Cognitive Film Society

Cognitive Film Society

2026 Films Ranked (Ongoing)
The Odyssey
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, 2026 - ★★★★½
Plainly the best deconstruction of the Slasher genre since the original Scream. It's phenomenal to see a new generation embrace Freud's central insights…
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The Fast and the Furious, 2001 - ★★★★
A perfect slice of early 2000s sleaze entertainment.
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Marty Supreme, 2025 - ★★★★½
“I am beyond embarrassment” - the koan of Marty Mauser
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The Taste of Violence, 1961 - ★★★½
Probably best to leave the Westerns to the Americans and the Italians.
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Better Off Dead..., 1985 - ★★★★
Dark, madcap and eminently quotable, Better off Dead holds up better than any 80’s teen comedy other than Heathers. Lane Meyer probably grows up into…
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Trees Lounge, 1996 - ★★★½
Before the phones ruined everything, even the lonely people had people to be with, if only to share miseries.
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Blonde in a White Car, 1959 - ★★★½
I knew it all along… I mean they make it pretty obvious.
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Rebel Without a Cause, 1955 - ★★★★½
A tour de force of acting, directing, cinematography and subject matter.
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A Kiss Before Dying, 1956 - ★★★★
Robert Wagner is the worst date ever in a film that could easily be American Psycho Minus One.
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Violent Saturday, 1955 - ★★★★
Ernest Borgnine as an Amish action hero is just one of the bonkers twists and turns in this Western/Bourgeois bedroom/social melodrama.
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The Wicked Go to Hell, 1955 - ★★★½
After seeing Eva walking in the moonlight, I might’ve killed and died for her too.
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