🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 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.
Companion (2025)
Sci-fi silliness.
Heretic (2024)
Bible school for the disbelievers.
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.
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
A violent metaphor on burden, trauma and guilt.
The Ring (2012)
Let’s sleep with the lights on.
Candyman (2021)
Making racial injustice feel like an urban myth.
Split (2016)
James McAvoy takes the crown for multiple-personalities.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Suspense isn’t fully dead yet.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
An obscure vision even for open eyes.
Taxi Driver (1976)
You talking to me?
The Machinist (2004)
A horror you won’t be able to look away from.
Blade Runner (1982)
Why science fiction should exist.
Annihilation (2018)
A failed attempt to expand the zeitgeist of Solaris.
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
The greatest animated sci-fi film.
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Watch Perfect Blue instead.
Psycho (1960)
The father of horror/thrillers.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The greatest war film ever made.
Vertigo (1958)
Hitchcock’s masterpiece disorients audiences for the worse.
Memento (2000)
When a film is presented backwards.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The definitive visual establishment of space.
The Shining (1980)
Redrum.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Glimpse into delinquency.
Fight Club (1999)
We don't talk about Fight Club.
Perfect Blue (2001)
Paranoia and schizophrenia visually personified.
Burning (2018)
A metaphor you’ll be burning to discuss.
Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Watch this film long enough it stares back at you.
American Psycho (2000)
Psychopathy has never been so hilarious.
Shutter Island (2010)
When Martin Scorsese strays from the gangster genre, there's good reason.
Nightcrawler (2014)
A thrilling crime drama that takes you down the mind of a sociopath.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Yes, I’ll stay in an underground bunker with John Goodman.
Under The Skin (2013)
A24 is born.
The Box (2009)
Press a button win 1 million dollars but someone dies.
Mother! (2017)
A deceptively smug lesson.