Stats
486 picks across 144 rounds, plus 23 unsanctioned nights.
What we watch
Beff 
Felicia 
Jesse 
Casey - Unsanctioned
Counts 507 of 509 nights — the rest have no TMDB details to read genres from.
What each of us picks
Beff
Felicia
Jesse
Casey
Favorite creators
The directors, actors, and studios we keep coming back to — each film or show counted once, however many nights it took. Studios are who made a film, from TMDB. Distributors are who released it in the US, from Wikidata, which doesn't know that for every film — and leaving out the streaming services that licensed it later.
Directors
Actors
Studios
Distributors
- Universal Pictures 46
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 31
- Warner Bros. Entertainment 25
- Paramount Pictures 19
- Columbia Pictures 17
- 20th Century Studios 15
- Warner Bros. Pictures 10
- Searchlight Pictures 9
Each of our favorites
From each person's own picks. Directors are movies only — TMDB has none for a series.
Beff
Directors
Actors
Studios
Distributors
- Universal Pictures 17
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 15
- Paramount Pictures 11
Felicia
Directors
Actors
Studios
Distributors
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 8
- Warner Bros. Entertainment 7
- 20th Century Studios 4
Jesse
Directors
Actors
Studios
Distributors
- Universal Pictures 11
- Warner Bros. Entertainment 9
- Neon 5
Casey
Directors
Actors
Studios
- Universal Pictures 11
- Original Film 10
- One Race 7
Distributors
- Universal Pictures 13
- 20th Century Studios 3
- "Netflix" 2
Counts 440 of 442 titles — the rest have no credits from TMDB yet, or aren’t linked to it.
Foreign films
Whose picks were most often made in a language other than English, each film or show counted once. English is 415 of the 440 titles, so it's left off the language list.
- Casey
- Felicia
- Jesse
- Beff
Languages
Made in
Counts 440 of 442 titles — the rest have no language from TMDB yet, or aren’t linked to it.
Where it came from
What we watch was adapted from, and the franchises it belongs to, each film or show counted once.
Source
Sequels, remakes & co.
Franchises
Who picks the most adaptations
- Beff
- Felicia
- Casey
- Jesse
Awards
The Best Picture winners we've watched
Whose picks won the most Oscars
- Beff
- Jesse
- Casey
- Felicia
Where and when
Where what we watch is set, and when.
Set in
Places
Eras
Holiday movies
- Christmas 12
- Halloween 4
- Easter 1
- Other holidays 1
- Thanksgiving 1
- Valentine’s Day 1
Moods
Up to three moods per title, and each of us by our own picks.
Beff
Their picks are mostly
- Funny 78
- Feel-good 47
- Dark 34
Felicia
Their picks are mostly
- Funny 64
- Thrilling 33
- Dark 32
Jesse
Their picks are mostly
- Funny 66
- Dark 38
- Thrilling 33
Casey
Their picks are mostly
- Thrilling 25
- Funny 18
- Chaotic 14
By decade
Counts 507 of 509 nights — the rest have no release year on file.
Picking habits
Beff
- Picks
- 142 123 movies 19 TV
- Average runtime
- 1h 48m
- Average year
- 2004
- Oldest
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954
- Longest
- The Sound of Music 2h 54m
Felicia
- Picks
- 141 93 movies 48 TV
- Average runtime
- 1h 42m
- Average year
- 2009
- Oldest
- Bringing Up Baby 1938
- Longest
- The Music Man 2h 31m
Jesse
- Picks
- 140 115 movies 25 TV
- Average runtime
- 1h 47m
- Average year
- 2008
- Oldest
- The Last Laugh 1924
- Longest
- One Battle After Another 2h 42m
Casey
- Picks
- 63 49 movies 14 TV
- Average runtime
- 1h 52m
- Average year
- 2011
- Oldest
- All the President's Men 1976
- Longest
- Resurrection 2h 39m
Who agrees
Every pair of us, on the films both rated, by how often they land within half a star of each other.
- Beff Jesse 80% 0.30★ apart on average · 10 films
- Beff Felicia 75% 0.88★ apart on average · 4 films
- Felicia Jesse 73% 0.63★ apart on average · 51 films
- Jesse Casey 60% 0.79★ apart on average · 68 films
- Felicia Casey 59% 0.61★ apart on average · 22 films
- Beff Casey 57% 0.64★ apart on average · 7 films
Verdicts
Most loved
Where at least two of us rated it. Ranked so all four of us agreeing beats two of us gushing.
(2025) 5.00
(1999) 5.00
(1996) 4.83
(1996) 4.83
(2000) 5.00
Most divisive
The widest gaps between one of us and another.
(1938) 
(2020) 
(2019) 
(1998) 
(2006)
Behind the scenes
A different handful every day. Every title's is on Deep Dives.
- (1980) Paranapiacaba, a railway town in São Paulo state, was chosen because its constant fog and look reminded people of England, fog included.
(2024) Casting Demi Moore wasn't even on the list Fargeat says she never put Moore on her wishlist because she assumed such an image-conscious star would never take the risk. Several other actresses reportedly passed. Moore responded to the script anyway, and at a Paris meeting she gave Fargeat her memoir, Inside Out. Fargeat says reading it changed her mind, and Moore said yes quickly.- (1996) Skeet Ulrich briefly plays Ghostface himself. He is the one menacing Randy on the video camera just before Stu, played by Matthew Lillard, slashes Kenny's throat.
- (2024) Special makeup effects designer Pierre-Olivier Persin led a team of about 15 people who worked on the film for 11 months. Fargeat pushed for practical effects rather than the half-VFX approach Persin first expected.
(2014) Production A year and a half of shooting, screening and reshooting Duplass and Brice skipped a full script and refined the film while shooting it. They filmed, edited, showed cuts to friends and reshot, over about a year to a year and a half. Duplass says there were 10 to 12 permutations of each scene and that they shot several alternate endings.
(1996) Louis Prima, the bandleader the brothers hope will save their restaurant, never appears. He was never actually coming, because rival Pascal never called him.