We rate everything. Then we curate what matters.
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Featured picks New & recent
Shelf candy: newest English-language drops beside the international series we’re mainlining—one rail, sideways scroll, no syllabus.
Under the radar Low votes, high scores
We threw 8+ confetti while IMDb vote totals were still shy of fifty thousand—flip to Recent for the last ~18 months of those finds.
Beyond English World cinema & TV
Passports out: different scripts, headlines, and attitudes than the default multiplex feed—subtitles welcome, snobbery not required.
Recent essays Reading
Longer takes on what we keep coming back to—noir clockwork, spy patience, craft obsession, and every under-the-radar cheat code we’ve stolen fair and square.
How we use the 1–10 scale Chart
By decade Release year
Release year only—when the work actually dropped, not the night we finally logged it.
Directors we keep booking 3+ titles
Score blends our average, how many of their films we’ve seen, and star level.
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We liked it more than IMDb Gap ≥ 1.5
We’re 1.5+ kinder than the crowd here—usually smaller films and shows still auditioning for the world.
| Title | Year | Our rating | IMDb | IMDb votes | RT | Gap |
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All-time tens Table
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Recently seen New ratings
The last fifteen scores we logged—still warm from the couch, languages and all.
| Date rated | Title | Original language | Year | Format | Our rating | IMDb | IMDb votes | RT | Genres |
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This month April 2026
Spy TV, Nordic returns, calendar chaos—catch Widow’s Bay on Apple TV+ and The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek on Netflix before the group chat spoils them.
Fresh essays and lists live on Stories: by region · lists · long reads.