🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 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.
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Sex, politics, road trip.
Companion (2025)
Sci-fi silliness.
Aftersun (2022)
Warm, nostalgic melancholy.
Heretic (2024)
Bible school for the disbelievers.
Ratcatcher (1999)
The art film directors wish they made.
The Wrestler (2008)
How wrestling is both fake and real at the same time.
The King’s Speech (2010)
Did I stutter?
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.
Stand By Me (1986)
Pre-internet adventures of American adolescence.
Billy Elliot (2000)
For men that want to follow their dreams.
A Ghost Story (2017)
Quirkiest metaphor of the decade.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
The precursor to Gen Z filmmaking.
Lion (2016)
Finding your biological roots.
V/H/S (2012)
Analog horror for those that love ghost stories.
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?
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Sushi that still leaves you hungry.
Crumb (1994)
Genius or pervert?
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.