Please please please keep doing the 10 best movies every year. As a busy and exhausted working dad, I don't get much time to either watch many films or listen to all reviews. The Kermode Top Ten list every year is my sacred "to watch" list.
Hi there Mark,I hope you'll get the chance to see this message.I just wanted thank you,I've been battling depression and suicide since I was 11,it's been going on for 7 years now. It became tremendously difficult to find peace sometimes and even experience true joy.I just wanted to say thanks,thanks for making me smile and laugh.I've been a fan of yours for years now and by watching and listening to your good works,I gained a new perspective towards film but most importantly...I gained something.I gained a friend that I will probably never talk to or see,thank you Mark.God bless you,You made me smile during this difficult time.
John Kenneth Hi John, I hope that things are going ok for you. If you are on Facebook, there is a group the Mark Kermode Appreciation Society - we’re a friendly bunch who like to discuss films together (and we’re approved by the Good Doctor himself) if you fancy joining us.
It saddens me to find out Kermode Uncut is coming to an end. I’m quite new to tuning into the show but nonetheless thank you for all the thoughtful videos. I’m now going to watch the back catalogue of videos I missed out on.
The discontinuation of Kermode Uncut is really sad news, it has been one of the most looked forward to things every week. Still, thanks for all the work done , Mr. Kermode!
I've loved each week of Kermode Uncut. I started watching it when I was 13 and it really helped me become interested in films I'd never watch otherwise. I don't think I'd be apart of my film society at uni without you. Thanks for all the insight. You've been great
Thank you for 10 years of excellent service Mark. I just hope this isn't a sign that the BBC are planning to can the Film Review show, given the epic balls up they made of Simon Mayo's drivetime show this year... *edit* Thanks for the reassurance Mark!
These reviews are what made me decide that reviews can actually be really worthwhile. You could say you made me review my views on reviews. I look forward to it every week, and it'll be a shame to see you go.
It's bittersweet but thank you for a decade of uncut vlogs - and thank you for the new podcast Kermode On Film. It's excellent! PS: So pleased to hear that you & Mayo are continuing together
This channel is so important to so many people! Personally as a film lover with limited free time, there is nothing worse that sitting down after a few weeks of hard work to finally dedicate a couple of free hours to what I love the most, only to be disappointed with the experience. This is then followed by the sheer dread of having to do it all again, not knowing when I'll be free again to watch a film and worse still if it will be any good. Thanks to your reviews and insight drawing on your entire directory of film experience those disappointing evenings have become a rarity. I'm sure you will still be watching films and brewing strong opinions which will inevitably require some medium of expression. So please continue to bestow your wisdom upon us in some form! If this is truly the end of your reviews may I wish you all the best and thank you for salvaging my precious and increasingly scarce free time.
Sad to hear about Uncut being discontinued. Glad to hear you and Mayo are going to slog it out for eternity. Please, if you can at the end of the year do your best and the worse annual review. Thanks Mr Kermode for all the wonderful pleasures of your philosophy of film. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family. Much love x
Your last remark about the movie being used in teaching struck a chord with me. Over the past 10 years I’ve been going to movies more often and it’s these really great ones that got me to start thinking about how movies work, and really engaging with them more. Movies have a language and good movies - and some spectacularly broken ones - really help you learn to understand it.
Well, I'm sorry to see the Uncut series end. Dr. Kermode has introduced some great films I might have otherwise overlooked, through his thorough knowledge of film and how one movie may inspire a watch of another with a similar theme. I'm grateful for that.
Not sure what order I'd put them, but my 10: Let The Right One In, Inside Llewyn Davis, Under The Shadow, The Master, Carol, A Separation, Drive, Blue Is The Warmest Color, Twelve Years A Slave & Shame
@PietreADI Mother came very close. Also, The Man From Nowhere was probably the best Korean film I've seen in recent years that few people have heard of nor seen.
@PietreADI Maybe wherever you live Man Of Nowhere is well known but here in the UK it wasn't even distributed on home release & I don't recall Mark reviewing it at the time either. I've seen all those barring Asura. I also really liked A Girl At My Door which, like Man Of Nowhere, also starred Sae-ron Kim.
I'm welling up with tears. It has been a great ten years. Kermode put me onto some of my now favorite films. I hope Raw is in the top 3. It is one of my all time favorites. I love you my guy, wish you the best.
10 Years a Slave to Kermode Uncut. Thank-you Mark. But if "Run For Your Wife" doesn't make the Top Ten Worst of the Last Ten Years, then... "YOU MANIAC!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!"
Lot of great films in the last 10 years. If we're including 2008 so far my favorites would look something like: Carol Certified Copy A Christmas Tale The Grand Budapest Hotel Holy Motor Inside Llewyn Davis Our Little Sister Still Walking Synecdoche, New York True Grit
Oh my God, a "top 10 best" video from Mark where I've actually seen all of the films on it so far! Let's see how long that lasts! 😂 Thanks for the last 10 years of quality Kermode Uncut!
Really sad to hear that Kermode Uncut is coming to an end. I've been following it for the last 5 years - an insight into cinema that is very rare! A real loss. I hope Mr Kermode will be able to focus on projects similar to 'Secrets of Cinema' on TV. Does anyone know why Uncut is finishing? - I wouldn't blame the guy for just wanting to stop, 10 years of producing content every week must be pretty draining in addition to all his fine radio work. Uncut will be dearly missed!
Captain Cokecan the bbc have been informed that it was to "antisemetic". And as we know, they have to keep John "mann" on side with the promise that if it does in fact return, it will be called kermode cut. And mark will be required to ware a kippah regardless of how fishy it sounds or ridiculous it looks. Although Mark is reputedly quite consoled by the fact that at lest it will help in covering up his ever incressing bald spot, though not possibly "mann's" disproportionate influence on the "Corporation" . But we have been assured that such worries are groundless, or negligible at best, as after the cover up of Saville for nigh 50 years this in turn, we are assured, should be nothing short of a cake walk. Your licence fee at work I'm sure you'll agree, right there and not all for nothing..... apparently
A good list. Having been an observer of film for almost 60 years now I try to think if any of those would go into the British Film Institutes top 100, hmm, top 100 maybe, but not top 25. With me it's gotten to be maybe not the top films, but the ones that engaged me , after a lot of cinema going , at this late date, ones hat stick in my mind , ones that I re-watch , at least a few times, in the last 10 years these are: The Dark Knight (2008) True Grit (2010) Gravity (2013) The Big Short (2015) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) The main element of these is how they undercut my expectations , even when I expected it! (The Coens do that all the time.) It may be the element of surprise , these all contain a sum of cinematic elements I had not seen before .... True Grit had more of the remarkable parts from the Portis novel than the 1969 version did .... as an example.
Mine would be 1. Mancherster by the Sea (2017) 2. The Hunt (2012) 3. Son of Saul (2015) 4. Shame (2011) 5. The Guilty (2018) 6. The Secret in their Eyes (2009) 7. The Hurt Locker (2009) 8. Moonlight (2017) 9. Senna (2010) 10. Force Majeure (2014) Honourable Mentions: The Wailing, A Hijacking, The Look of Silence, A Prophet, Animal Kingdom, One More Time With Feeling, The Witch
Aww, very sad to hear Kermode Uncut is going. I don't follow a great deal of movie content on RU-vid (I mainly follow gaming content) so KU has been a good way for me to keep in contact with things going on in film. Well, then, thanks for ten years of KU, Mark and good luck with whichever venture you will be using the time for instead.
This is a disaster!!!! Thanks loads for the Alex Cox chats. Moviedrome was such a huge part of my film-loving life and being reminded of that was great.
My top 35 since 2008: 1. Only Lovers Left Alive 2. mother! 3. The Favourite 4. Loving Vincent 5. Beasts of No Nation 6. The Artist 7. The VVitch 8. System Crasher 9. Django Unchained 10. Captain Fantastic 11. Blade Runner 2049 12. The Tree of Life 13. Thirst 14. Filth 15. Gloria (2013) 16. Arrival 17. The Danish Girl 18. Joker 19. Parasite 20. Antichrist 21. Carnage 22. Nightcrawler 23. Kubo and the Two Strings 24. Coco 25. Luz 26. Mad Max: Fury Road 27. Precious 28. Moonlight 29. Mandy 30. Transit 31. Get Out32. The German Lesson 33. In Bruges 34. Drive 35. All These Small Moments
Under the Shadow & We Need to Talk About Kevin have both been sitting on my streaming queue for the past while to watch for the first time... I THINK TONIGHT WILL BE A VERY GOOD NIGHT
I found Babadook really powerful because it was an obvious allegory for depression and anxiety. It communicated it better than anything I’ve seen or read. If anyone struggles to understand depression I tell them to watch this.
I am so God damn happy that the Babadook was on here. Anytime I bring it up to other people it's always, "Its not even scary...", which tells me that they have completely missed the mark with their analysis and that also that they're part of the modern jumpscare crowd. So thank you!
So sad, you are, by far, my favorite film critic of the modern age. I find the News 24 reviews to be a little too rushed and surface scratching and love the longer musings you get with Uncut. I hope this means we'll be getting more TV documentaries?
Mark please keep doing the top 10 annual reviews they are great entertainment in themselves especially your comments on the the top worst. They are also a good chance for people who don’t have a lot of movie time to sort the wheat from the chaff. So please you and Simon are continuing so please let’s keep the top ten review. Thanks Mark H
I found three of my favorite movies of all time through Kermode Uncut: Don't Look Now, Barry Lyndon and the 70's Wicker Man, as well as a new appreciation for The Exorcist, thank you sir. :)
Lawrence Gaines the Wicker Man (the original) is objectively one of the worst films ever made. Terrible acting, laughable incoherent plot, the worst soundtrack imaginable and awful cinematography. It is the emperor’s new clothes of cinema
A sad day Mr Kermode, thank you for your continued service to the world of cinema. You and the other fella on that show are truly loved across the globe. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Top 5 Worst Prediction: 1/ Entourage 2/ Sex and the City 2 3/ Pain and Gain 4/ Little Man 5/ Human Centipede No doubt I'll be wrong, but I'd put my mortgage on the those top 3 being in Mark's worst top 10 somewhere.
Mark, do you have a list on imdb of all your films rated? I'm often trying films you review, some I love, others like The Master I thought were terrible. I often wonder what you thought of a film when I see it.
It's a shame Uncut is ending, but I look forward to the rest of these lists. I'm liking this one so far. Now if there was a way to see Secrets of Cinema in the US, I'd be set. :)
Oh no !....No more Uncut !!...Really ?.... we watch them all your round but especially look forward to the end of year wrap up ! Indeed, its become part of our families Christmas tradition...which is certainly true for the wife and I........and what will i tell the kids ?....it was hard enough when i told them about Santa !!!
