Jake Gittes

it's not a fight.

I disliked this overall but the opening dance is the scene of the year.

Shyamalan is up there. Six 100m grossers, five not counting Glass, four not counting the 150m-budgeted Last Airbender. Not Eastwood level but still impressive.

a movie that's six weeks away from release.

Guilty of stupid look-at-me gimmickry until proven innocent.

1. The Irishman 2. Uncut Gems 3. Knives Out 4. The Lighthouse 5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 6. Marriage Story 7. Ford v Ferrari 8. First Cow 9. Tenet 10. Soul

This should be good for at least a low-teens opening and from there the holidays will help it leg it out to 50-70 total.

Hmmm probably still Assault on Precinct 13 although ITMOM has now been seen and it's pretty excellent. Need to rewatch Big Trouble in Little China now, it's been almost a decade.

me watching that trailer

Crazy excited for this.

Didn't have enough for a full top 30 but this should do. 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Heavenly Creatures 3. The Hudsucker Proxy 4. Chungking Express 5. U.S. Go Home 6. Ed Wood 7. Hoop Dreams 8. Cold Water 9. The Last Seduction 10. In the Mouth of Madness 11. Speed 12. Muriel's Wedding 13. Little Odessa 14. Eat Drink Man Woman 15. The Lion King 16. True Lies 17. Crooklyn 18. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 19. Giorgino 20. Shallow Grave 21. Spanking the Monkey 22. River of Grass 23. The Shawshank Redemption 24. Street Fighter 25. Bullets Over Broadway

Well he also clearly doesn't understand how art, cinema, criticism, class, and the human brain work so what'd you expect from him.

Yep sure this makes a lot of sense.

1. Barry Lyndon 2. Chinatown 3. Cabaret figure out the rest later.

Dark, dark day.

I'll send tomorrow. Been catching up with some previously unseen stuff. Hoop Dreams, The Last Seduction, Cold Water all excellent, top 10 material. Still have time to do Eat Drink Man Woman and In the Mouth of Madness.

Congrats and thanks to y'all for being such worthy competition, even if there's unfortunately fewer of us than in previous years. @MrPink I shall await your revenge.

20th Century Women one of the best of the decade.

Awwwww yeah that's the stuff.

It died and came back in a nightmare zombie version.