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The Anti-Criterion Collection Challenge 2025

My first year participating in Ponders’ Anti-Criterion Collection Challenge 2025.

I’m going for summa cum laude, so all BIPOC or Latinx directors and all bonus challenges.

Description of each film has prompt. 

This is a very mainstream list but that’s the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

Progress: 23/52 (8/4/25)

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  • Fire Island

    1

  • Within Our Gates

    2

  • The Goddess

    3

  • Spring in a Small Town

    4

  • Pyaasa

    5

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    6

  • Bush Mama

    7

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    8

  • Chronicle of a Disappearance

    9

  • Turtles Can Fly

    10

  • It Must Be Heaven

    11

  • Sinners

    12

  • Paradise Now

    13

  • Quiz Lady

    14

  • Black Panther

    15

  • Costa Brava, Lebanon

    16

  • The Chambermaid

    17

  • Freakier Friday

    18

  • Thrilling Bloody Sword

    19

  • Impetigore

    20

  • I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

    21

  • Demon of Paradise

    22

  • Little Man

    23

  • Tigers Are Not Afraid

    24

  • Wadjda

    25

  • Nappily Ever After

    26

  • Holy Spider

    27

  • The Dupes

    28

  • Waiting to Exhale

    29

  • Syndromes and a Century

    30

  • American Ultra

    31

  • Samson and Delilah

    32

  • Wildhood

    33

  • Birds of Passage

    34

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    35

  • Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

    36

  • Executive Order

    37

  • Firaaq

    38

  • The Joy Luck Club

    39

  • Lingui, the Sacred Bonds

    40

  • The Mourning Forest

    41

  • Retablo

    42

  • The Happiness of the Katakuris

    43

  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

    44

  • The Secret World of Arrietty

    45

  • A Page of Madness

    46

  • Feathers

    47

  • She Hate Me

    48

  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    49

  • Meet Me Next Christmas

    50

  • Falls Around Her

    51

  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    52