The rating system is as follows:
★★★★★ – Unqualifiedly great and should be watched by everybody.
★★★★½ – Close to perfection that probably didn’t get 5 stars for some arbitrary reason.
★★★★ – Good and worth the price of a regular cinema ticket.
★★★½ – Still good but with some flaws.
★★★ – Flaws aplenty, but still comes out on top
★★½ – Only genre fans need apply
★★ – Self-hatred begins around here
★½ – Self-hatred evolves to hatred towards the filmmakers
★ – Self-hatred evolves to genuine feelings of dislike towards humanity
½ – Literal waste of space and time
(Hall of Fame movies are not rated – but one can safely assume they are in the ★★★★½ to ★★★★★ range)
Movies are arranged here in alphabetical order:
1408 (2007, dir. Mikael Hafstrom) ★★★★
1922 (2017, dir. Zak Hilditch) ★★★
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick) ★★★★★
After Life (1998, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) ★★★★★
All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) – Hall of Fame #4
Annihilation (2018, dir. Alex Garland) ★★★★★
Ant-Man & The Wasp (2018, dir. Peyton Reed) ★★★★
The Apartment (1960, dir. Billy Wilder) – Hall of Fame #2
Apostle (2018, dir. Gareth Evans) ★★★½
Aquaman (2018, dir. James Wan) ★★★½
Around the World in 80 Days (1956, dir. Michael Anderson) ★½
Avengers: Infinity War (2018, dir. Anthony & Joe Russo) ★★★★
Baby Driver (2017, dir. Edgar Wright) ★★★★½
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, dir. Ethan and Joel Coen) ★★★★½
Band Aid (2017, dir. Zoe Lister-Jones) ★★★½
The Barkley Marathons (2014, dirs. Annika Iltis and Timothy James Kane) ★★★★½
Barton Fink (1991, dir. Joel Coen) ★★★★½
Batman Begins (2005, dir. Christopher Nolan) ★★★★½
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, dir. Zack Snyder) ★★
Battle of the Sexes (2017, dir. Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton) ★★★★
The Beaches of Agnés (2008, dir. Agnés Varda) ★★★★½
The Beguiled (2017, dir. Sofia Coppola) ★★★★
The Big Sick (2017, dir. Michael Showalter) ★★★★★
The Bird With the Crystal Plummage (1970, dir. Dario Argento) ★★★★
Black Panther (2018, dir. Ryan Coogler) ★★★★½
Blade Runner 2049 (2017, dir. Denis Villeneuve) ★★★★★
Blame! (2017, dir. Hiroyuki Seshita) ★★½
The Blob (1958, dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth) ★★★
The Breadwinner (2017, dir. Nora Twomey) ★★★★½
Brick (2005, dir. Rian Johnson) ★★★½
Bright (2017, dir. David Ayer) ★★★
Bronson (2008, dir. Nicolas Wending Refn) ★★★★½
Bumblebee (2018, dir. Travis Knight) ★★★★
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992, dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui) ★★★½
Captain Marvel (2019, dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck) ★★★½
Carrie (2013, dir. Kimberly Pierce) ★★½
Cars 3 (2017, dir. Lee Unkrich) ★★★★
Castle in the Sky (1986, dir. Hayao Miyazaki) ★★★★★
Cat People (1942, dir. Jacques Torneur) ★★★★½
The Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971, dir. Dario Argento) ★★★½
Cat’s Eye (1985, dir. Lewis Teague) ★★★½
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, dir Agnés Varda) ★★★★★
Chappaquiddick (2018, dir. John Curran) ★★
Children of the Corn (1984, dir. Fritz Kiersch) ★★
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008, dir. Andrew Adamson) ★★½
Cimarron (1931, dir. Wesley Ruggles) ★
Cinderella (1950, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske) ★★★½
Cloverfield (2008, dir. Matt Reeves) ★★★
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018, dir. Julius Onah) ★★
Coco (2017, dir. Lee Unkrich) ★★★★★
Coraline (2009, dir. Henry Selick) ★★★★½
Crazy Rich Asians (2018, dir. Jon M. Chau) ★★★½
Creepshow (1982, dir. George A. Romero) ★★★★
Creepshow 2 (1987, dir. Michael Gornick) ★★½
Corridors of Blood (1958, dir. Robert Day) ★★★
The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir. Wes Anderson) ★★★★
The Dark Knight (2008, dir. Christopher Nolan) ★★★★★
The Dark Knight Rises (2012, dir. Christopher Nolan) ★★★★
Deadpool 2 (2018, dir. David Leitch) ★★★
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father (2008, dir Kurt Keunne) ★★★★
Death Note (2017, dir. Adam Wingard) ★
The Death of Stalin (2017, dir. Armando Iannucci) ★★★★½
Deep Red (1975, dir. Dario Argento) ★★★★½
Design For Living (1933, dir. Ernst Lubitsch) ★★★★½
Detroit (2017, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) ★★★½
Diabolique (1955, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot) ★★★★½
Diary of a Madman (1963, dir. Reginald Le Borg) ★★★
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1971, dir. Robert Fuest) ★★½
Don’t Look Back (1967, dir. D.A. Pennebaker): ★★★★★
Don’t Look Now (1973, dir. Nicolas Roeg) ★★★★½
Dreamcatcher (2003, dir. Lawrence Kasdan) ★★
Driving Miss Daisy (1989, dir. Bruce Beresford) ★★½
Dunkirk (2017, dir. Christopher Nolan): ★★★★★
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, dir. Steven Spielberg) – Hall of Fame #3
Early Man (2018, dir. Nick Park) ★★★½
Eighth Grade (2018, dir. Bo Burnham) ★★★★★
Enemy of the State (1998, dir. Tony Scott) ★★★
The English Patient (1996, dir. Anthony Minghella) ★★★
Face/Off (1997, dir. John Woo) ★★★★
Faces Places (2017, dir. Agnés Varda & JR) ★★★★½
A Fantastic Woman (2017, dir. Sebastian Lelio) ★★★★
The Farthest (2017, dir. Emer Reynolds) ★★★★
The Favourite (2018, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) ★★★★★
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998, dir. Terry Gillam) ★
The Fifth Element (1997, dir. Luc Besson) ★★★★
Firestarter (1984, dir Mark L. Lester) ★★½
First Man (2018, Damien Chazelle) ★★★★
First Match (2018, dir. Olivia Newman) ★★★½
First Reformed (2018, dir. Paul Schrader) ★★★★★
First They Killed My Father (2017, dir. Angelina Jolie) ★★★★½
Flowers of Shanghai (1998, dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien) ★★★★½
The Four-Year Plan (2011, dir. Mat Hodgson) ★★★
Frozen River (2017, dir. Courtney Hunt) ★★★★
A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018, dir. David Wain) ★★★½
Game Night (2018, dir. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein) ★★★★
Gandhi (1982, dir. Richard Attenborough) ★★★★
Ghost in the Shell (2017, dir. Rupert Sanders) ★★
A Ghost Story (2017, dir. David Lowery) ★★★
Ghost World (2001, dir. Terry Zwigoff) ★★★★½
Girls Trip (2017, dir. Malcolm D. Lee) ★★★½
The Gleaners and I (2000, dir. Agnés Varda) ★★★★
Godzilla (1998, dir. Roland Emmerich) ★½
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017, dir. Hiroyuki Seshita) ★★½
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008, dir. Kim Jee-Woon) ★★★★
Good Time (2017, dirs. Ben and Josh Safdie) ★★★★
Goosebumps (2015, dir. Rob Letterman) ★★★½
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini) ★★★★★
Graveyard Shift (1990, dir. Ralph S. Singleton) ★
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952, dir. Cecil B. DeMille) ★★★
Halloween (2018, dir. David Gordon Green) ★★★½
Hamlet (1948, dir. Laurence Olivier) ★★★★½
Hancock (2008, dir. Peter Berg) ★★
Happiness (1998, dir. Todd Solondz) ★★½
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008, dir. Mike Leigh) ★★★★½
The Haunted Strangler (1958, dir. Robert Day) ★★★½
Hearts Beat Loud (2018, dir. Brett Haley) ★★★½
Hereditary (2018, dir. Ari Aster) ★★★★½
His Girl Friday (1940, dir. Howard Hawks) ★★★★★
Hold the Dark (2018, dir. Jeremy Saulnier) ★★★
House of the Long Shadows (1983, dir. Pete Walker) ★★★★
Hostiles (2017, dir. Scott Cooper) ★★★
How Green Was My Valley (1941, dir. John Ford) ★★★½
Hunger (2008, dir. Steve McQueen) ★★★★½
I Am Legend (2007, dir. Francis Lawrence) ★★★½
I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore (2017, dir. Macon Blair) ★★★★
Icarus (2017, dir. Bryan Fogel) ★★★★½
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, dir. Barry Jenkins) ★★★★★
In Bruges (2008, dir. Martin McDonagh) ★★★★½
The Incredible Jessica James (2017, dir. Jim Strouse) ★★★
Incredibles 2 (2018, dir. Brad Bird) ★★★★
Inferno (1980, dir. Dario Argento) ★★½
Ingrid Goes West (2017, dir. Matt Spicer) ★★★½
Iron Man (2008, dir. Jon Favreau) ★★★★½
Island of Lost Souls (1932, dir. Eric C. Kenton) ★★★½
Isle of Dogs (2018, dir. Wes Anderson) ★★★★½
It Comes At Night (2017, dir. Trey Edward Shults) ★★★
It Happened One Night (1934, dir. Frank Capra) ★★★★½
Jennifer’s Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama) ★★★
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973, dir. Norman Jewison) ★★★½
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017, dir. Chris Smith) ★★★★
John Carter (2012, dir. Andrew Stanton) ★★★
The Jungle Book (1967, dir. Wolfgang Reitherman) ★★★★
Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997, dir. Steven Spielberg) ★★½
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018, dir. J. A. Bayona) ★★
Justice League (2017, dir. Zack Snyder) ★★½
Kedi (2016, dir. Ceyda Torun) ★★★★
The Killing (1956, dir. Stanley Kubrick) ★★★★
The King of Kings (1927, dir. Cecil B. DeMille) ★★★★
Kwaidan (1965, dir. Masaki Kobayashi) ★★★★½
Lady and the Tramp (1955, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske) ★★★½
Lady Bird (2017, dir. Greta Gerwig) ★★★★★
Lady Macbeth (2016, dir. William Oldroyd) ★★★★½
The Last Days of Disco (1998, dir. Whit Stilman) ★★★★
The Last Emperor (1987, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) ★★★★½
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, dir. Martin Scorsese) ★★★★½
Le Bonheur (1965, dir. Agnés Varda) ★★★★½
Le Samourai (1967, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville) ★★★★★
Les Bleus: Another History of France, 1996-2016 (2016, dir. Sonia Dauger and David Deitz) ★★★★½
The Little Stranger (2018, dir. Lenny Abrahamson) ★★★½
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998, dir. Guy Ritchie) ★★★★
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, dir. Peter Jackson) ★★★★★
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, dir. Peter Jackson) ★★★★½
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, dir. Peter Jackson) ★★★★★
Loving Vincent (2017, dirs. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) ★★★
The Lure (2015, dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska) ★★★★
Madhouse (1974, dir. Jim Clark) ★★★½
A Man For All Seasons (1966, dir. Fred Zinnemann) ★★★
Man of Steel (2013, dir. Zack Snyder) ★★½
Mandy (2018, dir. Panos Cosmatos) ★★★★
Manhunt (2017, dir. John Woo) ★★★½
Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017, dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi) ★★★
Masters of the Universe (1987, dir. Gary Goddard) ★★
The Matrix (1999, dir. Lana Wachowki, Lilly Wachowski) ★★★★½
The Matrix Reloaded (2003, dir. Lana Wachowki, Lilly Wachowski) ★★★½
The Matrix Revolutions (2003, dir. Lana Wachowki, Lilly Wachowski) ★★★★
Maudie (2016, dir. Aisling Walsh) ★★★½
Men in Black (1997, dir. Barry Sonnenfield) ★★★
Men in Black II (2002, dir. Barry Sonnenfield) ★★
Men in Black 3 (2012, dir. Barry Sonnenfield) ★★★
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017, dir. Noah Baumbach) ★★★★
Mildred Pierce (1945, dir. Michael Curtiz) ★★★★½
Million Dollar Baby (2004, dir. Clint Eastwood) ★★★½
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018, dir. Christopher McQuarrie) ★★★★½
The Mist (2007, dir. Frank Darabont) ★★★
Mr. Roosevelt (2017, dir. Noel Wells) ★★★
Monster House (2006, dir. Gil Kenan) ★★★½
Mudbound (2017, dir. Dee Rees) ★★★★★
Mute (2018, dir. Duncan Jones) ★
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, dir. Frank Lloyd) ★★★★
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984, dir. Hayao Miyazaki) ★★★★½
Near Dark (1987, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) ★★★★
Next Goal Wins (2014, dir. Mike Brett and Steve Jamison) ★★★★
Night Creatures (1962, dir. Peter Graham Scott) ★★★
Night Moves (2013, dir. Kelly Reichardt) ★★★½
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017, dir. Brian Knappenberger) ★★½
Nossa Chape (2018, dir. Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist) ★★★★
The Oblong Box (1969, dir. Gordon Hessler) ★★½
Ocean’s 8 (2018, dir. Gary Ross) ★★★½
Okja (2017, dir. Bong Joon-Ho) ★★★★
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman) ★★★★½
One of Us (2017, dirs. Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing) ★★★★
Opera (1987, dir. Dario Argento) ★★★★
Ordinary People (1980, dir. Robert Redford) ★★★★★
The Other Side of the Wind (2018, dir. Orson Welles) ★★★★½
Our Time Will Come (2017, dir. Ann Hui) ★★★
Out of Africa (1985, dir. Sydney Pollack) ★★
Out of Sight (1998, dir. Steven Soderbergh) ★★★★½
Out of Time (2003, dir. Carl Franklin) ★★★
Outlaw King (2018, dir. David MacKenzie) ★★½
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018, dir. Steven S. DeKnight) ★
Paddington 2 (2017, dir. Paul King) ★★★★★
ParaNorman (2012, dirs. Christ Butler and Sam Fell) ★★★★
Persepolis (2007, dir. Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi) ★★★★★
Pet Sematary (1989, dir. Mary Lambert) ★
Peter Pan (1953, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson) ★★½
Phantom Thread (2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) ★★★★★
Phenomena (1985, dir. Dario Argento) ★★★½
The Philadelphia Story (1940, dir. George Cukor) ★★★★
Pi (1998, dir. Darren Aronofsky) ★★★★
Pinocchio (1940, dir. Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen): ★★★★½
The Phantom of the Opera (1962, dir. Terence Fisher) ★★★½
Platoon (1986, dir. Oliver Stone) ★★★★½
The Polka King (2017, dir. Maya Forbes) ★★★
The Post (2017, dir. Steven Spielberg) ★★★★
Private Life (2018, dir. Tamara Jenkins) ★★★★½
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017, dir. Angela Robinson) ★★★½
Psychokinesis (2018, dir. Yeon Sang-Ho) ★★★★
A Quiet Passion (2016, dir. Terence Fisher) ★★★★★
Rampage (2018, dir. Brad Peyton) ★★★
Raw (2016, dir. Julie Ducournau) ★★★★
Ready Player One (2018, dir. Steven Spielberg) ★★★½
Rebecca (1940, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) ★★★★
Red Sparrow (2018, dir. Francis Lawrence) ★★½
Revenge (2017, dir. Coralie Fangeat) ★★★½
The Rider (2018, dir. Chloe Zhao) ★★★★½
Rififi (1955, dir. Jules Dassin) ★★★★★
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991, dir. Kevin Reynolds) ★★½
Rope (1948, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) ★★★½
Run Lola Run (1998, dir. Tom Twyker) ★★★★½
Searching (2018, dir. Aneesh Chaganty) ★★★★
Secret Window (2004, dir. David Koepp) ★★★½
Shakespeare in Love (1998, dir. John Madden) ★★★★
The Shape of Water (2017, dir. Guillermo Del Toro) ★★★★½
Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno): ★★★
The Shining (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick) – Hall of Fame #1
Shirkers (2018, dir. Sandi Tan) ★★★★★
Silver Bullet (1985, dir. Daniel Attias) ★★★½
Sleeping Beauty (1959, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson) ★★★★★
Sleepwalkers (1992, dir. Mick Garris) ★
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998, dir. Tamara Jenkins) ★★★★
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937, dir. David Hand) ★★★★½
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018, dir. Ron Howard) ★★★½
Sorry to Bother You (2018, dir. Boots Riley) ★★★★
Soulmate (2013, dir. Axelle Carolyn) ★★
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017, dir. Jon Watts) ★★★★
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018, dirs. Bob Perschetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman) ★★★★½
A Star is Born (2018, dir. Bradley Cooper) ★★★★
Star Wars Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017, dir. Rian Johnson) ★★★★½
Step (2017, dir. Amanda Lipitz) ★★★½
Still Walking (2008, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) ★★★★★
Suicide Squad (2016, dir. David Ayer) ★★½
Sullivan’s Travels (1941, dir. Preston Sturges) ★★★½
Suspiria (1977, dir. Dario Argento) ★★★★½
Suspiria (2018, dir. Luca Guadagnino) ★★★★½
The Sword in the Stone (1963, dir. Wolfgang Reitherman) ★★★
Take Your Pills (2018, dir. Alison Klayman) ★★★½
The Tale (2018, dir. Jennifer Fox) ★★★★½
Tales of Terror (1962, dir. Roger Corman) ★★★★
Talladega Nights (2006, dir. Adam McKay) ★★★½
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies! (2018, dir. Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Mitchell) ★★★½
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993, dir. Stuart Gillard) ★★
Tenenbrae (1982, dir. Dario Argento) ★★★½
Terms of Endearment (1983, dir. James L. Brooks) ★★★★½
They Live By Night (1948, dir. Nicholas Ray) ★★★
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018, dir. Peter Jackson) ★★★★
The Thing (1982, dir. John Carpenter) ★★★★½
Thor: Ragnarok (2017, dir Taika Waititi) ★★★★
Thoroughbreds (2018, dir. Cory Finley) ★★★½
Titanic (1997, dir. James Cameron) ★★★½
To Be or Not To Be (1942, dir. Ernst Lubitsch) ★★★★★
Tokyo Drifter (1966, dir. Seijun Suzuki) ★★★★
Tom Jones (1963, dir. Tony Richardson) ★★★★
Tomb Raider (2018, dir. Roar Uthaug) ★★★½
Tower of London (1962, dir. Roger Corman) ★★★★
Turner & Hooch (1989, dir. Roger Spottiswoode) ★★½
Twice-Told Tales (1963, dir. Sidney Salkow) ★★★
The Two Escobars (2010, dir. Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist) ★★★★
The Uninvited (1944, dir. Lewis Allen) ★★★★
Unforgettable (2017, dir. Denise De Novi) ★★
Unsane (2018, dir. Steven Soderbergh) ★★★½
Vagabond (1985, dir. Agnés Varda) ★★★★★
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017, dir. Luc Besson) ★★★★
Voyeur (2017, dirs. Miles Kane & Josh Koury) ★★★
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005, dirs. Steve Box and Nick Park) ★★★★★
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017, dir. Matt Reeves) ★★★★
The Way of the Dragon (1972, dir. Bruce Lee) ★★★
Wendy & Lucy (2008, dir. Kelly Reichardt) ★★★★½
Widows (2018, dir. Steve McQueen) ★★★★½
Wind River (2017, dir. Taylor Sheridan) ★★★★½
Wings (1927, dir. William A. Wellman) ★★★★
A Woman, A Part (2016, dir. Elisabeth Subrin) ★★
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018, dir. Morgan Neville) ★★★★½
Wonder Woman (2017, dir. Patty Jenkins) ★★★★½
A Wrinkle In Time (2018, dir. Ava DuVernay) ★★½
XX (2017, dirs. Jovanka Vuckovic, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, Roxanne Benjamin) ★★
You Can’t Take It With You (1938, dir. Frank Capra) ★★★
You Were Never Really Here (2018, dir. Lynne Ramsey) ★★★★
Your Name (2016, dir. Makoto Shinkai) ★★★★
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