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The Criterion Challenge 2025 [complete]

Here we go with the fifth year of Ben's "Criterion Challenge", where we all smother ourselves in waves of pure cinema for the next few months.

All first time watches and to be completed by December 31, 2025. Tag list and reviews with "cc2025", “criterion challenge” and “criterion challenge 2025”. Categories are in the notes.

Previous challenges: 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024

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  • My Own Private Idaho

    1

  • Double Suicide

    2

  • Demonlover

    3

  • Quadrophenia

    4

  • Miller's Crossing

    5

  • Divorce Italian Style

    6

  • Seven Chances

    7

  • Evil Does Not Exist

    8

  • The Most Dangerous Game

    9

  • Tampopo

    10

  • Detour

    11

  • My Dinner with Andre

    12

  • The Asphalt Jungle

    13

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night

    14

  • Cruel Story of Youth

    15

  • Forbidden Games

    16

  • The Emigrants

    17

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

    18

  • A Taxing Woman

    19

  • Chungking Express

    20

  • Insomnia

    21

  • Gimme Shelter

    22

  • In the Mood for Love

    23

  • All We Imagine as Light

    24

  • Wildlife

    25

  • My Darling Clementine

    26

  • The Hand

    27

  • The Killing

    28

  • Crazed Fruit

    29

  • Shallow Grave

    30

  • Se7en

    31

  • The Funeral

    32

  • The Little Soldier

    33

  • La Ciénaga

    34

  • To Die For

    35

  • Chop Shop

    36

  • The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

    37

  • Bed and Board

    38

  • The Heroic Trio

    39

  • Jane B. by Agnès V.

    40

  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

    41

  • Xala

    42

  • The Killers

    43

  • Three Cases of Murder

    44

  • 5 Centimeters per Second

    45

  • Eating Raoul

    46

  • Naked Childhood

    47

  • My Brilliant Career

    48

  • Strange Days

    49

  • Two-Lane Blacktop

    50

  • Miao Miao

    51

  • My Little Loves

    52