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A list by czyzewski on Film Reality

  1. Mulholland Drive (2001)
  2. Happy Together (1997)
  3. Incendies (2010)
  4. The Fly (1986)
  5. Zodiac (2007)
  6. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  7. Fight Club (1999)
  8. Amadeus (1984)
  9. Love, of Course (2018)
  10. almost tragic portrait of genius and envy
  11. very watchable film. Attractive
  12. Pi (1998)
  13. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
  14. Dogville (2003)
  15. The Deluge (1974)
  16. The Lighthouse (2019)
  17. Melancholia (2011)
  18. Knight of Cups (2015)
  19. Amour (2012)
  20. but they’re held so tightly within Haneke’s design that they rarely spill over into something messy or unpredictable. The pacing is immaculate
  21. it would be wrong to say it doesn’t land. It does—but not in the moment it’s happening. While watching it
  22. Caché still feels more alive—more volatile
  23. eXistenZ (1999)
  24. just a bit unevenly energised. Then the ending hits and suddenly the whole thing snaps into focus in a way that makes you rethink what you’ve just watched.
  25. Get Smart (2008)
  26. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  27. for all its formal brilliance
  28. punishment as spectacle
  29. so meticulously framed and so aesthetically distanced
  30. A Clockwork Orange feels less like an exploration of moral instability than like a demonstration of formal control masquerading as provocation. Everything is accounted for
  31. Breaking the Waves (1996)
  32. again and again
  33. not as part of a cumulative argument. The rest is pressure without progression.
  34. not manipulative in a simple sense
  35. La Notte (1961)
  36. Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
  37. as if structure itself is being refused on principle. But refusal alone doesn’t automatically produce meaning. The characters are abrasive to the point of near-opacity; not simply flawed or humanly difficult
  38. Sinatra: Singing at His Best
  39. fragments resist this collapse. A glance that lingers too long
  40. structurally underthought
  41. The Social Network (2010)
  42. very little feels alive. This is a story about people who should be bleeding with ambition
  43. Backrooms (2026)