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The Criterion Challenge 2026 [complete]

Here we go with the sixth year of Ben's "Criterion Challenge", where we all hose ourselves down with bucketloads of pure cinema for an entire year.

All first-time watches and to be completed by December 31, 2026. Tag list and reviews with "cc2026", “criterion challenge” and “criterion challenge 2026”. Categories are in the notes.

Previous challenges: 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025

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  • Kicking and Screaming

    1

  • Peep Show

    2

  • The House Is Black

    3

  • Hold Me Tight

    4

  • Wuthering Heights

    5

  • The Making of Fanny and Alexander

    6

  • Rouge

    7

  • Sabotage

    8

  • In Passing

    9

  • My Beautiful Laundrette

    10

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    11

  • Cure

    12

  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    13

  • Pieces of April

    14

  • Kings of the Road

    15

  • Naked Lunch

    16

  • Clean, Shaven

    17

  • Loulou

    18

  • Grip of the Strangler

    19

  • The Confession

    20

  • Sanshiro Sugata

    21

  • Ma mère

    22

  • Suddenly, Last Summer

    23

  • A Chinese Ghost Story

    24

  • Fat Girl

    25

  • Written on the Wind

    26

  • Cathy Come Home

    27

  • The Stranger

    28

  • Elvira Madigan

    29

  • Tori and Lokita

    30

  • Humanité

    31

  • Coup de Torchon

    32

  • Sweet Movie

    33

  • The Punk Singer

    34

  • Early Spring

    35

  • Bamboozled

    36

  • An Unmarried Woman

    37

  • The Life of Jesus

    38

  • Margot at the Wedding

    39

  • Mississippi Masala

    40

  • The Soft Skin

    41

  • Assault on Precinct 13

    42

  • Fail Safe

    43

  • The Margin

    44

  • The Vanishing

    45

  • Two Lovers

    46

  • Dogfight

    47

  • Trafic

    48

  • Rodan

    49

  • Il bell'Antonio

    50

  • The Docks of New York

    51

  • Ring

    52