Joey Lee

Sometimes a movie is a sum of past parts.

[Joey Lee @MovieEquations]

#Top5FirstViews May 2026

Lurker (Alex Russell, 2025) ****
Roofman (Derek Cianfrance, 2025) ****
Fairyland (Andrew Durham, 2025) ****
Andre is an Idiot (Tony Benna, 2025) ****
The Plague (Charlie Polinger, 2025) ****

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#Top5FirstViews April 2026

Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2025) ****1/2
The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan, 2025) ****
Companion (Drew Hancock, 2025) ****
Twinless (James Sweeney, 2025) ****
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, 2025) ****

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#Top5FirstViews March 2026

The Traveling Executioner (Jack Smight, 1970) ****
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025) ****
Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming, 1937) ****
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky, 2025) ****
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975) ****

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#Top5FirstViews February 2026

The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir, 2025) ****1/2
Sirat (Oliver Laxe, 2025) ****
Sentimental Value (Joaquim Trier, 2025) ****
The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfeldt, 2025) ****
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, 2025) ****

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#Top5FirstViews January 2026

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015) ****1/2
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981) ****
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) ****
Hamnet (Chloe Zhao, 2025) ***1/2
Ordet (Theodore Dreiser, 1955) ***1/2

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#Top5FirstViews December 2025

Weapons (Zach Creager, 2025) ****1/2
Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor, 2025) ****1/2
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Brownstein, 2025) ****1/2
The Last Unicorn (Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, 1982) ****
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987) ****

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#Top5FirstViews November 2025

Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) ****1/2
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947) ****
One Battle After Another (PT Anderson, 2025) ****
Shirley Valentine (Lewis Gilbert, 1989) ****
Les Miserables (Claude Lelouche, 1995) ****

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#Top5FirstViews October 2025

Manon of the Spring (Claude Barris, 1986) ****1/2
The Exorcist (William Freidkan, 1973) ****1/2
Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) ****1/2
Jean de Florette (Claude Barris, 1986) ****1/2
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) ****

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#Top5FirstViews September 2025

Apocalypse Now (Frances Ford Coppola, 1979) ****1/2
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011) ****1/2
La Haine (Matheiu Kassovitz, 1995) ****
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichert, 2010) ****
Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998) ****

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#Top5FirstViews August 2025

Underground (Emil Kusturica, 1995) ****1/2
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965) ****1/2
Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) ****
The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991) ****
Bad Influence (Curtis Hanson, 1990) ****

[Joey Lee @MovieEquations]

@BravoTV I don't really think you should take Katie out of the mix on #RHOC just because everyone's ganging up on her. She didn't do anything egregious. If anything, you should get her an ally.

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#Top5FirstViews July 2025

Sugar Colt (Franco Giraldi, 1966) ****
Searching for Bobby Fisher (Steven Zailian, 1993) ****
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990) ****
Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995) ****
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma, 2014) ****

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#Top5FirstViews June 2025

The Ox-bow Incident (William A Wellman, 1942) ****1/2
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Olphus, 1972) ****1/2
One False Move (Carl Franklin, 1991) ****1/2
Fellini’s Casanova (Frederico Fellini, 1976) ****
Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, 2023) ****

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#Top5FirstViews May 2025

I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024) ****1/2
Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, 2024) ****1/2
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin, 2024) ****
Sinners (Ryan Cougler, 2025) ****
Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2024) ****

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#Top5FirstViews April 2025

Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, 1986) ****1/2
Will & Harper (Josh Greenbaum, 2024) ****1/2
Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024) ****
Late Night with the Devil (Colin and Cameron Carines, 2024) ****
Heretic (Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, 2024) ****

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#Top5FirstViews February 2025

Soundtrack of a Coup D’Etat (Johan Grimonprez, 2024) ****
Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen, 1972) ****
Longlegs (Ozgood Perkins, 2024) ****
Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, 1988) ****
Hit Man (Richard Linklater, 2024) ****

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"'Anora' became the lowest-grossing best picture winner ever" claims @smbahr14 for @nytimes.

That's.... so verifiably false. Anora made 41.3 million. Nomadland made 39.5 million. Coda made 2.2 million. #factchecking

[Joey Lee @MovieEquations]

"'Anora' became the lowest-grossing best picture winner ever" claims @smbahr14 for @nytimes.

That's.... so verifiably false. Anora made 41.3 million. Nomadland made 39.5 million. Coda made 2.2 million. #factchecking

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#Top5FirstViews February 2025

Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar, 2024) *****
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024) ****1/2
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) ****1/2
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg, 2024) ****1/2
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024) ****

[Joey Lee @MovieEquations]

Bring back clips!

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

The ‘Fab 5’ format will not be used for the acting categories at this year’s #Oscars, reports @Variety.

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