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 Good but some flawed elements
★★★ Interesting but flawed
★★½ Major flaws but some good ideas
Diego Maradona
★★★★½
dir. Asif Kapadia
Documentary
[UK, 2019]
大象席地而坐 (An Elephant Sitting Still)
★★★★½
dir. Hu Bo
Drama
[China, 2018]
江湖儿女 (Ash is Purest White)
★★★½
dir. Jia Zhangke
Drama
[China, 2018]
Dunkirk
★★★★★
dir. Christopher Nolan
War
[UK / USA / France / Netherlands, 2017]
Budget: $100–150 million
A Chiara
★★★½
dir. Jonas Carpignano
Drama
[Italy / France / USA / Sweden, 2021]
13th
★★★★
dir. Ava DuVernay
Documentary
[USA, 2016]
The Broken Circle Breakdown
★★★
dir. Felix van Groeningen
Drama
[Belgium, 2012]
アキラ(Akira)
★★★★½
dir. Katsuhiro Otomo
Japanese Animated Cyberpunk Action
[Japan, 1988]
十面埋伏 (House of Flying Daggers)
★★★★
dir. Zhang Yimou
Wuxia Romance
[China / Hong Kong, 2004]
Das Weiße Band (The White Ribbon)
★★★★★
dir. Michael Haneke
Historical Drama
[Germany / Austria / France / Italy, 2009]
Saving Private Ryan
★★★★★
dir. Steven Spielberg
War Epic
[USA, 1998]
Budget: $70 million
Pig
★★★
dir. Michael Samoski
Drama
[USA, 2021]
The Pacific
★★★½
exec. prod. Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman
War Drama Minisieries
[USA, 2010]
Budget: $200 million
Memoria
★★★★½
dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Drama Fantasy
[Thailand / Colombia / UK / France / et al., 2021]
Procession
★★★½
dir. Robert Greene
Documentary
[USA, 2021]
Succession: Season 3
★★★★½
created by Jesse Armstrong
Satirical Black Comedy
[USA, 2021]
The Shining
★★★★½
dir. Stanley Kubrick
Psychological Horror
[USA / UK, 1980]
Budget: $19 million
Pleasure
★★★
dir. Ninja Thyberg
Drama
[France / Sweden / Netherlands, 2021]
Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider)
★★★½
dir. Ramon and Silvan Zürcher
Drama
[Switzerland, 2021]
RRR
★★★½
dir. S. S. Rajamouli
Telugu Epic Action Drama
[India, 2022]
Budget: ₹550 crore (~$70.79 million)
Une Fille Facile (An Easy Girl)
★★★½
dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
Drama
[France, 2019]
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Childhood
★★★½
dir. Richard Linklater
Animation
[USA, 2022]
Große Freiheit (Great Freedom)
★★★
dir. Sebastian Meise
Drama
[Austria / Germany, 2021]
Adam
★★★
dir. Maryam Touzani
Drama
[Morocco, 2019]
Master of None: Season 1
★★★★
created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang
Comedy-Drama
[USA, 2015]
Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows)
★★★★★
dir. François Truffaut
Nouvelle Vague Coming-of Age Drama
[France, 1959]
Au Hasard Balthazar
★★★★★
dir. Robert Bresson
Drama
[France / Sweden, 1966]
These lists might also be of interest:
Watch-List 02/22
Film Lists Archives