Notes on film

Here are my complete collection of 1140 film reviews, ranging from long reflections to short quotations from other critics. You can also see my full film diary or follow me on Letterboxd.

Recently added: The Brink of War (2026), Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008), Jesus Camp (2006), When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), Dial M for Murder (1954), Murmur of the Heart (1971), The Doll (1919), The Furious (2026), The Big Cheese (2026), Cookie Queens (2026), Eight Bridges (2026), Valentina (2025), Crystal Cross (2025), When a Witness Recants (2026), Chili Finger (2026).

Recently updated: The Red Hangar (2026), Hen (2026), Primavera (2025), Backrooms (2026), Beat the Lotto (2025), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Roid (2026), Becoming Human (2025), Bucks Harbor (2026), American Doctor (2026), Case 137 (2025), The Stranger (2025), Eephus (2025), The Fast and the Furious (2001), Melania (2026).

(500) Days of Summer
...And Justice for All
The 15:17 to Paris
1917
20 Days in Mariupol
20,000 Species of Bees
2001: A Space Odyssey
25th Hour
3 Women
The 400 Blows
49th Parallel
8 Mile
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
About Dry Grasses
Act One
Adaptation.
Address Unknown
The African Queen
After Hours
Aftersun
Airplane!
Ajoomma
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alien
Alien: Romulus
Alien³
All of Us Strangers
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Colours of the World Are Betw…
All the President's Men
All the Pretty Horses
All We Imagine as Light
Almost Famous
Along Came Polly
Alphaville
Amarcord
American Beauty
American Doctor
American Fiction
The American Friend
American Graffiti
American Pie
American Psycho
American Sniper
An Affair to Remember
Anatomy of a Fall
And the King Said, What a Fantastic M…
Angel's Egg
Angry Annie
The Animal Kingdom
Anora
Antichrist
Any Given Sunday
Aparajito
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now
The Apprentice
April
Aquarius
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Armageddon Time
Arrival
The Assassination of Jesse James by t…
The Assistant
L'Atalante
Atlantic City
Atlantics
Attenberg
Au Hasard Balthazar
Au Revoir les Enfants
Auction
Avalon
Avanti!
Avatar
Avatar: The Way of Water
L'Avventura
The Awful Truth
Babette's Feast
Baby Doe
Baby Face
Backrooms
Bad Seed
The Bad Sleep Well
Badlands
Bait
The Balconettes
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Balloonatic
The Band Wagon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Bar
Baraka
Barbie
Barry Lyndon
Battle in Heaven
Battling Butler
The Beach
The Beast
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beat the Lotto
Beau Is Afraid
Beau Travail
Becoming Human
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Beguiled
La Belle Noiseuse
Beloved
The Best Man
The Best Years of Our Lives
Bewitched
Bhumika
Bicycle Thieves
The Big Cheese
The Big Heat
The Big Red One
The Big Short
The Big Sleep
The Bikeriders
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of …
The Birds
Birth
The Birth of a Nation
Bitter Gold
Bitterbrush
BL Metamorphosis
Black Bag
The Black Cat
Black Girl
Black Hawk Down
Black Narcissus
Blackhat
Blackmail
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049
The Blair Witch Project
The Bling Ring
Blithe Spirit
Blitz
Blow-Up
The Blue Angel
The Blue Caftan
Blue Collar
Blue Jean
The Blue Kite
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Blue Velvet
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
The Blues Brothers
Body Heat
Bones and All
Bonnie and Clyde
The Boondock Saints
Born on the Fourth of July
Bottle Conditioned
Bottle Shock
Bound
The Bourne Identity
Boyhood
Boys Don't Cry
Breach
Breathless
Brick
Brideshead Revisited
A Bridge Too Far
The Bridges of Madison County
Brief Encounter
A Brighter Summer Day
The Brink of War
Brokeback Mountain
Broker
The Brood
The Brutalist
Bucks Harbor
Bulworth
Burn After Reading
But I'm a Cheerleader
Cabaret
Cabiria
Caché
Call Me by Your Name
The Cameraman
A Canterbury Tale
Cape Fear
Captain Phillips
The Card Counter
Carlito's Way
Carrie
Casablanca
Case 137
Casino Royale
Casting JonBenet
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat People
Caught by the Tides
Celluloid Underground
Certain Women
Certified Copy
Challengers
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Child of God
Children of Men
Chili Finger
La Chimera
Chinatown
Chocolat
Chop Shop
Christmas in July
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
The Cider House Rules
Citizen Kane
City Lights
Civil War
A Clockwork Orange
Close
Close Your Eyes
Close-Up
Cloud
Clouds of Sils Maria
Cléo from 5 to 7
Cocktail
Coexistence, My Ass!
Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Mountain
Coldwater Kitchen
Collateral
La Collectionneuse
College
The Collini Case
Color Book
The Color of Money
Come and See
Come See Me in the Good Light
Companion
Conclave
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's…
Contact
Contagion
The Conversation
Cookie Queens
Cool Hand Luke
The Counselor
The Coyote
Crash
Crazy Rich Asians
Creature
Crossing
Crossing Delancey
Croupier
Cruel Intentions
Crystal Cross
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cutter's Way
Céline and Julie Go Boating
La Cérémonie
Daisy Miller
Dangerous Liaisons
Danton
The Dark Knight
Dark Waters
Daughters of the Dust
Dawn of the Dead
Day for Night
The Day of the Jackal
Day of the Outlaw
Days of Heaven
Days of Thunder
Dazed and Confused
The Dead Don't Hurt
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About…
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Death of Stalin
Death Wish
The Deer Hunter
Deliverance
Demolition Man
Demonlover
Departures
Dersu Uzala
Design for Living
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Le…
Detour
The Devil, Probably
Dial M for Murder
Diary of a Country Priest
Die Hard
Diego Maradona
Dirty Harry
The Disaster Artist
Disclosure
A Disturbance in the Force: How the S…
Diva
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End o…
Do the Right Thing
Dogtooth
Dogville
La Dolce Vita
The Doll
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Don't Look Now
Double Indemnity
The Double Life of Véronique
Le Doulos
Dracula
Dragon Inn
The Draughtsman's Contract
Dream Scenario
Drive
Drive My Car
The Driver
Drowning Dry
Duck Soup
The Duellists
Dune
Dune
Dune: Part Two
The Earrings of Madame de...
East of Eden
Easy Living
L'Eclisse
Eephus
Egghead & Twinkie
Eight Bridges
The Eight Mountains
Eighth Grade
Eileen
El Conde
El Mariachi
Election
Elevator to the Gallows
Elizabethtown
Emilia Pérez
Encino Man
The End of the Affair
The End of the Tour
The English Patient
EO
Erin Brockovich
Escape from Alcatraz
The Eternal Daughter
Eureka
Europa '51
Event Horizon
Evergreens
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Evil Does Not Exist
eXistenZ
Eyes Wide Shut
The Fabelmans
A Face in the Crowd
The Fallen Idol
Fallen Leaves
Falling Down
Fancy Dance
Fanny and Alexander
Fantasia
The Farewell
Farinelli
The Fast and the Furious
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Favourite
The Feeling That the Time for Doing S…
Ferrari
The Fiancés
The Fifth Element
Fight Club
First Blood
First Cow
First Reformed
A Fistful of Dollars
Fitzcarraldo
Flags of Our Fathers
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Flight of the Red Balloon
Floating Weeds
The Florida Project
Forbidden Games
Forrest Gump
Franz
Freddy Got Fingered
Fremont
French Cancan
The French Connection
The Freshman
The Friend's House is Here
From Here to Eternity
Fruitvale Station
Fucktoys
Full Metal Jacket
Full Time
Funny Games
Funny Ha Ha
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
The Furious
Gallipoli
Gandhi
Garden State
Gaslight
Gaslight
Gattaca
The General
Gentleman's Agreement
Germany, Year Zero
Germinal
Ghost
Girl, Interrupted
The Girlfriend Experience
Girlfriends
Girls Trip
Gladiator
Gladiator II
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Gleaners and I
Glengarry Glen Ross
Gloria
Go
Go West
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Godland
Godzilla Minus One
The Gold Rush
Gone Girl
Gone to Earth
Gone with the Wind
Good Boy
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good One
Good Will Hunting
Goodbye Solo
GoodFellas
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Graduate
Gran Torino
The Great Dictator
Green Border
The Green Ray
Greenberg
The Grey Zone
Grosse Pointe Blank
Gun Crazy
The Gunfighter
La Haine
The Hairdresser's Husband
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Half Nelson
The Half of It
Hanami
Hanging Gardens
The Happiest Man in the World
Happy as Lazzaro
Happyend
Harakiri
A Hard Day's Night
Hardcore
Harlan County U.S.A.
Harold and Maude
Harper
Heart of Glass
Hearts and Minds
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apo…
Heat
Heaven Can Wait
Heaven's Gate
Hen
A Hidden Life
High Life
High Noon
High School
High Sierra
The High Sign
The Hill of Secrets
Hillbilly Elegy
Hiroshima Mon Amour
A History of Violence
The Hit
Hit Man
Hobson's Choice
The Holdovers
Holiday
Hollywoodgate
Holy Motors
Hoop Dreams
Hot Water
Hotel Mumbai
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Have Sex
Hud
The Hummingbird
Hundreds of Beavers
Hunger
Husbands and Wives
The Hustler
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Know Where I'm Going!
I'm Still Here
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Ice Storm
The Idea of You
Idiocracy
Idyllic
Ikarie XB 1
Ikiru
Il Sorpasso
L'immensità
The Immigrant
Immortal Beloved
In a Lonely Place
In the Heat of the Night
In the Line of Fire
In the Mood for Love
Inception
Indecent Proposal
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the …
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Inland Empire
The Innocents
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Man
Inside Out
The Insider
Insignificance
Intercepted
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Througho…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invention
Irma Vep
The Iron Giant
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Is This Thing On?
Ishtar
It Happened One Night
It Must Be Heaven
It's a Wonderful Life
Ito
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyar…
Janet Planet
Jaws
The Jazz Singer
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce,…
Jesus Camp
JFK
JOINT
Joker
Joker: Folie à Deux
Jour de Fête
Jules and Jim
Juror #2
Kensuke's Kingdom
The Kid
Kids
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Kimi
Kind Hearts and Coronets
King Coal
The King of Comedy
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kiss Me Deadly
Kneecap
Knife in the Water
Knives Out
Kontinental '25
Koyaanisqatsi
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Kreutzer Sonata
Kundun
Kwaidan
L.A. Confidential
Lacombe, Lucien
The Lady Eve
The Lady from Shanghai
Lady Macbeth
A Land Imagined
Last Action Hero
The Last Duel
The Last Laugh
The Last Picture Show
The Last Temptation of Christ
Late Chrysanthemums
Late Fame
Late Night with the Devil
Late Spring
The Lavender Hill Mob
Lawrence of Arabia
The League of Gentlemen
Let the Right One In
Let There Be Light
A Letter to Three Wives
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Librarians
Licorice Pizza
Life Is Beautiful
Life Itself
The Life of Emile Zola
The Life of Oharu
Limelight
The Limey
Lisztomania
Little Fugitive
Little Women
The Lobster
Lola Montès
Lolita
The Long Good Friday
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship…
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of …
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lost Highway
Lost in Translation
Love Affair
Love Lies Bleeding
Love Streams
Lucky Jim
Luz
Léon Morin, Priest
M*A*S*H
Macbeth
Macbeth
Made in England: The Films of Powell …
Maestro
Magic Mike
Magnolia
Make Way for Tomorrow
A Man Escaped
Man Push Cart
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Man with a Movie Camera
Manchester by the Sea
The Manchurian Candidate
Manhunter
Margaret
Marie Antoinette
Marty Supreme
The Mask of Dimitrios
The Master
Master and Commander: The Far Side of…
Master Gardener
The Match Factory Girl
Matria
The Matrix
A Matter of Life and Death
The Mauritanian
May December
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Mean Streets
Meek's Cutoff
Megalopolis
Melania
Memento
Memoria
Men
Mephisto
Mickey 17
Midnight
Midnight Cowboy
Midsommar
Mikey and Nicky
Minari
Ministry of Fear
The Miracle of Marcelino
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning …
Mistress America
Mona Lisa
Monarch City
Mongrels
Monsieur Hire
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Monsieur Verdoux
Monster
Moon
Moonlight
The Mother and the Whore
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
The Mummy
Murmur of the Heart
The Music Lovers
The Music Room
Mutt
My American Uncle
My Beautiful Laundrette
My Cousin Vinny
My Favourite Cake
My Man Godfrey
My Neighbor Totoro
My Own Private Idaho
My Winnipeg
Mystery Train
Naked
Naked Childhood
Nanook of the North
Napoleon
Nashville
Neighbors
The Net
Network
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The New World
The New Year That Never Came
News of the World
Night and Fog
Night and the City
A Night at the Opera
Night Moves
Night Moves
The Night of the 12th
The Night of the Hunter
Nightcrawler
Nil by Mouth
Nineteen
No Country for Old Men
No Other Land
Nomadland
Norma Rae
Nosferatu
Nosferatu
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Notorious
La Notte
Nouvelle Vague
Office Space
Official Secrets
Old Joy
Olympus Has Fallen
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
On the Rocks
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
One Battle After Another
One Day All This Will Be Yours
One Fine Morning
The Only Son
Only the River Flows
Opening Night
Oppenheimer
Ordet
The Other Side
The Others
Our Man in Havana
Out of the Past
Paddington 2
Pale Flower
Pan's Labyrinth
Pandora's Box
The Panic in Needle Park
Paper Moon
The Parallax View
Parasite
Passages
Passport to Pimlico
The Past is Always New, the Future is…
Past Lives
The Patsy
Pauline at the Beach
Pedro Páramo
Perfect Blue
Perfect Days
The Permanent Picture
Persona
Personal Best
The Personal History of David Copperf…
Personal Shopper
Phantom Thread
Phoenix
Pi
The Piano Teacher
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pieces
Pierrot le Fou
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Pixote
Le Plaisir
Plan 75
Planet of the Apes
Platoon
The Play House
Play It as It Lays
PlayTime
The Pledge
Point Blank
Police, Adjective
Polite Society
Poor Things
Popeye
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of Jennie
The Power of the Dog
A Prairie Home Companion
Predator
Presence
Pressure
The Prestige
Pretty Woman
Primavera
Priscilla
Promising Young Woman
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Pure Clean Water
Purple Noon
Queen Kelly
The Quiet American
The Quiet Earth
A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place: Day One
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raise the Red Lantern
Raptures
Ready or Not
A Real Pain
Rebel Without a Cause
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Red Beard
Red Desert
The Red Hangar
The Red Shoes
The Red Turtle
Redacted
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Renoir
Repo Man
Repulsion
Reservoir Dogs
Revoir Paris
Richard III
Richard Jewell
The Rider
Riders on the Storm
Riefenstahl
The Right Stuff
Rio Bravo
Ripley's Game
The River
River of Grass
The Road Dog
RoboCop
Rocco and His Brothers
Rocky
Roid
Roma
Rome, Open City
Romeo + Juliet
La Ronde
Ronin
The Room
The Room Next Door
Rope
Rosemary's Baby
The Royal Hotel
Ruggles of Red Gap
The Rules of the Game
Rushmore
Russian Ark
Rye Lane
Río Rojo
Sabotage
The Sacrifice
Safe
Safety Last!
Salem's Lot
Saltburn
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Le Samouraï
Santa Sangre
Saturday Night Fever
The Scarecrow
Scarface
Scarface
The Scarlet Empress
Schindler's List
Scrapper
Se7en
The Searchers
The Secret Agent
Secrets & Lies
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Senna
Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?
Senso
The Seoul Guardians
A Separation
September 5
A Serious Man
Set It Off
The Settlers
sex, lies, and videotape
Shadows
Shakespeare in Love
Shame
Shane
She's All That
The Shining
The Shipping News
Shiva Baby
Shoah
Shoeshine
Shoplifters
Short Cuts
Shortcomings
Showgirls
Showing Up
Sick of Myself
Sideways
Silence
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silent Partner
Singin' in the Rain
Sinners
The Sixth Sense
Slacker
Sleep Dealer
Slums of Beverly Hills
The Small Back Room
Small Things Like These
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Social Network
Solaris
Solaris
Sometimes I Think About Dying
Somewhere
Songs of Earth
Sons
Sorcerer
Soul Kitchen
Souleymane's Story
Souls for Sale
Sound of Freedom
Southland Tales
The Souvenir
The Souvenir: Part II
Spaceballs
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
The Spirit of the Beehive
Spirited Away
Spite Marriage
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Spring Breakers
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and S…
The Squid and the Whale
Stagecoach
Stalker
Star Wars
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Me…
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of t…
State and Main
Stella Dallas
The Strange Case of Angelica
The Stranger
Straw Dogs
The Substance
Subtraction
The Sugarland Express
Sullivan's Travels
Summer's Camera
A Sunday in the Country
Sunset Boulevard
The Sunset Limited
The Sure Thing
Sweet and Lowdown
La Syndicaliste
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Tales of Hoffmann
Talk to Me
Tangerine
Taste of Cherry
Taxi Driver
The Teachers' Lounge
Ten
The Tenant
Tender Mercies
Tenet
The Terminator
Theater Camp
Thelma
Thelma & Louise
There Will Be Blood
There's Still Tomorrow
They Live
They Made Me a Fugitive
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Thief
A Thief in the Night
The Thief of Bagdad
The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Red Line
The Third Man
This Boy's Life
This Closeness
This Is England
This Is Spinal Tap
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Threads
Three Ages
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Miss…
Three Days of the Condor
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Throne of Blood
Tightrope
Till
Till Love Do Us Part
Tim's Vermeer
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
Titanic
To a Land Unknown
To Be or Not to Be
To Die For
To Hold a Mountain
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! J…
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Den…
Tokyo Story
Toni Erdmann
Tootsie
Top Gun
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Hat
Topsy-Turvy
Tori and Lokita
Total Recall
A Touch of Sin
A Touch of Zen
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Touki Bouki
Trafic
The Tree of Life
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Triangle of Sadness
The Triplets of Belleville
Triumph of the Will
Tropical Malady
Le Trou
Trouble Every Day
The Tuba Thieves
Twentieth Century
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twinless
Twisters
The Two Jakes
Typist Artist Pirate King
TÁR
Un Flic
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Unclickable
Uncut Gems
Under a Million Stars
Under the Skin
Undercover
Unfaithfully Yours
Unfrosted
The Universal Theory
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
The Untouchables
Upon Entry
Us
V for Vendetta
Vagabond
Valentina
Valeria Is Getting Married
Valley of the Dolls
Varsity Blues
Vengeance Is Mine
Veronika Voss
Vertigo
Vice
Victim
Viktor
Viridiana
Waking Life
Walker
WALL·E
Wanda
The Wanderers
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkons…
War of the Worlds
Warfare
Watership Down
We Live in Time
Weapons
Weekend
Wendy and Lucy
Werckmeister Harmonies
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What's Up, Doc?
When a Witness Recants
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Where Is The Friend's House?
Whiplash
The White Balloon
White Heat
White Noise
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wild Robot
Wild Strawberries
The Wind Will Carry Us
Wings of Desire
Winter Light
Withnail & I
The Wizard of Oz
The Woman in Black
Woman in the Dunes
A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman's Tale
Women Talking
The Wonders
The Wood
Woodstock
The World
The Worst Person in the World
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
The Wrestler
Xala
Y Tu Mamá También
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Year of the Fox
Yellow Submarine
Yi Yi
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)
Yojimbo
You Hurt My Feelings
Young Mr. Lincoln
Zabriskie Point
Zama
Zola
The Zone of Interest
Zoolander
Zulu