ESSENTIAL FILMS BLOG: 2025

Very Good: B-

EFB Inaugural Criteria

Essential Films Blog is comprised of only films that are warranting a B- rating of quality or above.

Cinematic Aesthetic Theory

The films that are honored in this publication are viewed in their capacity to be visually splendorous (the paramount aspect of film) and emotionally stirring; demonstrated through the spheres of story, music and/or imagery.

The true, vital mark of great cinema is the mastery of time, place, and tone throughout a work.

Cinema, as a medium of the visual, and by that virtue one of the most lasting art forms on the partaker, must be assessed fundamentally on its aptitude to document the scenery of life experience with power.

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Documentaries are included in this undertaking, but short films, although many remarkable selections can be unearthed, are unfortunately not.

ESSENTIAL FILMS BLOG

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Monday, March 31, 2025

Police Story - 1985

Saturday, March 29, 2025

The Day I Will Never Forget - 2002

Thursday, March 27, 2025

The Beast - 2023

Monday, March 24, 2025

Suzume - 2022

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Rough Aunties - 2008

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Raising Victor Vargas - 2002

An American in Paris - 1951

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Marketa Lazarova - 1967

Sunday, February 23, 2025

The Wild Robot - 2024

Friday, February 7, 2025

Touch - 2024

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Didi - 2024

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

All Quiet on the Western Front - 2022

Monday, January 20, 2025

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 1964

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Speed - 1994

Monday, January 13, 2025

Romeo and Juliet - 1968

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Heat - 1995