Film Reviews
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Last updated: Sep 1, 2023
| R | Series | Film | ★ | seen | pub | Tags | L | notes | Short Review: |
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| ⠀ | The 6th Day | 6 | 2000 | Action, Schwarzenegger | EN | Cloning – deep reflections on identity for a Schwarzenegger action movie. | |||
| 13 Assassins | 7 | 2011 | History | JP | |||||
| ⠀ | 21 | 8 | 2008 | Crime | EN | good | The inside-out on how to count cards in blackjack. | ||
| ⠀ | 28L-1 | 28 Days Later | 8 | 2003 | Horror, Zombies | EN | good | The best “zombie” movie after the Spanish REC. As I recall, this was one of the first movies to feature fast zombies. | |
| 28L-2 | 28 Weeks Later | 5 | 2007 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| 300 | 6 | 2006 | History | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | 2012 | 6 | 2009 | 2009 | SciFi, Disaster | EN | CGI overload… but not much else. [2009] | ||
| 9th Company | 6 | 2005 | Drama, War | RU | |||||
| A Cinema Prayer | 3 | 2019 | 2019 | Drama, True Story | EN | ||||
| AI | 3 | 2001 | SciFi, AI | EN | |||||
| Alien-1 | Alien | 8 | 1992 | SciFi | EN | good | |||
| Alien-2 | Alien: Covenant | 6 | 2017 | 2017 | SciFi | EN | |||
| ⠀ | AvP-1 | Alien vs. Predator | 8 | 2004 | SciFi | EN | good | So sue me, I loved it. | |
| ⠀ | Alien Girl | 8 | 2014 | 2010 | Crime | RU | good | One of my favorite “gangster” movies… authentic, no romanticism, and everyone meets a grisly end. [2014] | |
| ⠀ | AP-1 | American Pie | 8 | 1999 | Comedy | EN | good | Probably my favorite slapstick comedy to this day. | |
| AP-2 | American Pie 2 | 7 | 2001 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| AP-3 | American Wedding | 7 | 2003 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| AP-4 | American Pie Presents: Band Camp | 6 | 2005 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| AP-5 | American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile | 6 | 2006 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| AP-6 | American Pie Presents: Beta House | 6 | 2007 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| An Inconvenient Truth | 2 | 2006 | Documentary | EN | |||||
| Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 4 | 2004 | Comedy | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | ARCANE (2021+) | 8 | 2023 | TV, Anime, SciFantasy | EN | best | One of the best video game to animation adaptions. * Season 1: Rating: 9. (2023, 2021) |
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| ⠀ | Arrival | 5 | 2018 | 2016 | SciFi | EN | Lower-budget Interstellar. It pretentiously tries to make deep points about the nature of communications with aliens, but fails to do so. [2018] | ||
| ⠀ | Avatar | 7 | 2009 | 2009 | SciFi, Cameron | EN | So much money sunk into it, it couldn’t help but be good. [2009] | ||
| Back to the Future | 6 | 2021 | 1985 | SciFi, Comedy | EN | ||||
| ⭐ | Barbie | 7 | 2023 | 2023 | Comedy | EN | reviewed | See main review: "Barbie is a strong and nuanced film that effectively promotes the message of female emancipation, gender diversity (an important point being made about the importance of LGBTQ+ allies in the person of Allan), and the importance of what I would call “Wokeness with a human face” (Wokeness being the tribute that meritocracy pays to human dignity). As such, this thing assesses that Barbie would be strongly endorsed by elite human capital." | |
| ⠀ | Barely Legal | 7 | 2011 | Comedy | EN | Goofiest slapstick comedy.? | |||
| Batman | Batman: Dark Knight | 7 | 2008 | SciFi, Superheroes, Nolan | EN | ||||
| Batman | Batman: Dark Knight Rises | 8 | 2017 | 2012 | SciFi, Superheroes, Nolan | EN | |||
| ⭐ | Batman | Joker | 7 | 2019 | 2019 | SciFi, Superheroes | EN | reviewed | See main review: "This because The Joker is an unreliable narrator. That is the single most important observation about the film – the main character’s mental problems means we can’t know which of the scenes are real, and which are hallucinations or flights of fancy. The only thing we really know for sure is there is a mentally disturbed incel called Arthur Fleck who lives in a shitty apartment with his no less crazed mother, scraping by and trying to ends meet as best he can with his limited abilities in a metropolis that seems to be going down the dumps. He has a severe case of jungle fever for a neighboring single mother, whom he imagines going out with, only to be told to leave the one time he finds himself in her apartment. This narrative device leaves the audience free to interpret the film anyway they like." |
| ⠀ | Battle Royale | 8 | 2000 | SciFi, Dystopia | EN | good | Highly original concept that preceded the Hunger Games series. (Though Lukyanenko was probably first to this with his Knights of the 40 Islands). | ||
| Beowulf | 8 | 2007 | History | EN | good | ||||
| ⠀ | The Big Lebowski | 10 | 1998 | Comedy | EN | best | White Russians are one of my favorite cocktails too. | ||
| BR-1 | Blade Runner | 7 | 2023 | 1982 | SciFi, Cyberpunk | EN | |||
| BR-2 | Blade Runner 2049 | 8 | 2023 | 2017 | SciFi, Cyberpunk | EN | good | ||
| ⠀ | Bodyguards and Assassins | 5 | 2009 | History | CN | I was sympathizing with the assassins throughout. Good riddance to pro-Western traitors – the only sad thing was when they hoodwinked the mentally disabled giant into their loathsome schemes. | |||
| ⠀ | The Boondock Saints | 5 | 1999 | Crime | EN | Overrated. Ridiculous Russian accent, too. | |||
| Borat the Movie | 5 | 2006 | Comedy | EN | |||||
| The Bourne Identity | 7 | 2002 | Action, Spy | EN | |||||
| Bowling for Columbine | 2 | 2002 | Documentary | EN | |||||
| Braveheart | 7 | 1995 | History | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Brother | 8 | 1997 | Crime | RU | good | "Не брат ты мне, гнида черножопая!" | ||
| The Brothers Bloom | 8 | 2008 | Comedy | EN | good | ||||
| The Burning | 5 | 2009 | Horror | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Cannibal Holocaust | 1 | 1979 | Horror | EN | WTF | |||
| Capitalism: A Love Story | 4 | 2009 | Documentary | EN | |||||
| Cashback | 5 | 2006 | Crime | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Children of Men | 5 | 2006 | SciFi, Dystopia | EN | The natives aren’t reproducing, so hey, let’s invite in Infinity Third Worldners, not just our pensions but our very civilization depends on it! – hence, predictably hailed as a classic of our times. | |||
| ⠀ | Cliffhanger | 8 | 1993 | Action, Stallone | EN | good | “Do you know what real love is, Kristel? Sacrifice.” Wise words. | ||
| Collateral Damage | 6 | 2002 | Action | EN | |||||
| Commanding Heights: Battle for the World Economy | 7 | 2002 | 2002 | Documentary | EN | ||||
| C-1 | Conan the Barbarian | 6 | 1982 | Fantasy, Schwarzenegger | EN | ||||
| C-2 | Conan the Destroyer | 6 | 1984 | Fantasy, Schwarzenegger | EN | ||||
| C-3 | Red Sonja | 5 | 1985 | Fantasy, Schwarzenegger | EN | ||||
| ⭐ | Contagion | 6 | 2020 | 2011 | SciFi, Disaster | EN | reviewed | See main review. | |
| The Crazies | 6 | 2010 | Horror, Zombies | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Cube-1 | Cube | 7 | 1997 | SciFi | EN | One of the best sci-fi/horror concepts ever invented. | ||
| Cube-2 | Cube 2: Hypercube | 7 | 2002 | SciFi | EN | ||||
| ⭐ | Cuties | 5 | 2020 | 2020 | Drama | FR | reviewed | See main review: "The latest conservative triggering is over a French film called Cuties (Mignonnes)… Conversely, this furore ensured that seems to have been a pretty marginal and ultimately mediocre European “arthouse” film will have been seen by millions more people than would have watched it otherwise. … So what is Cuties? It is a film about Amy, an 11 year old girl, clumsily trying to reconcile her Senegalese Muslim immigrant identity with the thrills and vapidities of life in secular France by joining an all-female dance troupe… the supreme irony of Cuties is that it is too politically incorrect, with its criticism of patriarchal Muslim culture and implicit (if inadvertent) HBD realism, to have been made in the United States." | |
| Dark Planet | 10 | 2022 | 2009 | SciFi, Dystopia | RU | best | |||
| DD-1 | Night of the Living Dead | 7 | 1968 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| DD-2 | Dawn of the Dead | 8 | 1978 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| DD-3 | Day of the Dead | 4 | 1985 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| DD-4 | Land of the Dead | 4 | 2005 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| DD-5 | Diary of the Dead | 5 | 2007 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| DD-6 | Day of the Dead | 4 | 2008 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | The Day After Tomorrow | 8 | 2004 | SciFi, Disaster | EN | good | The science is from Hollywood, but the character interactions, visuals, and suspenseful plot were all top notch. | ||
| Dead Season | 3 | 1969 | Horror, Zombies | EN | |||||
| Dead Snow | 5 | 2009 | Horror, Zombies | EN | |||||
| Death Proof | 7 | 2007 | Horror, Zombies, Tarantino | ||||||
| Deep Blue Sea | 7 | 1999 | SciFi | EN | |||||
| Deep Impact | 5 | 1998 | SciFi, Disaster | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | The Descent | 8 | 2005 | Horror | EN | good | One of the best horror movies I can recall watching. | ||
| The Devil Wears Prada | 8 | 2006 | 2006 | Drama, Comedy | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | The Diamond Arm | 5 | 1969 | Crime | RU | Classic Soviet comedy, though overrated. | |||
| ⠀ | The Dictator | 2 | 2012 | Comedy | EN | Could Sasha-Baron Cohen kill himself already. | |||
| Django Unchained | 3 | 2012 | 2012 | History, Tarantino | EN | ||||
| Doom | 3 | 2005 | SciFi | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Dr. Strangelove | 10 | 1964 | Comedy | EN | best | This is quite simply the best comedy ever made. | ||
| ⠀ | Dracula | 8 | 1973 | Horror, Vampires | EN | good | This is my favorite vampire movie of all time, though perhaps only because I watched it when I was a child. | ||
| Drunken Master | 6 | 1978 | Action, Martial Arts | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Dune I | 6 | 2023 | 2021 | SciFi, Space Opera | EN | Stunning visuals aside, Villeneuve's adaptation fails to impress or make a memorable emotional impact; a story is made by its characters, and I found no reason to care for the heroes or to fear or be intrigued by the villain. (But then again, I'm not a fan of the book either, so take it FWIW). | ||
| Enter the Dragon | 6 | 1973 | Action, Martial Arts | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Equilibrium | 8 | 2002 | SciFi, Dystopia | EN | good | Not brilliant, but… GUN KATA! How cool is that? | ||
| EuroTrip | 6 | 2020 | 2004 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | Ex Machina | 10 | 2015 | 2015 | SciFi, AI | EN | best | This entire movie can be viewed as a metaphor for the AI control problem, and it handles it brilliantly… just imagine the billionaire brogrammer’s mansion as the “black box”, and the naked cyborg women as the AI. [2015] | |
| ⠀ | THE EXPANSE (2015-2022) | 7 | 2023 | 2022 | TV, SciFi, Space Opera | EN | Reasonably impressed so far with adaptation of Leviathan's Wake. * Season 1 - Rating: 7. (2023, 2015) |
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| The Expendables | 5 | 2010 | Action | EN | |||||
| The Expendables 2 | 5 | 2012 | Action | EN | |||||
| Fahrenheit 911 | 4 | 2004 | Documentary | EN | |||||
| ⭐ | The Fall of an Empire: Lessons from Byzantium | 3 | 2009 | 2009 | Documentary | RU | reviewed | See main review. | |
| ⠀ | Far Cry | 5 | 2008 | SciFi | EN | Uwe Boll is so bad… that he is good. I love Boll. | |||
| ⠀ | The Fifth Element | 8 | 1997 | SciFi | EN | good | Have nice recollections of watching this ages ago. One of the best comedic sci-fi movies. | ||
| FAWLTY TOWERS (1975-1979) | 7 | ~2003 | 1979 | TV, Comedy | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | Fight Club | 8 | 1999 | Drama | EN | good | Unleash your primal instincts! The cult classic status of the movie is beyond dispute. | ||
| ⠀ | Forrest Gump | 6 | 2017 | 1994 | Comedy | EN | The funny moments are marred by the fact that Jenny very obviously cucked the poor retard after hitting the wall and we are supposed to celebrate that. Shit values dressed up in can-do ‘Murica!nism. [2017] | ||
| ⠀ | Frozen | 7 | 2010 | 2010 | Horror | EN | In a powerful troll move, the skiing club I was in at university played it on our bus trip to a ski resort. This is a very corny movie, too ridiculous to be truly scary, but some of the girls begged to differ. [2010] | ||
| ⭐ | GAME OF THRONES (2011-2019) | 8 | 2019 | 2019 | TV, Fantasy | EN | bestreviewed | The definitional adoption of GRRM's sadly uncompleted masterpiece, they were superlative when D&D still had access to the source material... but then it floundered into oblivion. * Season 1 - Rating: 9 (2013, 2011) * Season 2 - Rating: 9 (2013, 2012) * Season 3 - Rating: 10 (2013, 2013) * Season 4 - Rating: 8 (2014, 2014) * Season 5 - Rating: 7 (2015, 2015) * Season 6 - See main review. Rating: 6 (2016, 2016) * Season 7 - See main review. Rating: 4 (2017, 2017) * Season 8 - See main review. Rating: 1 (2019, 2019) |
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| ⠀ | Ghost in the Shell | 5 | 2017 | 2017 | SciFi | EN | From what I understand this is a perversion of the anime. [2017] | ||
| Girls | 1 | 1961 | Comedy | RU | |||||
| Gladiator | 6 | 2020 | 2000 | History | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | GF-1 | The Godfather | 10 | 2020 | 1972 | Crime | EN | best | Deserves its plaudits as the best crime/mafia film ever made, having introduced a huge number of tropes into Anglo culture: I will make you an offer that can’t be refused; swimming with the fishes; revenge is a dish best served cold; it’s not personal, it’s strictly business. [2020] |
| Graveyard Shift | 5 | 1990 | Horror | EN | |||||
| Grindhouse: Death Proof/Planet Terror | 6 | 2007 | Horror | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Grizzly Man | 4 | 2021 | 2005 | Documentary | EN | One observation I made is that Grizzly Man was kind of... insane. Many places of the world, someone with his level of impudence would get killed a lot quicker by humans than by bears. It's amazing that he lasted this long and a testament to ursine tolerance. | ||
| H&K-1 | Harold and Kumar go to White Castle | 7 | 2004 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| H&K-2 | Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay | 5 | 2008 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| HP-1 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | 7 | 2001 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| HP-2 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 7 | 2002 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| HP-3 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 7 | 2004 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| HP-4 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 8 | 2005 | Fantasy | EN | good | |||
| HP-6 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 7 | 2009 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| HP-5 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 8 | 2007 | Fantasy | EN | good | |||
| HP-7 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I | 7 | 2010 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| HP-8 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II | 7 | 2011 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| Hero | 6 | 2002 | History | CN | |||||
| ⠀ | Hb-1 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 6 | 2012 | Fantasy, Jackson | EN | Started out well, but ended on a sour note, awkward CGI overload failing to make up for it. | ||
| Hb-2 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 6 | 2013 | Fantasy, Jackson | EN | ||||
| Hb-3 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | 4 | 2014 | Fantasy, Jackson | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | The Hole | 8 | 2001 | Horror | EN | good | One of the best psychological thrillers. | ||
| Home Alone | 7 | 1990 | Comedy | EN | |||||
| The Horde | 5 | 2012 | History | RU | |||||
| ⠀ | The Human Centipede | 1 | 2002 | Horror | EN | One of the most fucked up films. | |||
| HG-1 | The Hunger Games | 7 | 2012 | SciFi, Dystopia | EN | ||||
| HG-2 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | 6 | 2013 | SciFi, Dystopia | EN | ||||
| I Am Legend | 4 | 2007 | SciFi, Post-Apoc | EN | |||||
| I, Robot | 3 | 2004 | SciFi | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Idiocracy | 10 | 2006 | SciFi | EN | best | This "film" is a documentary! | ||
| IJ-1 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 6 | 1981 | Action | EN | ||||
| IJ-2 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 7 | 1984 | Action | EN | ||||
| IJ-4 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | 4 | 2008 | Action | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | Inception | 8 | 2010 | SciFi, Nolan | EN | good | One of the best “mind-bending” movies. | ||
| Independence Day | 4 | 1996 | SciFi, Disaster | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Interstellar | 8 | 2017 | 2014 | SciFi, Nolan | EN | good | Nolan is great, as usual. [2017] | |
| Iron Man | 5 | 2008 | SciFi, Superheroes | EN | |||||
| Ironclad | 7 | 2011 | History | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future | 9 | 1973 | Comedy | RU | best | The best Soviet/Russian comedy? At least, that’s my opinion. | ||
| Jackass: The Movie | 4 | 2002 | Comedy | EN | |||||
| JB-1 | Dr. No | 6 | 1962 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-2 | From Russia with Love | 8 | 1963 | Action, Spy | EN | good | |||
| JB-3 | Goldfinger | 7 | 1964 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-4 | Thunderball | 6 | 1965 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-5 | You Only Live Twice | 7 | 1967 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-6 | On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | 7 | 1969 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-7 | Diamonds are Forever | 6 | 1971 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-8 | Live and Let Die | 6 | 1973 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-9 | The Man with the Golden Gun | 5 | 1974 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-10 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 7 | 1977 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-11 | Moonraker | 5 | 1979 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-12 | For Your Eyes Only | 6 | 1981 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-13 | Octopussy | 6 | 1983 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-14 | A View to a Kill | 5 | 1985 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-15 | The Living Daylights | 5 | 1987 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-16 | Licence to Kill | 5 | 1989 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-17 | GoldenEye | 6 | 1995 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-18 | Tomorrow Never Dies | 7 | 1997 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| JB-19 | The World Is Not Enough | 7 | 1999 | Action, Spy | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | JB-20 | Die Another Day | 8 | 2002 | Action, Spy | EN | good | The best “modern” JB movie. I consider the North Korean “villain” to be the real antihero. | |
| JB-21 | Casino Royale | 8 | 2006 | 2006 | Action, Spy | EN | good | ||
| ⠀ | JB-22 | Quantum of Solace | 6 | 2022 | 2008 | Action, Spy | EN | The music is really good, but otherwise unremarkable, unexplained ubiquitous power of Spectre. | |
| JB-23 | Skyfall | 5 | 2012 | 2012 | Action, Spy | EN | |||
| ⠀ | JB-24 | Spectre | 5 | 2022 | 2015 | Isn't this supposed to be a spy movie, as opposed to an action one? | |||
| ⠀ | JB-25 | No Time to Die | 7 | 2023 | 2021 | Action, Spy | EN | Chemistry between JB and Madeleine Swann could have been developed better, and villain wasn't exploited as he could have been. Still, a fitting final send-off to JB. | |
| JP-1 | Jurassic Park | 8 | 1993 | SciFi | EN | good | |||
| JP-2 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | 6 | 1997 | SciFi | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | JP-4 | Jurassic World | 6 | 2015 | 2015 | SciFi | EN | Either I overestimated the first firm due to an impressionable young memory, or this one was decidedly underwhelming. [2015] | |
| KEEPING UP APPEARANCES (1990-1995) | 5 | ~2003 | 1995 | TV, Comedy | EN | ||||
| KB-1 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 7 | 2003 | Action, Martial Arts, Tarantino | EN | ||||
| KB-2 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 7 | 2004 | Action, Martial Arts, Tarantino | EN | ||||
| Kin-dza-dza! | 3 | 1986 | SciFi | RU | |||||
| Kingdom of Heaven | 4 | 2005 | History | EN | |||||
| The Last Samurai | 4 | 2003 | History | EN | |||||
| ⭐ | Legend of Kolovrat | 6 | 2017 | 2017 | History | RU | reviewed | See main review. Russia’s 300, Ironclad, and Valhalla Rising. Swords like in The Witcher. | |
| ⭐ | Leviathan | 7 | 2020 | 2014 | Drama, Arthouse | RU | reviewed | See main review. | |
| Lifeforce | 4 | 2020 | 1985 | SciFi | EN | ||||
| Life After People | 6 | 2010 | Documentary | EN | |||||
| The Life of Brian | 8 | 1979 | Comedy | EN | good | ||||
| Loose Change | 4 | 2006 | Documentary, Conspiracy | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | LotR-1 | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 10 | 2001 | Fantasy, Jackson | EN | best | A solid and remarkably faithful adaptation of Tolkien’s masterpiece... hard to imagine same director filmed The Hobbit. | |
| LotR-2 | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 10 | 2002 | Fantasy, Jackson | EN | best | |||
| LotR-3 | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 8 | 2003 | Fantasy, Jackson | EN | best | |||
| ⠀ | Lord of War | 8 | 2005 | Drama | EN | good | Loved the story, if not the vacuous moralism, which became too overt at the end. | ||
| Machete | 5 | 2010 | Action | EN | |||||
| MM-1 | Mad Max | 7 | 1979 | SciFi, Post-Apoc | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | MM-4 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 8 | 2015 | 2015 | SciFi, Post-Apoc | EN | good | Doof Warrior was the best. [2015] |
| The Man with the Gun | 1 | 1938 | History | RU | |||||
| ⭐ | The Martian | 6 | 2015 | 2015 | SciFi | EN | reviewed | See main review: "Making the story of one solitary man’s struggle to survive is not a enviable task, but the creators pull it off with ample wit and verve. The protagonist Mark Watney is constantly cracking Nerd Lite jokes with himself and mission control in his struggle with the remorseless but indifferent main villain, the Red Planet itself. … At its root, it is a highly optimistic, positive, and inspirational story about the victory of technology and human ingenuity over the challenges posed by the last frontier. There should be more of these kinds of cultural products for civilization to continue to flourish." | |
| ⠀ | M-1 | The Matrix | 10 | 1999 | SciFi, Cyberpunk | EN | best | Probably my all time favorite film. | |
| M-2 | The Matrix Reloaded | 9 | 2003 | SciFi, Cyberpunk | EN | best | |||
| M-3 | The Matrix Revolutions | 9 | 2003 | SciFi, Cyberpunk | EN | best | |||
| M-3+ | The Animatrix | 6 | 2003 | SciFi, Anime | EN | ||||
| M-4 | The Matrix Resurrections | 9 | 2023 | 2021 | SciFi, Cyberpunk | EN | best | ||
| Max Payne | 6 | 2008 | SciFi | EN | |||||
| Minority Report | 4 | 2002 | SciFi | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Mortal Engines | 3 | 2019 | 2018 | SciFi, Post-Apoc, Jackson | EN | They obviously banked on this being allowed in China, where tastes are even shallower than in the West. They failed. [2019] | ||
| Mortal Kombat: The Movie | 3 | 1995 | Fantasy | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | The Name of the Rose | 8 | 2005 | 1986 | History | EN | good | I recall this as one of the best films. [2005] | |
| National Lampoon’s Animal House | 8 | 2016 | 1978 | Comedy | EN | good | |||
| ⠀ | NW-1 | The Night Watch | 7 | 2004 | Fantasy | RU | Solid Russian urban fantasy film with CGI comparable to films 10x as expensive. | ||
| ⠀ | Ocean’s Eleven | 8 | 1960 | Crime | EN | good | Perhaps the best “heist” film I ever watched. It’s nice to observe how casino operators in 1950s America cared about the financial health of their clients. | ||
| ⠀ | Office Space | 9 | 1999 | Comedy | EN | best | Perhaps the best office comedy. | ||
| ⠀ | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 5 | 2019 | 2019 | Drama, Tarantino | EN | Is Tarantino developing a reactionary streak as he approaches old age? [2019] | ||
| Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures | 8 | 1965 | Comedy | RU | |||||
| ⭐ | Oppenheimer | 5 | 2023 | 2023 | History | EN | reviewed | See main review: "Although Oppenheimer is a solid and historically accurate film, it is overly long – making its missed opportunities all the more glaring – and the key dramatic tension rests on speculation that was considered entirely fictional long before 1945." |
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| Overboard | 6 | 2017 | 1987 | Comedy | EN | ||||
| Paris | 5 | 2008 | Drama | FR | |||||
| The Passion of the Christ | 4 | 2004 | History | EN | |||||
| PEEP SHOW (2003-2015) | 8 | ~2007 | 2015 | TV, Comedy | EN | good | |||
| ⠀ | The Pianist | 9 | 2002 | History | EN | best | My favorite Holocaust film, more so than Schindler’s List. | ||
| ⠀ | Pirates of the 20th Century | 7 | 1979 | Action | RU | A classic Soviet comedy/action movie. | |||
| PotC-1 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest | 7 | 2006 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| PotC-3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End | 7 | 2007 | Fantasy | EN | ||||
| Predator | 7 | 1987 | SciFi | EN | |||||
| Prince of Persia: Sands of Time | 5 | 2010 | Fantasy | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Pulp Fiction | 10 | 1994 | Crime, Tarantino | EN | best | Probably my favorite Tarantino movie. | ||
| Q-2 | Quarantine 2: The Terminal | 6 | 2011 | Horror, Zombies | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | REC | 8 | 2007 | Horror, Zombies | ES | good | This is, in my opinion, the best zombie movie ever made. Step aside Romero. | ||
| Red Heat | 6 | 1988 | Action, Schwarzenegger | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | RLD-1 | The Return of the Living Dead | 6 | 1985 | Horror, Comedy, Zombies | EN | Very corny and good. Nice music. | ||
| ⠀ | Reservoir Dogs | 6 | 1992 | Crime, Tarantino | EN | Kinda overrated? Tarantino will only get worse. | |||
| RE-1 | Resident Evil | 7 | 2002 | Horror, Zombies, Kunis | EN | ||||
| RE-2 | Resident Evil: Apocalypse | 7 | 2004 | Horror, Zombies, Kunis | EN | ||||
| RE-3 | Resident Evil: Extinction | 5 | 2007 | Horror, Zombies, Kunis | EN | ||||
| RE-3+ | Resident Evil: Degeneration | 4 | 2008 | Horror, Zombies, Kunis | EN | ||||
| RE-5 | Resident Evil: Retribution | 4 | 2012 | Horror, Zombies, Kunis | EN | ||||
| The Road | 3 | 2009 | 2009 | SciFi, Post-Apoc | EN | ||||
| The Road to Perdition | 5 | 2002 | Crime | EN | |||||
| The Running Man | 7 | 1987 | SciFi, Dystopia | EN | |||||
| Sw-1 | Saw I | 5 | 2004 | Horror | EN | ||||
| Sw-2 | Saw II | 5 | 2005 | Horror | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | Sw-3 | Saw III | 5 | 2006 | Horror | EN | The best film in this morbid series. | ||
| Sw-4 | Saw VI | 5 | 2007 | Horror | EN | ||||
| Sw-5 | Saw V | 5 | 2008 | Horror | EN | ||||
| Sw-6 | Saw VI | 5 | 2009 | Horror | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | Schindler’s List | 9 | 1993 | History, Spielberg | EN | best | Spielberg clearly pretending to his "classic" here and TBF he succeeded plus or minus. | ||
| Shaun of the Dead | 6 | 2004 | Horror, Comedy, Zombies | EN | |||||
| The Shawshank Redemption | 8 | 1994 | Drama | EN | good | ||||
| The Shining | 9 | 1980 | Horror | EN | best | ||||
| Slumdog Millionaire | 7 | 2008 | Drama | EN | |||||
| Snakes on a Plane | 5 | 2006 | Action | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Snowden | 5 | 2016 | 2016 | Drama, True Story | EN | Don’t know the extent to which it was factual, but it struck me as plausible. Some natsec honcho: “In 20 years, no one will care about Iraq”; China, Russia are the real threats. | ||
| ⠀ | Snowpiercer | 8 | 2020 | 2013 | SciFi, Dystopia | EN | good | Geoengineering attempt to stop global warming goes very wrong, as Earth turns into a snowball instead. The last humans survive in a caste-based society on a train circumnavigating the globe every few months, and are ruled over by an eccentric billionaire/inventor called Wilford (Willy Wonka’s successor?). So, “Bioshock on Rails.” Excellent fight scenes, good pacing, and absurdist humor are partly negated by a surfeit of plot holes. | |
| The Social Network | 7 | 2010 | 2010 | Drama, True Story | EN | ||||
| Solaris | 3 | 2002 | SciFi | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Species | 7 | 2020 | 1995 | SciFi, Horror | EN | Cut above the typical horror B-movie. The idea of an existential risk transmitted as a message from outer space is a plausible and dangerous one, even if unlikely to be accomplished within 1/4 of a kilobyte – concept clearly borrows from Hoyle's A for Andromeda. [2020] | ||
| ⠀ | Stalker | 10 | 1979 | SciFi, Tarkovsky | RU | best | Though this is generally an inane genre, this is one of the best “existentialist” movies. It is amazing how much hidden (and not so much) ideological subversion the USSR let Tarkovsky get away with. | ||
| SW-4 | Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace | 6 | 1999 | SciFi | EN | ||||
| SW-5 | Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones | 6 | 2002 | SciFi | EN | ||||
| SW-6 | Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith | 6 | 2005 | SciFi | EN | ||||
| ⠀ | SW-7 | Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens | 4 | 2017 | 2015 | SciFi | EN | Very boring, SJwish consoomer trash that is going down the gutter because of Russian Nazis (who else?) bombing reviews. [2017] | |
| ⠀ | ST-1 | Starship Troopers | 7 | 2018 | 1997 | SciFi, Verhoeven | EN | While Heinlein’s original is ultimately a celebration of martial values, the movie is instead a satire on war and patriotism in the style of a Hollywood sci-fi B movie. It accomplishes what it sets out to do. [2018] | |
| Super Size Me | 4 | 2020 | 2004 | Documentary | EN | ||||
| T-1 | The Terminator | 7 | 1984 | SciFi, AI | EN | ||||
| T-2 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 9 | 1991 | SciFi, AI, Cameron | EN | best | |||
| T-3 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | 6 | 2003 | SciFi, AI | EN | ||||
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre | 4 | 2003 | Horror | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | Threads | 9 | 1984 | SciFi, Disaster | EN | best | This BBC semi-documentary on the after effects of nuclear war is better than any nuclear apocalypse movie. Just watch it already. | ||
| Titanic | 7 | 1997 | Drama | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | To Live | 3 | 1994 | History | CN | Look, I am obviously not a fan of Maoism, but this is just propaganda. Might be a good movie if made less overt. | |||
| ⠀ | Total Recall | 8 | 1990 | SciFi, Schwarzenegger | EN | good | Perhaps the best Schwarzenegger movie. “You haven’t been told enough to think.” | ||
| Tremors | 6 | 1990 | Horror | EN | |||||
| True Lies | 7 | 1994 | Action, Schwarzenegger | EN | |||||
| Twins | 6 | 1988 | Comedy, Schwarzenegger | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | US-2 | Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | 7 | 1995 | Action | EN | “Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.” | ||
| U-1 | Underworld | 7 | 2003 | Horror, Vampires | EN | ||||
| U-2 | Underworld: Evolution | 5 | 2006 | Horror, Vampires | EN | ||||
| U-3 | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | 4 | 2009 | Horror, Vampires | EN | ||||
| Valhalla Rising | 4 | 2009 | History | EN | |||||
| ⭐ | The Wandering Earth | 5 | 2019 | 2019 | SciFi | CN | reviewed | See main review. Chinese sci-fi makes its big debut on the world cinematographic stage – but falls flat on characterization. | |
| Wanted | 6 | 2008 | Action | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | THE WALKING DEAD (2010-2022) | 5 | ~2010 | 2022 | TV, Horror, Zombies | EN | Forgettable zombie horror. * Season 1 - Rating: 5. (2012, 2010) |
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| ⭐ | WHEEL OF TIME (2021+) | 2 | 2021 | TV, Fantasy | EN | reviewed | Amazing butchering of Robert Jordan's masterpiece; actually fun to watch on account of the sheer cringe, like with Uwe Boll movies. * Season 1 - See main review. Rating: 2 (2021, 2021) * Season 2 - Rating: 3. (2023, 2023). |
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| White Sun of the Desert | 8 | 1970 | Drama | RU | good | ||||
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 7 | 1971 | Comedy, Fantasy | EN | |||||
| ⠀ | THE WITCHER (2019+) | 6 | 2023 | TV, Fantasy | EN | good | Pros: Perfectly caste Geralt of Rivia. Cons: Mostly bad dialogue, many cringe moments. Gratuitous enforcement of diversity quotas killed immersion. * Season 1 - Rating: 6. (2020, 2019). * Season 2 - Rating: 6. (2023, 2021). |
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| Wolf of Wall Street | 9 | 2017 | 2013 | Drama | EN | best | |||
| ⠀ | World War Z | 4 | 2013 | 2013 | Horror, Zombies | EN | Brooks had deserved success with the Zombie Survival Guide, and milked it for all it was worth with the mediocre World War Z. The film is not significantly better. While the visuals are memorable, it is riddled with massive plot holes and colored by painfully obvious and belabored propaganda of progressivism and Zionism. | ||
| xXx | 5 | 2002 | Action | EN | |||||
| YERMAK (1996) | 8 | ~1998 | 1996 | TV, History | RU | good |