Films and TV of 2024

Films

• The Taking of Pelham 123 (Scott, 2009)
• Society of the Snow (Bayona, 2023)
• Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki, 2023)
• Red Rocket (Baker, 2021)
• A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
• The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach, 2005)
• The Iron Claw (Durkin, 2023)
• Anatomy of a Fall (Triet, 2023)
• The Eiger: Wall of Death (Robinson, 2015)
• K2: The Killer Summit (Ryan, 2017)
• Navalny (Roher, 2022)
• Dune: Part Two (Villeneuve, 2024)
• Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
• Conduct Unbecoming (Anderson, 1975)
• The Remains of the Day (Ivory, 1993)
• Hell or High Water (Mackenzie, 2016)
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Richardson, 1962)
• Poor Things (Lanthimos, 2023)

Films and TV of 2023

Films

• Bones and All (Guadagnino, 2022)
• Avatar: The Way of Water (Cameron, 2022)
• Tár (Field, 2022)
• Knock at the Cabin (Shyamalan, 2023)
• The Beguiled (Coppola, 2017)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Frankel, 2006)
• Aftersun (Wells, 2022)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (Lawrence, 2014)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Lawrence, 2015)
• Those Who Wish Me Dead (Sheridan, 2021)
• Searching (Chaganty, 2018)
• Triangle of Sadness (Östlund, 2022)
• Elvis (Luhrmann, 2022)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard, 1990)
• Dead Man's Shoes (Meadows, 2004)
• Nil by Mouth (Oldman, 1997)
• The Go-Between (Losey, 1971)
• Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)

Films and TV of 2022

Films

• Eighth Grade (Burnham, 2018)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (Watts, 2021)
• Isle of Dogs (Anderson, 2018)
• West Side Story (Spielberg, 2021)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman, 1975)
• The Lost Daughter (Gyllenhaal, 2021)
• Parallel Mothers (Almodóvar, 2021)
• Man on Wire (Marsh, 2008)
• Jackass Forever (Tremaine, 2022)
• Belfast (Branagh, 2022)
• The King's Man (Vaughn, 2021)
• The Madness of King George (Hytner, 1994)
• The Batman (Reeves, 2002)
• The Hunt for Red October (McTiernan, 1990)
• Three Days of the Condor (Pollack, 1975)
• Windfall (McDowell, 2022)
• Nightmare Alley (del Toro, 2021)
• The Postcard Killings (Tanović, 2020)
• Life of Pi (Lee, 2012)

Films of 2021

• Another Round (Vinterberg, 2020)
• Soul (Docter, 2020)
• Promising Young Woman (Fennell, 2020)
• Hereditary (Aster, 2018)
• Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
• Greenland (Waugh, 2020)
• The Other Lamb (Szumowska, 2019)
• Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016)
• Panic (Bromell, 2000)
• Ring (Nakata, 1998)
• All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Loach, 2006)
• Pain and Glory (Almodóvar, 2019)
• Volver (Almodóvar, 2006)
• Broken Embraces (Almodóvar, 2009)
• Talk to Her (Almodóvar, 2002)
• Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
• Bad Education (Almodóvar, 2004)
• Educating Rita (Gilbert, 1983)
• High Life (Denis, 2018)

Films of 2020

• 1917 (Mendes, 2019)
• John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (Stahelski, 2019)
• The Farewell (Wang, 2019)
• Son of Saul (Nemes, 2015)
• I Believe in Miracles (Owen, 2015)
• The Mule (Eastwood, 2018)
• Uncut Gems (Safdie and Safdie, 2019)
• Everest (Kormákur, 2015)
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos, 2017)
• Midsommar (Aster, 2019)
• Onward (Scanlon, 2020)
• Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991)
• Diego Maradona (Kapadia, 2019)
• The Invisible Man (Whannell, 2020)
• Palm Springs (Barbakow, 2020)
• Yesterday (Boyle, 2019)
• Tenet (Nolan, 2020)
• Crimson Tide (Scott, 1995)
• Game Night (Daley and Goldstein, 2018)
• The Insider (Mann, 1999)

Films of 2019

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins, 2018)
• The Favourite (Lanthimos, 2018)
• Hit It Hard (Fine and Spitzer, 2016)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
• Frost/Nixon (Howard, 2008)
• Green Book (Farrelly, 2018)
• Widows (McQueen, 2018)
• Apollo 13 (Howard, 1995)
• T2 Trainspotting (Boyle, 2017)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Persichetti, Ramsey, Rothman, 2018)
• The Others (Amenábar, 2001)
• The Orphanage (Bayona, 2007)
• Bone Tomahawk (Zahler, 2015)
• Avengers: Endgame (Russo and Russo, 2019)
• Dragged Across Concrete (Zahler, 2018)
• Burning (Chang-dong, 2018)
• Roma (Cuaron, 2018)
• Force Majeure (Östlund, 2014)
• The Square (Östlund, 2017)

Films of 2018

(Gradings A-F)

• Kenny (Sugg, 2017)
• The Big Sick (Showalter, 2017)
• Okja (Joon-ho, 2017)
• The Snowman (Alfredson, 2017)
• 89 (Stewart, 2017)
• The Foreigner (Campbell, 2017)
• Good Time (Safdie and Safdie, 2017)
• The Invitation (Kusama, 2015)
• Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
• Call Me by Your Name (Guadagnino, 2017)
• Selma (DuVernay, 2014)
• Molly's Game (Sorkin, 2017)
• Midnight Run (Brest, 1988)
• Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017)
• Your Name (Shinkai, 2016)
• The Death of Stalin (Iannucci, 2017)
• Black Panther (Coogler, 2018)
• The Shape of Water (del Toro, 2017)
• Coco (Unkrich, 2017)

Films of 2017

(Gradings A-F)

• Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988) A-
• The Constant Gardener (Meirelles, 2005) C+
• Monsters (Edwards, 2010) B+
• Green Room (Saulnier, 2015) B-
• Room (Abrahamson, 2015) B+
• Contagion (Soderbergh, 2011) B+
• Doctor Strange (Derrickson, 2016) B+
• Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis, 1995) B-
• Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016) A-
• Anomalisa (Kaufman and Johnson, 2015) B
• Arrival (Villeneuve, 2016) A
• Manchester by the Sea (Lonergan, 2016) A-
• Manhattan (Allen, 1979) A-
• Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995) B
• David Brent: Life on the Road (Gervais, 2016) D+
• Logan (Mangold, 2017) A-
• Get Out (Peele, 2017) A
• Elle (Verhoeven, 2016) A
• Mr Holmes (Condon, 2015) B-

Films of 2016

(Gradings A-F)

• Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015) B+
• Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015) A-
• Legend (Helgeland, 2015) C
• The Big Short (McKay, 2015) B
• Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015) A-
• The Martian (Scott, 2015) A-
• The End of the Tour (Ponsoldt, 2015) A-
• Pacific Rim (del Toro, 2013) C+
• Chi-Raq (Lee, 2015) B-
• Ex Machina (Garland, 2015) B
• Slow West (Maclean, 2015) B+
• Macbeth (Kurzel, 2015) B
• Beasts of No Nation (Fukunaga, 2015) B+
• The Last King of Scotland (Macdonald, 2006) B
• Serpico (Lumet, 1973) B-
• Election (Payne, 1999) B+
• Ant-Man (Reed, 2015) C
• Captain America: Civil War (Russo and Russo, 2016) A-
• Hail, Caesar! (Coen and Coen, 2016) C-

Films of 2015

(Gradings A-F)

• Foxcatcher (Miller, 2014) B+
• Cold in July (Mickle, 2014) C+
• Whiplash (Chazelle, 2014) A-
• Take Shelter (Nichols, 2011) B+
• The Babadook (Kent, 2014) B
• La Haine (Kassovitz, 1995) B
• Birdman (Inarritu, 2014) B+
• Big Eyes (Burton, 2014) C
• The Imitation Game (Tyldum, 2014) C+
• Dear White People (Simien, 2014) B+
• Six Shooter (McDonagh, 2004) (SF) C+
• Love Is Strange (Sachs, 2014) B-
• Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (Capaldi, 1993) (SF) C-
• Cheap Thrills (Katz, 2013) D+
• The Theory of Everything (Marsh, 2014) C+
• Elway to Marino (30 for 30) (Rodgers, 2013) B
• Catching Hell (30 for 30) (Gibney, 2011) C+
• Bad Boys (30 for 30) (Levitt, 2014) B+
• Slaying the Badger (30 for 30) (Dower, 2014) C+

Albums of 2024

• The Mason Williams Phonograph Record by Mason Williams (1968)

Albums of 2023

• Beatles for Sale by The Beatles (1964)
• Help! by The Beatles (1965)
• No Thank You by Little Simz (2022)
• Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen (1984)
• Dropout Boogie by The Black Keys (2022)
• Melody A.M. by Röyksopp (2001)
• Big Love Blanket by Personal Trainer (2022)
• Dead Meat by The Tubs (2023)
• Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder (1976)
• You Don't Mess Around with Jim by Jim Croce (1972)
• Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1977)
• Cracker Island by Gorillaz (2023)
• Nilsson Schmilsson by Harry Nilsson (1971)

Albums of 2022

• Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order (1983)
• Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. by Simon & Garfunkel (1964)
• Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman (1988)
• ABBA Gold by ABBA (1992)
• Please Please Me by The Beatles (1963)
• Visions of a Life by Wolf Alice (2017)
• The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (1973)
• Thriller by Michael Jackson (1982)
• Folklore by Taylor Swift (2020)
• Electronic by Electronic (1991)t
• Speaking in Tongues by Talking Heads (1983)
• Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno (1978)
• The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 by Henryk Górecki (1977)
• A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay (2002)
• With the Beatles by The Beatles (1963)
• Saturday Night Fever by Bee Gees and various artists (1977)
• Jurassic 5 by Jurassic 5 (1998)
• Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John (1970)
• Harry's House by Harry Styles (2022)
• Alpha Games by Bloc Party (2022)

Albums of 2021

• John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon (1970)
• Imagine by John Lennon (1971)
• Ram by Paul McCartney (1971)
• All Things Must Pass by George Harrison (1970)
• McCartney III by Paul McCartney (2020)
• Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings (1973)
• McCartney by Paul McCartney (1970)
• McCartney II by Paul McCartney (1980)
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John (1973)
• Hounds of Love by Kate Bush (1985)
• Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (1975)
• The Stranger by Billy Joel (1977)
• Hunky Dory by David Bowie (1971)
• Disraeli Gears by Cream (1967)
• Nevermind by Nirvana (1991)
• Breakfast in America by Supertramp (1979)
• Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John (1975)
• The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses (1989)
• Discovery by Daft Punk (2001)

Albums of 2018

(Ratings A-F)

• Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac (1975)
• Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel (1970)
• This Year's Model by Elvis Costello and The Attractions (1978)
• Ye by Kanye West (2018)
• Kids See Ghosts by Kids See Ghosts (2018)
• Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers (1991)

Albums of 2015

(Ratings A-F)

• 1000 Forms of Fear by Sia (2014) B-
• The Fix by Scarface (2002) B
• Salad Days by Mac DeMarco (2014) B-
• Kinks by The Kinks (1964) B
• Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor (2006) C
• Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M. (1986) A-
• The Black Album by Jay-Z (2003) A-
• The Grey Album by Danger Mouse (2004) A+
• Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens (1970) A
• Teaser and the Firecat by Cat Stevens (1971) A-
• Upstairs at Eric's by Yazoo (1982) B+
• To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar (2015) B+
• The Race for Space by Public Broadcasting Service (2015) A

Poems

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
• Invictus by William Ernest Henley
• Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
• High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr.
• The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
• I Choose the Mountain by Howard Simon
• A Poison Tree by William Blake
• Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
• The Garden of Love by William Blake
• When you go by Edwin Morgan
• When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou
• The Tyger by William Blake
• Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by William Shakespeare
• If by Rudyard Kipling
• Let Me Die A Youngman's Death by Roger McGough
• St Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare
• Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
• This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

Books, Essays and Short Stories of 2024

Short Stories

• Man from the South (Dahl, 1948)
• The Man Who Would Be King (Kipling, 1888)

Long-Form Articles

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Novels and Books

• The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood, 1985)
• Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders, 2017)
• The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro, 1989)
• The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck, 1939)
• Time's Arrow (Amis, 1991)
• Moby-Dick (Melville, 1851)
• Dracula (Stoker, 1897)
• The Quiet American (Greene, 1955)
• Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir (MacDonald, 2016)
• Three Men in a Boat (Jerome, 1889)
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Grann, 2023)

Books, Essays and Short Stories of 2023

Short Stories

• Indian Camp (Hemingway, 1924)
• Survivor Type (King, 1982)

Long-Form Articles

• Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial (Malcolm, 2011)
• The Transition: The Day L.B.J. Took Charge (Caro, 2012)
• The Yankee Comandante (Grann, 2012)
• The Coach in the Operating Room (Gawande, 2011)

Novels and Books

• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Brooks, 2006)
• Live and Let Die (Fleming, 1954)
• All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy, 1992)
• Fight Club (Palahniuk, 1996)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy, 1891)
• L.A. Confidential (Ellroy, 1990)

Books, Essays and Short Stories of 2022

Short-Form

• After You, My Dear Alphonse (Jackson, 1943)
• The Paper Menagerie (Liu, 2011)
• The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (García Márquez, 1968)

Long-Form

• In Cold Blood (Capote, 1966)
• Casino Royale (Fleming, 1953)
• The Bell Jar (Plath, 1963)
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Reid, 2017)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (Grann, 2017)
• Money (Amis, 1984)
• When Breath Becomes Air (Kalanithi, 2016)
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (McCoy, 1935)
• Station Eleven (St. John Mandel, 2014)
• The Lost City of Z (Grann, 2009)
• Strangers on a Train (Highsmith, 1950)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez,1967)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie, 1936)
• Tokyo Year Zero (Peace, 2007)

Books, Essays and Short Stories of 2021

Short-Form

• The Fourth State of Matter (Beard, 1996)
• Bullet in the Brain (Wolff, 1995)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman, 1892)
• Harrison Bergeron (Vonnegut, 1961)
• Flowers for Algernon (Keyes, 1960)
• The Lottery (Jackson, 1948)
• The Gift of the Magi (Henry, 1905)
• The Most Dangerous Game (Connell, 1924)
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Oates, 1966)
• The Summer People (Jackson, 1950)
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Le Guin, 1973)
• The Monkey's Paw (Jacobs, 1902)
• The Necklace (de Maupassant, 1884)
• The Landlady (Dahl, 1959)
• Hills Like White Elephants (Hemingway, 1927)
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find (O'Connor, 1953)
• The Swimmer (Cheever, 1964)
• To Build a Fire (London, 1908)

Books of 2020

• Steve Smith's Men: Australian Cricket's Greatest Downfall (Lemon, 2018)
• The Damned Utd (Peace, 2006)
• The Locked Room (Sjöwall and Wahlöö, 1972)
• Keane: The Autobiography (Keane and Dunphy, 2002)
• Cop Killer (Sjöwall and Wahlöö, 1973)
• The Last Question (Asimov, 1956)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber, 1939)
• The Egg (Weir, 2009)
• There Will Come Soft Rains (Bradbury, 1950)
• Roy Keane: The Second Half (Keane and Doyle, 2014)
• The Little Prince (Saint-Exupéry, 1943)
• The Terrorists (Sjöwall and Wahlöö, 1975)
• Animal Farm (Orwell, 1945)
• The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines (Cox, 2017)
• Catch 22 (Heller, 1961)
• A Transparent Woman (Hari Kunzru, 2020)

Books of 2019

• Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing (Kimball, 2009)
• A Doll's House (Ibsen, 1879)
• Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona Vs Real Madrid (Lowe, 2013)
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (Gladwell, 2019)

Books of 2018

• Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King (Auclair, 2009)
• High Fidelity (Hornby, 1995)
• The Art of Captaincy (Brearley, 1985)
• The Crucible (Miller, 1953)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell, 1949)
• Them: Adventures with Extremists (Ronson, 2001)
• Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game (Bennetts, 2008)
• Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina (Wilson, 2016)
• The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon (Schefter, 2000)
• A View from the Bridge (Miller, 1955)

Books of 2017

• The Fire Engine That Disappeared (Sjowall and Wahloo, 1969)
• Murder at the Savoy (Sjowall and Wahloo, 1970)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (Highsmith, 1955)
• The Grifters (Thompson, 1963)
• The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, 1925)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Lewis, 2003)

Books of 2016

• The Outsider (Camus, 1942)
• Waiting for Godot (Beckett, 1953)
• As I Lay Dying (Faulkner, 1930)
• True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey, 2000)
• Roseanna (Sjöwall and Wahlöö, 1965)
• Thierry Henry: Lonely at the Top: A Biography (Auclair, 2012)
• Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008)
• Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself (Honigstein, 2015)
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Ronson, 2015)
• Behind the Curtain: Football in Eastern Europe (Wilson, 2006)
• American Gods (Gaiman, 2001)

Books of 2015

• An Inspector Calls (Priestley, 1945)
• Invincible: Inside Arsenal's Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season (Lawrence, 2014)
• Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Wilson, 2008)
• The Abominable Man (Sjöwall and Wahlöö, 1971)
• All My Sons (Miller, 1947)
• Death of a Salesman (Miller, 1949)
• The Miracle of Castel di Sangro (McGinniss, 1999)
• The Unforgiven (Bagchi & Rogerson, 2002)
• Blood Meridian (McCarthy, 1985)
• Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut, 1973)
• The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Pullman, 2010)
• Killing Pablo (Bowden, 2001)
• David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (Gladwell, 2013)
• The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – but Some Don't (Silver, 2012)