Major flaws but some good ideas
American Movie
★★★★
dir. Chris Smith
Documentary
[USA, 1999]
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
★★★★
dir. Thom Zimny
2-Part TV Documentary
[USA, 2018]
Mein Liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski
★★★★
dir. Werner Herzog
Documentary
[Germany, 1999]
Drive
★★★★
dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Action Drama
[USA, 2011]
Budget: $15 million
ドライブ・マイ・カー (Drive My Car)
★★★★½
dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Introspective Drama
[Japan, 2021]
Midnight Family
★★★★
dir. Luke Lorentzen
Documentary
[Mexico / USA, 2019]
Shutter Island
★★★
dir. Martin Scorsese
Neo-Noir Psychological Horror
[USA, 2010]
Budget: $80 million
Casablanca
★★★★★
dir. Michael Curtiz
Romantic Drama
[USA, 1942]
Budget: $878,000–$1 million
No Country for Old Men
★★★★½
dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
Neo-Western Crime Thriller
[USA, 2007]
Budget: $25 million
La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House)
★★★★
dir. Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña
Stop-Motion Animated Horror
[Chile, 2018]
The Square
★★★★
dir. Jehane Noujaim
Documentary
[Egypt / USA, 2013]
Budget: $1.5 million
The Northman
★★★★
dir. Robert Eggers
Epic Historical Action Drama
[USA / China, 2022]
Budget: $70–90 million
M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
★★★★★
dir. Fritz Lang
Crime Thriller
[Weimar Republic, 1931]
Goldfinger
★★★★★
dir. Guy Hamilton
Spy
[UK / USA, 1964]
Rio Bravo
★★★★½
dir. Howard Hawks
Western
[USA, 1959]
On the Waterfront
★★★★½
dir. Elia Kazan
Crime Drama
[USA, 1954]
Immigration Nation
★★★★
dir. Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz
Documentary Miniseries
[USA, 2020]
Generation Kill
★★★★½
Created by David Simon, Ed Burns and Evan Wright
War Drama TV-Miniseries
[USA, 2008]
L’événement (Happening)
★★★★
dir. Audrey Diwan
Drama
[France, 2021]
Veep: Season 5
★★★½
Created by Armando Iannucci
Political Satire
[USA, 2016]
もののけ姫 (Princess Mononoke)
★★★★★
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Animated Epic Historical Fantasy
[Japan, 1997]
Budget: $23.5 million
Manchester by the Sea
★★★★½
dir. Kenneth Lonergan
Drama
[USA, 2016]
Budget: $9 million
Zimna Wojna (Cold War)
★★★★½
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
Historical Drama
[Poland, 2018]
Budget: $4.8 million
Lebanon
★★★★
dir. Samuel Maoz
War
[Israel, 2009]
Budget: $1.4 million
Restrepo
★★★★½
dir. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Documentary
[USA, 2010]
El Sol del Membrillo (The Quince Tree Sun)
★★★★½
dir. Victor Erice
Documentary
[Spain, 1992]
Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 Heures
★★★★½
dir. Claude Lanzmann
Documentary
[France, 2001]
These lists might also be of interest:
Watch-List 01/22
Film Lists Archives