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highlighted = strong recommendation
red = well worth a watch if you have the time
doc = documentary

• Vera (S14)
• Guy Martin: Arctic Warrior
• 2024: The Year From Space (doc)
• Black Doves (S1)
• 7/7: The London Bombings (doc)
• SAS: Rogue Heroes (S1–S2)
• Taskmaster (S1–20)
• Travel Man: 48 Hours In… (S13)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (S27)
• Helmand: Tour of Duty (doc)
• Top Guns: Inside the RAF (doc)
• Edward vs George: The Windsors at War (doc)
• Surviving Black Hawk Down (doc)
• Untold: Hope Solo vs US Soccer (doc)
• Concorde: The Race for Supersonic (doc)
• David Mitchell’s Outsiders (S3)
• Prime Target
• American Murder: Gabby Petito (doc)
• Full Swing (S3)
• Out There
• Guy Martin: Top Gun
• Last One Laughing UK (S1)
• Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia (doc)
• Mindhunter (S1–2)
• Black Mirror (S7)
• Louis Theroux: The Settlers (doc)
• Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure
• Clarkson’s Farm (S4)
• The Last of Us (S2)
• This City Is Ours (S1)
• Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story (doc)
• American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden (doc)
• The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot (doc)
• Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster (doc)
• The Gold (S1–2)
• Flight 149: Hostage of War (doc)
• Shifty
• Welcome to Wrexham (S4)
• The Bear (S4)
• Glastonbury Festival 2025
• Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem (doc)
• Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles (doc)
• Earth's Tropical Islands: Hawaii (doc)
• Trainwreck: Poop Cruise (doc)
• Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos (doc)
• The Penguin
• Smoke
• Resident Alien (S4)
• Slow Horses (S5)
• Grand Designs (S27)
• Human (doc)
• How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
• Cocaine Quarterback (doc)
• Blue Lights (S3)
• Down Cemetery Road
• Only Connect (S21)
• Man Like Mobeen (S1–5)
• The Studio (S1)
• Community (S1–6)
• King of Lies: Football's Greatest Con (doc)
• Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now (doc)
• The Diplomat (S3)
• Rick and Morty (S1)
• Heat Vision and Jack
• Sean Combs: The Reckoning (doc)
• Pluribus (S1)

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5★ Masterpiece
4½★ Amazing
4★ Great
3★ Good/Decent
2★ Okay/Meh
1★ Bad

• Casablanca (1942) ★★★★★
• A Real Pain (2024) ★★★★½
• Warfare (2025) ★★★★½
• Apocalypse Now (Final Cut) (1979) ★★★★★
• Sinners (2025) ★★★★½
• Apollo 11 (2019) ★★★★½
• Hamilton (2020) ★★★★★
• Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) ★★★★½

• Monkey Man (2024) ★★★★
• The Holdovers (2023) ★★★★
• The Substance (2024) ★★★★
• Black Bag (2025) ★★★★
• The Thing (1982) ★★★★
• F1: The Movie (2025) ★★★★
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) (doc) ★★★★
• Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) ★★★★
• Weapons (2025) ★★★★
• Fargo (1996) ★★★★

• Nosferatu (2024) ★★
• Smokescreen (1964) ★★
• Plane (2023) ★★
• Mickey 17 (2025) ★★
• Angels and Demons (2009) ★★
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986) ★★
• Stardust (2007) ★★
• Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning (2025) ★★
• Star Trek: Beyond (2016) ★★

• Get Away (2024) ★
• The Thursday Murder Club (2025) ★

highlighted = 4½★ or 5★ — the best
red = 4★ recommendations
N = new release (in 2025 or late-2024)
R = seen before (rewatch)

1. Casablanca (1942) ★★★★★
2. Nosferatu (2024) ★★ N
3. Monkey Man (2024) ★★★★
4. Smokescreen (1964) ★★
5. The Holdovers (2023) ★★★★
6. Get Away (2024) ★ N
7. A Real Pain (2024) ★★★★½ N
8. Wolf Man (2025) ★★★ N
9. Sexy Beast (2000) ★★★★½ R
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ★★★★ R
11. Sin City (2005) ★★★★½ R
12. Companion (2025) ★★★ N
13. September 5 (2025) ★★★ N
14. The Substance (2024) ★★★★
15. Heat (1995) ★★★★★ R
16. The Monkey (2025) ★★★ N
17. Zombieland (2009) ★★★★ R
18. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) ★★★
19. The Big Lebowski (1998) ★★★★★ R
20. Plane (2023) ★★
21. Mickey 17 (2025) ★★ N
22. Black Bag (2025) ★★★★ N
23. Last Breath (2025) ★★★ N
24. Bad Boys (1995) ★★★ R
25. The Da Vinci Code (2006) ★★★
26. Angels and Demons (2009) ★★
27. Interstellar (2014) (IMAX) ★★★★★ R
28. The Shining (1980) ★★★★★ R
29. Snatch (2000) ★★★★ R
30. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ★★★★★ R
31. Warfare (2025) ★★★★½ N
32. Apocalypse Now (Final Cut) (1979) ★★★★★
33. Sinners (2025) ★★★★½ N
34. Office Space (1999) ★★★
35. Big Trouble in Little China (1986) ★★
36. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) ★★★★ R
37. Django Unchained (2012) ★★★★½ R
38. Stardust (2007) ★★
39. Hot Fuzz (2007) ★★★★½ R
40. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) ★★★★½ R
41. Hotel Mumbai (2018) ★★★★ R
42. Collateral (2004) ★★★★ R
43. Mountainhead (2025) ★★★ N
44. The Thing (1982) ★★★★
45. Sicario (2015) ★★★★½ R
46. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) ★★★★½ R
47. The Wind in the Willows (1983) ★★★★ R
48. 28 Days Later (2002) ★★★★ R
49. F1: The Movie (2025) (IMAX) ★★★★ N
50. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) ★★★
51. 28 Years Later (2025) ★★★ N
52. Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning (2025) ★★ N
53. Sicario 2: Soldado (2018) ★★★
54. Shallow Grave (1994) ★★★★ R
55. Hill (2025) (doc) ★★★ N
56. Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) ★★★
57. Star Trek: Beyond (2016) ★★
58. The Amateur (2025) ★★★ N
59. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) (doc) ★★★★ N
60. Red Riding: 1974 (2009) ★★★
61. Bring Her Back (2025) ★★★ N
62. Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) ★★★★ N
63. Red Riding: 1980 (2009) ★★★
64. Red Riding: 1983 (2009) ★★★
65. The Covenant (2023) ★★★★½ R
66. The Commitments (1991) ★★★★ R
67. Nobody (2021) ★★★★ R
68. Weapons (2025) (IMAX) ★★★★ N
69. Nobody 2 (2025) ★★★ N
70. Army of Darkness (1992) ★★★ R
71. 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) ★★★★ R
72. Jaws (1975) (IMAX) ★★★★ R
73. TRON: Legacy (2010) ★★★ R
74. Baby Driver (2017) ★★★★ R
75. The Thursday Murder Club (2025) ★ N
76. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) ★★★★ R
77. The Fifth Element (1997) ★★★★ R
78. Apollo 13 (1995) ★★★★½ R
79. GoldenEye (1995) ★★★ R
80. Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) ★★★ R
81. Apollo 11 (2019) ★★★★½
82. The 'Burbs (1989) ★★★
83. Hamilton (2020) ★★★★★
84. Interstellar (2015) ★★★★★ R
85. Batman Begins (2005) ★★★★ R
86. Nosferatu (1922) ★★★
87. The Dark Knight (2008) ★★★★½ R
88. The Lost Bus (2025) ★★★ N
89. Fargo (1996) ★★★★
90. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) ★★★★ R
91. Skyfall (2012) ★★★★ R
92. Scrooge (1951) ★★★★½ R
93. Die Hard 2 (1990) ★★★★ R
94. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) ★★★★½ R
95. Die Hard (1988) ★★★★★ R
96. Gremlins (1984) ★★★★ R
97. Home Alone (1990) ★★★★ R
98. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) ★★★ R
99. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) ★★★★★ R
100. Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) ★★★★½

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highlighted = strong recommendation
bold = well worth a watch if you have the time

• Fargo (S5) (FX)
• Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office (ITV)
• Masters of the Air (Apple)
• Griselda (Netflix)
• American Nightmare (doc) (Netflix)
• Deadwater Fell (Channel 4)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (S12) (HBO)
• The Space Shuttle That Fell To Earth (doc) (BBC)
• Alice & Jack (Channel 4)
• Kin (S2) (RTE/BBC)
• Tell Them You Love Me (doc) (Sky)
• The Reckoning (BBC)
• The Gentlemen (Amazon)
• Full Swing (S2) (Netflix)
• How To with John Wilson (HBO)
• The Dropout (Hulu/Disney)
• The Hunt for Raoul Moat (ITV)
• True Detective: Night Country (S4) (HBO)
• The Jinx (doc) (HBO)
• The Regime (HBO)
• Resident Alien (S3) (SyFy)
• Blue Lights (BBC)
• Ripley (Netflix)
• Clarkson's Farm (S3) (Amazon)
• The Responder (BBC)
• Vera (S13) (ITV)
• Shōgun (FX/Disney)
• The Boys (S4) (Amazon)
• House of the Dragon (S2) (HBO)
• Dark Matter (Apple)
• Sugar (Apple)
• Young Sheldon (S7) (Channel 4)
• The Diplomat (S2) (Netflix)
• The Bear (S3) (FX/Disney)
• The Old Man (S2) (FX/Disney)
• Tom Brady: Man in the Arena (ESPN/Disney)
• Rivals (Disney)
• Lucan (doc) (BBC)
• Bad Monkey (Apple)
• Shrinking (S2) (Apple)
• Industry (S3) (HBO/BBC)
• The Day of the Jackal (Sky/Universal)
• James Blunt: One Brit Wonder (doc) (Netflix)
• The Perfect Couple (Netflix)
• A Man On The Inside (Netflix)
• Solar System (doc) (BBC)
• The Tourist (BBC)
• Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
• Cheaters (BBC)
• Game of Throws: Inside Darts (doc) (Sky)
• Wolf Hall (BBC)
• Bad Sisters (S2) (Apple)

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10 = Masterpiece
9 = Amazing
8 = Great
7 = Good
6 = Okay
5 = Mediocre
4 = Poor
3 = Bad
2 = Awful
1 = Unwatchable

highlighted = 8/10 or better (recommendation)
bold = new release (in 2024 or late-2023)
italic = seen before (rewatch)

• Poor Things (2023) 10/10
• The Favourite (2018) 10/10
• Ex Machina (2015) 10/10
• Interstellar (2014) 10/10
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 10/10
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 10/10
• Conclave (2024) 9/10
• Dune: Part Two (2024) 9/10
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 9/10
• Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 9/10
• Asteroid City (2023) 9/10
• Nope (2022) 9/10
• Pig (2021) 9/10
• Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood (2019) 9/10
• Apollo 11 (2019) (doc) 9/10
• Hotel Mumbai (2018) 9/10
• The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017) 9/10
• Sicario (2015) 9/10
• Gladiator (2000) 9/10
• Traffic (2000) 9/10

• Heretic (2024) 8/10
• Civil War (2024) 8/10
• The Old Oak (2023) 8/10
• Ferrari (2023) 8/10
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 8/10
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) 8/10
• X (2022) 8/10
• The Menu (2022) 8/10
• A Man Called Otto (2022) 8/10
• The Outfit (2022) 8/10
• Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2022) (doc) 8/10
• Dune: Part One (2021) 8/10
• The French Dispatch (2021) 8/10
• The Dig (2021) 8/10
• 9/11: Inside the President's War Room (2021) (doc) 8/10
• Just Mercy (2019) 8/10
• Dirty God (2019) 8/10
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) 8/10
• The Little Stranger (2018) 8/10
• Kursk (2018) 8/10
• The Founder (2016) 8/10
• The Light Between Oceans (2016) 8/10
• The Lobster (2015) 8/10
• Seven Psychopaths (2012) 8/10
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) 8/10
• Red State (2011) 8/10
• Layer Cake (2004) 8/10
• Shaun of the Dead (2004) 8/10
• Catch Me If You Can (2002) 8/10
• The Beach (2000) 8/10
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) 8/10
• What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) 8/10
• The Man Between (1953) 8/10

• Gladiator 2 (2024) 5/10
• Trap (2024) 5/10
• The Creator (2023) 5/10
• Cocaine Bear (2023) 5/10

• Maggie Moore(s) (2023) 4/10
• Poker Face (2022) 4/10
• Ambulance (2022) 4/10
• Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) 4/10
• The Commuter (2018) 4/10
• Zulu (1964) 4/10

• The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990) (Director’s Recut, 2020) 6/10
• Zulu (1964) 4/10
• The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) 6/10
• Widows (2017) 6/10
• The Dig (2021) 8/10
• Reptile (2023) 6/10
• The Founder (2016) 8/10
• Traffic (2000) 9/10
• Promising Young Woman (2020) 6/10
• The Duke (2020) 6/10
• Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) 4/10
• The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) 6/10
• Days of Thunder (1990) 6/10
• Green Zone (2010) 6/10
• X (2022) 8/10
• The Commuter (2018) 4/10
• Gorillas In The Mist (1988) 6/10
• The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017) 9/10
• Poor Things (2023) 10/10
• The Man Between (1953) 8/10
• Ex Machina (2015) 10/10
• Greed (2019) 6/10
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) 8/10
• Layer Cake (2004) 8/10
• The Little Stranger (2018) 8/10
• The Favourite (2018) 10/10
• The Lobster (2015) 8/10
• The Light Between Oceans (2016) 8/10
• A Man Called Otto (2022) 8/10
• French Exit (2020) 6/10
• Operation Mincemeat (2021) 6/10
• Hotel Mumbai (2018) 9/10
• Maggie Moore(s) (2023) 4/10
• Poker Face (2022) 4/10
• Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 9/10
• Sister Act (1992) 6/10
• Nope (2022) 9/10
• The Monuments Men (2014) 6/10
• The Outfit (2022) 8/10
• Ambulance (2022) 4/10
• Seven Psychopaths (2012) 8/10
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 6/10
• The Card Counter (2021) 6/10
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) 8/10
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 8/10
• Asteroid City (2023) 9/10
• Dog Soldiers (2002) 6/10
• Sicario (2015) 9/10
• Ferrari (2023) 8/10
• The Old Oak (2023) 8/10
• Cocaine Bear (2023) 5/10
• Apollo 11 (2019) (documentary) 9/10
• 9/11: Inside the President's War Room (2021) (documentary) 8/10
• Just Mercy (2019) 8/10
• The Mule (2018) 7/10
• Dune: Part One (2021) 8/10
• Dune: Part Two (2024) 9/10
• Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2022) (documentary) 8/10
• Pig (2021) 9/10
• Lost In Translation (2003) 6/10
• Red State (2011) 8/10
• Annihilation (2018) 6/10
• Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood (2019) 9/10
• Emily The Criminal (2022) 7/10
• Dirty God (2019) 8/10
• Draft Day (2014) 6/10
• Civil War (2024) 8/10
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) 8/10
• Hellboy (2004) 6/10
• Kursk (2018) 8/10
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) 8/10
• Rush (2013) 7/10
• What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) 8/10
• The Menu (2022) 8/10
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 10/10
• The Creator (2023) 5/10
• Kinds of Kindness (2024) 6/10
• Longlegs (2024) 6/10
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 7/10
• Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) 7/10
• Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) 6/10
• The Beach (2000) 8/10
• Trap (2024) 5/10
• Blink Twice (2024) 6/10
• Speak No Evil (2024) 7/10
• Interstellar (IMAX) (10th ann.) (2014) 10/10
• Wolfs (2024) 6/10
• Shaun of the Dead (20th ann.) (2004) 8/10
• Gladiator (2000) 9/10
• Arcadian (2024) 6/10
• Heretic (2024) 8/10
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 10/10
• The French Dispatch (2021) 8/10
• Daddio (2024) 6/10
• Spike Island (2012) 6/10
• Gladiator 2 (2024) 5/10
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) 7/10
• Conclave (2024) 9/10
• Wallace and Grommit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 9/10
• Catch Me If You Can (2002) 8/10
• Next Goal Wins (2023) 7/10

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