Dune
It's taken me a 5th watch and 4th log on letterboxd to finally admit that this is a 5 star. I've always loved it enough to be 5 star, and maybe this is just a bit of hype after the Dune: Part Three trailer (which is one of the greatest trailers I have ever watched by the way), but the amount that I rewatch these films, and how close it has always been to a 5/5, it's about time I just concede my issues about the final 20 - 30 minutes. The film as a whole is just so ridiculously good that I have to put it with the 5's, regardless of whether I think the final act in it's singularity is probably a 4.5/5.
Plus, GOAT film trilogy status could be on the line with Dune: Part Three now, and undeniably so in my opinion. I personally don't regard The Dark Knight trilogy and The Lord of the Rings trilogy as high as everyone else (I do still love them) - Dune has the opportunity to hold that crown, and potentially forever if Dune: Part Three matches the quality of it's predecessors. Masterpiece.
(p.s. I really hope that the fairly brief visions we get of the holy war and the jihad in this film, are shown very similarly in Dune: Part Three. And what I mean by that is that this needs to feel like a trilogy, where each film has something that builds further depth on what comes before and after. I trust Denis Villeneuve of course, but it could be very easy to make Part 1 & 2 feel like one story, and then Part 3 be another. But for this to work as the ultimate trilogy, the visions and themes we get a taste of in Dune: Part One, need to come to fruition in nearly exactly the way they have been shown to us here. Especially as it was up in the air as to whether Denis Villeneuve would even do Part 3, and it's been 5 years since this released, it needs to feel like it was all thought through from start to finish, as one continuous story of Paul's rise to power, and journey once in power. A Dune: Part 3 that feels perfectly in sync with what we have been shown already, both in regard to the themes and the actual visuals of the holy war, will only heighten everything Denis Villeneuve has already done with these films even further, especially in regard to Dune: Part One. So uncontainably excited to see how he goes about it. Probably the most excited I have ever been for a film. I've watched the Dune: Part Three trailer over 30 times already and that's not an exaggeration)