I watched 83 films this year, as of December 21st. Now, I’ve never pretended my taste in film is good, and I watch quite a lot of trash. Trash is great when you’re on a plane, or hungover, or are ignoring the fact that you ought to go to bed.
There are some genuinely good films on this list. Most of those I can credit to my friend AJ (here is his letterboxd). Some I can credit to other people, including my partner. And a few I can credit to occasional positive aberrations in my own tastes.
I won’t write much about any of these films – if I have anything to say, I’ll drop it directly into the list below. I’ve only rarely tried to write about film in the past, as I largely feel I lack the vocabulary or knowledge to have much interesting to say, but the only way to change that would be to try. So who knows, maybe next year I’ll make a letterboxd account myself, and become one of those people. Or maybe I won’t! Not everything I do for pleasure needs to be somehow chewed up and extruded as content. We’ll see.