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The original animated Lilo & Stitch is in a Disney blind spot for me so I don't have any thoughts on how this compares to that, but I was legitimately charmed by this.

The film opens with a sequence in space featuring a cast of completely alien characters generated in a level of CGI that is clearly intended to be considered "live action" but doesn't feel anywhere close to believable. The writing of this sequence was juvenile and I immediately started to think, "Ooof, this is going to be a rough watch" but soon after Stitch's journey to Earth begins we are introduced to the human cast of the film and the tide IMMEDIATELY turns.

Sydney Agudong and Maia Kealoha are both exceptional as Nani and Lilo respectively bringing heart, charm, and humor that helps ground the film amid the sci-fi antics of their soon-to-be pet, Stitch.

This is clearly a film made for children and as such there were a ton of jokes and slapstick gags that just weren't "for me" but the film as a whole is lovingly made and genuinely moving. It is certainly in the upper tier of Disney's live action remakes and has a great shot of being a massive hit a result this summer.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Epitome of a plane movie....extremely hammy dialogue and acting but the story is compelling enough to keep you watching in-between flight announcements and ordering your ginger ale.

This ending though??? RUDE AS HELL.

I kind of thought the whole thing was building up to a mea culpa that somehow still helped him avoid jail time but....NOPE. Instead, Eastwood "make it up for yourself." Yes, sir.

What originally struck me in the trailers as feeling like more of the same old, same old actually ended up being the MCU's best effort in several years! This collection of mostly unremarkable ing characters somehow all really gel into something special together and tell a story that is...dare I say...poignant??

And even though this is marketed as a major ensemble film, Florence Pugh's Yelena is the clear star and she proves yet again why she's become one of the most dominant actresses of the decade. I would happily watch hours of her and David Harbour together doing their crazy-ass Russian accents.

Some of the proceedings here still feel a little half-baked but enough of the mold has been broken to make this a perfectly entertaining summer romp. And though I try to avoid praising or overhyping post-credit scenes (especially in a movie that is otherwise quite contained from pimping 10 other projects) this movie ends with one that seems like it will ACTUALLY be delivered upon unlike almost every other MCU flick since Endgame. Is their mojo fully back? Only time will tell. But this is a step in the right direction.

A perfectly silly tribute to one of my favorite TV series of all time.

20th anniversary re-release tonight with a surprisingly PACKED house of film lovers including some young ones behind us who dared to mention how excited they were to see this on the big screen "because they were BORN IN 2009 AND MISSED IT THE FIRST TIME."

Kill me.

20 years later the dialogue and acting are still pretty atrocious but this thing MOVES and delivers everything the prequels were designed to give us including an all-timer lightsaber battle over a field of lava.

A new development 20 years later though is that the audience now laughs and cheers when Anakin kills the kids?? I hate it here.

An absolute banger of a film. Incredible slow burn that eventually erupts into a red hot blaze of glory.

THIS CAST. Not a weak link to be found. Delroy! Hailee! Li Jun Li! Michael B. Jordan x 2!! All absolutely killed it.

I cannot wait to revisit this story.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Monday April 14, 2025.

Lots of online discourse about whether this Iraq war tale is propaganda or not and I'm finding myself landing on the decidedly NOT side of the argument. In fact, I found it shockingly devoid of attempting to glamorize the soldiers or their mission at all. The first act is devoted to slavishly documenting the mundane and technical work of the troops until they fall under attack and that business-like work becomes mixed with the chaos of battle and the struggle to just survive.

By playing out in a tight 90 minutes of real time and depicting a battle that ultimately has no clear victor or impact on the war as a whole the film completely skirts anything remotely close to a political point of view and keeps the focus exclusively on these men and the workings of a professional solider.

The film is impeccably made on a technical level and the handsome young ensemble cast gets us through the harrowing 90 minutes with an impressive group performance.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Finally saw the "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone" version of this and while largely unsubstantial in of changes, I GREATLY prefer the original ending with the full montage of memories of Mary, Apollonia, and Kay all dancing with him before he dies. It just doesn't hit the same without that IMHO.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Hands down Mom of the Year but I NEED TO KNOW that she also stayed in Italy rather than go back to her trash ass husband. Bonus points if she gets to have a fling with her daughter's handsome new father-in-law.

I quite enjoyed this even though I was constantly in fear of it going wildly off the tracks due to its potentially tricky subject matter. Didn't necessarily think a film from the early 60s would handle this kind of story with this much grace but consider me impressed. It's delicate stuff and I think this was remarkably well done.

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.

A childhood favorite that I always find shocking how much its kind of been forgetting by pop culture. Visually stunning with vibrant colors, incredible songs from Stephen Sondheim, and an incredible cast (Al Pacino at his most Al Pacino), I find this an infectious joy to watch 35 years later.

There are plenty of interesting ideas in here that are unfortunately bogged down by a mess of unnecessary subplots/side characters that make what could have been a taut and thought-provoking piece of science fiction feel tedious.

Points for Bong Joon Ho's visual style and Pattinson's performance but so much else just doesn't quite gel.

A perfect Sunday afternoon at the movies with this one. Sleek, sexy, smart, well-acted, and a tight 90 minutes? We don't deserve that kind of goodness!
There are scenes in here (both dinner parties and the polygraph sequence) where Soderbergh is absolutely COOKING and it's a joy to watch unfold.

Despite becoming an internet punching bag, this latest Disney live action remake is actually quite successful on a lot of fronts! Rachel Zegler is a star and boldly leads the film as Snow White re-imagined as a brave non-violent anti-fascist and we simply have no choice but to stan.

The original songs and updates to a few classics are (mostly) catchy and beautifully performed while the production design and cinematography pop with the kind of vibrant colors you want to see in a fairy tale like this.

The screenplay occasionally stumbles into purely wooden territory and Gal Gadot leaves a little something to be desired as the evil Queen. One wonders what a true camp diva could have done with the role and perhaps pushed the movie as a whole across the line toward greatness.

The dwarfs are of course goofy as hell but less disturbing than maybe initially feared and at the end of the day kids are going to love them.

Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella remains the undefeated champ of these remakes but this one could have been far, far worse.

Watched on Thursday March 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday February 20, 2025.

I think the most damning thing I can say about this is that I just really don't have much to say about this. It just kind of...exists and inspires neither excitement nor hatred. It's clearly been worked, reworked, and then reworked again into something able but far from memorable.

I would die for Danny Ramirez though.

Delightful little doc about the ill famed Star Wars Holiday Special that puts it in the proper context of 70s culture (TV variety shows were mostly ALL bad - this wasn't a lone fluke) while also celebrating the let's-try-anything-and-be-ok-with-failure side of art.

I knew going in that this was a "Chapter 1" of an intended multi-part saga, but I really don't think I fully grasped how little relation this would have to an actual stand-alone film.

This is TELEVISION. Dozens of characters (many who never meet) across multiple locations and not a single one of them seems to have a complete arc of any kind in this so-called "Chapter 1". The thing just barrels along like a soap opera and then inexplicably ends with no buildup or climax by cutting to what we are led to believe is a montage of footage from the next chapter even though it is never identified as such.

In all fairness, there are a few intriguing storylines, some gorgeous visuals of the American west, and decent performances. I just wish it was something more closely resembling a movie.

Ok, wow. I wasn't aware it was still allowed to make delightful, sexy, somewhat thrilling rom-coms.

This pretty much had me hooked from the jump and kept me guessing how it was going to turn out. And THAT I definitely did not see coming.

I have seen the face of god and it is the knife fight that happens about 18 minutes into John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.

Just pure insanity captured on film.

There are moments in this that made me wonder, "Is this relenting action on the verge of feeling tired?"

The answer was "No." It just fucking rules.

Keanu Reeves and Common taking shots at each other in a busy NYC station while no one around them bats an eye will now live forever rent free in my brain.

As with the first film, this is just exquisitely done action and storytelling and it's hard to look away from.

I can also never praise enough the fact that the night scenes are still vividly lit making it easy to see (and shocker...enjoy!) everything happening. Can the rest of the film and TV please take some notes here on how it's done?

That little Lukas Gage twist jumped up and got me good.

This is an extremely fun thriller and I genuinely respective for holding to it's robot rules so tightly and creatively.

I think it could probably stand to move a little faster but in general this was a gas.

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

Beautiful movie about a truly exceptional woman and mother. I found myself quite moved by the end and wowed by Fernanda Torres' work.

And don't even get me started on the dog.

Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday February 4, 2025.

Was not expecting this to be so....horse-centric??

But I'm always down for a Thelma Ritter t. Just wish she didn't disappear halfway through the middle of this one. But I guess when you still have Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach sharing the screen you get over it.

There's a lot of interesting things going on in here, I'm just not entirely sure they all come together cohesively. But like I said you can always certainly do worse than watch this cast play under John Huston's direction.

If I'm being honest, the best thing this did for me was make me want to watch 'A Mighty Wind' again.

It's all lovingly crafted and acted but the screenplay felt frankly half baked to me with virtually every story line from his romances, his place in folk music, and his relationship with his idols feeling both rushed and occasionally forgotten.

Maybe they should have considered making Bob an ape.

Deeply inferior to Billy Wilder's other examination of sex and infidelity in NYC - The Apartment - this Marilyn Monroe romcom is unfortunately too often bogged down in just watching a borderline obnoxious man talk to himself about cheating on his wife.

There are some genuine laughs scattered throughout and the proceedings pick up anytime Marilyn is on screen but it's clear that this is a story better told on the stage than the silver screen.

Just two broads singing songs, boozin', and trying to lock down some rich as hell men....or just an entire Olympic team. I WANT TO HANG OUT WITH THEM SO BAD.

This movie is the definition of fluff but oh what fluff it is! Eye-popping technicolor, hilarious one-liners, and deliciously crafted musical numbers: this is cinematic candy at its finest.

This clear attempt to make a Hitchcockian thriller has some stunning Technicolor photography of Niagara Falls but the narrative is a little bit of a mess. The story lacks a clear main protagonist or antagonist which could maybe be interesting with a sharper screenplay but as is just kind of stumbles along hoping we care about someone....anyone. SPOILER: I didn't.

I did scream though when Polly almost feel over the wooden railing of that walking bride.

Holy shit. Watching this with no idea of what the story is was WILD. Like genuinely crazy wild and seemingly way ahead of its time.

Never seen Marilyn Monroe in a role quite this unhinged but she really nails it.

Highly recommend for 75 minutes of unexpected tension. I promise you won't guess where this thing goes.

Not sure my brain will ever fully process Sebastian Stan convincingly going from sex-on-a-stick Winter Solder to Donald fucking Trump but here we are. His every head, mouth, hand, and body movement completely embodied our worst president ever and I'm pretty bowled over by it. That Oscar nomination is very well earned.

Same goes for Jeremy Strong who pulls out all of the stops for his depiction of Roy Cohn.

I just wish the rest of the film around them mustered the same level of ion and interest. Sure, I guess it's interesting to see how Trump became the monster that he is but it feels perhaps only an inch deep and plays like every other biopic you've ever seen. I was hoping for something maybe a little punchier, a little funnier, and a little more risque but it just feels slightly like it's holding back. Roy Cohn would not approve.

Not every joke lands and some of the writing feels borderline lazy BUT Keke Palmer and SZA have so much charisma and natural humor that this is never not entertaining and in moments is flat-out hysterical.

Berniece doing the Tom Cruise run still has me cackling.

Took me forever to get around to watching this but finally did and yeah...I'm kind of obsessed with Monstro Elisasue.

I'm not entirely sure this had anything new or deep to say about beauty standards or self-image but it's a wild (perhaps too long) fucking ride and there are definitely images that will not be leaving my brain anytime soon.

Originally saw the trailer for this and thought, "A Robbie Williams biopics with a monkey starring as him?? WTF ARE WE DOING??"

Turns out: it's brilliant.

Had this been produced in a traditional sense with an actor hired to play Williams, it may still have been well acted and dynamically directed but would have generally felt like every other musician biopic you've ever seen hitting all of the same story beats you've been forced to watch 100 other times.

Those story beats are very much still present here but are somehow forgiven in the face of this cheeky ape who takes the movie just enough into surreal territory to make everything feel fresh and full of energy. The musical sequences are a wonder to behold with the "Rock DJ" number in particular being one of the most electric scenes of the whole year.

Where do I sign a petition that forces Michael Gracey to direct all future movie musicals?

This is seriously one of the best films of the year and I'm just as surprised as you are to be saying that.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson saying "Swiss??" with such disdain made me laugh inappropriately hard.

Outside of that this easily became my favorite Robert Eggers film yet. Quite possibly the most visually stunning film of the year, there were shots that just made me gasp as I tried to soak it in before it inevitably moved onto another stunning shot.

There were moments were I wished the energy of its pacing was amped up ever so slightly to match the propulsive visuals but I otherwise found this quite masterful.

If you've followed me here on Letterboxd for awhile now you may have already noticed that I am a complete sucker for movies about journalists kicking ass at their job and I'm happy to report that September 5 is the latest knockout of the genre.

This intensely taut 90-minute banger is an expert depiction of professionals doing their best during a major turning point for live news coverage. I especially loved how everyone on the team gets their moment to shine without the film getting bogged down in a bunch of extraneous side plots or tangents. The focus is always on them doing their jobs as efficiently as possible and the film never betrays them by doing the same itself.

Definitely one of 2024's best.

First screening of 2025 in lovely 70mm was a lovely way to start the year!

I loooooved the first half of this (and god bless that intermission) but left the second half far more conflicted about what I had just watched. There were just a few too many plot points/character traits that didn't seem to go anywhere seemingly meaningful or were resolved off-screen in somewhat inexplicable ways. Perhaps some of these would feel different upon deeper reflection or another viewing but in this initial post-viewing period they definitely hold it back from full greatness.

That being said, this entire production is a stunner. The directing, the acting, the score, the sound, and cinematography are all beautifully done and this is hands-down the most well-paced 3.5 hour movie I've ever seen (again shout out to that sweet, sweet intermission).

"I love you, you cow."

I try my best to not get distracted by awards season shenanigans when watching the flood of end-of-year movies but it's CRAZY to consider Zoe Saldana a ing actress in this, right?? She's clearly the lead as the character who leads us through this story...

But I digress.

I hadn't had a chance to watch this since it debuted a couple months ago but have endured countless friends telling me how "insane" it was in the meantime and I gotta be honest...I didn't find it all that insane. Sure, it's an unorthodox musical about a lawyer helping a notorious drug kingpin undergo transition and navigate the aftermath in the years that follow, but it's an overall pretty accessible piece of cinema if you can get onboard with the musical aspects.

I generally really enjoyed going on this journey. Saldana and Karla Sofia Gascon are both terrific in their roles and Jacques Audiard's direction is never dull. I'm curious how well it holds up to additional viewings or how it will stand the test of time, but on first glance this felt refreshingly original and genuinely unique addition to the musical genre.

Now that this quasi-series is up to 33 films (and counting) I thought it prudent to keep tabs on it with a friendly but arbitrary ranking.
PS theres a very good chance this ranking will change over time with subsequent viewings of each film.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Avengers: Endgame
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home
5. The Avengers
6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
9. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
10. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Anora
2. Civil War
3. September 5
4. I'm Still Here
5. Better Man
6. Nosferatu
7. Wicked
8. A Quiet Place: Day One
9. The Bikeriders
10. Saturday Night

These lists are always a bitch to put together and the order could honestly change every day but these are the 10 films that stuck with me most from the year just past.

The followup 10 were: Air, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, The Killer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Zone of Interest, Past Lives, and Saltburn.

Still need to see: Dream Scenario, Thanksgiving (lol), Society of the Snow, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, All of Us Strangers

1. Oppenheimer
2. Barbie
3. The Holdovers
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. Maestro
6. May December
7. American Fiction
8. Poor Things
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

The gap between most of these is TINY

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible III
6. Mission: Impossible
7. Mission: Impossible II

I never get too hung up on the actual ranking of these as it will no doubt change over the course of any given day but these are my ten favorite new films of 2022.

If there are more than 10 entries, I've just added in a new film that also blew my mind.

Honorable mentions to: Nope, She Said, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Violent Night, Prey, The Northman

Still Need to See: Empire of Light, Women Talking, Bones and All, Triangle of Sadness

1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. TÁR
3. The Fabelmans
4. The Batman
5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
6. RRR
7. The Woman King
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Avatar: The Way of Water
10. Glass Onion

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Marvel Cinematic Universe on Disney+

1. WandaVision
2. Hawkeye
3. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
4. Ms. Marvel
5. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
6. Loki
7. Werewolf by Night
8. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
9. Moon Knight

1. Halloween
2. Halloween
3. Halloween II
4. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
5. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
6. Halloween Kills
7. Halloween Ends
8. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
9. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
10. Halloween

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I make no bones about the fact that I consider Alfred Hitchcock to be the greatest director to ever create art for the silver screen. His collection of 54 films is full of more masterpieces than anyone else could dare try to top but I welcome any and all to try.
I have yet to see all 54 but here is my ranking of them from a personal love perspective. More titles to be added as I see them!

1. North by Northwest
2. Vertigo
3. Rear Window
4. Psycho
5. The 39 Steps
6. Lifeboat
7. Dial M for Murder
8. Notorious
9. The Birds
10. Rebecca

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Choosing my favorite Bond films is honestly like asking a mother to pick her favorite child but with a completely unnecessary gun to my head here is my ranking. When you really get down to it I adore them in some form or fashion but this is a rough idea of where they stand in my love.

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. Goldfinger
3. Skyfall
4. Casino Royale
5. From Russia with Love
6. No Time to Die
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
8. Thunderball
9. For Your Eyes Only
10. The World Is Not Enough

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Here are my ten favorite films from 2019 that I'd save from a fire if all 2019 films were in danger!

Honorable Mentions: The Farewell, Toy Story 4, Rocketman, Yesterday, Uncut Gems, Gloria Bell, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Still Need to See: The Two Popes, Dark Water, Ford v Ferrari, The Lighthouse, and Waves

1. 1917
2. Parasite
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
4. Jojo Rabbit
5. Marriage Story
6. Avengers: Endgame
7. Ready or Not
8. Little Women
9. Joker
10. Knives Out

Lists like these are almost impossible to make but I've made my best stab at listing the films that I both love and ire the most from the last 10 years. It was a pretty fantastic decade cinema if I do say so myself.

1. Black Swan
2. Dunkirk
3. Skyfall
4. Inception
5. Gravity
6. 1917
7. Parasite
8. A Quiet Place
9. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. Return of the Jedi
6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7. Solo: A Star Wars Story
8. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
9. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
10. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

*'The Old Man & The Gun' added in Aug 2019 after viewing for the first time

Here's my Top 10 favorites of 2018! As always, the order is pretty loose and will likely change as time es. There is also the age old question of "Best" vs "Favorite" so I tend to approach this list as a collection of the films that delivered the most memorable watching experience.

Some honorable mentions are: First Man, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Mary Poppins Returns, Boy Erased, Fahrenheit 11/9, Tully, Ready Player One, Incredibles 2, Annihilation, Avengers: Infinity War, and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.

1. A Quiet Place
2. A Star Is Born
3. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
5. Roma
6. They Shall Not Grow Old
7. The Old Man & the Gun
8. The Favourite
9. Widows
10. BlacKkKlansman

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Here are my favorites of 2017! So many good flicks this year that it was hard to pick just 10 so here are a bunch of others that made me swoon: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Call Me By Your Name, Blade Runner 2049, Wonder Woman, Baby Driver, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Get Out, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour, Logan, and The Disaster Artist.

1. Dunkirk
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
3. Coco
4. The Florida Project
5. I, Tonya
6. Phantom Thread
7. The Shape of Water
8. War for the Planet of the Apes
9. Molly's Game
10. The Post

Here are my favorites of 2016!

Also worthy of note are: Hidden Figures, The Jungle Book, Hail Caesar, Midnight Special, Sully, Allied, The Founder, and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

1. La La Land
2. Moonlight
3. Jackie
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
5. Hacksaw Ridge
6. Captain America: Civil War
7. Arrival
8. Patriots Day
9. Hell or High Water
10. Weiner

The title of this list pretty much describes it all....but aside from the ten films below I wanted to give a shoutout to: The Walk, Cinderella, Tomorrowland, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Last Five Years.

**99 Homes added much later!

1. Inside Out
2. Steve Jobs
3. The Revenant
4. Room
5. 99 Homes
6. Spotlight
7. The Hateful Eight
8. Carol
9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
10. The Big Short

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Truth be told: I've come to almost dread making these lists knowing that one of the movies I've yet to see might sneak in and unseat something but alas...this is as good a time as any to pull the band-aid off.

These 10 represent my favorite films of year for a variety of reasons: they made me laugh, cry, think, or just in general feel something more than the many, many other titles I saw this year. I wouldn't go so far to say that they are the definitive "best". Nor did I get too hung up on the actual ranking. They're just the ones I would save for posterity if all other movies released this year were threatened in a fire.

Comforting thought. :-/

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Boyhood
3. Snowpiercer
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Noah
6. Nightcrawler
7. Selma
8. The Guest
9. Wild
10. A Most Violent Year

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Gravity
2. Nebraska
3. Her
4. Fruitvale Station
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. Philomena
7. Man of Steel
8. Dallas Buyers Club
9. Captain Phillips
10. All Is Lost

1. Django Unchained
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Skyfall
4. The Master
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
6. Argo
7. Lincoln
8. The Dark Knight Rises
9. End of Watch
10. Hitchcock

This is where it gets tough for another reason...trying to find threequels that are worthy of being called "good". Anywho...consider some of the lower entries on this list questionable.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Goldfinger
3. Return of the Jedi
4. The Dark Knight Rises
5. Toy Story 3
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7. The Godfather Part III
8. Mission: Impossible III
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Superman III

The movies that knocked my socks off in 2011

1. Midnight in Paris
2. My Week with Marilyn
3. The Artist
4. Moneyball
5. Shame
6. Warrior
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
8. Margin Call
9. We Need to Talk About Kevin
10. A Separation

This continues my lists about series so the rules stay the same - this isn't just sequels - the films have to be of a series of 3 or more films. Reboots are considered the first of a new series.

1. The Godfather Part II
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. Aliens
6. Superman II
7. X2
8. From Russia with Love
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
10. Batman Returns

This is a tough one, folks. But I'm trying to rank the best 1st films of series. To be counted as a series I stipulated that it has to have released at least 3 films.
Reboots should be considered the start of a new series though you'll notice none are included here. ;-)

1. The Godfather
2. Star Wars
3. Halloween
4. Alien
5. Superman
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Dr. No
9. Jurassic Park
10. Scream

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. About Schmidt
3. Adaptation.
4. Bowling for Columbine
5. Far from Heaven
6. The Rules of Attraction
7. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
8. Gangs of New York
9. Phone Booth
10. Hero

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. A Mighty Wind
4. Finding Nemo
5. Kontroll
6. Lost in Translation
7. 21 Grams
8. The Fog of War
9. Big Fish
10. X2

1. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2. Closer
3. Collateral
4. I ♥ Huckabees
5. Finding Neverland
6. Fahrenheit 9/11
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. The Aviator
9. Sideways
10. Layer Cake

• Munich
• The Constant Gardener
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Sin City
• Match Point
• King Kong
• Batman Begins
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
• The Matador

• United 93
• V for Vendetta
• Children of Men
• Marie Antoinette
• Notes on a Scandal
• Apocalypto
• Tell No One
• Superman Returns
• The Queen
• Casino Royale

• There Will Be Blood
• Juno
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Sicko
• Grindhouse
• No Country for Old Men
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Into the Wild
• Across the Universe
• La Vie en Rose

• The Dark Knight
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• Gran Torino
• WALL·E
• Young At Heart
• Man on Wire
• Valkyrie
• Religulous

• Inglourious Basterds
• Avatar
• Precious
• Away We Go
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Up in the Air
• Up
• A Single Man
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker

• Black Swan
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• Fair Game
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• The Kids Are All Right
• 127 Hours
• Winter's Bone
• True Grit
• Exit Through the Gift Shop

These are the films I would take to a desert island with me and be able to watch repeatedly without getting tired.

• North by Northwest
• The Godfather
• Pulp Fiction
• Waiting for Guffman
• Casablanca
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• Star Wars
• Superman
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Halloween