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The Anti-Criterion Challenge 2025 -- My Picks (Completed 8/29/25)

The 2025 Anti Criterion Challenge. My second year doing this one.

Many helpful lists at the original challenge post.

Completed August 29th.

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  • Libeled Lady

    1

  • The Man Who Laughs

    2

  • Wuthering Heights

    3

  • Letter from an Unknown Woman

    4

  • Gigi

    5

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    6

  • Ganja & Hess

    7

  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

    8

  • What's Love Got to Do with It

    9

  • The Devil Wears Prada

    10

  • La La Land

    11

  • The Batman

    12

  • Gaza Mon Amour

    13

  • Umma

    14

  • Chocolat

    15

  • Poor Things

    16

  • Aftersun

    17

  • Bottoms

    18

  • Split Second

    19

  • Impetigore

    20

  • Oasis

    21

  • Predator 2

    22

  • After Earth

    23

  • Cryptozoo

    24

  • The Company of Strangers

    25

  • Flamenco at 5:15

    26

  • MaXXXine

    27

  • American Fiction

    28

  • The House on Sorority Row

    29

  • Happy as Lazzaro

    30

  • Immaculate

    31

  • Fancy Dance

    32

  • Flaming Ears

    33

  • Babylon

    34

  • Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

    35

  • Coherence

    36

  • Mars One

    37

  • Maqbool

    38

  • Afterlife of the Party

    39

  • God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya

    40

  • Elena

    41

  • The Raid

    42

  • Love Songs

    43

  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed

    44

  • Peter & the Wolf

    45

  • An Inn in Tokyo

    46

  • Face to Face

    47

  • Space Jam

    48

  • Resident Evil

    49

  • Window Wonderland

    50

  • Eileen

    51

  • Challengers

    52