🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 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)

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A Complete Unknown (2024)

Bob Dylan and mainstream are like electric and folk.

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Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

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Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

Sex, politics, road trip.

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Aftersun (2022)

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Aftersun (2022)

Warm, nostalgic melancholy.

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High and Low (1963)

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High and Low (1963)

Hollywood film noir doesn’t seem that high up anymore.

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Yojimbo (1961)

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Yojimbo (1961)

Samurai epic meets spaghetti western.

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Harakiri (1962)

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Harakiri (1962)

Cinematography as sharp as samurai steel.

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The Princess Bride (1987)

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The Princess Bride (1987)

Saving the princess is always a feel-good fairy tale.

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Delicatessen (1991)

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Delicatessen (1991)

La crème de la crème of French originality.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

When the story is more intriguing than the slashing.

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M (1931)

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M (1931)

If there was ever the case for why classic films are more cinematic.

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Metropolis (1927)

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Metropolis (1927)

Nein out of ten.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Global archeological adventure awaits!

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Stand By Me (1986)

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Stand By Me (1986)

Pre-internet adventures of American adolescence.

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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Sometimes the realest love is the most bittersweet.

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Jaws (1975)

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Jaws (1975)

Spielberg makes a generation afraid of the beach.

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Forrest Gump (1994)

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Forrest Gump (1994)

Life is like a box of chocolates.

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

An obscure vision even for open eyes.

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Taxi Driver (1976)

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Taxi Driver (1976)

You talking to me?

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Fargo (1996)

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Fargo (1996)

Shakespearean level comedy, ay?

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Carrie (1976)

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Carrie (1976)

Catharsis for all the high school injustice.

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True Grit (2010)

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True Grit (2010)

It’s not easy to innovate modern westerns.

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In Cold Blood (1967)

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In Cold Blood (1967)

A masterclass in cinematography.

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Solaris (1972)

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Solaris (1972)

A philosophical odyssey venturing into our cosmic subconscious.

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Lust, Caution (2007)

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Lust, Caution (2007)

Love is a tough pill to swallow.

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

An overly long film befitting of its title.

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Oldboy (2003)

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Oldboy (2003)

Korean revenge is as twisted as they come.

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Audition (1999)

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Audition (1999)

One of the most viscerally painful experiences captured on screen.

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Days of Heaven (1978)

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Days of Heaven (1978)

When Terrence Malick makes a film rather than a diary.

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Raise The Red Lantern (1991)

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Raise The Red Lantern (1991)

A game of patriarchy and foot massages.

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Army of Shadows (1969)

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Army of Shadows (1969)

A war thriller at the peak of the French wave.

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Poetry (2010)

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Poetry (2010)

A sacred slow burn.

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Peppermint Candy (1999)

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Peppermint Candy (1999)

A suicide you might not bother to save.

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Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Mulholland Drive (2001)

Watch Perfect Blue instead.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Perhaps the vastest epic of all time.

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Psycho (1960)

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Psycho (1960)

The father of horror/thrillers.

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Seven Samurai (1954)

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Seven Samurai (1954)

The blade doesn’t cut deep for this Japanese epic.

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Casablanca (1942)

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Casablanca (1942)

The pinnacle of classic cinema.

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28 Days Later (2002)

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28 Days Later (2002)

The core essence of a zombie film.

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The Thin Red Line (1998)

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The Thin Red Line (1998)

Can war be poetic?

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

When a war movie is so brutal it feels like a reenactment.

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

The real war is the fragility of the mind.

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12 Angry Men (1957)

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12 Angry Men (1957)

A historically relevant film in cinema on human bias.

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Rear Window (1954)

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Rear Window (1954)

A glimpse of what visual storytelling is all about.

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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

An ambitious potential masterpiece falls short.

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

An epic character study underneath all the powered wigs.

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

The greatest war film ever made.

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Vertigo (1958)

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Vertigo (1958)

Hitchcock’s masterpiece disorients audiences for the worse.

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The Third Man (1949)

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The Third Man (1949)

The king of classic film noir.

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Citizen Kane (1941)

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Citizen Kane (1941)

A revolution in filmmaking no longer revolutionary.

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

When you think you sound cooler than you really are.

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