#Top5FirstViews April 2026
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2025) ****1/2
The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan, 2025) ****
Companion (Drew Hancock, 2025) ****
Twinless (James Sweeney, 2025) ****
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, 2025) ****
#Top5FirstViews December 2025
Weapons (Zach Creager, 2025) ****1/2
Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor, 2025) ****1/2
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Brownstein, 2025) ****1/2
The Last Unicorn (Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, 1982) ****
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) ****
#Top5FirstViews November 2025
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) ****1/2
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947) ****
One Battle After Another (PT Anderson, 2025) ****
Shirley Valentine (Lewis Gilbert, 1989) ****
Les Miserables (Claude Lelouche, 1995) ****
#Top5FirstViews October 2025
Manon of the Spring (Claude Barris, 1986) ****1/2
The Exorcist (William Freidkan, 1973) ****1/2
Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) ****1/2
Jean de Florette (Claude Barris, 1986) ****1/2
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) ****
#Top5FirstViews August 2025
Underground (Emil Kusturica, 1995) ****1/2
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965) ****1/2
Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) ****
The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991) ****
Bad Influence (Curtis Hanson, 1990) ****
#Top5FirstViews June 2025
The Ox-bow Incident (William A Wellman, 1942) ****1/2
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Olphus, 1972) ****1/2
One False Move (Carl Franklin, 1991) ****1/2
Fellini’s Casanova (Frederico Fellini, 1976) ****
Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, 2023) ****
#Top5FirstViews April 2025
Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, 1986) ****1/2
Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum, 2024) ****1/2
Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024) ****
Late Night with the Devil (Colin and Cameron Carines, 2024) ****
Heretic (Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, 2024) ****
#Top5FirstViews February 2025
Soundtrack of a Coup D’Etat (Johan Grimonprez, 2024) ****
Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen, 1972) ****
Longlegs (Ozgood Perkins, 2024) ****
Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, 1988) ****
Hit Man (Richard Linklater, 2024) ****
"'Anora' became the lowest-grossing best picture winner ever" claims @smbahr14 for @nytimes.
That's.... so verifiably false. Anora made 41.3 million. Nomadland made 39.5 million. Coda made 2.2 million. #factchecking
"'Anora' became the lowest-grossing best picture winner ever" claims @smbahr14 for @nytimes.
That's.... so verifiably false. Anora made 41.3 million. Nomadland made 39.5 million. Coda made 2.2 million. #factchecking
#Top5FirstViews February 2025
Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2024) *****
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024) ****1/2
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) ****1/2
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024) ****1/2
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024) ****