🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Spicy - A must watch
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Hot - Recommended
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Mild - Could be good
🌶️🌶️ Bland - Don’t bother
🌶️ Rotten - Disaster
Which movies are worth watching? These ratings serve as recommendations for cinema enjoyers based on cinematography/story/fun and to discover similar films. Reviews/analysis are spoiler protected.
A Complete Unknown (2024)
Bob Dylan and mainstream are like electric and folk.
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Sex, politics, road trip.
Aftersun (2022)
Warm, nostalgic melancholy.
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
War isn’t about who’s right, rather who’s left.
Ratcatcher (1999)
The art film directors wish they made.
Tár (2022)
To cancel, or not to cancel?
The Piano Teacher (2001)
Aren’t all piano teachers masochistic?
The Wrestler (2008)
How wrestling is both fake and real at the same time.
All the Money in the World (2017)
…and Ridley Scott still misses.
The King’s Speech (2010)
Did I stutter?
Silence (2016)
Silence has never been so pitiful.
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
A violent metaphor on burden, trauma and guilt.
Stand By Me (1986)
Pre-internet adventures of American adolescence.
Billy Elliot (2000)
For men that want to follow their dreams.
Dead Poet’s Society (1989)
Father figure not just for The Holdovers.
A Ghost Story (2017)
Quirkiest metaphor of the decade.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
The precursor to Gen Z filmmaking.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
I’d rather just watch his live performances.
Steve Jobs (2015)
Our favorite asshole tech CEO.
Pollock (2000)
Do you have to be unstable to be a great artist?
Lion (2016)
Finding your biological roots.
Amadeus (1984)
The Mozart effect applies to movies too.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
One of the few military war films that could make you cry.
At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
You could be convinced Willem Dafoe is a descendent of Van Gogh.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Can a painting be famous enough for an entire movie?
