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2025 Anti-Criterion Challenge

It's about that time.

Not going for summa cum laude again, just looking to chip away at my watchlist, particularly with stuff I can get at my local library. I'm gonna watch these out of order this year, paired each week with something from the Criterion Challenge.

Find the original here!

EDIT: I have changed 38 to Firaaq (2009). I was only able to locate the 2006 Umrao Jaan.

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  • The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

    1

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    2

  • Lenin in October

    3

  • The Maltese Falcon

    4

  • Mother India

    5

  • Afraid to Die

    6

  • Lord Shango

    7

  • Ms .45

    8

  • Down in the Delta

    9

  • Lumumba

    10

  • Our Little Sister

    11

  • Earth Mama

    12

  • Bye Bye Tiberias

    13

  • Catfight

    14

  • Mother of George

    15

  • Son of Saul

    16

  • The Chambermaid

    17

  • Problemista

    18

  • Event Horizon

    19

  • Agak Laen

    20

  • Antique

    21

  • Hellraiser

    22

  • Cats

    23

  • Let the River Flow

    24

  • The King of Comedy

    25

  • Hugo

    26

  • The Bloodiest

    27

  • Flee

    28

  • Assault on Precinct 13

    29

  • The Time That Remains

    30

  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

    31

  • Falls Around Her

    32

  • Wilderness

    33

  • Isle of Dogs

    34

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    35

  • Terminal USA

    36

  • The Turning Wind

    37

  • Firaaq

    38

  • Freeway

    39

  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl

    40

  • The Mourning Forest

    41

  • The Principal Enemy

    42

  • Circus

    43

  • Pom Poko

    44

  • Matilda

    45

  • A Page of Madness

    46

  • Feathers

    47

  • The Running Man

    48

  • Sailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose

    49

  • A Christmas Prince

    50

  • Eileen

    51

  • The World According to Garp

    52