Since the last update, I handed out the winners for the 2022 Endy Awards and announced that I’ve written an essay for the upcoming Radiance Films release of Benny Chan and Johnnie To’s A Moment of Romance. For InReview Online I wrote about Tsai Ming-liang’s Where, playing at the Prismatic Ground festival, Shinkai Makoto’s Suzume, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza and Marko Zaror’s Fist of the Condor, Veronica Ngô’s Furies, and the Berlin Film Festival’s Remembering Every Night, There is a Stone, and Absence.

Over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about: Swordsman and Enchantress, The Bare-Footed Kid, The Wandering Earth II, New Kung Fu Cult Master (Parts I & II), Black Cat and Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin, Secret Police, Undeclared War, Hidden Blade, Fist of Legend, Black Mask 2: City of Masks, In Water, Snipers, The Tantana, Easy Money, Red Pirate, Peace Hotel, In the Line of Duty III and IV, The Shaolin Invincibles and Seven to One, Code of the Assassins, Saviour of the Soul I & II, Treasure Hunt, and Full River Red. Please do consider subscribing if you’re able and you like my work. It’s only $1/month or $10/year.

These are the movies I’ve watched or rewatched over the last few weeks, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

The Battle of Midway (John Ford) – 17, 1942
Buccaneer Bunny (Friz Freleng) – 28, 1948
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones) – 5, 1953
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) – 5, 1972

Seven to One (Hou Cheng) – 41, 1973
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola) – 4, 1974
Shaolin Invincibles (Hou Cheng) – 18, 1977
Swordsman and Enchantress (Chor Yuen) – 11, 1978

Radioactive Dreams (Albert Pyun) – 20, 1984
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino) – 28, 1987
Easy Money (Stephen Shin) – 53, 1987
In the Line of Duty III (Brandy Yuen & Arthur Wong) – 35, 1988

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek) – 15, 1989
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) – 26, 1989
In the Line of Duty IV (Yuen Woo-ping) – 30, 1989
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan) – 9, 1990
I Love You to Death (Lawrence Kasdan) – 31, 1990
Undeclared War (Ringo Lam) – 57, 1990

Saviour of the Soul (Corey Yuen, Jeffrey Lau & David Lai) – 49, 1991
Black Cat (Stephen Shin) – 56, 1991
The Royal Scoundrel (Johnnie To) – 85, 1991
The Tantana (Mang Hoi) – 92, 1991

Saviour of the Soul II (Corey Yuen & David Lai) – 49, 1992
Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin (Stephen Shin) – 72, 1992
Secret Police (Yiu Tin-hung) – 79, 1992
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) – 3, 1993
Future Cops (Wong Jing) – 49, 1993
A Moment of Romance II (Benny Chan) – 77, 1993
The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To) – 94, 1993

Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan) – 13, 1994
The Returning (Jacob Cheung) – 26, 1994
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee) – 28, 1994
Treasure Hunt (Jeffrey Lau) – 52, 1994
In Between (Samson Chiu, Yonfan & Sylvia Chang) – 61, 1994

Peace Hotel (Wai Ka-fai) – 35, 1995
The Phantom Lover (Ronny Yu) – 67, 1995
Beyond Hypothermia (Patrick Leung) – 23, 1996
A Moment of Romance III (Johnnie To) – 46, 1996

Eighteen Springs (Ann Hui) – 16, 1997
Walk In (Herman Yau) – 71, 1997
Red Pirate (Chen Chi-hwa) – 81, 1997
The Truman Show (Peter Weir) – 28, 1998
Classic Albums: Steely Dan – Aja (Alan Lewens) – 27, 1999

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) – 4, 2000
Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) – 44, 2002
Black Mask 2: City of Masks (Tsui Hark) – 50, 2002
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) – 7, 2003
Jiang Hu (Wong Ching-po) – 43, 2004

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ken Kwapis) – 53, 2005
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (Isaac Florentine) – 57, 2006
In Search of Mozart (Phil Grabsky) – 61, 2006
Superbad (Greg Mottola) – 45, 2007
Undisputed III: Redemption (Isaac Florentine) – 55, 2010

George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese) – 14, 2011
El Gringo (Eduardo Rodriguez) – 49, 2012
John Wick (Chad Stahelski) – 40, 2014
Draft Day (Ivan Reitman) – 63, 2014

Close Range (Isaac Florentine) – 48, 2015
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) – 39, 2016
Boyka: Undisputed IV (Todor Chapkanov) – 55, 2016
John Wick Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski) – 54, 2017
Savage Dog (Jesse V. Johnson) – 72, 2017

The Debt Collector (Jesse V. Johnson) – 38, 2018
Ballet Now (Steven Cantor) – 55, 2018
Avengement (Jesse V. Johnson) – 32, 2019
John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (Chad Stahelski) – 47, 2019
Murder Mystery (Kyle Newacheck) – 66, 2019
Abduction (Ernie Barbarash) – 90, 2019

Greyhound (Aaron Schneider) – 21, 2020
Debt Collectors (Jesse V. Johnson) – 30, 2020
The Great Director (Lei Xu) – 72, 2021
Where (Tsai Ming-liang) – 14, 2022
Remembering Every Night (Kiyohara Yui) – 19, 2022
Suzume (Shinkai Makoto) – 32, 2022

Furies (Veronica Ngô) – 37, 2022
New Kung Fu Cult Master (Parts I & II) (Wong Jing and Venus Keung) – 41, 2022
Snipers (Zhang Yimou) – 43, 2022
Fall (Scott Mann) – 44, 2022

Special Delivery (Park Dae-min) – 45, 2022
There is a Stone (Ota Tatsunari) – 49, 2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) – 50, 2022
Song of the Assassins (Daniel Lee) – 74, 2022

In Water (Hong Sangsoo) – 1, 2023
Hidden Blade (Cheng Er) – 2, 2023
Fist of the Condor (Ernesto Díaz Espinoza) – 3, 2023
Full River Red (Zhang Yimou) – 4, 2023
Absence (Wu Lang) – 5, 2023

The Wandering Earth II (Frant Gwo) – 6, 2023
Sakra (Donnie Yen & Kam Ka-wai) – 7, 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic) – 8, 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed) – 9, 2023