Some of the movies I've watched recently
To make a great film you need three things — the script, the script, the script.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Bullet Train
2022
Hyperstylized action about a guy who wasn't even supposed to work today
Blade Runner 2049
2017
Deckard is not human
LA 92
2017
Blue Planet II
2017
Planet Earth II
2016
Sound City
2013
A love letter to a music studio
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
Character, plot, and raucous behavior
Jodorowsky's Dune
2013
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
Skyfall
2012
Beautiful, epic
Seven Psychopaths
2012
A meta story about writers stealing their friends' stories
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
A beautiful spy procedural
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
Dark and sad we never received a sequel
Blinky™
2011
TRON: Legacy
2010
Underappreciated sequel with stunning visuals
Inception
2010
The American
2010
The Man from Nowhere
2010
Watchmen
2009
Possibly the director's best film
When You're Strange
2009
Life
2009
Inglourious Basterds
2009
The Dark Knight
2008
Wow, how many times can I see this in the theater this week
Assassination of a High School President
2008
A neo noir highschool coming of age tale
Superbad
2007
The teen movie that can never be made today
The Departed
2006
Probably the greatest remake of all time
The Prestige
2006
Southland Tales
2006
Oddly unique, poorly executed, and timeless
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005
Comedic LA Neo Noir
Brick
2005
A neo noir highschool play
Shaun of the Dead
2004
Epic breakup set in a zombie outbreak
Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth
2004
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003
A loveletter to genre films
Beat the Devil
2002
Mulholland Drive
2001
Dissociative noir
Donnie Darko
2001
High Fidelity
2000
Memento
2000
Snatch
2000
Yeah, I like dogs
State and Main
2000
Great writing and performances
Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly
2000
Office Space
1999
GenX slacker office culture
The Matrix
1999
How to borrow from everyone and yet create something truly original
Fight Club
1999
A gateway drug to modern life critiques
The Green Mile
1999
Dogma
1999
Buddy Christ changed everything
Human Traffic
1999
Dark City
1998
A beautiful neo noir
SLC Punk
1998
The Big Lebowski
1998
Rugs always tie a room together
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
Gattaca
1997
A glimpse at the future
The Fifth Element
1997
Multipass
Jackie Brown
1997
Trainspotting
1996
Mulholland Falls
1996
LA noir nuclear crime thriller
Hackers
1995
RISC is the future
Heat
1995
A masterclass in character, writing, direction, and action sequences
The Usual Suspects
1995
Hard to believe the guy who wrote this made the two worst M:I movies
Ghost in the Shell
1995
An anime classic
Pulp Fiction
1994
Magnum opus
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
Feel-good hit of the summer
Léon: The Professional
1994
Yes, yes, yes
Dumb and Dumber
1994
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
A prequel to the question: who killed laura palmer
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
Wild at Heart
1990
An epic, wild fairytale
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
Die Hard
1988
A Christmas holiday party at Nakatomi Plaza
They Live
1988
Groundbreaking, corny, and 80s AF
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
Coming of age high school hacker
Big Trouble in Little China
1986
The check is in the mail
The Goonies
1985
So long, Astoria
Back to the Future
1985
When this baby hits 88 miles per hour
The Last Starfighter
1984
Greetings, Starfighter
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984
That dinner is one of the worst in cinematic history
Dune
1984
Sometimes we don't deserve nice things
Repo Man
1984
Look at those assholes, ordinary fucking people. I hate 'em.
Return of the Jedi
1983
Firefox
1982
Coldwar caper
Blade Runner
1982
Deckard is human
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Alien
1979
Star Wars
1977
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Monoliths, HAL, and pod bay doors