The Score
These are the films – old and new, good and bad
– I have seen in the cinema of late.
2019
Apollo 11
Sometimes Always Never
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Thunder Road
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
1948: Creation & Catastrophe
Amazing Grace (twice)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Woman at War
Happy as Lazzaro
The Keeper
Eighth Grade
The White Crow
Everybody Knows
WitchHunt
Capernaum
A Private War
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Vice
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Free Solo
The Favourite
Three Identical Strangers
2018
Stan and Ollie
Shoplifters
Widows
Peterloo
Orphée
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
They Shall Not Grow Old
First Man
Incredibles 2
Kler
Crazy Rich Asians
Lucky
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
BlacKkKlansman
Cold War
Apostasy
Coco
Yellow Submarine
L’Apparition
First Reformed
Lady Bird
Avengers: Infinity War
On Chesil Beach
Early Man
The Dam Busters (restored)
The Shape of Water (again)
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Sweet Country
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Ready Player One
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Isle of Dogs
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Dark River
I, Tonya
Black Panther
The Shape of Water
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (again)
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (again)
A Fantastic Woman
Phantom Thread
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (again)
Sicko
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Dunkirk (again)
The Post
Darkest Hour
2017
Mountain
In Between
Tale of Tales (again)
Junction 48
Despicable Me 3
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (again)
La Belle et la Bête (again)
Blade Runner 2049
Paddington 2
Final Portrait
Thor: Ragnarok
Murder on the Orient Express
A Ghost Story
The Death of Stalin
The Party
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Mimosas
God’s Own Country
Dunkirk
City of Ghosts
Detroit
Shin Godzilla
The Limehouse Golem
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (yet again!)
The Big Sick
Baby Driver
My Cousin Rachel
Hacksaw Ridge
Lady Macbeth
The Lego Batman Movie
Letters from Baghdad
The Sense of an Ending
Their Finest
Neruda
A Quiet Passion
A Silent Voice
The Lost City of Z
Cameraperson
Moonlight
Viceroy’s House
Ballerina
Christine
Hidden Figures
Moana
20th Century Women
Toni Erdmann
Fences
Lion
Jackie
La La Land
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Phantom Boy
A Monster Calls
2016
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Eagle Huntress
I, Daniel Blake (yet again)
A United Kingdom
Pete’s Dragon
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
Napoléon
I, Daniel Blake (again)
Ethel and Ernest
Finding Dory
Hell or High Water
I, Daniel Blake
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
Captain Fantastic (again)
Captain Fantastic
The Killings of Tony Blair
The BFG
Star Trek Beyond
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
The Jungle Book
Tale of Tales
Love and Friendship
Zootropolis (Zootopia)
Only Yesterday
Kung Fu Panda 3
Our Kind of Traitor
Trumbo
Midnight Special
Dheepan
Eye in the Sky
Ma Ma
Black Mountain Poets
Hail, Caesar!
High-Rise
The Revenant (again)
Spotlight (again)
Marguerite
Black Souls
A Bigger Splash
The Weight of Chains
Spotlight
Room
The Revenant
The
Danish Girl
2015
Radiator
It’s a Wonderful Life
Carol
The Lady in the Van
Bridge of Spies
Spectre
Brooklyn
The Martian
Suffragette
Macbeth
Roger Waters The Wall
On the Side of the Road
Straight outta Compton
Inside Out
Amy
Love and Mercy
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Jurassic World
London Road
The Look of Silence
Mr Holmes
Far from the Madding Crowd
Man Up
The Reunion
Mad Max: Fury Road
We Are Many
Shaun the Sheep
Cobain: Montage of Heck
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Ida
Open Bethlehem
Penguins of Madagascar
Selma
Birdman
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Into the Woods
American Sniper
2014
The Boxtrolls
Paddington
Kon-Tiki
The Homesman
Interstellar
Nightcrawler
Testament of Youth
Mr Turner
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Fury
Effie Grey
Night Will Fall
Rio 2
A Most Wanted Man
Pride
Two Days, One Night
Boyhood
The Lego Movie
Calvary
The Two Faces of January
Mood Indigo
Kafr Kasem
Mr Peabody and Sherman
The Raid 2
Noah
The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window
xxand Disappeared
The Invisible Woman
Only Lovers Left Alive
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Frozen
Belle
Peter Gabriel: Back to Front
300: Rise of an Empire
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Pioneer
12 Years a Slave
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Fruitvale Station
Mud
2013
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Double Indemnity
Out of the Past
Mary Poppins (again)
Gravity 3D
Philomena
The Railway Man
Captain Phillips
Enough Said
UK Gold
Sunshine on Leith
Nostalgia for the Light
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Blue Jasmine
What Maisie Knew
Despicable Me 2
Rush
The Way, Way Back
Much Ado about Nothing
The Act of Killing
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Rescue Dawn
The Great Gatsby
My Neighbour Totoro
Grave of the Fireflies
Life of Pi 3D (again)
Iron Man 3
The Princess Bride
The Wall
Searching for Sugar Man
Trance
Wreck-It Ralph
Days of Heaven
Caesar Must Die
Bicycle Thieves (again)
Company Limited
Devi
Amour
The White Ribbon
Side Effects
The Spirit of ’45
Underground
Flight
Populaire
Hitchcock
Lincoln
The Hunt (again)
Madagascar 3
Django Unchained
McCullin
Les Miserables
Baraka
Samsara
The Impossible
Life of Pi 3D
2012
This is My Land – Hebron
Lawrence of Arabia
Paranorman 3D
Argo
No
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Skyfall
Rashomon
Tokyo Story
The Sessions
Shadow Dancer
The Hunt
Marley
Jane Eyre (encore une fois)
Terri
The Dark Knight Rises
Brave
Holy Motors
Jane Eyre
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Moonrise Kingdom
The Imposter
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Raid: Redemption
Touch of Evil
Psycho
Prometheus
Mirror, Mirror
The Angels’ Share
Where Do We Go Now?
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
A Monster in Paris
The Artist (again)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (again)
Into the Abyss
The Muppets
Puss in Boots
The Descendants
The Artist
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The Iron Lady
Resistance
Went the Day Well?
2011
Hugo
Arthur Christmas
Margaret
Moneyball
The Deep Blue Sea
The Fairy
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Drive
Wuthering Heights
The Help
Melancholia
Midnight in Paris
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Coriolanus
The Salt of Life
Mid-August Lunch
The Guard
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Big Picture
Super 8
The Round-Up
Rio
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Tree of Life
The Great White Silence
A Separation
Le Quattro Volte
My Dog Tulip
The Illusionist
Senna
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Léon
Attack the Block
Rango
Hanna
13 Assassins
Thor
Pina
Tangled
Source Code
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Of Gods and Men
Submarine
Killing Bono
Despicable Me
Inside Job
Nénette
Inception (again)
The Tempest
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The King’s Speech (yet again)
True Grit
Megamind
The King’s Speech (again)
Winter’s Bone
The King’s Speech
2010
Monsters
West is West
Brighton Rock
The Town
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Restrepo
127 Hours
Shrek Forever After
Metropolis
Up (again)
Budrus
Apocalypse Now Redux
Conspiracy of Silence
The Secret in Their Eyes
Toy Story 3
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Let the Right One In
Inception
Bad Lieutenant
Dogtooth
South of the Border
Four Lions
How to Train Your Dragon
Capitalism: a Love Story
Ponyo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Alice in Wonderland
Green Zone
My Name Is Khan
Avatar (again)
Bright Star
In the Loop
Fantastic Mr Fox
Cemetery Junction
Food Inc
Invictus
Bicycle Thieves (again)
Up in the Air
Cracks
Picnic at Hanging Rock (again)
The Road
Fish Tank
2009
Avatar
A Serious Man
2012
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Nowhere Boy
The Boys are Back
The Cove
Moon
Departures
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Up
Inglourious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Red Cliff
The Big Lebowski
Withnail and I
The Yes Men Fix the World
Coraline
Public Enemies
The Ladykillers
The Man in the White Suit
The Day I Became a Woman
Katyn
The Lavender Hill Mob
Passport to Pimlico
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Thief of Bagdad
M
The End of the Line
Looking for Eric
Tyson
When We Were Kings
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
State of Play
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Knowing
The Damned United
The Class
Paradise Now
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Throne of Blood
The Age of Stupid (twice)
Gran Torino
Far North
The Warrior (again)
My Father My Lord
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Drácula
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Once (more)
2008
The Warlords
Bicycle Thieves
Times and Winds
Waltz with Bashir
Che Part 2
Dean Spanley
Australia
The Changeling
Babette’s Feast
Eat Drink Man Woman
Che Part 1
The Revolution Wlll Not Be Televised
War Requiem
Quantum of Solace
Hunger
Dead of Night
Chocolate
Burn after Reading
The Dark Knight
The Wizard of Oz
Dr Zhivago
The Accidental Husband
Fireflies in the Garden
Into the Wild
In Bruges (in Bruges)
Mongol
Wall-E
East of Eden
Caramel
Persepolis
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
Time of the Gypsies
Black Cat, White Cat
Female Agents
Bread and Roses
Stardust
Happy-Go-Lucky
Central Station (yet again)
The Banishment
Son of Rambow
It’s a Free World
My Brother is an Only Child
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Son of Man
U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
Be Kind Rewind
Juno
The Debutants
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men (twice)
Once
Silent Light
2007
The Kite Runner
Enchanted
When the Road Bends
Gadjo Dilo
The Singer
Brick Lane
Michael Clayton
Beowulf
Intimate Stories
Tsotsi
Ratatouille
Lancelot du Lac
Au Hasard, Balthasar
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Two Days in Paris
Atonement
3.10 to Yuma
The Sound of Music
The Bourne Ultimatum
Hot Fuzz
The Simpsons Movie
Sunshine
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
My Best Friend
Tell No One
The War on Democracy
Water
The Bothersome Man
Blood Diamond
The Battle of Algiers
Spider-Man 3
Flags of Our Fathers
The Lives of Others
Curse of the Golden Flower
Blades of Glory
300
Amazing Grace
Climates
Volver (again)
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Last King of Scotland
The History Boys
Notes on a Scandal
Iraq in Fragments
Pan’s Labyrinth
Run Lola Run
The Pursuit of Happyness
Little Miss Sunshine
Perfume
2006
Deep Water
The US vs John Lennon
Happy Feet
It’s a Wonderful Life
Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait
Red Road
Casino Royale
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America &c
The Page Turner
The Departed
Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Devil Wears Prada
Volver
Amélie (a third time)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Heading South
Offside
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Secuestro Express
United 93
Brick
Transamerica
Dr Strangelove
Crash
The Child
Grizzly Man
A Cock and Bull Story
Good Night, and Good Luck
Godzilla
Broken Flowers
Hidden
Howl’s Moving Castle
A Streetcar Named Desire
Munich
Soy Cuba
Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Match Point
…and as many as I can remember from earlier years:
2004
Lost in Translation
The Consequences of Love
Spider-Man 2
Peter Pan
2003
Touching the Void
Lord of the Rings 3
Master and Commander
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Calendar Girls
Finding Nemo
The Matrix Revolutions
Spirited Away
Belleville Rendezvous
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Great Dictator
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Whale Rider
Springtime in a Small Town
Être et Avoir
The Matrix Reloaded
Johnny English
Russian Ark
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Quiet American
2002
Die Another Day
Lord of the Rings 2
Minority Report
Stars Wars: Attack of the Clones
Secret Ballot
ET
About a Boy
Iris
The Shipping News
About Schmidt
Devdas
Monsters Inc
The Warrior
Spider-Man
What Time Is It There?
Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner
Kandahar
Bowling for Columbine
In the Bedroom
Lagaan
Monsoon Wedding
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
2001
Asoka
Chocolat
Lord of the Rings 1
Blackboards
Unbreakable
Traffic
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
In the Mood for Love
American Beauty
1999
Eyes Wide Shut
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Pleasantville
Central Station
Life is Beautiful
1998
Antz
Small Soldiers
Mulan
The Battleship Potemkin
The Truman Show
Saving Private Ryan
Deconstructing Harry
As Good As It Gets
Regeneration
Titanic
It’s a Wonderful Life
Black Beauty
Wilde
The Wings of a Dove
Tomorrow Never Dies
1996
Michael Collins
Independence Day
Dead Man Walking
Toy Story
Richard III
The Indian in the Cupboard
Sense and Sensibility
Heat
Babe
1995
Land and Freedom
Goldeneye
The Bridges of Madison County
Waterworld
The Shawshank Redemption
Ran
Unforgiven
The Madness of King George
Once Were Warriors
Amateur
Three Colours White
1994
The Nightmare before Christmas
Three Colours Red
Three Colours Blue
Pulp Fiction
The Lion King
Geronimo
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Piano
Shadowlands
In the Name of the Father
Schindler’s List
Philadelphia
Free Willy
The Remains of the Day
Mrs Doubtfire
1993
Aladdin
The Fugitive
Jurassic Park
The Jungle Book
Groundhog Day
The Tale of Qiu Ju
Orlando
Chaplin
Sister Act
1992
Strictly Ballroom
The Last of the Mohicans
Patriot Games
Europa Europa
The Player
Batman Returns
Cinema Paradiso
The Horse Thief
Barton Fink
The Black Robe
The Addams Family
The Commitments
Flirting
1989
Cry Freedom
Rain Man
High Hopes
Mapantsula
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