I Just Think Flickchart is Neat

I never got on the Letterboxd train. No particular reason. Probably just overall social media adjacent site burnout.

But I like Flickchart for two reasons.

First, it helps you create your own list of your favorite films by having you do a series of “This or That” votes.

You see a movie? It’ll have you compare it to six or seven other movies on your list and figure out where it slots in.

I’ve used this site since 2022, so I trust I’ve given it enough data to help me make a good list. Here’s my top 10:

1. Jurassic Park
2. In the Mood for Love
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Brothers Bloom
6. Blade Runner
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Good Will Hunting
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Chungking Express

And I have to say I feel pretty okay with that top 10.

But then there’s the second thing I like about this site. You get a list of your Signature Movies. These are pulled from your list of favorite films, but they’re singled out because you rank them substantially higher than the majority of other users on the site.

So that’s where you see movies like:

• The Brothers Bloom
• Wonder Boys
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
• Velvet Goldmine
• Targets
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• That Thing You Do!
• The Trip
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

It suggests to me that “What’s your favorite movie?” is a far inferior question to “What’s the movie you’re pretty sure you love more than most people?”