a personal film log · 2019–2026
cinemetrics.
Eight years and 684 films — what I watch, when I watch it, and what that says about my taste.
Every watch, in order
Every watch since 2019, as a slice of that film’s own poster.
How I rate
Every rated watch, one column per half star.
watches
my rating
When I watch
One row per year, January to December. Height is my rating.
October is 73% horror
Viewings to date
One line per year, each restarting in January. Lines stop at each year’s final watch.
watches to year end
Cumulative watches
The running total, stacked by genre.
all filmsadventure 54 · 3.6★comedy 120 · 3.7★drama 206 · 3.9★horror 309 · 3.6★thriller 96 · 3.6★other 25 · 3.8★
Viewing velocity
Every bucket since the first logged watch. No smoothing.
The peak years are 2020 and 2021. Nothing since has come close.
Pace by month
Watches per calendar day, so a taller bar is a busier month.
I watch 3.5x more in October than November
days between films
Pace by weekday
Watches by day, weekend tinted.
watches
Ratings by primary genre
Tukey box plots, one value per film, each film in exactly one genre.
median spread 0.50★
Ratings by release year
A pole for each release year and a flag at each half star to visualize the ratings, colored by the dominant genre of each bar.
years with 5+ filmsfilms, log1532
What I go back to
Rewatching is concentrated: 13% of films (87 of 684) account for all 126 returns.
I rate rewatches 4.0★ and first watches 3.5★.
Second thoughts
Films I returned to, grouped by whether coming back changed my mind. Biggest swings first.