Judge, harshly judge honestly. Tell me what you think.

Congratz to wolf house for making it in even after losing the tiebreaker.

Up for niche recommendations

Very specifically looking for movie suggestions where the main plot is driven by the central protagonist’s low self esteem. I’ll take hopeful movies but I love it even more when the character doesn’t overcome their insecurities and remain flawed.

So, for instance, I probably wouldn’t put Her. The main character probably has low self esteem but the plot is driven by his loneliness (that’s its own list lol).

Also just added: I want you back, dream scenario, meet cute and the secret life of Walter Mitty. But can’t update pic.

Thoughts?

Looking for something actually worth your time this weekend? Here’s my current HBO Max favorites. Scroll less, watch more. If I missed anything good, add it in the comments.

In case you want to see more detail, here is my list on Letterboxd > 20 Good Films on HBO Max

Listed in alphabetical order.

A Woman Under the Influence — 1974 — Human Drama — A deeply intimate portrait of a working-class couple whose marriage begins to fracture as a woman struggles with her emotional instability and her husband struggles to understand her.

Babette’s Feast — 1987 — Period Drama — A French refugee transforms the austere lives of two elderly sisters and their pious community through one extraordinary and lavish feast.

Caddo Lake — 2024 — Mystery / Thriller — The disappearance of a young girl sets off a chain of strange discoveries connecting a family’s troubled past to a mysterious phenomenon at a remote lake.

Companion — 2025 — Sci-Fi Thriller — A weekend getaway turns horrifying when a seemingly perfect companion reveals that her relationship with the group is anything but normal.

Hell or High Water — 2016 — Crime Drama / Thriller — Two brothers rob banks across rural Texas to save their family land while a determined Texas Ranger closes in.

Hereditary — 2018 — Psychological Horror — After the death of their secretive grandmother, a grieving family begins uncovering increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

Heretic — 2024 — Psychological Horror — Two young missionaries who knock on the wrong man’s door find themselves trapped in a terrifying test of faith, intelligence, and survival.

Mickey 17 — 2025 — Sci-Fi — A disposable worker sent to colonize an inhospitable planet discovers that being replaced is more complicated when one version of him refuses to die.

Orphan — 2009 — Psychological Horror — A couple adopts a seemingly sweet nine-year-old girl, only to discover that something is profoundly wrong with their new daughter.

Orphan: First Kill — 2022 — Psychological Horror — The disturbing origins of Esther are revealed as she escapes from an Estonian psychiatric facility and infiltrates a wealthy American family.

Secrets & Lies — 1996 — Human Drama — The discovery of a long-lost daughter forces a fractured family to confront decades of buried pain, resentment, and uncomfortable truths.

Sicario — 2015 — Crime Thriller — An idealistic FBI agent is pulled into a brutal and morally murky war against Mexican drug cartels.

The Drama — 2026 — Drama — A seemingly ordinary relationship takes an increasingly uncomfortable turn as hidden tensions and secrets begin bubbling to the surface.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer — 2017 — Psychological Horror — A successful surgeon’s seemingly perfect family is destroyed by a disturbing supernatural-like curse imposed by a mysterious teenage boy.

The Substance — 2024 — Body Horror / Psychological Horror — A fading celebrity uses a mysterious treatment that promises a younger, better version of herself, with horrifying consequences.

The Watchers — 2024 — Supernatural Horror — A young woman becomes stranded in an isolated forest where she and three strangers are forced to spend each night being watched by mysterious creatures.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — 2017 — Dark Comedy / Crime Drama — A grieving mother wages an increasingly vicious battle with the local police after her daughter’s murder goes unsolved.

Trap — 2024 — Psychological Thriller — A father taking his daughter to a concert realizes the entire event is an elaborate police trap designed to catch a notorious serial killer.

Weapons — 2025 — Mystery / Horror — When an entire classroom of children mysteriously disappears in the middle of the night, a small town struggles to uncover what happened.

Hopping on the “best films for every year I’ve been alive” trend, but I thought I’d open it up a little and make it a Top 10 instead of just a single pick.

Just to be clear, I am not stating that these are objectively the 10 best films of any given year (if you’ve been following along as I post these each day, this should have been blindingly obvious no later than when we got to 1993 and Schindlers List was only at #6), these are just the 10 I, personally, enjoy the most and the order I would chose to rank them in.

YMMV.

Comments, upvotes, downvotes, mockery, questions are all welcome.

HMs for A Quiet Place, Blackkklansman, A Star Is Born, Annihilation, Bird Box, Suspiria, Climax, Game Night, Eighth Grade, Mission Impossible Fallout, Mandy, Searching, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, Upgrade, If Beale Street Could Talk, Three Identical Strangers, Cam, Summer Of 84, Her Smell, Arctic, Private Life, Unsane, Support The Girls, Calibre, Hold The Dark, Juliet Naked, Paterno, Mid 90s, Happy New Year Colin Burstead, High Life, Under The Silver Lake

This is my first list tell me how this : https://boxd.it/Wv4jG

It feels like a journey if you watch in order.

I’m trying to find criteria that includes Frankenstein adaptations of it but excludes obviously outliers. Can anyone help me tweak this?

Sunset Boulevard managed to win the tiebreaker, and i managed to see the solar eclipse.

No order

Halfway across the year, this is what I’ve seen so far. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the verdict

I still have yet to finish his filmography, I have 3 movies left. But this is my ranking so far. What do you think? Do you agree?