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The Criterion Challenge 2026

My attempt at the <a href="https://boxd.it/QFicU" rel="nofollow">6th Annual Criterion Challenge.</a> Will see how this goes since there's no Criterion Channel in Australia. Challenge Criteria: 1. 20th Anniversary Releases 2. Watch a film not on your watchlist 3. Watch a film with a colour in the title 4. 2020s or an upcoming release 5. Romance 6. The Twenty Least Watched Films 7. Queer Cinema 8. 1930s 9. 1990s 10. Random Number Generator 11. King Princess’s Top 10 12. Judge a film by its cover 13. Song and Dance 14. 2000s 15. Director Approved 16. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Closet Picks 17. Prequel/Sequel/Remake/Reimagining 18. 1980s 19. Watch a film that starts with the first letter of your name 20. Kathryn Bigelow’s Closet Picks 21. 1940s 22. Watch a film rated 2.0-2.9 stars 23. Pick any category from a past Criterion Challenge year: Watch a film from the Criterion Channel’s all time favourites lists (2025) 24. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die 25. “Good For Her” Cinematic Universe 26. Guy Maddin’s Top 10 27. 1960s 28. Directed by Satyajit Ray 29. Watch a film from any box set release 30. Black Lives 31. Watch a film rated 3.7 stars 32. Elle Fanning’s Closet Picks 33. War 34. 2010s 35. 1950s 36. Glorious Restorations 37. Must see Criterion released films as featured on Danny Peary’s “Guide for the Film Fanatic” (1986) 38. Random Letter Generator: F 39. The Best Movies of the 21st Century 40. Directed by Mira Nair 41. Spine #701-750 42. 1970s 43. Letterboxd Top 250 44. Watch a film you haven’t seen that someone else watched as part of last year’s challenge 45. Novels on the Big Screen 46. Random Year Generator: 2020 47. Women Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films 48. David Byrne’s Closet Picks 49. Criterion Double Features: Film #1 50. Criterion Double Features: Film #2 51. 1920s 52. Watch any Criterion film from your watchlist Started: 2 January Completed:

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52 films · Updated January 2

52 films

Yi Yi

2000

8.6Flick

Nashville

1975

7.8Flick

The Red Shoes

1948

8.4Flick

The Velvet Underground

2021

7.4Flick

Watched 6 January

Happiness

1965

7.9Flick

Watched 3 January

Two Girls on the Street

1939

Paris Is Burning

1990

8.9Flick

Watched 3 January

It Happened One Night

1934

8.0Flick

Watched 6 June

Hard Boiled

1992

8.1Flick

Watched 31 January

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

1993

7.1Flick

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2004

7.5Flick

Watched 11 January

Sweet Smell of Success

1957

7.7Flick

Watched 3 April

Trances

1981

7.1Flick

Watched 15 March

Love & Basketball

2000

7.2Flick

Watched 9 January

Saving Face

2004

8.0Flick

Watched 17 January

Breathless

1960

7.5Flick

Watched 5 January

Police Story 2

1988

7.1Flick

Watched 13 May

Blow Out

1981

8.1Flick

Watched 9 April

Jabberwocky

1977

6.8Flick

Watched 7 January

The Battle of Algiers

1966

8.4Flick

Detour

1945

7.1Flick

Watched 19 January

The Most Beautiful

1944

6.8Flick

Godzilla

1954

7.9Flick

Watched 2 January

Double Indemnity

1944

8.0Flick

Watched 8 March

Tampopo

1985

8.1Flick

Watched 26 January

Black Narcissus

1947

7.5Flick

Night of the Living Dead

1968

7.6Flick

Pather Panchali

1955

7.8Flick

Gap-Toothed Women

1987

7.1Flick

Les Blank: Always for Pleasure Watched 8 March

Do the Right Thing

1989

8.7Flick

Watched 7 February

Repo Man

1984

7.3Flick

Watched 27 January

To Die For

1995

7.3Flick

Watched 16 February

Breaker Morant

1980

7.1Flick

Inside Llewyn Davis

2013

7.9Flick

Watched 29 April

Tokyo Story

1953

8.2Flick

Inland Empire

2006

7.9Flick

Bicycle Thieves

1948

8.1Flick

Watched 2 February

Funny Girl

1968

7.8Flick

Memories of Murder

2003

8.8Flick

Mississippi Masala

1991

7.5Flick

Scanners

1981

6.8Flick

Spine #712

Paper Moon

1973

8.3Flick

The Elephant Man

1980

8.6Flick

Hoop Dreams

1994

7.9Flick

The Irishman

2019

7.8Flick

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020

7.3Flick

Watched 8 April

The Virgin Suicides

1999

7.9Flick

A Matter of Life and Death

1946

7.7Flick

Watched 25 April

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

2021

7.5Flick

Triple Play #1

Certain Women

2016

7.3Flick

Triple Play #2

The Gold Rush

1925

7.5Flick

Sorcerer

1977

8.1Flick

Watched 22 January

The Criterion Challenge 2026

52 films · Updated January 2

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