• One Sings, the Other Doesn't
  • A Man Escaped
  • School Daze
  • The Philadelphia Story

New York Film Critics Circle at the Paris

The Paris Theater is thrilled to announce the return of our screening series in partnership with the New York Film…

  • Silent Partner
  • One Trick Pony
  • Diva
  • Personal Best
  • Evil Under the Sun
  • Love Letters
  • Wetherby
  • The Official Story
  • Back to the Beach
  • Happy New Year

Opposable Thumbs by Matt Singer Appendix Recommendations

Movies in the Appendix of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer. Buried Treasures that Siskel…

  • The Silent Partner
  • Simon Birch
  • Living Out Loud
  • Monsieur Hire
  • Back to the Beach

Opposable Thumbs By Matt Singer Recommendations Ranked

I recently listened to the audiobook of "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever". Let's rank the films I've…

  • The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Jaws
  • Wall Street
  • The Graduate
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Platoon
  • Man Push Cart
  • A Day at the Races
  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • Houdini
  • Ghostbusters
  • The Terminator
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • All of Me

A VERY GOOD YEAR #50- 1984 with Matt Singer

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  • Cabiria
  • The Birth of a Nation
  • Broken Blossoms
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Nosferatu
  • Nanook of the North
  • Souls for Sale
  • Safety Last!
  • The Last Laugh
  • Battleship Potemkin

Roger Ebert's 3.5-4.0 Rated Movies

The list has been updated with Ebert's ratings, links to all the reviews plus a few selected quotes.

  • Psycho II
  • 2010: The Year We Make
  • Return to Oz
  • The Color of Money
  • The Godfather Part III
  • The Two Jakes
  • Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
  • The Odd Couple II
  • Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
  • Rocky Balboa

Legacyquels

The „legacyquel“ or legacy sequel is a sequel that comes out a long time after the previous movie(s) and usually…

  • The Bouncer
  • Earth and Blood
  • Sentinelle
  • The Crew
  • The Informant
  • The Assault
  • Chrysalis

Julien Leclercq

Julien Leclercq perfected his formula in 2015's The Crew: minimalist work-focused thrillers with 1-3 word titles that feature the totemic…

  • First Cow
  • Nomadland
  • Lovers Rock
  • Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Wolfwalkers
  • David Byrne's American Utopia
  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  • Time
  • Minari

The Dissolve’s [UNOFFICIAL] Best Films of 2020

Happy New Year, Letterboxd! Y'know, I wasn't going to do this again, not because I don't enjoy it but because…

  • The Lighthouse
  • Parasite
  • A Hidden Life
  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  • Little Joe
  • It Must Be Heaven
  • Matthias & Maxime
  • Zombi Child
  • The Wild Goose Lake
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

CANNES 2019, RANKED

This s for everything I saw at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, from best to least-best. (Letterboxd has rightly refused…

  • if....
  • The Wild Bunch
  • Z
  • Adalen 31
  • Five Easy Pieces
  • M*A*S*H
  • My Night at Maud's
  • The ion of Anna
  • The Wild Child
  • Woodstock

Siskel and Ebert Top Ten List Films that Overlapped

Regardless of your personal feelings of them individually, when the late Gene Siskel and his colleague Roger Ebert agreed on…

  • Roma
  • Annihilation
  • First Reformed
  • Private Life
  • The Favourite
  • Burning
  •  the Girls
  • Eighth Grade
  • A Star Is Born
  • The Rider

The Dissolve's [UNOFFICIAL] Best Films of 2018

Here we are again, the end of another list-making season! For the third year in a row I've used extremely…