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The Top 20 Movies of the 2020s
Here are our 20 favorite movies of the 2020s so far. Also, our show The Extra Credits ranked the best movies of 2023 below!
Luca Guadagnino Ranked and Challengers DEEP DIVE!
We explore the convincing cinematic power of Luca Guadagnino’s filmography and the thrilling tease of his newest film Challengers.
Alex Garland's 'Civil War' Deep Dive Podcast!
Alex Garland's 'Civil War' Disappoints as a Politically Unchallenging Anti-War Movie.
'DUNE: PART TWO' GRANDFATHER DEEP DIVE!
Denis Villeneuve's past decade of filmmaking is legendary and the ambitious Dune: Part Two is as politically radical and grand in scope as some of his best work. Here is our ranking of his movies; you can follow our podcast to hear several explorations of his emotionally meticulous and conceptually challenging allegories.
2024 Oscar Nominations Reaction Podcast!
Kelsi and Trey discuss the Oscar nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, led by Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer', Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Poor Things', Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon', and Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie'. We explore all the surprises and talk about what the greatest snubs were!
David Fincher’s Movies Ranked
Kelsi and Trey examine the 30-year project of David Fincher's movies and how his most recent film 'The Killer' (no spoilers) adds to the mind games of his filmography. Check out our Letterboxd list of Fincher movies ranked and then listen to our episode about his depraved filmography!
Martin Scorsese Ranked!
When the measured genocide of the Osage Nation is seen through Mollie’s (Lily Gladstone) eyes, the movie triumphs. However, when the film turns into a misplaced internal battle of white guilt in courtrooms and jail cells with mostly no Osage people in sight, the movie suffers. Read our review here.
Paul Thomas Anderson Ranked & Why 'Phantom Thread' is a Masterpiece
Phantom Thread is revered as a hilarious meditation on the cost of romance; it’s also knocked as a film lost in the fantasy of a tortured genius (insert a very-whiny Reynolds Woodcock “fuck off”).
Lists
Luca Guadagnino 8 films
Alfonso Cuarón 9 films
2023 90 films
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If I had a nickel for every time James Franco was killed offscreen and shown again through old video footage in a 2010s revival franchise sequel l'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice 2 films
The Extra Credits+ 20 films
Patreon deep dives organized from earliest to newest!
2020s 20 films
Our podcast The Extra Credits ranks our 20 favorite movies of 2023 here!
Liked lists
Challengers Coded
Sean Fennessey 59 films
My Ever-Changing Top 100 💎
Marshall 🧸 100 films
Children of Men: A Look Dystopian Films
CineNation Podcast 115 films
IndieWire’s 65 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century
Mitchell Beaupre 65 films
RANKED: Nicole Kidman | Movies
Steffi 60 films
Big Picture Lawyer Movie Draft
Movie McMoverson 49 films
Recent reviews
The early Apes films and the Romero “of the Dead” franchise makes contemporary sci-fi/dystopia look so wildly sanitized.
Wow, what a supremely silly flip on the Planet of the Apes lore while still totally in its political bag. Kim Hunter as Dr. Zira is a feminist icon and I teared up at the end—this ape shit isn’t a game for me!
It’s insane that each time I walk out of a Planet of the Apes movie I think to myself: “I would die for these apes.”
I need to revisit I Saw the TV Glow because people I trust adore it and my rough day at work may have affected my time with it. There is intoxicating camera work and powerful sound mixing here that delivers; Jane Schoenbrun and their team obviously have a stylistic knack for crafting an upsetting, magnetic MTV-IN-HELL atmosphere. The narrative’s attention to otherness and the seduction of media to both liberate and repress is impressively disorienting—along with a few moments of…
Liked reviews
The last thing I expected Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes to be "about" was a probing meditation on the danger of history, legacy and myth as tools to empower or destroy, doing what great sci-fi does: reflect our greatest concerns back at us. Josh Friedman and Wes Ball elegantly nestle their ideas in a sweeping action-spectacle that's the greatest feat of big-budget digital filmmaking since The Way of Water. There are flaws, but this is close to everything…
I rewatched CONTAGION on my flight to London, got freaked out when people started coughing after I finished watching, and then immediately turned on THE WEDDING SINGER.
I love this movie. T loves this movie. We recently celebrated his third birthday and Monster’s University was the theme—it was a hit. I think it’s a nice little idea for a prequel. My only issue is that, in terms of accuracy and consistency with Monster’s Inc., Sulley and Mikey (that’s the only way we refer to Mike in this house) have known each other since they were kids—they didn’t meet for the first time in college. Early in Monster’s…
Truly impossible to imagine a major studio allowing a movie to end this way today.
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