Recently Watched
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| 2026-08-28 | Mysteries of Lisbon | 3 | — | It was incredibly long, but each of the revealed stories had another mystery inside and it was fun trying to keep track. Never bored | List |
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| 2026-08-20 | Dancer in the Dark | 1 | Lars von Trier’s musical drama follows Selma, a Czech immigrant in 1960s America who is going blind while saving money to prevent her son inheriting the same condition. After a desperate act upends her life, she retreats increasingly into imagined musical numbers as events become brutally tragic. | I felt some empathy early for her going blind but I think Bjork's acting in this amplified all of the pieces that I didn't like about the film | List |
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| 2026-08-07 | Hunger | 2 | Inside Belfast's Maze Prison, IRA prisoner Bobby Sands joins the 1981 hunger strike after years of brutal prison protest, pushing his body toward death in pursuit of political-prisoner status. | Very good look at the hunger strike although I thought it didn't quite reach the peak emotional heft that it might have | List |
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| 2026-08-01 | Trouble Every Day | 1 | Two people afflicted by an uncontrollable compulsion for violent, cannibalistic sex circle one another in Paris while their partners desperately try to contain the consequences. | It wasn't bad but it was pretty boring | List |
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| 2026-07-24 | Irreversible | 2 | A brutal rape and its violent aftermath are shown in reverse chronological order, gradually revealing the ordinary intimacy and small choices that preceded the night's catastrophe. | Very hard to rate. It was incredibly brutal and difficult to watch, but it did feel like there was a lot there to be worthy | List |
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| 2026-07-11 | Memento | 3 | A man unable to form new memories uses Polaroids, notes and tattoos to hunt his wife's killer, while the film's reverse structure gradually exposes how easily he can manipulate—and be manipulated by—his own system. | Great concept well executed | List |
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| 2026-07-05 | Shaun of the Dead | 3 | An aimless London shop worker decides a zombie apocalypse is the ideal moment to rescue his mother, reconcile with his girlfriend and hole up with everyone at the Winchester pub. | Enjoyable, good dialog and little subtle bits to appreciate | List |
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| 2026-06-26 | Grizzly Man | 2 | Documentarian Werner Herzog examines Timothy Treadwell, who spent summers living among wild Alaskan grizzlies until he and his girlfriend were killed by one of the bears. | Very cool nature stuff interspersed between the story of what was a truly deranged man meeting his inevitable conclusion | List |
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| 2026-06-19 | 35 Shots of Rum | 1 | A widowed Paris train driver and his devoted adult daughter live in quiet intimacy until relationships with neighbours force them to confront her eventual independence. | I understood roughly what they were trying to show but ultimately left me pretty bored | List |
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| 2026-05-22 | Code Unknown | 1 | A chance encounter on a Paris street links several loosely connected lives, exploring miscommunication, immigration, alienation and the difficulty of truly understanding other people. | Some interesting bits about the experience of refugees but overall didn't do much for me | List |
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| 2026-05-15 | Margaret | 2 | A New York teenager who inadvertently contributes to a fatal bus accident becomes consumed by guilt and by an increasingly obsessive attempt to hold the driver accountable. | Very long. Characters intentionally hard to empathise with, but a decent illustration of clash of idealistic views with the real world | List |
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| 2026-05-01 | Petite Maman | 2 | After her grandmother dies, an eight-year-old girl exploring the woods near her mother's childhood home meets another girl who is mysteriously her mother at the same age. | Low-key enjoyable and fun to realise what was going on | List |
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| 2026-04-25 | Persepolis | 3 | Marjane Satrapi's animated autobiography follows her childhood during the Iranian Revolution, adolescence in Europe and conflicted return to an increasingly repressive Iran. | Cool story, bits of humour, lots of emotions | List |
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| 2026-04-03 | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | 2 | Fading TV cowboy Rick Dalton and his stuntman Cliff Booth navigate late-1960s Hollywood as the Manson family moves toward the house next door occupied by Sharon Tate. | Enjoyable, there were likely an awful lot of references that I didn't get though | Top 100 list |
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| 2026-03-27 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | 2 | Teenager Adèle falls intensely in love with blue-haired art student Emma, but their long relationship eventually fractures as their ambitions and worlds diverge. | Interesting and compelling in parts, and relatable in a lot of ways, but incredibly long | Film list |
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Top Rated
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| 2026-01-27 | The Pianist | 4 | Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman survives the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto and years hiding alone in the ruined city, eventually receiving unexpected help from a German officer. | Powerful. Gripping. | — |
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| 2026-08-28 | Mysteries of Lisbon | 3 | — | It was incredibly long, but each of the revealed stories had another mystery inside and it was fun trying to keep track. Never bored | List |
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| 2026-07-11 | Memento | 3 | A man unable to form new memories uses Polaroids, notes and tattoos to hunt his wife's killer, while the film's reverse structure gradually exposes how easily he can manipulate—and be manipulated by—his own system. | Great concept well executed | List |
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| 2026-07-05 | Shaun of the Dead | 3 | An aimless London shop worker decides a zombie apocalypse is the ideal moment to rescue his mother, reconcile with his girlfriend and hole up with everyone at the Winchester pub. | Enjoyable, good dialog and little subtle bits to appreciate | List |
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| 2026-04-25 | Persepolis | 3 | Marjane Satrapi's animated autobiography follows her childhood during the Iranian Revolution, adolescence in Europe and conflicted return to an increasingly repressive Iran. | Cool story, bits of humour, lots of emotions | List |
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| 2026-01-03 | The Return | 3 | In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. | this was intense, probably closer to a 3.5 for me. "Pointless" in some senses but felt worthy | — |
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Bottom Rated
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| 2026-02-18 | Meek's Cutoff | 1 | Three settler families crossing the Oregon desert begin doubting their boastful guide as water runs low, eventually placing their hopes in a Native American man they have captured. | Critically acclaimed. In theory I can see why (female viewpoint in a Western setting) but it was hard to find much of interest in it | Top 100 |
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| 2026-02-26 | Cemetery of Splendor | 1 | Soldiers afflicted by a mysterious sleeping sickness are cared for in a makeshift Thai clinic, where one volunteer develops a dreamlike connection with a sleeping soldier and the area's buried past. | I didn't really get anything out of it. We ended up aborting 69% through | Top 100 list |
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| 2026-05-22 | Code Unknown | 1 | A chance encounter on a Paris street links several loosely connected lives, exploring miscommunication, immigration, alienation and the difficulty of truly understanding other people. | Some interesting bits about the experience of refugees but overall didn't do much for me | List |
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| 2026-06-19 | 35 Shots of Rum | 1 | A widowed Paris train driver and his devoted adult daughter live in quiet intimacy until relationships with neighbours force them to confront her eventual independence. | I understood roughly what they were trying to show but ultimately left me pretty bored | List |
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| 2026-08-01 | Trouble Every Day | 1 | Two people afflicted by an uncontrollable compulsion for violent, cannibalistic sex circle one another in Paris while their partners desperately try to contain the consequences. | It wasn't bad but it was pretty boring | List |
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| 2026-08-20 | Dancer in the Dark | 1 | Lars von Trier’s musical drama follows Selma, a Czech immigrant in 1960s America who is going blind while saving money to prevent her son inheriting the same condition. After a desperate act upends her life, she retreats increasingly into imagined musical numbers as events become brutally tragic. | I felt some empathy early for her going blind but I think Bjork's acting in this amplified all of the pieces that I didn't like about the film | List |
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| 2025-12-14 | The Host | 2 | A dysfunctional Seoul family tries to rescue a young girl abducted by a mutated monster living in the Han River while government authorities prove secretive and inept. | Amusing but I didn't get a ton from it | — |
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| 2026-02-11 | A History of Violence | 2 | A mild-mannered small-town diner owner kills two robbers with startling skill, drawing gangsters who claim he is really a former Philadelphia mob killer. | Good arc; from not being sure what was really true early all the way through resolving all of the history intermingled with how that jives with ongoing family relationship | — |
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| 2026-03-11 | Let the Right One In | 2 | A lonely bullied Swedish boy befriends Eli, a strange child next door who turns out to be an ageless vampire dependent on human blood. | Interesting, didn't blow me away though | Top 100 |
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| 2026-03-20 | Tabu | 2 | A dying elderly Lisbon woman sends her neighbour searching for a mysterious man from her past, leading to the story of a passionate and disastrous affair in colonial Africa decades earlier. | Cool story, interestingly told | List |
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