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The Anti-Criterion Challenge 2025

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Here it is: summa cum laude. 

Welcome to the fifth annual Anti-Criterion Challenge- a companion, confutation, rebuttal, and rebuffing of the Criterion Challenge!

The goal is simple: 1 Year. 52 prompts. 52 feature length films that are NOT in The Criterion Collection. (And no rewatches!)

started: 1/6
ended: 5/20

  • Marmaduke

    1

  • Eleven P.M.

    2

  • Verdict: Not Guilty

    3

  • Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.

    4

  • Africa on the Seine

    5

  • Lamb

    6

  • Kongi's Harvest

    7

  • Birago Diop, Storyteller

    8

  • Smart House

    9

  • The Bloodiest

    10

  • Crazy World

    11

  • Transient Happiness

    12

  • Haifa

    13

  • Double Happiness

    14

  • Before It Had a Name

    15

  • 27

    16

  • Mekong Hotel

    17

  • Problemista

    18

  • Vicious Lips

    19

  • Lady Terminator

    20

  • The Day He Arrives

    21

  • The H-Man

    22

  • Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

    23

  • Divines

    24

  • Twisted Games

    25

  • Moma's Spirit

    26

  • Lot Lizards

    27

  • The Dupes

    28

  • Goosed

    29

  • Unknown Pleasures

    30

  • Next Day Air

    31

  • Yellow Fella

    32

  • Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

    33

  • EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²

    34

  • Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

    35

  • Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

    36

  • One Way or Another

    37

  • Ishqiya

    38

  • The Joy Luck Club

    39

  • Dry Season

    40

  • Lila Says

    41

  • Open Your Eyes

    42

  • Whisper of the Heart

    43

  • Himiko

    44

  • Because of Winn-Dixie

    45

  • A Mother Should Be Loved

    46

  • Thieves in Thailand

    47

  • Uncle Drew

    48

  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

    49

  • The Christmas Clapback

    50

  • Cairo Station

    51

  • Waiting to Exhale

    52