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2025
Books
| Seda (2023) ● | Alessandro Baricco |
| Un Viejo Que Leía Novelas de Amor (2016) re-read ●● | Luis Sepúlveda |
| Como mentem as sondagens (2023) ● | Luis Paixão Martins |
Shows
| The White Lotus III (2021-...) | Mike White |
| Mo II (2022-...) ●● | Mohammed Amer & Ramy Youssefer |
| Hack I-II-III (2021-...) ● | Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs & Jen Statsky |
| The Sopranos (2024) ●● | David Chase |
| Arcane II ●(2021-2024) | Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord & Jérôme Combe |
Stand-Up
| Love to Hate it it (2024) ● | Ronny Chieng |
| Off With My Head (2024) | Hasan Minhaj |
Movies
| The Phoenician Scheme (2025) | Wes Anderson |
| Heads of State (2025) | Ilya Naishuller |
| Ballerina (2025) | Len Wiseman |
| Gladiator II (2024) | Ridley Scott |
| Anora (2024) | Sean Baker |
| The Brutalist (2024) | Brady Corbet |
| The Cove (2009) ●● | Louie Psihoyos |
| aka Mr. Chow (2023) ● | Nick Hooker |
| Pianoforte (2023) ● | Jakub Piatek |
| Midsommar (2019) ●● | Ari Aster |
| Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) ● | Tim Burton |
| Parthenope (2024) ● | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) ●● | Todd Phillips |
| The Lobster (2015) ●● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
2024
Books
| The Discovery of Pasta (2023) ●● | Luca Cesari |
| Patos Desalinhados Não Voam (2023) ●● | Hugo Mendes e Frederico Pinheiro |
Shows
| Slow Horses IV (2024) ● | Will Smith (not that one) |
| The Bear III (2024) ● | Christopher Storer |
| Ripley (2024) ●● | Steven Zaillian |
| True Detective I (2019) ●● | Nic Pizzolatto |
| Chernobyl (2019) ● | Craig Mazin |
| Tokyo Vice I & II (2022-2023) ●● | J.T. Rogers |
| Primal (2019) ●● | Genndy Tartakovsky |
| White House Plumbers (2023) | Alex Gregory & Peter Huyck |
Stand-Up
| Bones and All (2024) ●● | Anthony Jeselnick |
| The Skinny (2024) | Jim Gaffigan |
| Burn The Boats (2024) | Joe Rogan |
| The Dark Queen (2024) ● | Adrienne Iapalucci |
| Single Lady (2024) ● | Ali Wong |
| Off With His Head (2024) | Hassan Minhaj |
| Same Time Tomorrow (2022) ● | Sam Morril |
| Our Time is Up (2024) ● | Colin Quinn |
| On the Road (2024) | Dan Soder |
| Get on your Knees (2023) ●● | Jacqueline Novak |
| Queef Week (2023) ● | Carmen Lynch |
Movies
| Please Dont't Destroy : The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023) ● | Paul Briganti |
| The Wild Robot (2024) | Chris Sanders |
| Wolfs (2024) | Jon Watts |
| Blink Twice (2024) ● | Zoë Kravitz |
| The Iron Claw (2023) | Sean Durkin |
| Civil War (2024) ● | Alex Garland |
| Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) | Shawn Levy |
| The Killer (2023) ● | David Fincher |
| Unfrosted (2024) | Jerry Seinfeld |
| Challengers (2024) ● | Luca Guadagnino |
| The Fall Guy (2024) | David Leitch |
| Dune Part II (2023) | Denis Villeneuve |
| Nimona (2023) ●● | Nick Bruno & Troy Quane |
| The Holdovers (2023) ● | Alexander Payne |
| Poor Things (2023) ● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Anatomie d'une Chute (2023) ●● | Justine Triet |
| La Passion de Dodin Bouffant (2023) ●● | Anh Hung Tran |
| Barbie (2023) ● | Greta Gerwig |
| Saltburn (2023) ● | Emerald Fennell |
| Perfect Days (2023) ●● | Wim Wenders |
Live
| La Leona ●● | Olga Pericet, Barcelona |
2023
Books
| Gun, Germs and Steel (1997) | Jared Diamond |
| Ways of Curating (2015) ● | Hans Ulrich Obrist |
| 1984 (1949) ● | George Orwell |
| Second Place (2021) | Rachel Cusk |
Stand-Up
| Trying to Get better ●● | Dan Cummings |
| Top Gus ● | Gus Tate |
| Domestic Shorthair | Todd Barry |
| Soup to Nuts ● | Mark Normand |
| Dark Pale | Jim Gaffigan |
| Quality Time ●● | Jim Gaffigan |
| One in a Billion | Zarna Garg |
| Hello World | Nate Bargatze |
| The Attractives ● | Mike Vecchione |
| The Salesman ● | Greg Warren |
| Where the Field Corn Grows | Greg Warren |
| Hair Plugs & Heartache ● | Matteo Lane |
| Lucky Lefty ● | Nimesh Patel |
| Son of a Gary ● | Dan Soder |
| The Intruder ●● | Atsuko Okatsuka |
| Razzle Dazzle | Bert Kreischer |
| 41 Minutes of Stand-up | Drew Michael |
| Four Nights in NYC | Stavros Halkias |
| Matthew Steven Riffe | Matt Riffe |
| Only Fans ● | Matt Riffe |
| The Advice Special ● | Matteo Lane |
| I Would Like to Get Married Before I Get Herpes ● | Jessi Klein |
| Landing | Vir Das |
| Middle Classy ● | Cristela Alonzo |
| Live at Bimbo's ● | Natasha Leggero |
| Cheeseburguer | Andrew Santino |
| What a Day! ● | Tom Pappa |
Movies
| Ice Merchants (2023) ● | João Gonzalez |
| The Boy and the Heron (2023) ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) ●● | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin, K. Thompson |
| Oppenheimer (2023) ● | Christopher Nolan |
| Asteroid City (2023) | Wes Anderson |
| Jojo Rabbit (2019) | Taika Waititi |
| Paper & Glue (2021) ●● | JR |
| Emily The Criminal (2022) | John Patton Ford |
| Cocaine Bear (2023) ● | Elizabeth Banks |
| Triangle of Sadness (2022) ● | Ruben Östlund |
| Babylon (2022) | Damien Chazelle |
| RRR (2022) ● | S.S. Rajamouli |
| Decision to Leave (2022) | Park Chan-wook |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ●● | Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert |
| Tokyo-Ga (1985) | Wim Wenders |
| Fire of Love (2022) ●● | Sarah Dosa |
| The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) ●● | Martin McDonagh |
| Tár (2022) ●● | Todd Field |
| The Menu (2022) | Mark Mylod |
| White Noise (2022) | Noah Baumbach |
Shows
| Slow Horses I, II & III ●● | Mick Herron |
| The Morning Show I & II | Jay Carson & Kerry Ehrin |
| The Bear II ●● | Christopher Storer |
| Sucession I-IV ● | Jesse Armstrong |
| The Idol | Sam Levison |
| Poker Face | Rian Johnson |
| Welcome to Chippendales | Robert Siegel |
| Gilly and Keeves I ●● | John McKeever & Shane Gillis |
Live
| Ya Don't Say Tour | Mark Normand, Lisboa |
| La mort i la donna | Asun Noales, Barcelona |
| French Kiss Tour | Vidura B.R, Barcelona |
2022
Books
| Dans la tête de Xi Jinping | François Bougon |
| The Vegetarian ● | Han Kang |
| Contra Amazon ● | Jorge Carrión |
| The Friend ●● | Sigrid Nunez |
| Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage | Haruki Murakami |
| Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong ●● | Louisa Lim |
| A Doença, o Sofrimento e a Morte entram num Bar | Ricardo Araújo Pereira |
| The Twilight World ●● | Werner Herzog & Michael Hofmann |
| Samarkand ● | Amin Maalouf |
| The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life ● | Boyd Varty |
| Líbano, Labirinto ●● | Alexandra Lucas Coelho |
Stand-Up
| The Advice Special | Matteo Lane |
| Blocks | Neal Brennan |
| Jew | Ari Shaffier |
| Little Big Boy ●● | Nick Kroll |
| Ooh La La ● | Phil Hanley |
| Live at Red Rocks ● | Bill Burr |
| The King's Jester | Hasan Minhaj |
| Chad Daniels | Chad Daniels |
| The Vagabond ● | Mo Amer |
| Bring the Pain ●● | Chris Rock |
| Mohammed in Texas ● | Mo Amer |
| Sweet and Juicy | Sheng Wang |
| Same Time Tomorrow ● | Sam Morril |
| Look at You | Taylor Tomlinson |
| Hat Trick | Fahim Anwar |
| Mom Love | Yannis Pappas |
| Thank You China ● | Nimesh Patel |
| Live at the Lodge Room | Stavros Halkias |
| Speshy Weshy ●● | Chris DiStefano |
| This Year's Material | Joe List |
| Speakeasy | Ronny Chieng |
| The Dying Of A Last Breed | Doug Standhope |
| Lubricant | Russel Howard |
| Don Wong ● | Ali Wong |
| Growing Shame ● | Ian Lara |
| His Dark Material | Jimmy Carr |
| Comedy Monster | Jim Gaffigan |
Movies
| Glass Onion | Rian Johnson |
| Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Arthur Harari |
| Bullet Train | David Leitch |
| Athena ●● | Romain Gavras |
| The Price of Everything ● | Nathaniel Kahn |
| Windfall | Charlie McDowell |
| World War Z | Marc Forster |
| Buzz Lightyear | Angus MacLane |
| Koolhaas Houselife ●● | Bêka & Lemoine |
| The Batman | Matt Reeves |
| The Windshield Wiper ●● | Alberto Mielgo |
| Drive My Car ● | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi |
| The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier |
| The Matrix Resurrections | Lana Wachowski |
| A Hero ●● | Asghar Farhadi |
| Las Madres Paralelas ● | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Le Doulos ● | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Boiling Point ● | Philip Barantini |
| È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Captain Fantastic | Matt Ross |
| The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson |
| Don't Look Up | Adam Mckay |
Shows
| The White Lotus II ● | Mike White |
| The Last Man on Earth ● | Will Forte |
| Andor | Tony Gilroy |
| The Bear ● | Christopher Storer |
| The House of the Dragon I | George R.R. Martin & Ryan Condal |
| Mo ●● | Mohammed Amer & Ramy Youssef |
| Russian Doll II ●● | Natasha Lyonn, Leslye Headland & Amy Poehler |
| Love, Death and Robots III | (Various) |
| Ozarks IV ● | Bill Dubuque & Mark Williams |
| Seinfeld I-IX ●● | Jerry Seinfeld & Larry David |
Live
| Terribily Funny 2.0 | Jimmy Carr, Newcastle |
| Early Music | Francesco Tristano, Barcelona |
| Festival Mil·lenni | Jose Gonzalez, Barcelona |
2021
Books
| Idiotas Úteis e Inúteis ● | Ricardo Araújo Pereira |
| First Person Singular: Stories | Haruki Murakami |
| The Elephant Vanishes | Haruki Murakami |
| Caderno Afegão ●● | Alexandra Lucas Coelho |
| Coventry ● | Rachel Cusk |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoi |
| Wrong about Japan | Peter Carey |
| The Outlaw Ocean ● | Ian Urbina |
| How Music Works ● | David Byrne |
Shows
| Get Back ●● | Peter Jackson |
| Arcane I ●● | Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord & Jérôme Combe |
| For All Mankind I & II ● | Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi |
| Foundation I ● | David S. Goyer & Josh Friedman |
| La Casa de Papel IV | Álex Pina |
| The Chair | Amanda Peet & Annie Julia Wyman |
| Mare of Easttown ● | Brad Ingelsby |
| The White Lotus I ● | Mike White |
| Ted Lasso II | Jason Sudeikis & Bill Lawrence |
| Invincible ●● | Robert Kirkman |
| The Good Place | Michael Schur |
Stand-Up
| The Closer | Dave Chapelle |
| Live in Austin | Shane Gillis |
| Ice Thickners | Emily Heller |
| Whiskey Fists ● | Rosebud Baker |
| The Greatest Average American ●● | Nate Bargatze |
| To Catch a D*ck | London Hughes |
| Total Blackout | Chris Rock |
| Upon on the Roof ● | Sam Morril |
Movies
| Chungking Express | Wong Kar-Wai |
| Le Sommet des Dieux ● | Patrick Imbert |
| Finch | Miguel Sapochnik |
| Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson |
| No Time to Die | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| The Card Counter | Paul Schrader |
| Dune | Denis Villeneuve |
| The Truffle Hunters ● | Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw |
| The Green Knight | David Lowery |
| Free Guy | Shawn Levy |
| The Sound of Metal | Darius Marder |
| Druk ●● | Thomas Vinterberg |
| Cruella | Craig Gillespie |
| To Rome with Love ● | Woody Allen |
| Malcom & Marie | Sam Levinson |
| A Family ● | Michihito Fujii |
| Minamata | Andrew Levitas |
| À bras ouverts | Philippe de Chauveron |
| Tenet ● | Christopher Nolan |
| Nobody | Ilya Naishuller |
| Sorry to Bother You | Boots Riley |
| Night in Paradise ●● | Park Hoon-jung |
| Made You Look | Barry Avrich |
| I Care a Lot | J Blakeson |
| Voyage to Greenland | Sébastien Betbeder |
| Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| The White Tiger ● | Ramin Bahrani |
| Soul ● | Pete Docter |
| Ghost in the Shell ●● | Mamoru Oshii |
| Lupin III : The Castle of Cagliostro | Hayao Miyazaki |
Documentaries
| Full Capacity | Sam Morril |
| Shiny_Flakes ● | Eva Müller |
| AlphaGo ● | Greg Kohs |
2020
Books
| Earthlings ●● | Sayaka Murata |
| Kissa by Kissa ● | Craig Mod |
| What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir | Haruki Murakami |
| Exciting Times | Naoise Dolan |
| Almost Transparent Blue | Ryu Murakami |
| In The Miso Soup | Ryu Murakami |
| The Night Manager ● | John Le Carré |
| Convenience Store Woman ●● | Sayaka Murata |
| Utopia for Realists ● | Rutger Bregman |
| Men without Women | Haruki Murakami |
| Transit ●● | Rachel Cusk |
| Outline | Rachel Cusk |
| The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism | Kyle Chayka |
| Kudos ● | Rachel Cusk |
| Weather ● | Jenny Offil |
| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami |
| Last Things ●● | Jenny Offil |
| Dept. of Speculation ●● | Jenny Offil |
| Killing Commendatore ● | Haruki Murakami |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli |
| Sapiens ●● | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Agent Running in The Field | John le Carré |
Shows
| Song Exploder ● | Hrishikesh Hirway |
| Fargo IV ● | Noah Hawley |
| Ted Lasso I ● | Jason Sudeikis & Bill Lawrence |
| Raised by Wolves | Aaron Guzikowski |
| The Boys I | Eric Kripke |
| Ozarks I, II, III ● | Bill Dubuque & Mark Williams |
| The Eddy ● | Jack Thorne |
| The Kominsky Method I & II | Chuck Lorre |
| Westworld III | Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy |
| La Casa de Papel IV | Álex Pina |
| After Life ● | Ricky Gervais |
| 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki ● | Kaku Arakawa |
| Giri/Haji | Joe Barton |
| Fleabag I & II ●● | Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
Stand-Up
| Out to Lunch ●● | Mark Normand |
| I Got This ● | Sam Morril |
| Middleditch & Schwartz ●● | Ryan Polito |
| Double Negative | Ari Shaffir |
| Ball Hog | Tom Segura |
| Hey Big Boy | Burt Kreischeir |
| Quarter-Life Crisis | Taylor Tomlinson |
| You’re Doing Great | Tom Papa |
| Equanimity ● | Dave Chapelle |
| Overthinker ●● | Demetri Martin |
| Sweet & Salty | Fortune Feimster |
| A Speak of Dust | Sarah Silverman |
| Joke Show ● | Michele Wolf |
| Asian Comedian Destroys America! ● | Ronny Chieng |
| The New One | Mike Burbuglia |
Movies
| On The Rocks | Sofia Coppola |
| Divines ● | Houda Benyamina |
| Shoplifters ● | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Das 5 Bloods | Spike Jonze |
| The King of Comedy ●● | Martin Scorcese |
| This Magnificent Cake! | Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roel |
| Elisa & Marcela | Isabel Coixet |
| Dick Tracy | Warren Beauty |
| In the Mood for Love ●● | Wong Kar-Wai |
| Lovebirds | Michael Showalter |
| Ya no estoy aqui ● | Fernando Frías de la Parra |
| Zimna Wojna ● | Pawel Pawlikowski |
| Marie Antoinette | Sofia Coppola |
| Mon Oncle d’Amérique ● | Alain Resnais |
| Blue Jasmine ● | Woddy Allen |
| My Happy Family ● | Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross |
| La Verité ●● | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Basquiat ● | Julian Schnabel |
| Julian Schnabel : A Private Portrait ●● | Pappi Corsicato |
| The Wind rises | Hayao Miyazaki |
| J’Accuse | Roman Polanski |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Edward Norton |
| Shirkers | Sandi Tan |
| Holmes & Watson | Etan Cohen |
| Tigertail | Alan Yang |
| Heart of Sky ● | Jenny Moussallem |
| Pom Poko ● | Isao Takahata |
| Ponyo ●● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Matrimonio all’Italiana ● | Vittorio di Sicca |
| Nausicaä | Hayao Miyazaki |
| The Gentlemen | Guy Ritchie |
| Onward | Dan Scanlon |
| Whale Valley | Gudmundur Arnar Gudmunsson |
| Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu ●● | Céline Sciamma |
| Mudbound | Dee Rees |
| The Drug King | Woo Min-ho |
| Call me Dolemite ● | Craig Brewer |
| Mononoke Princess ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Queen & Slim ● | Melina Matsoukas |
| Spirited Away ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Little Women | Greta Gerwig |
| Porco Rosso ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 37 Seconds | Hikaru |
| Where’d you go Bernardette | Richard Linklater |
| Uncut Gems ●● | Josh & Ben Safdie |
| 1917 | Sam Mendes |
| Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria |
| Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang ● | Kevin MacDonald |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey ●● | Standley Kubrick |
| Knives Out | Rian Johnson |
| Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles |
| The Irishman | Martin Scorcese |
| Parasite ●● | Bong Joon Ho |
| Ad Astra ● | James Gray |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ● | Quentin Tarantino |
| Joker | Todd Phillips |
| The Art of Self-Defence | Riley Stearns |
| Dolor y Gloria ●● | Pedro Almodóvar |
2019
Books
| 1Q84 ●● | Haruki Murakami |
| A Wild Sheep Chase ●● | Haruki Murakami |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ● | Haruki Murakami |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami |
| A Perfect Spy ● | John le Carré |
| The Little Drummer Girl ●● | John le Carré |
| The Russia House | John le Carré |
| The Looking Glass War | John le Carré |
| Smiley’s People | John le Carré |
| Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice | Francesco Careri |
| Shark Drunk ● | Morten Stroksnes |
| Tokyo Totem ●● | Gardner & Fruneaux |
Shows
| La Casa de Papel I, II & III ● | Álex Pina |
| Russian Doll ●● | Leslye Headland (& others) |
| Game of Trones | Benioff & Weiss |
| The Night Manager ●● | Susanne Bier |
| The Bodyguard | Jed Mercurio |
| Escape at Dannemora ●● | Ben Stiller |
Glow ●● | Flahive & Mensch |
Stand-Up
| Fire in the Maternity Ward ● | Anthony Jeselnick |
| Thank God for Jokes | Mike Burbuglia |
| Tamborine ●● | Chris Rock |
| Sticks and Stones ● | Dave Chapelle |
| Paper Tiger | Bill Burr |
| Disgraceful ● | Tom Segura |
| Mostly Stories | Tom Segura |
| Kid Gorgeous ●● | John Mulhaney |
| Comeback Kid ●● | John Mulhaney |
Movies
| The Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| The Meyerowitz Stories ● | Noah Baumbach |
| Dunkirk ● | Christopher Nolan |
| Blade Runner 2047 | Denis Villeneuve |
| Blade Runner ●● | Ridley Scott |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Graham King |
| Always Be my Maybe | Nahnatchka Khan |
| Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ● | Bob Persichetti |
| The Green Book | Peter Farrelly |
| Black Panther | Kevin Feige |
| Logan Lucky ● | Steven Soderbergh |
| BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee |
| The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci |
| Roma ● | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley |
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer ● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird |
| Isle of Dogs ● | Wes Anderson |
| The Lobster ●● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Paterson ●● | Jim Jarmush |