Movies

When I grew up my favourite movie was Dr. Strangelove. I have since abandoned the idea of a favourite movie. Instead, I have movies that stay with me for a while, and of course there are movies I could watch seemingly endlessly without getting tired. Those tend to change fairly frequently, partly since I watch so many movies. And then there are “great” movies, which are not necessarily favourite films. Sometimes I think a movie is great but I have no desire to watch it again.

I have been writing reviews since my early 20s but probably didn’t start consistently writing reviews until my mid 20s. Most of those I wrote on zip.ca, which has unfortunately been shut down, and we’ve lost all the data, including many (though not all) of the reviews I wrote on that site. I saved some, the rest I have tried to guess at. Most of the reviews I have written in the last decade or so have also been on my blog. They are collected here by year of theatrical or streaming release. The seriousness of the review likely depends both upon my age when I wrote it and my mood at the time.

Here are my movie reviews by year of release to theatres or, in terms of recent movies, directly to streaming in some cases:

202420232022:
1. Holy Spider
2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
3. Glass Onion
4. The Batman
5. Triangle of Sadness
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. R.M.N.
8. The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist [Untold]
9. White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie and Fitch
10. Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard
2021:
1. Taming the Garden
2. Bo Burham: Inside
3. Huda’s Salon
4. Dirty Tricks
5. Attica
6. Arthur Rambo
7. Set!
8. Zalava
9. Hold Your Fire
10. Dead Man’s Switch
2020:
1. Enemies of the State
2. 76 Days
3. Palm Springs
4. Made You Look
5. The Courier
6. The Trial of the Chicago 7
7. Nuevo Orden
8. The Old Guard
9. The New Corporation
10. Blithe Spirit
2019:
1. Knives Out
1. Workforce
3. Incitement
4. Parasite
5. 1917
6. Citizen K
7. Clemency
8. Booksmart
9. The Guardian of Memory
10. 63 Up
2018:
1. Free Solo
2. The Realm
3. McQueen
4. Museo
5. The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
6. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
7. Support the Girls
8. Game Night
9. Black Panther
10. Screwball
2017:
1. The Death of Stalin
2. The Dawn Wall
3. One of Us
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. The Big Sick
6. I Tonya
7. Wind River
8. Dunkirk
9. Logan Lucky
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming
2016:
1. Sour Grapes
2. OJ: Made in America
3. Command and Control
4. ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail
5. Hell or High Water
6. Arrival
7. The Witness
8. Christine
9. The City of Tiny Lights
10. Chasing Asylum
2015:
1. The Big Short
2. Anomalisa
2. Spotlight
4. Best of Enemies
5. What Happened, Miss Simone?
6. Green Room
7. Cartel Land
8. Bridge of Spies
9. Thought Crimes
10. Bleak Street
2014:
1. Boyhood
2. 99 Homes
3. Birdman
4. Citizenfour
5. Virunga
6. En chance til
7. While We’re Young
8. The 50 Year Argument
9. Night Crawler
10. War of Lies
2013:
1. Blue Ruin
2. Gravity
2. 12 Years a Slave
2. Under the Skin
5. Bastards
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. Only Lovers Left Alive
8. American Hustle
9. Borgman
10. Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus
2012:
1. The Act of Killing
2. The Cabin in the Woods
3. Tabu
4. Stories We Tell
5. Amour
6. Barbara
7. Arbitrage
8. Room 237
9. Blancanieves
10. Argo
2011:
1. Martha Marcy May Marlene
1. Shame
3. A Separation
4. Fatherland
5. Margin Call
6. How to Die in Oregon
7. Into the Abyss
8. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
9. Last Call at the Oasis
10. The Descendants
2010:
1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
1. Incendies
3. Inside Job
4. Winter’s Bone
5. Inception
6. The Social Network
7. Shutter Island
8. The Arbor
9. Blue Valentine
10. The Poll Diaries
2009:
1. The White Ribbon
2. In the Loop
3. The Secret in Their Eyes
4. The Day God Walked Away
5. Moon
6. Army of Crime
7. Adrift
8. The Art of the Steal
9. Ajami
10. Tales of the Golden Age
2008:
1. Hunger
2. The Dark Knight*
3. Sauna
4. The Wrestler
5. Burn After Reading
6. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
7. Let the Right One In
8. Standard Operating Procedure
9. The Class
10. Food, Inc.
2007:
1. Grindhouse
1. No Country for Old Men
1. Zodiac
4. Terror’s Advocate
5. My Winnipeg
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
7. There Will Be Blood
8. No End in Sight
9. Shotgun Stories
10. The Visitor
2006:
1. Lake of Fire
2. Little Children
3. The Lives of Others
4. Pan’s Labyrinth
5. A Scanner Darkly
6. Reprise
7. The Departed
8. Blindsight
9. Children of Men
10. The Bridge
2005:
1. Sin City
1. Syriana
3. Grizzly Man
4. Brick
4. Cache
6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
7. Shooting Dogs
8. Paradise Now
9. The War Within
10. Jarhead
2004:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1. Team America: World Police
3. Kill Bill Vol. 2
4. Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
5. Million Dollar Baby
6. Downfall
7. Incident at Loch Ness
8. Palindromes
9. The Sea Inside
10. Prime
2003:
1. Capturing Friedmans
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1
3. Mystic River
4. Best of Youth
5. American Splendor
6. Elephant
7. Time of the Wolf
8. Cowards Bend the Knee
8. The Fog of War
10. Lost in Translation
2002:
1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. City of God
3. Adaptation
4. Bloody Sunday
5. Dark Side of the Moon
5. Stevie
7. Spellbound
8. About Schmidt
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. The Pianist
2001:
1. In Praise of Love
2. In the Bedroom
3. Startup.com
4. Mulholland Drive
5. The Man Who Wasn’t There
6. Atanjuat: the Fast Runner
7. Amelie
8. No Man’s Land
9. The Believer
10. Gosford Park
2000:
1. Memento
2. Code Unknown
3. Dark Days
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. With a Friend Like Harry
6. Requiem for a Dream
7. Thirteen Days
8. State and Main
9. Sexy Beast
10. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
1999:
1. The Blair Witch Project
2. Being John Malkovich
2. Herod’s Law
4. American Beauty
4. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
6. Election
7. Cradle Will Rock
8. Magnolia
9. Titus
10. The Virgin Suicides
1998:
1. The Thin Red Line
2. The Big Lebowski
2. The General
2. Rushmore
2. SLC Punk!
6. Dark City
7. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
8. American History X
9. A Simple Plan
10. Following
1997:
1. Eve’s Bayou
1. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
1. Little Dieter Needs to Fly
4. Lost Highway
5. Hands on a Hard Body
6. Fireworks
7. Grosse Pointe Blank
8. Boogie Nights
9. L.A. Confidential
10. The Game
1996:
1. Fargo
2. Paradise Lost
3. Waiting for Guffman
4. Citizen Ruth
5. Hamlet
6. Hard Core Logo
7. When We Were Kings
8. Trainspotting
9. Scream
10. From Dusk Till Dawn
1995:
1. Dead Man
2. Se7en
3. The Usual Suspects
4. The City of Lost Children
5. Kicking and Screaming
5. Safe
5. Twelve Monkeys
8. Richard III
9. Before Sunrise
10. Forgotten Silver
1994:
1. Hoop Dreams
1. Pulp Fiction
1. Three Colours: Red
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Ed Wood
6. Once We Were Warriors
7. Crumb
8. Satantango
9. Faust
10. Shallow Grave
1993:
1. Three Colours: Blue
2. The Age of Innocence
3. Farewell My Concubine
3. Short Cuts
5. Naked
6. Gettysburg
7. Alferd Packer [Cannibal]: The Musical
8. In the Name of the Father
9. Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould
10. The Blue Kite

1992:
1. The Player
2. Bob Roberts
2. Unforgiven
4. Dead Alive
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Brother’s Keeper
6. Man Bites Dog
8. Glengarry Glen Ross
9. The Crying Game
10. Leolo
1991:
1. Slacker
2. Delicatessen
3. Barton Fink
4. Naked Lunch
5. Kafka
6. Daughters of the Dust
7. Boyz N the Hood
8. My Own Private Idaho
9. Archangel
10. The Silence of the Lambs
1990:
1. Goodfellas
2. Hidden Agenda
3. After Dark, My Sweet
4. Miller’s Crossing
5. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
6. White Hunter, Black Heart
7. Presumed Innocent
8. Wild at Heart
9. Gremlins 2
10. Total Recall
1989:
1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
1. Do the Right Thing
3. Drugstore Cowboy
3. Henry V
5. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
6. Meet the Feebles
7. Born on the Fourth of July
8. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
9. Batman
10. Chameleon Street
1988:
1. Dead Ringers
2. Dekalog
3. Grave of the Fireflies
3. The Thin Blue Line
5. Alice
6. Die Hard
7. Scrooged
8. The Vanishing
9. Mississippi Burning
10. A Fish Called Wanda
1987:
1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Cobra Verde
3. Raising Arizona
4. Au revoir les enfants
5. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
6. Hope and Glory
7. The Princess Bride
8. House of Games
9. The Last Emperor
10. Angel Heart
1986:
1. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
2. Blue Velvet
2. Platoon
4. The Mosquito Coast
5. The Fly
6. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
7. Salvador
8. Hannah and Her Sisters
9. April Fool’s Day
10. Stand By Me
1985:
1. Shoah
2. Brazil
2. Ran
4. Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters
5. Witness
6. Come and See
7. Return of the Living Dead
8. Prizzi’s Honor
9. Back to the Future
10. Kiss of the Spider Woman
1984:
1. This is Spinal Tap
2. The Killing Fields
3. Once Upon a Time in America
4. Repo Man
5. Stop Making Sense
6. Blood Simple
7. Ghostbusters
8. The Company of Wolves
9. Gremlins
10. Paris, Texas
1983:
1. Man of Flowers
2. Sans Soleil
3. A Christmas Story
4. To Our Loves
4. El Norte
6. The Meaning of Life
7. The Right Stuff
8. Zelig
9. The Day After
10. Local Hero
1982:
1. Fitzcaraldo
2. Missing
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Burden of Dreams
5. Veronika Voss
6. The Thing
7. Koayaanisqatsi
8. Austeria
9. The Dark Crystal
10. The Wrath of Kahn
1981:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Body Heat
3. Lola
4. My Dinner with Andre
5. An American Werewolf in London
6. Circle of Deceit
7. The Road Warrior
8. Diva
9. The Evil Dead
10. The Postman Always Rings Twice
1980:
1. Berlin Alexanderplatz
2. The Shining
3. Atlantic City
3. Raging Bull
5. The Long Good Friday
6. Airplane!
7. The Elephant Man
8. Lightning Over Water
9. Kagemusha
10. The Big Red One
1979:
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Alien
3. Life of Brian
4. Saint Jack
5. Real Life
6. The Marriage of Maria Braun
7. Manhattan
8. Nosferatu: The Vampyre
9. Mad Max
10. Being There
1978:
1. Days of Heaven
2. A Wedding
3. The Last Waltz
4. In a Year of 13 Moons
5. Gates of Heaven
6. Autumn Sonata
7. The Deer Hunter
8. Halloween
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
10. Interiors
1977:
1. The Last Wave
2. Cross of Iron
3. Eraserhead
4. Annie Hall
5. Pumping Iron
6. 21 Up
7. Slapshot
8. The American Friend
9. The Last Remake of Beau Geste
10. Equus
1976:
1. The Battle of Chile Part 2
1. The Missouri Breaks
1. Network
4. All the President’s Men
5. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
6. Taxi Driver
7. Face to Face
8. Murder by Death
9. The Shootist
10. Marathon Man
1975:
1. The Battle of Chile
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1. Nashville
4. The Passenger
5. Dog Day Afternoon
6. Attila ’74
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
8. Night Moves
9. Barry Lyndon
10. Jaws
1974:
1. Chinatown
2. Effi Briest
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Blazing Saddles
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. The Conversation
6. The Parallax View
8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
9. General Idi Ami Dada
10. Thieves Like Us
1973:
1. The Exorcist
2. The Long Goodbye
2. The Sting
4. The Last of Sheila
5. Badlands
6. Mean Streets
7. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
8. O Lucky Man!
9. Charley Varrick
10. Day for Night
1972:
1. Aguirre: the Wrath of God
2. Last Tango in Paris
3. The Godfather
4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
5. Deliverance
6. The Candidate
7. The Last House on the Left
8. Solaris
9. Cries and Whispers
10. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1971:
1. The French Connection
2. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Last Picture Show
4. Straw Dogs
5. Punishment Park
6. Acadia Acadia?!?
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
8. Land of Silence and Darkness
9. Harold and Maude
10. Dirty Harry
1970:
1. M.A.S.H.
2. The Confession
3. The Butcher
4. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
5. The Conformist
6. The Red Circle
7. Woodstock
8. Listening to You
9. Little Big Man
10. 7 Plus Seven
1969:
1. The Sorrow and the Pity
2. The Wild Bunch
2. Z
4. Army of Shadows
5. Double Suicide
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. This Man Must Die
8. Easy Rider
9. Midnight Cowboy
10. Alice’s Restaurant
1968:
1. Once Upon a Time in the West
1. 2001
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Bullit
4. Rosemary’s Baby
6. Fano and Lis
7. The Producers
8. The Party
9. Shame
10. Targets
1967:
1. The Graduate
1. Marat/Sade
3. Weekend
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. Don’t Look Back
6. Point Blank
7. Samurai Rebellion
8. In Cold Blood
9. Cool Hand Luke
10. Drifting Upstream
1966:
1. Blowup
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Closely Watched Trains
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. Seconds
6. Andrei Rublev
7. Au hasard Balthazar
8. The Shooting
9. Le Douxieme Souffle
10. The Chase
1965:
1. Alphaville
1. The Shop on Main Street
3. War and Peace
4. The War Game
5. Bunny Lake is Missing
6. The Loved One
7. The Collector
8. For a Few Dollars More
9. Chimes at Midnight
10. Major Dundee
1964:
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Woman in the Dunes
3. The Pawnbroker
4. Bande a Part
5. Culloden
6. A Shot in the Dark
7. Seven Days in May
8. A Fistful of Dollars
9. Masque of the Red Death
10. Fail-Safe
1963:
1. Winter Light
2. High and Low
3. Black Sabbath
4. The Pink Panther
5. For Those Who Will Follow
6. The Great Escape
7. Hud
8. The Leopard
9. America, America
10. From Russia with Love
1962:
1. Harakiri
2. The Manchurian Candidate
3. Jules et Jim
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Ride of the High Country
6. Cleo de 5 a 7
7. Vivre sa vie
8. Mafioso
9. The Longest Day
10. The Loneliness of the Long Distance of Runner
1961:
1. Yojimbo
2. Last Year at Marienbad
3. Chronicle of a Summer
4. Judgment at Nuremberg
5. Il Posto
6. The Human Condition III
7. Purple Noon
8. The Hustler
9. The Misfits
10. The Pit and the Pendulum
1960:
1. Psycho
2. The Bad Sleep Well
3. Breathless
4. The Iceman Cometh
5. The Entertainment
6. L’Avventura
7. Classe tous risques
8. La Dolce Vita
9. The Magnificent Seven
10. Village of the Damned
1959:
1. Hiroshima Mon Amour
2. North by Northwest
3. Anatomy of a Murder
4. Shadows
5. The 400 Blows
6. The Human Condition Parts 1 and 2
8. Eyes Without a Face
9. Floating Weeds
10. Compulsion
1958:
1. Elevator to the Gallows
1. Ashes and Diamonds
1. Touch of Evil
1. Vertigo
5. Ballad of Narayama
6. The Fly
7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
8. Mon Oncle
9. Run Silent, Run Deep
10. The Big Deal on Madonna Street
1957:
1. Paths of Glory
1. The Seventh Seal
3. Kanal
4. A Bridge on the River Kwai
5. The Sweet Smell of Success
6. Nights of Cabiria
7. 3:10 to Yuma
8. 12 Angry Men
9. Pyasa
10. The Enemy Below
1956:
1. Bob le flambeur
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. The Searchers
4. Aparajito
5. The Killing
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much
7. The Man Who Never Was
8. Anastasia
9. Written on the Wind
10. Giant
1955:
1. Night and Fog
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Bad Day at Black Rock
3. Kiss Me Deadly
5. Pather Panchali
6. Les Diaboliques
7. Rebel Without a Cause
8. Rififi
9. Smiles of a Summer Night
10. Ordet
1954:
1. Seven Samurai
2. On the Waterfront
3. Sansho the Bailiff
4. La Strada
5. Rear Window
6. A Story from Chickamatsu
7. The Caine Mutiny
8. Dial M for Murder
9. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
10. Track of the Cat
1953:
1. The Earrings of Madame de…
1. The Wages of Fear
3. Beat the Devil
4. Ugetsu
5. Tokyo Story
6. The Big Heat
7. From Here to Eternity
8. Stalag 17
9. Shane
10. The Band Wagon
1952:
1. High Noon
1. Ikiru
3. Forbidden Games
4. The Narrow Margin
5. Le plaisir
6. Clash by Night
7. Viva Zapata
8. The Bad and the Beautiful
9. Singin’ in the Rain
1951:
1. Ace in the Hole
2. A Place in the Sun
3. The Steel Helmet
4. Strangers on a Train
5. A Streetcar Named Desire
6. Scrooge
7. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
8. Awaara
9. The Red Badge of Courage
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still
1950:
1. Rashomon
2. Sunset Blvd.
3. The Asphalt Jungle
4. DOA
5. Night and the City
6. Panic in the Streets
7. In a Lonely Place
8. La Ronde
9. Rio Grande
10. Gun Crazy
1949:
1. Kind Hearts and Coronets
1. The Third Man
3. Criss Cross
4. White Heat
5. The Heiress
6. All the King’s Men
7. Adam’s Rib
8. Sands of Iwo Jima
9. Battleground
10. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1948:
1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. Hamlet
3. Rope
4. The Big Clock
5. Red River
6. Bicycle Thieves
7. Force of Evil
8. Key Largo
9. Sorry, Wrong Number
10. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1947:
1. Out of the Past
2. Crossfire
2. The Lady from Shanghai
4. Lady in the Lake
5. Monsieur Verdoux
6. Born to Kill
7. Kiss of Death
8. Gentlemen’s Agreement
9. Brute Force
10. The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
1946:
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. The Killers
3. The Best Years of Our Lives
4. The Blue Dahlia
5. Gilda
6. Great Expectations
7. My Darling Clementine
8. The Postman Always Rings Twice
9. It’s a Wonderful Life
10. Notorious
1945:
1. The Lost Weekend
1. Rome, Open City
3. The Children of Paradise
4. Brief Encounter
5. Detour
6. Spellbound
7. The Spiral Staircase
8. Leave Her Heaven
9. The Life and Death and Colonel Blimp
10. Mildred Pierce
1944:
1. Double Indemnity
2. Henry V
3. Murder My Sweet
4. Gaslight
5. Laura
6. Hail the Conquering Hero
7. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
8. The Scarlet Claw
9. The Fighting Seabees
10. To Have and Have Not
1943:
1. The Raven
2. The Ox-Bow Incident
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. Heaven Can Wait
5. Cabin in the Sky
6. I Walked with a Zombie
7. Gung-Ho
1942:
1. Casablanca
2. Native Land
3. Saboteur
4. Cat People
5. This Gun for Hire
6. The Pride of the Yankees
7. Mrs. Miniver
8. Flying Tigers
9. Yankee Doodle Dandy
1941:
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Peer Gynt
4. Suspicion
5. The Lady Eve
6. Sergeant York
7. How Green Was My Valley
8. I Wake Up Screaming
9. Ball of Fire
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide
1940:
1. Fantasia
2. His Girl Friday
3. Rebecca
4. Foreign Correspondent
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. The Great Dictator
7. The Bank Dick
8. The Philadelphia Story
9. Pinnocchio
10. The Shop Around the Corner
1939:
1. Stagecoach
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Destry Rides Again
5. Drums Along the Mohawk
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. Gunga Din
8. Jesse James
9. Gone with the Wind
10. Dark Victory
1938:
1. Olympia
2. The Lady Vanishes
3. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
4. The Dawn Patrol
5. Angels with Dirty Faces
6. The Adventures of Robin Hood
7. Bringing Up Baby
8. Pygmalion
1937:
1. Grand Illusion
2. Un Carnet de bal
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4. The Awful Truth
5. Stage Door
6. Stella Dallas
7. Black Legion
8. Make Way for Tomorrow
9. Lost Horizon
1936:
1. Modern Times
2. Mayerling
3. Dodsworth
4. Satan Met a Lady
5. Juggernaut
6. Camille
7. Reefer Madness
1935:
1. Triumph of the Will
2. The Bride of Frankenstein
3. The 39 Steps
4. A Night at Opera
5. Mutiny on the Bounty
6. The Gold Diggers of 1935
7. Sylvia Scarlett
8. Alice Adams
1934:
1. The Black Cat
2. L’Atlante
3. The Thin Man
4. It Happened One Night
5. The House of Mystery
1933:
1. Duck Soup
2. The Invisible Man
2. King Kong
4. Baby Face
5. Queen Christina
1932:
1. Vampyr
2. Freaks
3. I Am a Fugitive From the Chain Gang
4. Scarface
5. The Blue Light
6. The Mummy
7. Number Seventeen
8. Grant Hotel
9. Red-Headed Woman
1931:
1. M
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
3. The Public Enemy
4. Frankenstein
5. City Lights
6. A Nous a la Liberte
7. Dracula
8. The Maltese Falcon
9. Waterloo Bridge
10. Little Caesar
1930:
1. All Quiet on the Western Front
2. L’age d’or
3. The Blue Angel
4. Animals Crackers
1929:
1. Man with a Camera
2. Arsenal
3. The Box of Pandora
4. Blackmail
1928:
1. The Last Command
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc
3. The Circus
4. The Fall of the House of Usher
5. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
6. The Man Who Laughs
7. Sadie Thompson
1927:
1. Metropolis
2. Sunrise
3. It
4. The Jazz Singer
1926:
1. The General
2. Faust
1925:
1. The Battleship Potemkin
2. The Gold Rush
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Beggar on Horseback
1924:
1. The Last Laugh
2. The Navigator
3. Die Niebelungen: Siegfried
Plus shorts!
1923:
1. “Le retour a la raison”
2. “The Love Nest”
1922:
1. Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
2. Nanook of the North
1921:
1. The Kid
Shorts:
1. “The Boat”
2. “The High Sign”
3. “The Soul of Cypress”
1920:
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1919:
1. When Clouds Roll By
2. Broken Blossoms
1918:
1. “Triple Trouble”
19171916:
1. “The Rink”
2. “The Floorwalker”
3. “The Pawnshop”
4. “One A.M.”
5. “Police”
1915:
1. The Birth of a Nation
Shorts:
1. “In the Park”
2. “Shanghaied”
3. “A Night Out”
4. “The Tramp”
5. “A Woman”
6. “Work”
1914:
1. Cabiria
Shorts:
1. “Cruel, Cruel Love”
2. “Kid Auto Races at Venice”
3. “A Film Johnnie”
1913:
1. “Suspense”
2. “The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family”
1912:
1. “Conquest of the Pole”
2. “Knight of the Snow”
3. “Cinderella”
1911:
1. “Baron Munchausen’s Dream”
1910:
1. “The House with Closed Shutters”
2. “Whimsical Illusions”
1909:
1. “The Diabolic Tenant”
1908:
1. “The Dream of an Opium Fiend”
2. “Long Distance Wireless Photography”
3. “The Genii of Fire”
4. “Grandmother’s Story”
5. “The Woes of Roller Skates”
6. “The New Lord of the Village”
7. “Not Guilty”
8. “In the Barber Shop”
9. “The Thieving Hand”
10. “The Prophets of Thebes”
1907:
1. “Tunneling the English Channel”
2. “Good Glue Sticks”
3. “The Prophetess of Thebes”
4. “The Skipping Cheese”
5. “The Knight of Black Art”
6. “Rogues’ Tricks”
7. “The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and Moon”
8. “Sightseeing Through Whiskey”
9. “In the Bogie Man’s Cave”
10. “Justinian’s Human Torches”
1906:
1. “Dream of a Rarebit Fiend”
2. “The Merry Frolics of Satan”
3. “A Mix-Up at the Gallery”
4. “The Hilarious Posters”
5. “A Roadside Inn”
6. “A Desperate Crime”
7. “The Witch”
8. “The Impossible Convicts”
9. “The Tramp and the Mattress Makers”
10. “Soap Bubbles”
1905:
1. “An Adventurous Automobile Trip”
1. “The Palace of Arabian Nights”
3. “Rip’s Dream”
4. “The Scheming Gambler’s Paradise”
5. “Coney Island at Night”
6. “A Crazy Composer”
7. “The Black Imp”
8. “New York Subway”
9. “The Lilliputian Minuet”
10. “Panorama, from the Times Building, New York”
1904:
1. “An Impossible Voyage”
2. “The Mermaid”
3. “The Terrible Turkish Executioner”
4. “A Moonlight Serenade”
5. “The Firefall”
6. “A Miracle Under the Inquisition”
7. “The Untamable Whiskers”
8. “The Imperceptible Transmutations”
9. “Tit for Tat”
10. “The Clock Maker’s Dream”
1903:
1. “Kingdom of Fairies”
2. “The Melomaniac”
3. “The Infernal Cauldron”
4. “The Monster”
5. “The Ballet Master’s Dream”
6. “Jack Jaggs and Dum Dum”
7. “The Enchanted Well”
8. “The Damnation of Faust”
9. “The Magic Lantern”
10. “Jupiter’s Thunderballs”
1902:
1. “A Trip to the Moon”
2. “Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants”
3. “The Human Fly”
4. “The Impossible Balancing Feat”
5. “Down the Hudson”
6. “Jack and the Beanstalk”
7. “The Shadow Girl”
8. “The Treasures of Satan”
9. “The Colonel’s Shower Bath”
10. “The Dancing Midget”
1901:
1. “Bluebeard”
2. “The Man wit a Rubber Head”
3. “The Brahmin and the Butterfly”
4. “Extraordinary Illusions”
5. “Captain Nissen Going Through Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls”
6. “Excelsior!”
7. “Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre”
8. “The Magician’s Cavern”
9. “The Dwarf and the Giant”
10. “What is Home Without the Boarder?”
1900:
1. “Joan of Arc”
2. “Davey Jones’ Locker”
3. “The Cook’s Revenge”
4. “Sherlock Holmes Baffled”
5. “Scene from the Elevator Ascending the Eiffel Tower”
6. “Fat and Lean Wrestling Match”
7. “The Rajah’s Dream”
8. “The Magic Book”
9. “The One-Man Band”
10. “Addition and Subtraction”
1899:
1. “The Pillar of Fire”
2. “Cinderella”
3. “The Devil in a Convent”
4. “The Conjurer”
5. “The Mysterious Portrait”
6. “After the Ball”
7. [Series of 1-minute films on the Dreyfus Affair]
8. “The Mysterious Knight”
1898:
1. “The Astronomer’s Dream”
2. “Divers at Work on the Wreck of the “Maine””
3. “The Temptation of Saint Anthony”
4. “The Magician”
5. “The Four Troublesome Heads”
6. “The Famous Box Trick”
7. “Adventures of William Tell”
8. “Panorama from Top of a Moving Train”
1897:
1. “The Bewitched Inn”
2. “The Vanishing Lady”
3. “Between Calais and Dover”
4. “The Surrender of Tournavos”
5. “Card Party”
1896:
1. “The Haunted Castle”
2. “A Nightmare”
3. “A Terrible Night”
1895:
1. “Annabelle Serpentine Dance”
Movies I’ve seen by year of release

Here is a guide to my rating system:

  1. Transcendentally awful – one of the worst movies ever made
  2. Awful – mostly incompetent but not one of the worst movies ever
  3. Bad – incompetent in many ways but with the odd redeeming aspect
  4. Below Average – worse than the average movie of its type, but not terrible
  5. Average – capably made but with nothing special about it (but I also use this for films that are interesting messes)
  6. Above Average – better than the average movie of its genre
  7. Good – worth your time but not one of the best movies of the year
  8. Very Good – definitely worth your time and likely among the best movies of a given year
  9. Great: Near-Perfect or Near-Transcendent – good and important, among the best of the year and the second tier of important movies of a given decade
  10. Perfect and/or Transcendent – one of the great movies of a given decade

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