* denotes short scribbles on Letterboxd
**denotes repost of legacy reviews on Letterboxd

U

• Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) – Criterion Collection
• Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) – Criterion Collection
• Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (Jacques Demy, 1964) – Criterion Collection
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
• Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie, 2019) – Criterion Collection
• Under the Hawthorn Tree (Zhang Yimou, 2010)
• Under the Sand (Francois Ozon, 2000)
• Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
• Underneath, The (Steven Soderbergh, 1995)
• Undine (Christian Petzold, 2020)
• Unfinished Film, An (Lou Ye, 2024)
• United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
• Universal Language (Matthew Rankin, 2024)
• Unknown Saint, The (Alaa Eddine Aljem, 2019)
• Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007)
• Unsane (Steven Soderbergh, 2018)
• Unteachable (Yong Shuling, 2019)
• Untouchables, The (Brian De Palma, 1987)
• Uppercase Print (Radu Jude, 2020)
• Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
• Urchin (Harris Dickinson, 2025)*
• Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
• Useless (Jia Zhangke, 2007)*
• Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, 2009)

V

• Vagabond (Agnes Varda, 1985) – Criterion Collection
• Vai (Various, 2019)
• Vanishing, The (George Sluizer, 1988) – Criterion Collection
• Varda by Agnes (Agnes Varda, 2019) – Criterion Collection
• Vengeance (Johnnie To, 2009)
• Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979) – Criterion Collection
• Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin, 2021)
• Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski, 2013)
• Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, 2024) – Criterion Collection
• Veronica, La (Leonardo Medel, 2020)
• Veronika Voss (R.W. Fassbinder, 1982) – Criterion Collection
• Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Cote, 2013)
• Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) – Criterion Collection
• Vie de Jesus, La (Bruno Dumont, 1997) – Criterion Collection
• Village in the Mist (Im Kwon-taek, 1983)
• Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009)
• Virgin Spring, The (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) – Crtierion Collection
• Visible Secret (Ann Hui, 2001)
• Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira, 1982)
• Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
• Viva Erotica (Derek Yee & Law Chi Leung, 1996)
• Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
• Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) – Criterion Collection
• Voice of Hind Rajab, The (Kaouther Ben Hania, 2025)*
• Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006)
• Vortex (Gaspar Noe, 2021)
• Vox Lux (Brady Corbet, 2018)
• Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick, 2016)

W

• Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)
• Wajib (Annemarie Jacir, 2017)
• Walesa: Man of Hope (Andrzej Wajda, 2013)
• Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)
• Walker (Alex Cox, 1987) – Criterion Collection
• Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987)
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone, 2010)
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham, 2024)
• Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
• Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) – Criterion Collection
• War Horse (Steven Spielberg, 2011)
• War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
• War of the Worlds: Next Century, The (Piotr Szulkin, 1981)
• Warfare (Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza, 2025)
• Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas, 2019)
• Wasps Are Here, The (Darmasena Pathiraja, 1978)
• Watermelon Woman, The (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) – Criterion Collection
• Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 2019)
• Way of the Dragon, The (Bruce Lee, 1972) – Criterion Collection
• We (Alice Diop, 2021)
• We Can Save the World!!! (Cheng Chai Hong, 2025)
• Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai, 2019)
• Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) – Criterion Collection
• Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011) – Criterion Collection
• Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
• Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky, 2000) – Criterion Collection
• West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, 2021)
• Wet Season (Anthony Chen, 2019)
• Whale, The (Darren Aronofsky, 2022)
• What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze, 2021)
• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
• When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
• Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) – Criterion Collection
• While We Watched (Vinay Shukla, 2022)
• While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach, 2014)
• Whistlers, The (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2019)
• White Material (Claire Denis, 2009) – Criterion Collection
• White Ribbon, The (Michael Haneke, 2009)
• White Sheik, The (Federico Fellini, 1952) – Criterion Collection
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (R.W. Fassbinder, 1970)
• Wicker Man, The (Robin Hardy, 1973)*
• Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018)
• Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020)
• Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
• Wild Goose Lake, The (Diao Yi’nan, 2019)
• Wild Pear Tree, The (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018)
• Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) – Criterion Collection
• Will Your Heart Beat Faster? (Mike De Leon, 1980)
• Wind Rises, The (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)**
• Wind Will Carry Us, The (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) – Criterion Collection
• Wings (Larisa Shepitko, 1966) – Criterion Collection
• Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) – Criterion Collection
• Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (Evgeny Afineevsky, 2015)
• Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
• Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
• Witch, The (Robert Eggers, 2015)
• Wiz, The (Sidney Lumet, 1978) – Criterion Collection
• Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda, 2012)
• Wolf of Wall Street, The (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
• Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, 2020)
• Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, A (Zhang Yimou, 2009)
• Woman Is a Woman, A (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
• Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, 2004)
• Woman Next Door, The (Francois Truffaut, 1981)
• Woman of Fire (Kim Ki-young, 1971)
• Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
• Woman Who Left, The (Lav Diaz, 2016)
• Woman Who Ran, The (Hong Sang-soo, 2020)
• Woman with the Knife, The (Timite Bassori, 1969)
• Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969) – Criterion Collection
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) – Criterion Collection
• Women Talking (Sarah Polley, 2022)
• Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017)
• Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, 2020)
• Wonders, The (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014)
• Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes, 2017)
• World Trade Center (Oliver Stone, 2006)*
• World’s End, The (Edgar Wright, 2013)
• Worst Person in the World, The (Joachim Trier, 2021) – Criterion Collection
• Writing with Fire (Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas, 2021)
• Wrong Man, The (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)

X

Y

• Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001) – Criterion Collection
• Yalla Parkour (Areeb Zuaiter, 2024)*
• Yannick (Quentin Dupieux, 2023)
• Year of No Significance, A (Kelvin Tong, 2023)
• Yella (Christian Petzold, 2007)
• Yellow Cat (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, 2020)
• Yes (Nadav Lapid, 2025)*
• Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000) – Criterion Collection
• Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky, 2018)
• You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
• Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2019)
• Young Girls of Rochefort, The (Jacques Demy, 1967) – Criterion Collection
• Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2025)*
• Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2016)
• Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo, 2016)
• Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki, 1963) – Criterion Collection
• Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing, 2023)
• Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)
• Yuni (Kamila Andini, 2021)

Z

• Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
• Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman – Criterion Collection
  • #1: The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi, 1962)
  • #2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Kazuo Mori, 1962)
  • #3: New Tale of Zatoichi (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1963)
  • #4: Zatoichi the Fugitive (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1963)
  • #5: Zatoichi on the Road (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1963)
  • #6: Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964)
  • #7: Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964)
  • #8: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (Kenji Misumi, 1964)
  • #9: Adventures of Zatoichi (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1964)
  • #10: Zatoichi’s Revenge (Akira Inoue, 1965)
  • #11: Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (Kazuo Mori, 1965)
  • #12: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (Kenji Misumi, 1965)
  • #13: Zatoichi’s Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1966)
  • #14: Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1966)
  • #15: Zatoichi’s Cane Sword (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1967)
  • #16: Zatoichi the Outlaw (Satsuo Yamamoto, 1967)
  • #17: Zatoichi Challenged (Kenji Misumi, 1967)
  • #18: Zatoichi and the Fugitives (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)
  • #19: Samaritan Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi, 1968)
  • #20: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (Kihachi Okamoto, 1970)
  • #21: Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (Kenji Misumi, 1970)
  • #22: Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1971)
  • #23: Zatoichi at Large (Kazuo Mori, 1972)
  • #24: Zatoichi in Desperation (Shintaro Katsu, 1972)
  • #25: Zatoichi’s Conspiracy (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1973)
• Zed & Two Noughts, A (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
• Zen in the Ice Rift (Margherita Ferri, 2018)
• Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
• Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki, 1980)
• Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
• Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello, 2019)
• Zone of Interest, The (Jonathan Glazer, 2023)
• Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983)