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Films with Perfect Endings

53 films

damn it's hard to stick the landing. (in order of release)

  • Silent Night
  • The Great Escape
  • Smoke
  • Bernard and the Genie
  • Santa Claus Is a Stinker

Annual Christmas Lights and Baubles

67 films

ranked not by quality of movie, but order of traditional yuletide necessity, least to most.

2024: we decided Bridget Jones's…

  • The Thin Man
  • Christmas Holiday
  • Lady on a Train
  • Lady in the Lake
  • It's a Wonderful Life

Merry Noirmas

17 films

  • Day for Night
  • Adaptation.
  • Barton Fink
  • 8½
  • The Beaches of Agnès

Films about Film/TV/making

70 films

should "too late" be on here? it's not even meta, but it's got the abstract bits of projectionist, characters talking…

  • Ladies in Black
  • Watchmen
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
  • The Beguiled
  • Lost in Translation
  • Godzilla Minus One
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • A Quiet Place: Day One

top ten twenty four

10 films

in order of seeing

yes I saw those tentpoles

honourable mention: The Beast

  • Cold Weather
  • Woman on the Run

intersection of twee and noir Venn circles: Jobs

2 films

Cold Weather: ice factory worker Woman on the Run: designer at a Mannequin Store

  • Murder by Contract

The Ending Would Have Been Darker [except, Hays Code]

1 film

clearly so nihilist/realistic/political-fable that the last 60 seconds was made so as to pass the Hays Code while hopefully being…

  • 25th Hour
  • Margaret
  • Camp X-Ray
  • The Card Counter