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Criterion Challenge (2025)

The 5th annual Criterion Challenge. Many thanks to Ben for always providing THE most satisfying list-making experience of the year. See notes for category prompts and check out the original list here.

Challenge Status: 3/52

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  • Persona

    1

  • Close-Up

    2

  • 3 Women

    3

  • Harakiri

    4

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

    5

  • On the Waterfront

    6

  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    7

  • Drugstore Cowboy

    8

  • M

    9

  • Tampopo

    10

  • Mildred Pierce

    11

  • High and Low

    12

  • The Asphalt Jungle

    13

  • Belle de Jour

    14

  • L'Avventura

    15

  • Ran

    16

  • Pink Flamingos

    17

  • Umberto D.

    18

  • Police Story

    19

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    20

  • The Grifters

    21

  • Grey Gardens

    22

  • Yi Yi

    23

  • EO

    24

  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

    25

  • 8½

    26

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    27

  • The Hit

    28

  • All That Jazz

    29

  • Beasts of No Nation

    30

  • Slacker

    31

  • Charade

    32

  • La Pointe Courte

    33

  • Pixote

    34

  • Leave Her to Heaven

    35

  • Okja

    36

  • Black Girl

    37

  • Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

    38

  • Crash

    39

  • The Circus

    40

  • Opening Night

    41

  • Touki Bouki

    42

  • The Third Man

    43

  • Seconds

    44

  • Days of Being Wild

    45

  • To Die For

    46

  • Wanda

    47

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock

    48

  • Beau Travail

    49

  • An Angel at My Table

    50

  • Life Is Sweet

    51

  • Safe

    52