March 3, 2023

The Morning Show: Season 3 (2023) ***

The Idol (2023) ***





Stylish, a bit pretentious, but mesmerizing TV series about a pop singer on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (2023) ***

Chris Rock gets a sweet revenge on Will Smith for that Oscar's slap.

Life On Our Planet (2023) ***

Influence (2023) ***

Daisy Jones And The Six (2023) ***

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (2023) ***

Netflix documentary mini-series that proposes three far-fetched conspiracy theories that try to explain the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014.

The Crown: Season 6 (2023) ***

Succession: Season 4 (2023) ***

Machine Gunner (2023) ***

Madoff: The Monster Of Wall Street (2023) ***

Excellent documentary about the infamous Ponzi scheme that rocked the very foundations of Wall Street.

The Last Of Us: Season 1 (2023) ***

A TV series quite unlike "The Walking Dead". More like "Very, very fast-moving dead".

Colored (2023) ***

Aka: "Colored: The Unknown Life Of Claudette Colvin" and "Noire: la vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin". 32 minutes. A virtual reality film about a little known, 15-year-old heroine of the Civil Rights movement. A coproduction between France and Taiwan.

Over The Rainbow (2023) ***

Experimental VR short from Taiwan, directed by Craig Quintero.

Mondes disparus (2023) ****

Fargo: Season 5 (2023) ***

February 2, 2023

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023) **

Reptile (2023) **

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) **

Priscilla (2023) **

Flamin’ Hot (2023) **

After "Barbie", "BlackBerry", "Air" (about Nike's Air Jordan sneakers) and "Ferrari", here's another "Corporate Product Movie" from 2023, this one about Frito Lay's Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

Wish (2023) **

One could wish for a better film.

The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023) **

Maestro (2023) **

The Creator (2023) **

Air (2023) **

The story of Nike's Air Jordan sneakers.

Napoleon (2023) **

Uneven historical drama. The first half is quite good, but after Austerlitz, the film becomes repetitive and dull.

To Kill A Tiger (2023) **

January 1, 2023

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (2023) *

Ferrari (2023) *

Very dull and very boring.

Nyad (2023) *

American Symphony (2023) *

Dream Scenario (2023) *

All Of Us Strangers (2023) *

Strange supernatural film about a gay man who meets his dead parents.

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) *

Overrated, uneven, and confusing action movie with way too many dull moments.

December 31, 2022

Top 200 Films Of All Times

1. "La Règle du jeu" (1939, Jean Renoir, France)

2. "Singin' In The Rain" (1952, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, MGM)

3. "The Million Ryo Pot" (1935, Sadao Yamanaka, Japan)

4. "GoodFellas" (1990, Martin Scorsese, Warner)

5. ''City Of God'' (2003, Fernando Meirelles, Brazil)

6. "The Masseurs And A Woman" (1938, Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan)

7. "Y tu mama tambien" (2001, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico)

8. "A Canterbury Tale" (1944, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK)

9. "Metropolitan" (1990, Whit Stillman, New Line)

10. "Arigato-san" (1936, Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan)

11. "Citizen Kane" (1941, Orson Welles, RKO) 

12. "The General" (1926, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, United Artists)

13. "Perfect Days" (2023, Wim Wenders, Japan)

14. "La Grande Bellezza" (2013, Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)

15. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941, John Huston, Warner)

16. "Ziemia obiecana" (1975, Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

17. ''Apocalypto'' (2006, Mel Gibson, Disney)

18. ''Andrei Rublev'' (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)

19. "Giliap" (1975, Roy Andersson, Sweden)

20. ''The Godfather'' (1972, Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount)

21. "Potemkin" (1925, Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union)

22. "Casablanca" (1943, Michael Curtiz, Warner)

23. "8 1/2" (1963, Federico Fellini, Italy)

24. "The 47 Ronin: Part 1" (1941, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)

25. "Never Look Away" (2018, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)

26. "In Bruges" (2008, Martin McDonagh, UK)

27. "Pulp Fiction" (1994, Quentin Tarantino, Miramax)

28. "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc" (1928, Carl T. Dreyer, France)

29. "The 47 Ronin: Part 2" (1942, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)

30. "Eastern Promises" (2007, David Cronenberg, UK)

31. ''Blow Up'' (1966, Michalangelo Antonioni, UK)

32. "Dr Strangelove" (1964, Stanley Kubrick, Columbia)

33. "King Kong" (1933, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, RKO)

34. "Parasite" (2019, Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)

35. "Brazil" (1985, Terry Gilliam, UK)

36. ''The Silence'' (1963, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

37. ''L.A. Confidential'' (1997, Curtis Hanson, Warner)

38. ''Mulholland Drive'' (2001, David Lynch, Universal)

39. "The Palm Beach Story" (1942, Preston Sturges, Paramount)

40. "The Seven Samurai" (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

41. ''Pasazerka" (1963, Andrzej Munk, Poland)

42. "Collateral" (2004, Michael Mann, Paramount)

43. "The Big Sleep" (1946, Howard Hawks, Warner) 

44. "The French Dispatch" (2021, Wes Anderson, Fox)

45. "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" (2004, Alfonso Cuaron, Warner)

46. "Valerie a tyden divu" (1970, Jaromil Jires, Czechoslovakia)

47. "Rear Window" (1954, Alfred Hitchcock, Paramount)

48. "Pinocchio" (1940, Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, RKO)

49. ''The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'' (1988, Philip Kaufman, Orion)

50. "Les Enfants du paradis" (1945, Marcel Carné, France)

51. ''The Terminator'' (1984, James Cameron, Orion)


52. "His Girl Friday" (1940, Howard Hawks, Columbia)

53. "Get Shorty" (1995, Barry Sonnenfeld, USA)

54. ''The Stunt Man'' (1980, Richard Rush, 20th Century-Fox)

55. "Gone With The Wind" (1939, Victor Fleming, MGM)

56. "Meet Me In St.Louis" (1944, Vincente Minnelli, MGM)

57. "Wild Strawberries" (1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

58. "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" (1981, Steven Spielberg, Paramount)

59. "Laura" (1944, Otto Preminger, 20th Century-Fox)

60. ''Underground'' (1995, Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia)

61. "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946, Frank Capra, RKO)

62. ''Fight Club'' (1999, David Fincher, 20th Century-Fox)

63. "Midnight" (1939, Mitchell Leisen, Paramount)

64. "About Dry Grasses" (2023, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)


65. "The Birth Of A Nation" (1915, D.W.Griffith, USA)

66. ''Barry Lyndon'' (1975, Stanley Kubrick, Warner)

67. "The Band Wagon" (1953, Vincente Minnelli, MGM)

68. ''Onibaba'' (1964, Kaneto Shindô, Japan)

69. ''Chinatown'' (1974, Roman Polanski, Paramount)

70. "Bringing Up Baby" (1938, Howard Hawks, RKO)

71. "Metropolis" (1927, Fritz Lang, Germany)

72. "Groundhog Day" (1993, Harold Ramis, Columbia)

73. "Some Like It Hot" (1959, Billy Wilder, United Artists)

74. "Son Of Saul" (2015, Laszlo Nemes, Hungary)

75. "Gravity" (2013, Alfonso Cuaron, Warner)

76. "Manhattan" (1979, Woody Allen, United Artists)

77. "Duck Soup" (1933, Leo McCarey, Paramount)

78. ''Blade Runner'' (1982, Ridley Scott, Warner)

79. ''Of Freaks And Men'' (1998, Aleksei Balabanov, Russia)

80. "High Noon" (1952, Fred Zinnemann, United Artists)

81. "Kynodontas" (2010, Giorgos Lanthimos, Greece)

82. "M" (1931, Fritz Lang, Germany)

83. "Anora" (2024, Sean Baker, USA)

84. "Yojimbo" (1961, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

85. "Pandora's Box" (1929, G.W. Pabst, Germany)

86. ''Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom'' (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)

87. "Les Vampires" (1915, Louis Feuillade, France)

88. "Top Hat" (1935, Mark Sandrich, RKO)

89. "The Gunfighter" (1950, Henry King, 20th Century-Fox)

90. "Love Me Tonight" (1932, Rouben Mamoulian, Paramount)

91. ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994, Peter Jackson, New Zealand)

92. "Swing Time" (1936, George Stevens, RKO)

93. "Lucia" (1968, Humberto Solas, Cuba)


94. ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988, Stephen Frears, Warner)

95. "It Happened One Night" (1934, Frank Capra, Columbia)

96. "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993, Kenneth Branagh, USA)

97. "The Searchers" (1956, John Ford, Warner)

98. "Zimna wojna" (2018, Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland)

99. "Peking Opera Blues" (1986, Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)

100. ''Alien'' (1979, Ridley Scott, 20th Century-Fox)

101. "Sunrise" (1927, F.W. Murnau, Fox)

102. "A Love Story" (1970, Roy Andersson, Sweden)

103. "The Thin Man" (1934, W.S. Van Dyke, MGM)

104. ''The Chekist'' (1992, Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russia)

105. "One Battle After Another" (2025, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)

106. "The President" (1919, Carl T. Dreyer, Denmark)

107. "An Inn In Tokyo" (1935, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)

108. "Singapore Sling" (1990, Nikos Nikolaidis, Greece)

109. ''Blue Velvet'' (1986, David Lynch, USA)

110. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968, Stanley Kubrick, USA)

111. "Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears" (1980, Vladimir Menshov, Soviet Union)

112. "Le Genou de Claire" (1970, Eric Rohmer, France)

113. "À bout de souffle" (1960, Jean-Luc Godard, France) 

114. "My Life As A Dog" (1987, Lasse Hallstrom, Sweden)

115. ''Last Tango In Paris'' (1973, Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

116. "Historias del desencanto" (2005, Alejandro Valle, Felipe Gómez, Mexico)

117. "Now, Voyager" (1942, Irving Rapper, USA)

118. "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988, Charles Crichton, UK)

119. "The Edge" (2010, Aleksey Uchitel, Russia) 

120. "Smoking / No smoking" (1993, Alain Resnais, France)

121. ''La Maman et la putain'' (1973, Jean Eustache, France)

122. ''Married To The Mob'' (1988, Jonathan Demme, USA)

123. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950, Billy Wilder, USA)

124. "Memento" (2001, Christopher Nolan, USA)

125. "The Man With A Movie Camera" (1929, Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union)

126. "Ema" (2019, Pablo Larrain, Chile)

127. "Fantasia" (1940, Walt Disney, Disney)

128. "Vertigo" (1958, Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

129. "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939, Victor Fleming, MGM)

130. "Die Parallelstrasse" (1962, Ferdinand Khittl, Germany)

131. "The Wayward Cloud" (2005, Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)

132. "The Last Laugh" (1924, F.W. Murnau, Germany)

133. "The Third Man" (1949, Carol Reed, UK)

134. "Wetlands" (2013, David Wnendt, Germany)

135. "Los Olvidados" (1950, Luis Bunuel, Mexico)

136. "Dear Comrades" (2020, Andrey Konchalovsky, Russia)

137. "The Oyster Princess" (1919, Ernst Lubitsch, Germany)

138. ''The Silence Of The Lambs'' (1991, Jonathan Demme, USA)

139. "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" (1937, David Hand, Disney)

140. ''Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors'' (1965, Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union)

141. "Star Wars" (1977, George Lucas, USA)

142. "Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame" (2007, Hana Makhmalbaf, Iran)

143. "The Gold Rush" (1925, Charles Chaplin, USA)

144. "The Killing" (1956, Stanley Kubrick, USA)

145. "A Separation" (2011, Asghar Farhadi, Iran)

146. "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947, Charles Chaplin, USA)

147. ''Amadeus'' (1984, Milos Forman, USA)

148. "Intolerance" (1916, D.W.Griffith, USA)

149. "Stars At Noon" (2022, Claire Denis, France)

150. ''The Nasty Girl'' (1990, Michael Verhoeven, Germany)

151. "La Grande Illusion" (1937, Jean Renoir, France)

152. "The Cremator" (1969, Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia)

153. "Melissa P" (2005, Luca Guadagnino, Italy)

154. "Sherlock Jr" (1924, Buster Keaton, USA)

155. "La Vie d'Adèle" (2013, Abdellatif Kechiche, France)

156. "The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp" (1943, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK)

157. "Stalag 17" (1953, Billy Wilder, USA)

158. "A Page Of Madness" (1926, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan)

159. "1917" (2019, Sam Mendes, Universal)

160. "Yolanda And The Thief" (1945, Vincente Minnelli, USA)

161. "A Star Athlete" (1937, Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan)

162. "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" (2019, Quentin Tarantino, USA)

163. ''Meet The Feebles'' (1989, Peter Jackson, New Zealand)

164. "The Sky's The Limit" (1943, Edward H. Griffith, USA)

165. "Cabaret" (1972, Bob Fosse, USA)

166. ''Children Of Men'' (2006, Alfonso Cuaron, UK)

167. "Birds Orphans And Fools" (1969, Juraj Jakubisko, Czechoslovakia)

168. "Dr Mabuse" (1922, Fritz Lang, Germany)

169. "Call Me By Your Name" (2017, Luca Guadagnino, USA)

170. "Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown" (1988, Pedro Almodovar, Spain)

171. "Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie" (1972, Luis Bunuel, France)

172. ''Wild Things'' (1998, John McNaughton, USA)

173. "Alice In Wonderland" (1951, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, USA)

174. "Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" (2002, Peter Jackson, New Zealand)

175. "Dancing w kwaterze Hitlera" (1968, Jan Batory, Poland)

176. "Post Tenebras Lux" (2012, Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)

177. "Rio Bravo" (1959, Howard Hawks, USA)

178. ''Sideways'' (2004, Alexander Payne, USA)

179. "Nosferatu" (1922, F.W. Murnau, Germany)

180. "Queen Of The Gypsies" (1976, Emil Loteanu, Soviet Union)

181. "The Lady Eve" (1941, Preston Sturges, Paramount)

182. ''Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle'' (1967, Jean-Luc Godard, France)

183. "The Killer" (1989, John Woo, Hong Kong)

184. "The Gay Divorcee" (1934, Mark Sandrich, RKO)

185. "Safety Last!" (1923, Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Pathe)

186. "La Stella del cinema" (1931, Mario Almirante, Italy)

187. "It's A Great Feeling" (1949, David Butler, USA)

188. ''Weekend'' (1967, Jean-Luc Godard, France)

189. "Tabu" (1931, F.W. Murnau, Paramount)

190. "Rifkin's Festival" (2020, Woody Allen, Spain)

191. "The Edge Of Seventeen" (2017, Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)

192. "Annie Hall" (1977, Woody Allen, USA)

193. "The Longest Nite" (1998, Patrick Yau, Hong Kong)

194. "My Dinner With André" (1981, Louis Malle, USA)

195. ''The Player'' (1992, Robert Altman, USA)

196. "Czlowiek z marmuru" (1977, Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

197. "Ceux qui font les revolutions" (2017, Mathieu Denis, Simon Lavoie, Canada)

198. "All About Eve" (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)

199. "Sex and Fury" (1973, Norifumi Suzuki, Japan)

200. "Timbuktu" (2014, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauretania)