A list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen recently.
★★★★★ – Favourite / Classic / Masterpiece
★★★★½ – Excellent
★★★★ – Great
★★★½ – Good (Minor Flawed Elements)
★★★ – Interesting (Flawed Elements)
★★½ – Major Flaws but Some Interesting Ideas
★★ – Disappointing
Sansho the Bailiff
★★★★½
dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese Period Drama
[Japan, 1954]
The Pale Blue Eye
★★★
dir. Scott Cooper
Mystery Thriller
[USA, 2022]
탑 (Walk Up)
★★★★
dir. Hong Sang-Soo
Drama
[South Korea, 2022]
The Irishman
★★★★½
dir. Martin Scorsese
Epic Gangster
[USA, 2019]
Killers of the Flower Moon
★★★★½
dir. Martin Scorsese
Epic Revisionist Western Crime Drama
[USA, 2023]
Paisà (Paisan)
★★★★½
dir. Roberto Rossellini
Neorealist War Drama
[Italy, 1946]
Persona
★★★★★
dir. Ingmar Bergman
Avant-Garde Psychological Drama
[Sweden, 1966]
Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7)
★★★★★
dir. Agnès Varda
French New Wave
[France, 1962]
Bridges Go Round
★★★★
dir. Shirley Clarke
Experimental
[USA, 1958]
Kuhle Wampe (Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?)
★★★½
dir. Slatan Dudow
Weimar Left Wing Cinema
[Weimar Republic, 1932]
Killers of the Flower Moon
★★★★½
dir. Martin Scorsese
Epic Revisionist Western Crime Drama
[USA, 2023]
Roma Città Aperta (Rome, Open City)
★★★★½
dir. Roberto Rossellini
Neorealist War Drama
[Italy, 1945]
Hugo
★★★
dir. Martin Scorsese
Adventure Drama
[USA, 2011]
Unbelievable
★★★½
True Crime Miniseries
created by Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon
[USA, 2019]
Moneyball
★★★★
dir. Bennett Miller
Biographical Sports Drama
[USA, 2011]
Budget: $50 million
Saint Omer
★★★★½
dir. Alice Diop
Legal Drama
[France, 2022]
Inside Llewyn Davis
★★★★½
dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
Period Black Comedy Drama
[USA, 2013]
Budget: $11 million
Maria Full of Grace
★★★★½
dir. Joshua Marston
Drama
[Colombia / USA, 2004]
Budget: $3.2 million
To Kill a Mockingbird
★★★★½
dir. Robert Mulligan
Coming-of-Age Legal Drama Crime
[USA, 1962]
Budget: $2 million
Shanghai Express
★★★½
dir. Josef von Sternberg
Pre-Code Hollywood
[USA, 1932]
The Island
★★½
dir. Michael Bay
Science Fiction Action Thriller
[USA, 2005]
Budget: $126 million
Scream
★★★★
dir. Wes Craven
Slasher
[USA, 1996]
Budget: $14–15 million
300
★★½
dir. Zack Snyder
Epic Historical Action
[USA, 2007]
Budget: $65 million
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
★★
dir. Alfonso Cuarón
Fantasy
[UK / USA, 2004]
Budget: $130 million
Troy
★★½
dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Epic Historical War
[USA / UK / Malta, 2004]
Budget: $175–185 million
Pierrot le Fou
★★★★★
dir. Jean-Luc Godard
New Wave Romantic Road Drama
[France, 1965]
Budget: $300,000 (est.)
L’Événement (Happening)
★★★★
dir. Audrey Diwan
Drama Thriller
[France, 2021]
Mulholland Drive
★★★★½
dir. David Lynch
Surrealist Neo-Noir Mystery
[USA, 2001]
Budget: $15 million
Belle de Jour
★★★★½
dir. Luis Buñuel
Psychological Drama
[France / Italy, 1967]
Une Affaire de Femmes (Story of Women)
★★★
dir. Claude Chabrol
Drama
[France, 1988]
Miami Vice
★★½
dir. Michael Mann
Action Crime
[USA, 2006]
Budget: $135 million
God’s Country
★★★½
dir. Julian Higgins
Thriller
[USA, 2022]
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