To officially launch my recap of 2019 in film, here’s a grab bag of cinematic honors that fail to fit within any of the themed lists to come:

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SEX SCENE(S)

1. High Life — Juliette Binoche Matriarchal Ritual

2. Our Time — Closet Banging

3. The Lighthouse — One-Eyed Sailor

4. Midsommar — Ritual

5. Climax — Demonic Psychedelic Rave Orgy

6. Knife + Heart — All

7. Queen & Slim — Concreation

8. The Chambermaid — Window Washing

9. Chained for Life — Sound Mix

10. A Matthew McConaughey Double Feature — The Beach Bum (Conversational Cunnilingus) & Serenity (Thrust-free Cumming)

11. Long Shot — Simultaneous Premature Orgasm

12. Parasite — Clockwise

13. Aniara x3 — Tonguey Makeout into Turned Gender Tables / Vigorous Fingerbang / Ritual Ceremony

14. The Souvenir — Intimacy?

15. In Fabric — Mannequin

16. The Third Wife — Post-Cunnilingus Juicy Make-Out

17. Sauvage — All

18. End of the Century — Rough Realism

19. Under the Silver Lake — Rear Window Everywhere, Even in the Bedroom

20. This Is Not Berlin — Sex Sounds

21. Pasolini — Thrusting

22. My Days of Mercy — Celebrities

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COLORS

1. Pain and Glory
2. The Beach Bum
3. Black Mother
4. Uncut Gems
5. Ad Astra
6. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
7. The Laundromat
8. Midsommar
9. Under the Silver Lake
10. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
11. Climax
12. The Third Wife
13. The Souvenir
14. Asako I & II
15. Luz
16. Chained for Life
17. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
18. Rafiki
19. Waves
20. Invisible Life
21. 6 Underground
22. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
23. The Art of Self-Defense
    • Muted colors are still a color-related choice!
24. Isn’t It Romantic
    • That Nancy Meyers aesthetic.
25. Midnight Family

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GORE

1. Midsommar
2. Rambo: Last Blood
3. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
4. 6 Underground
5. Hellboy
6. Slaughterhouse Rulez
7. Brightburn
8. The Dead Don’t Die
9. Child’s Play

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LIGHTING

1. The Lighthouse
2. Ad Astra
3. All Is True
4. Little Women
5. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
6. Marriage Story
7. The Irishman
8. Midsommar
9. The Nightingale 
10. Richard Jewell
11. A Hidden Life
12. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

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TITLE

My favorite titles fall into one of three categories:

1. Titles In Themselves
   • No matter their connection to the content of the movie, these titles immediately catch the eye.
2. Titles in Relation to the Movie
   • These titles may not be impressive on their own, but they in some way enlighten an element (preferably elementS, emphasis on the plural) of the movie that audiences may not have contemplated otherwise.
3. A Combination of the Two
   • Too straightforward to need an explanation.

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In Themselves

1. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot
2. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
3. Sea Of Shadows
   • SOS!
4. Satanic Panic
5. Cassandro, the Exotico!
   • The exclamation mark!
6. David Crosby: Remember My Name
   • It’s in conversation with the title of his famous solo album…

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In Relation to the Movie

1. The Souvenir
2. The Image Book
3. Our Time
4. Chained for Life
5. Parasite
6. The Laundromat
7. Synonyms
8. Les Misérables
9. Midnight Traveler
10. Wild Nights with Emily
11. Queen & Slim
12. The Lighthouse
13. Marriage Story
14. The Nightingale
15. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
16. Relaxer
17. Non-Fiction
18. By the Grace of God
19. One Cut of the Dead
20. Framing John DeLorean
21. Charlie Says
22. Where’s My Roy Cohn?
23. End of the Century
24. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
25. Pain and Glory
26. Always in Season
27. Climax
28. Too Late to Die Young
29. Everybody Knows
30. Styx 
31. Screwball
32. Never Grow Old
    • A recommendation, a prediction, or a threat?
33. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
34. The Biggest Little Farm
35. Working Woman
36. Braid
37. Woman at War
38. Fighting with My Family
39. Jay Myself
    • “Myself” sounds an awful lot like “Maisel”
40. Angel Has Fallen
41. A Score to Settle
42. Breakthrough

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Both

1. Her Smell
2. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
3. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
4. Uncut Gems
5. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
6. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
7. The Dead Don’t Die
8. Under the Silver Lake
9. Varda by Agnès
10. Island of the Hungry Ghosts
11. Dragged Across Concrete
12. The Death of Dick Long
13. Ash Is Purest White
14. Giant Little Ones 
15. The Current War: Director’s Cut
16. Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
17. Happy Death Day 2U
18. Lucy in the Sky
19. Them That Follow
20. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?
21. Hail Satan?
    • The question mark!
22. Ad Astra