The “hollywood dream” subgenre has some amazing movies that are legendary. Except they’re all almost entirely sad. Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard, Sullivan’s Travels, Birdman, Boogie Nights, A ...

The Silence of the Lambs is, for the most part, a pretty straightforward movie. But it does have two bits of subtext I think ...

We Live in Time is a sad one, huh? For nearly two hours, it uses every trick in the book to make us care about Almut and ...

Like most movie adaptations of books, Sam Esmail made a few major changes to Rumaan Alam’s novel. These can be relatively ...

Barry Lyndon’s themes, ending, meaning, real-life application, and more Inferiority When trying to figure out a movie’s theme ...

Sixth Sense and Fight Club era where psychological thrillers with twists were at a premium. From 2000-2008, before the new ...

The end of Joker: Folie á Deux really begins following the assault by the guards and the death of Arthur’s fellow inmate and friend, Ricky. The assault itself is a full circle moment, as we find out ...

This is a live list of all the movies I’ve watched since beginning this list in 2022. A lot of older movies won’t make the list until I rewatch them. The movies within a tier are in alphabetical order ...