Reviews

Uniformly rated

Great. Highly recommended if you care about anything it represents.

The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2100–1100 BCE)
The Odyssey (ca. 700 BCE)
Antigone (441 BCE)
Republic (ca. 375 BCE)
Poetics (ca. 355 BCE)
“On Anger” (ca. 45 CE)
“On the Shortness of Life” (ca. 49 CE)
Beowulf (ca. 700–1000)
Macbeth (1606)
“Kubla Khan” (1816)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819)
“The City in the Sea” (1831)
“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845)
“Spleen” (1857)
“Fairer Through Fading — as the Day” (1864)
From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
“The Sleeper in the Valley” (1870/1888)
“Jabberwocky” (1871 entry)
Anna Karenina (1873)
“Long Years Apart — Can Make No” (1876)
“What Mystery Pervades a Well” (1877)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
“You Cannot Make Remembrance Grow” (1880)
“Art poetique” (1882)
The Time Machine (1895)
“Softened by Time’s Consummate Plush” (1896)
The War of the Worlds (1897)
“The New Accelerator” (1901)
“Pont du Carrousel” (1902)
Doctor Glas (1905)
“Ballade des äusseren Lebens” (1907)
“Grodek” (1915)
“Theodore the Poet” (1915)
“San Martino del Carso” (1919)
“The Temple” (1920)
“The Picture in the House” (1921)
“Sherlock Jr.” (1924)
“The Rats in the Walls” (1924)
Strike (1925)
“The Scorced Face” (1925)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
“Cool Air” (1928)
“The Dunwich Horror” (1929)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930)
“The Mound” (1930)
M (1931)
“The Phoenix on the Sword” (1932)
“Land Without Bread” (1933)
“From Beyond” (1934)
“Queen of the Black Coast” (1934)
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
“The Plow That Broke the Plains” (1936)
The Shadow out of Time (1936)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
“By His Bootstraps” (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
“The Library of Babel” (1941)
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
“Begone Dull Care” (1949)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
“The Immortal” (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
“Scanners Live in Vain” (1950)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Early Summer (1951)
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
Ikiru (1952)
“Neighbours” (1952)
Summer with Monika (1953)
Lord of the Flies (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Caves of Steel (1954)
The Lord of the Rings (1954)
Rififi (1955)
“The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise” (1955)
Early Spring (1956)
“The Last Question” (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
Taoism: The Parting of the Way (1957/1965)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
“Le Merle” (1959)
Ohayou (1959)
Starship Troopers (1959)
The World of Apu (1959)
Djävulens öga (1960)
Psycho (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
The Hole (1960)
The Naked Island (1960)
“Alpha Ralpha Boulevard” (1961)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Silent Spring (1962)
Kvarteret Korpen (1963)
The Black Pillar (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Kwaidan (1964)
“Ruka” (1965)
“The War Game” (1965)
Daibosatsu Pass (1966)
Here Is Your Life (1966)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
“Pas de deux” (1968)
The Swimmer (1968)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Dune Messiah (1969)
Kes (1969)
“The Electric Ant” (1969)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Ådalen 31 (1969)
En kärlekshistoria (1970)
MASH (1970)
Bananas (1971)
The Emigrants (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
Roadside Picnic (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
The New Land (1972)
“The Tyranny of Structurelessness” (1972)
“Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death” (1973)
A Song for Lya (1974)
Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film (1974/1983)
Heidi: A Girl of the Alps (1974)
“Hello, Hello, Hello!” (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
The Dispossessed (1974)
The Forever War (1974)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
“Hedgehog in the Fog” (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
The Parasite Murders (1975)
All the President’s Men (1976)
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Man on the Roof (1976)
“The Street” (1976)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1977/1994)
Satsuma Gishiden (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Tältet – Vem tillhör världen? (1978)
Alien (1979)
Anne of Green Gables (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Being There (1979)
Stalker (1979)
The Warriors (1979)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
A People’s History of the United States (1980)
Airplane (1980)
Cosmos: A Personal Journey (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Incal (1980)
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Das Boot (1981)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Possession (1981)
Reds (1981)
Akira (1982)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Europe and the People Without History (1982)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Helliconia Spring (1982)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
The Atomic Cafe (1982)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
The Thing (1982)
V for Vendetta (1982)
Barefoot Gen (1983)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
The Citadel of the Autarch (1983)
The Meaning of Life (1983)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Dune (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
“Hanshin: Half-God” (1984)
“Jumping” (1984)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
“New Rose Hotel” (1984)
Streets of Fire (1984)
“Sunken Gardens” (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Come and See (1985)
Ender’s Game (1985/1991)
Eon (1985)
Helliconia Winter (1985)
Ran (1985)
The Postman (1985)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
“78 R.P.M.” (1986)
Aliens (1986)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
“Firebird: Karma Chapter” (1986)
Letters from a Dead Man (1986)
Project A-Ko (1986)
Speaker for the Dead (1986)
“The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” (1986)
The Fly (1986)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
Bubblegum Crisis (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
Gunbuster: Aim for the Top! (1988)
Miracle Mile (1988)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Meet the Feebles (1989)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: A War in the Pocket (1989)
“The Edge of the World” (1989)
The End of Nature (1989)
The Ghost in the Shell (1989)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
“The Subject of the Picture” (1989)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
The Difference Engine (1990)
“A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations” (1991/2007)
Here Is Greenwood (1991)
Night on Earth (1991)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Reaper Man (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Fisher King (1991)
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Time Signs (1991)
“Understand” (1991)
Baraka (1992)
Hard-Boiled (1992)
“Iguana Girl” (1992)
Lords and Ladies (1992)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
“The Inner Light” (1992 episode)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Dragon Half (1993)
Groundhog Day (1993)
“In the Hands of the Prophets” (1993 episode)
Mobile Police Patlabor: The Movie 2 (1993)
Ocean Waves (1993)
Stalingrad (1993)
Understanding Comics (1993)
Virtual Light (1993)
Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
Ed Wood (1994)
Interesting Times (1994)
Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
Léon (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (1994)
Heat (1995)
Land and Freedom (1995)
“Magnetic Rose” (1995 entry)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
NileCity 105.6 (1995)
Seven (1995)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
The Diamond Age (1995)
The Living Dead: Three Films About the Power of the Past (1995)
“Ur-Fascism” (1995)
Eddie Izzard: Definite Article (1996)
Fargo (1996)
Magic User’s Club! (1996)
Percy tårar (1996)
Sling Blade (1996)
“The End of the World in Four Seasons” (1996)
Berserk (1997)
Blame (1997)
Brass Eye (1997/2001)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lost Highway (1997)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Wag the Dog (1997)
Carpe Jugulum (1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Festen (1998)
Fucking Åmål (1998)
Gasaraki (1998)
Happiness (1998)
“It’s Only a Paper Moon” (1998 episode)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
“Story of Your Life” (1998)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
Crest of the Stars (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
“Fugue” (1999)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
Man on the Moon (1999)
No Logo (1999)
Planetes (1999)
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (1999)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999)
“The Old Man and the Sea” (1999)
The Sopranos (1999)
“Torsk på Tallinn – en liten film om ensamhet” (1999 entry)
“When the Day Breaks” (1999)
Wild Zero (1999)
Banner of the Stars (2000)
“Blood: The Last Vampire” (2000)
FLCL (2000)
“Father and Daughter” (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Memento (2000)
No pasarán! (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
“Rejected” (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Revelation Space (2000)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Avalon (2001)
Band of Brothers (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru (2001)
Fullmetal Alchemist (2001)
“Pestilence” (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
“Suicide Watch” (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
All or Nothing (2002)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Ground Defense Force Mao-chan (2002)
Haibane Renmei (2002)
“Konspiration 58” (2002)
“Liking What You See: A Documentary” (2002)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002)
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Pianist (2002)
Yukikaze (2002)
Chappelle’s Show (2003)
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
Gunparade March (2003)
Last Exile (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Monster (2003)
Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003)
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003)
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction (2004)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
“Black Hole Diver” (2004 entry)
Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Downfall (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Genshiken (2004)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Monster (2004)
Primer (2004)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
“A World Where Justice Is Just” (2005 entry)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
Emma (2005)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture (2005)
Mushishi (2005)
Our Daily Bread (2005)
The Ax (2005)
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
“Aldrig som första gången” (2006)
Black Book (2006)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Ergo Proxy (2006)
Falkenberg Farewell (2006)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society (2006)
“House-hunting” (2006)
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Planet Earth (2006)
“The Day Shion Came” (2006 entry)
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Road (2006)
5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
“Genius Party” (2007 entry)
It’s a Free World... (2007)
“Madame Tutli-Putli” (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (2007)
The Mist (2007)
Young Yakuza (2007)
Everlasting Moments (2008)
Hunger (2008)
“I Love Sarah Jane” (2008)
Let the Right One In (2008)
“Moondrive” (2008 entry)
Ponyo (2008)
“Retouches” (2008)
Still Walking (2008)
“The Employment” (2008)
The Sky Crawlers (2008)
WALL·E (2008)
“Wake Up, Freak Out: Then Get a Grip” (2008)
Dear Lemon Lima (2009)
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
Mai Mai Miracle (2009)
Redline (2009)
“Teclópolis” (2009)
The Road (2009)
Watchmen (2009)
Kick-Ass (2010)
Marwencol (2010)
Drive (2011)
“Faith in the Big House” (2011)
“Las Palmas” (2011)
My Ordinary Life (2011)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Eat Sleep Die (2012)
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
Man at War (2012)
Medaljens baksida (2012)
“Sight” (2012)
The Act of Killing (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
It Might Be an Apple (2013)
Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)
Rick and Morty (2013)
“The Best We Can” (2013)
Last Week Tonight (2014)
Merchants of Doubt (2014)
“No Fish Where to Go” (2014)
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
“Carface” (2015)
“Hammerhead” (2015 entry)
Human (2015)
“I Can Friday by Day!” (2015 entry)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
“Ostrich: A Life on the Run” (2015)
The Martian (2015)
In This Corner of the World (2016)
March Comes in Like a Lion (2016)
“American Psychosis” (2017)
“Ant Mountain” (2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Lady Bird (2017)
Life (2017)
The Florida Project (2017)
“Zygote” (2017)
Hilda (2018)
Patriot Act (2018)
“This Magnificent Cake” (2018)
Upgrade (2018)
Vattu: The Tower & the Shadow (2018)
Violet Evergarden (2018)
1917 (2019)
Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019)
“Sonnie’s Edge” (2019 entry)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
Vinland Saga (2019)
Weathering with You (2019)
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
Arcane (2021)
Dune (2021)
Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)
Geographies of Solitude (2022)
“Jibaro” (2022 entry)
The Green Planet (2022)
Vattu: The Last Book (2022)
Chicken for Linda (2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
The Boy and the Heron (2023)
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Dune: Part Two (2024)
“The Illusion of Information Adequacy” (2024)