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Films Watched 2019 (37) (British Date Watched)
1. Green Book
2. Paddleton
3. Stan & Ollie
4. Capernaum
5. Good Boys
6. American Woman
7. The Mule
8. The World Is Yours
9. Rosie
10. Eighth Grade
11. Happy as Lazzaro
12. Ready or Not
13. Holiday
14. One Cut of the Dead
15. Dirty God
16. The Peanut Butter Falcon
17. Border
18. The Oath
19. Woman at War
20. Mega Time Squad
21. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
22. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
23. Dolemite Is My Name
24. Long Shot
25. Gloria Bell
26. Mid90s
27. The Ruthless
28. Arctic
29. Stuber
30. The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
31. Greta
32. Wine Country
33. Transit
34. Ray & Liz
35. Velvet Buzzsaw
36. Under the Silver Lake
37. The Favourite

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1. The King (D. Michod)
2. A Hidden Life (T. Malick)
3. 1917 (S. Mendes)
4. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
5. Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood (Q. Tarantino)
6. The Irishman (M. Scorsese)
7. Us (J. Peele)
8. Lighthouse (R. Eggers)
9. Little Women (G. Gerwig)
10. Midsommar (A. Aster)

Also good: Ad Astra; Apollo 11; Avengers: Endgame; The Beach Bum; Booksmart*; Captain Marvel; Dark Waters; The Dead Don't Die; Dolemite is My Name; The Farewell; Ford v Ferrari; Glass; The Goldfinch; High Flying Bird; High Life; Honey Boy; The Hustle*; Hustlers; John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum; Knives Out; Laundromat; Pain and Glory; Peterloo; Rocketman; Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Toy Story 4*; Triple Frontier; The Two Popes; Uncut Gems; Under the Silver Lake; Yesterday

Meh: 21 Bridges; Alita: Battle Angel; American Dharma; A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood; Bombshell; Charlie's Angels; Fyre; Godzilla: King of the Monsters; Good Boys; Harriet; Jojo Rabbit; Joker; Judy; Queen & Slim; Spider-man: Far From Home; Waves; Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Really Bad: Dark Phoenix; Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw; Gemini Man; Jay and Silent Bob Reboot; Richard Jewell

Hit too close to home, can't rank: Marriage Story

"Classics" at the Cinema: Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang - 1944); High School Confidential (Jack Arnold - 1958); Nude on the Moon (Doris Wishman - 1961); King Kong vs. Godzilla (Ishiro Honda - 1963); War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk - 1968) [In 4 separate viewings]; Dolemite (D'Urville Martin - 1975) [original 35mm print]; Race With the Devil (Jack Starrett - 1975); Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton - 1979); Monster Club (Roy Ward Baker - 1981); The Stuff (Larry Cohen - 1985); Aliens (Jim Cameron - 1986); Blood Rage (John Grissmer - 1987); Die Hard (John McTiernan - 1988); The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme - 1991); Hard Target (John Woo - 1993) [original 35mm print]

* These were seen during my parental leave at those "Park the Stroller" screenings, so my opinion is measured against watching the movie while tending to a 10-month-old child

Captain Marvel
Ash is the Purest White
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Knives Out
Parasite

1. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
2. The Irishman
3. 1917
4. Everybody Knows
5. Parasite
6. High Life
7. The Lighthouse
8. Under The Silver Lake
9. Marriage Story
10. Transit

1. Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell)
2. Parasite (Bong)
3. Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood (Tarantino)
4. The Irishman (Scorsese)
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma)
6. Little Women (Gerwig)
7. Knives Out (Johnson)
8. Us (Peele)
9. Uncut Gems (Safdie Bros.)
10. High Flying Bird (Soderbergh)

Midsommar (Aster)
High Life (Denis)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Stahelski)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Heller)
Ad Astra (Gray)
Booksmart (Wilde)
Ford vs Ferrari (Mangold)
Avengers: Endgame (Russo Bros.)
Ready or Not (Bettinelli & Gillett)
The Dead Don't Die (Jarmusch)
Captain Marvel (Boden & Fleck)

01. First Cow
02. The Irishman
03. Martin Eden
04. Uncut Gems
05. About Endlessness
06. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
07. Parasite
08. The Wild Goose Lake
09. It Must Be Heaven
10. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood

11. An Officer and a Spy
12. Young Ahmed
13. The Lighthouse
14. Marriage Story
15. Dark Waters
16. Deerskin
17. The Souvenir
18. Ad Astra
19. Sorry We Missed You
20. A Hidden Life

Next tier: La Llorona; Oh Mercy!; Pain and Glory; Straight Up; The Sound of Metal

Documentary: American Factory; Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese; The Inventor; Other Music

Decent: The Beach Bum; The Whistlers; Synonyms; High Flying Bird; Bacurau; The Truth; Knives Out; Les Misérables; Little Joe; Sibyl; The Assistant; Technoboss; Beanpole

Not a fan: Atlantics; Little Women; The Traitor; Us; 1917; Toy Story 4; Antigone; Midsommar; Midway

Rubbish: The Dead Don't Die; Joker; Wasp Network; Matthias & Maxime; Booksmart; The Laundromat

To see: I Was at Home, But; Vitalina Varela; The Last Black Man in San Francisco

2021—2020—2019—2018—2017—2016—2015—2014—2013—2012—2011

1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2. A Rainy Day in New York
3. Dolemite Is My Name
4. The Irishman

Also seen: Apparition, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Domino, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Happy Death Day 2U, Into the Dark: Pure, Love Antosha, Morning Noon & Night, Parasite, Uncut Gems, Under the Silver Lake, Us

1. First Cow
2. Pain & Glory
3. The Lodge
4. The Whistlers
5. Beanpole
6. Sound of Metal
7. Happy Death Day 2U
8. The Assistant
9. The Climb
10. The Irishman

11. Dolemite is my Name
12. Swallow
13. Driveways
14. Bacurau
15. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
16. Knives Out
17. Doctor Sleep Director's Cut
18. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
19. Midsommar Director's Cut
20. In Fabric
21. La Llorona
22. I Lost My Body
23. Blow The Man Down
24. End of the Century

Liked: The Lighthouse, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Parasite, The Beach House

Disappointments: Us, Parasite, Come To Daddy, VFW, The Vigil, Saint Maud

Hated: (luckily nothing!)

Best TV: Bad Education

1 Parasite
2 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
3 Marriage Story
4 The Irishman
5 Little Women
6 Uncut Gems
7 The Lighthouse
8 Jojo Rabbit
9 A Hidden Life
10 1917

1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. High Life
4. Crawl
5. Atlantics
6. I Lost My Body
7. Marriage Story
8. El Camino
9. Doctor Sleep
10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. Uncut Gems
3. Midsommar
4. Parasite
5. Knives Out
6. The Irishman
7. The Lighthouse
8. 1917
9. Booksmart
10. Art of Self Defense



The rest (in ranked order): The Dead Don't Die, Luce, Ma, The Farewell, Ad Astra, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Beach Bum, Ford vs. Ferrari, Little Women, Under the Silver Lake, Us, Alita: Battle Angel, Avengers: Endgame, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Frozen 2, Captain Marvel, Anna, Late Night, Addams Family, Blinded By the Light, Detective Pikachu, Charlie's Angels, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Hobbs & Shaw, The Kitchen, Happy Death Day 2U, Hustlers, Crawl, It: Chapter Two, Ready or Not, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Shazam, The Curse of La Llorona, Good Boys, Cats, The Wandering Earth

01 Amanda (Mikhaël Hers)
02 En liberté! (Pierre Salvadori)
03 Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
04 Ad Astra (James Gray)
05 Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon)
06 Le retour du héros (Laurent Tirard)
07 Mademoiselle de Joncquières (Emmanuel Mouret)
08 Dolor y gloria (Pedro Almodovar)
09 Le grand bain (Gilles Lellouch)
10 Le daim (Quintin Dupieux)

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LAST UPDATED 02/09/2020

swo17 wrote: Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:04 pm When you weren't the second post in the thread I assumed you were dead

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma)
2. Mademoiselle de Joncquières (Mouret)
3. Parasite (Bong)
4. Uncut Gems (Safdie & Safdie)
5. Little Women (Gerwig)
6. Knives Out (Johnson)
7. Amanda (Hers)
8. The Lighthouse (Eggers)
9. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Talbot)
10. High Life (Denis)

Liked: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Heller), I Lost My Body (Clapin), JoJo Rabbit (Waititi), The Souvenir (Hogg), Transit (Petzold)

Mixed feelings: Midsommar (Aster), Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Tarantino)

Not so great: The Goldfinch (Crowley), Greta (Jordan), Under the Silver Lake (Mitchell)

01 The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
02 The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
03 Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
04 High Life (Claire Denis)
05 Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
06 Midsommar (Ari Aster)
07 The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
08 The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
09 Us (Jordan Peele)
10 Knives Out (Rian Johnson)

Honorable mention: Anima (Paul Thomas Anderson), The Fall (Jonathan Glazer), and I Am Easy to Find (Mike Mills)

Other notable films: Climax (Gaspar Noé), The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg), and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams)

Updated 12/29/2019

1. Joker
2. The Beach Bum
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
5. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
6. 6 Underground
7. Richard Jewell
8. Gemini Man
9. Zeroville
10. Glass

I got a top spot! I'm somebody now! \:D/

Edit: Aw, some posts got deleted and now I'm bottom of page 2

1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. The Lighthouse
4. Under the Silver Lake
5. Knives Out
6. Midsommar
7. The Beach Bum
8. High Life
9. Alita: Battle Angel

Other seen and found to be mildly interesting
Ad Astra
Climax
El Camino
In the Tall Grass
It Chapter Two (I can only enjoy it as a comedy though)
Joker
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood...
The Dead Don't Die (there's a solid ten minutes here that's worth watching)
Us
Velvet Buzzsaw

Top five of the decade (2010 to 2019)
It's Such a Beautiful Day
mother!
Inside Llewyn Davis
Burning
First Reformed

to date:

1. Atlantique
2. Uncut Gems
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
4. Transit
5. Zombi Child
6. Parasite
7. The Lighthouse
8. Marriage Story
9. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
10. The Beach Bum

1. The Irishman
2. High Life
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
4. The Souvenir
5. Long Day’s Jouney Into Night
6. The Wild Goose Lake
7. Pain and Glory
8. The Lighthouse
9. Ema
10. Little Women

Honourable Mentions: Parasite, Marriage Story, In Fabric, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, High Flying Bird, The Nightingale, Hotel by the River


Others Seen: Us, Gloria Bell, Under the Silver Lake, Destroyer, Knives Out, Vice, Ad Astra, Joker, Judy and Punch

1. Knives Out
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Parasite
4. Marriage Story
5. Little Women
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. Ad Astra
8. The Lighthouse
9. Uncut Gems
10. Ash is Purest White

The Others: A Hidden Life, Booksmart, The Farewell, The Irishman, An Elephant Sitting Still, Sword of Trust, Under the Silver Lake, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Ford v Ferrari, Long Day's Journey Into Night, JoJo Rabbit, Fast Color, 1917, The Dead Don't Die, Captain Marvel

01. Parasite (Joon-ho Bong)
02. The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
03. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
04. Queen of Hearts (May el-Toukhy)
05. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (Karim Ainouz)
06. Downton Abbey (Michael Engler)
07. Les Miserables (Ladj Ly)
08. By the Grace of God (Francois Ozon)
09. Leaving Neverland (Dan Reed)
10. Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)

01. The Irishman
02. Parasite
03. Mademoiselle de Joncquieres
04. Hotel by the River
05. Everybody Knows
06. Knives Out
07. Ash is Purest White
08. An Elephant Sitting Still
09. Ad Astra
10. Uncut Gems

Overlooked/underrated - Cold Pursuit, Gloria Bell, The Hummingbird Project, Stockholm, The White Crow, American Woman, Bombshell, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Ladies in Black, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Favorite performances...

Javier Bardem- Everybody Knows
Brad Pitt- Ad Astra
Al Pacino- The Irishman
Matt Damon- Ford v Ferrari
Jonathan Pryce - The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Edouard Baer- Mademoiselle de Joncquieres
Ethan Hawke- Stockholm
Daniel Craig- Knives Out
Tom Bateman- Cold Pursuit
John Lithgow- Bombshell

Margot Robbie- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Julianne Moore- Gloria Bell
Lupita Nyong’o- Us
Ana de Armas - Knives Out
Julia Fox- Uncut Gems
Honor Swinton Byrne- The Souvenir
Florence Pugh- Little Women
Selma Hayek- The Hummingbird Project
Thomasin McKenzie- Jojo Rabbit
Tao Zhao- Ash is Purest White

1. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
2. Transit (Christian Petzold)
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
4. Genese (Philippe Lesage)
5. Monos (Alejandro Landes)
6. Ready or Not (Bettinelli-Olpin / Gillett)
7. Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
8. Beach Bum (Harmony Korine)
9. Diamantino (Abrantes / Schmidt)
10. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)

Honorable mentions: Atlantique (Diop), Zombi Child (Bonello), The Dead Don’t Die (Jarmusch), Her Smell (Perry), Marriage Story (Baumbach), Midsommar (Aster), Hustlers (Scafaria), Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Linklater), Alita: Battle Angel (Rodriguez), 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (Roberts), Where's My Roy Cohn (Tyrnauer)

Moved to 2020 list: Beanpole, Bacurau

Per Letterboxd listed year...

1. Richard Jewell
2. Dark Waters
3. Marriage Story
4. Parasite
5. Ad Astra
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. The Irishman
8. Little Women
9. Ma
10. Booksmart



11. Ford v Ferrari / Alita: Battle Angel / Five Feet Apart / Waves / Joker / Toy Story 4 / Us / Queen & Slim / Spider-Man: Far From Home / Knives Out / The Good Liar / Jojo Rabbit / 1917 / Dumbo / Avengers: Endgame / Pokemon: Detective Pikachu / Shazam! / Let It Snow / Last Christmas / Rocketman / Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker / The Lion King / The Perfect Date / Captain Marvel / Midsommar / Black Christmas / The Aeronauts / A Hidden Life / The Last Summer / 40. After

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Not bad: The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Disappointing: Us