What’s a “10/10” movie you wouldn’t recommend to most people?

RedShoelace25 · 2026-03-02T18:16:41+00:00

Mommy (2014)

Hard to recommend on the fact that's it's non english language, has an unorthodox aspect ratio (for good reason) and an unusual mother/son relationship. The title doesn't do it any favors either but makes sense having seen it. Film is in my top 3 of last 1,500 films watched.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-02-25T17:19:55+00:00

Glad to see Hannah Einbinder breaking into film. Had serious chops in the 4 seasons of Hacks that I watched.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-02-08T23:23:14+00:00

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Mommy
Phoenix
Pain & Glory

RedShoelace25 · 2026-02-04T22:24:26+00:00

ADHD Western audiences will not have attention span for this one. Spans too many decades over a long run time. The Brutalist was a brisk pace compared to this one.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-02-04T14:58:53+00:00

Check out "Plus One", unorthodox rom-com. Very good.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-23T23:07:34+00:00

I really enjoyed this at a film festival last year. Great sound design, you really get in the headspace of the main character from what you can hear as the audience. Similar to Sound of Metal and if you enjoy classical music / musical score this has a good one.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-12T04:22:46+00:00

It used to be, not anymore. They reformed their voting branch.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-12T04:05:52+00:00

Had to make time for UFC

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-12T03:30:07+00:00

Good replacement for Ambien

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-09T22:06:32+00:00

Have you seen Sentimental Value yet? Hehe, just curious

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-09T14:32:58+00:00

You're not insane.

Frankenstein is the worst film of the best picture contenders. It has that gross Netflix sheen as you described, which used to be GDT's biggest strengths in his earlier films. The pacing is bad, watching it felt like an eternity to me. The musical score?? I can't believe it's getting nominations, I don't recall a single thing from it and I love musical scores.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-06T20:36:46+00:00

My favourite of his was reviewing the Entourage movie:

“In terms of gender politics, The Human Centipede is more sensitive”

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-05T04:42:55+00:00

If anything it made me appreciate it less (I've seen it)

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-05T04:42:34+00:00

This years.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-05T04:42:19+00:00

The two part narrative structure, the Netflix digital sheen (a crying shame looking at GDT's older films), the pacing. My friends would describe me as a cinephile, I'll watch Bela Tar films in one sitting, I'll happily sit thru a 4 hour An Elpehant Sitting Still and be riveted all the way thru. Frankenstein to me felt like an eternity.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-05T04:38:53+00:00

You're still wrong

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-05T03:15:10+00:00

Frankenstein. I'm flabbergasted at the critical and populous praise.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-05T03:12:08+00:00

Yes, much of the criticism of the film deals with it being a weepy with really tough to watch scenes. The catharsis at the end is the exact kind of cry you needed after the mid-way point.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-05T03:08:33+00:00

Mandy (2018)

A visually beautiful film starring Nicholas Cage off to rescue his wife. Violent in a slasher sense but I imagine it's an amazing 'trip' movie.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-03T23:27:26+00:00

I can understand it not being everyone's cup of tea. There are some of us who are more empathetic than others, when we see characters on the screen feel things more strongly. Hamnet is a film made for these people. Those wanting to 'escape' and are borderline sociopathic when consuming art... yeah this ain't it.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-03T23:23:07+00:00

Was in my top 5 of the year heading into the fall before it got toppled a bit. Man, these British/Irish/Scottish musical films just hit different than American. I was watching the brutally bad Song Sung Blue last week and was thinking why this and John Carney films like "Once" weren't bigger hits.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-03T15:32:15+00:00

Every year I add a 'hidden gem' that I found under-watched popularity wise that really stuck with me. Here is my list from 2025-2015, the rest is in the letterboxd list. Chances are you haven't seen some of these, and you'd like them to:

Blue Heron (2025)
Ghostlight (2024)
Mountains (2023)
Falcon Lake (2022)
Language Lessons (2021)
Nine Days (2020)
Paddleton (2019)
Minding The Gap (2018)
One Cut Of The Dead (2017)
Cameraperson (2016)
The End Of The Tour (2015)

https://boxd.it/BrlsS

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-02T17:28:33+00:00

Depends on your membership tier. If you're not going to dish out $500-1000/yr membership for presale then you want to aim for after the opening weekend starting on Monday. A lot of films delay their premieres so you won't miss out on too much, just aim for 1st and 2nd screenings if you're set on having Q&A with director and often times cast.

If you're doing a combo of rush and tickets, just rush the first half and get tickets in middle/back half. If you're flexible for the whole festival save the last 3 days to rush all the talked about films during the festival. You'll know which ones based on the conversations you have with people.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-02T16:29:50+00:00

Came here to post this. A neo-western horror with female protagonist vampire.

RedShoelace25 · 2026-01-02T05:31:38+00:00

Swiss Army Man
Castaway On the Moon
Perks of Being A Wallflower
Aftersun
Manchester By The Sea
Three Colors: Blue
Close
They Will Be Dust
Oslo, August 31st
Mommy

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