About Us
A Good Movie to Watch, or agoodmovietowatch, is a platform we started in 2013 to offer a human alternative to algorithmic movie and TV show recommendations. In the age of algorithms, AI robots, and corporate monopolies, we are 100% independent and 100% AI-free.
We built this platform to be a place where you can get recommendations from fellow humans who dedicated their lives to film and TV.
Highly rated, yet little-known.
Highly-rated: so that you know they’re good, and little-known: so there is little chance you’ve already seen them.
Handpicked movies & shows
Every streaming service, every genre, every mood. Our team of experts meticulously pick the best for you, with new recommendations coming in all the time.
We only recommend what critics thought was good, what viewers thought was good, and what our curators validated on top of all of that.
Community-funded
We are community-supported and only report to you, our readers.
Streaming algorithms recommend what streaming services spent money on, we have 0 interest in pushing you to watch one movie or another.
Our curators
agoodmovietowatch is 100% human-curated. Our writers are festival programmers, Rotten Tomatoes-approved critics, filmmakers, and journalists published in places like Sight & Sound, TIME, Vulture, and Variety. If you see it here, one of them watched it and vouched for it.
Isabella Endrinal
Isabella Endrinal is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. She's now free from the corporate night shift. Previous articles have been published in outlets such as NANG Magazine. She's currently catching up on some classic films… if she isn't coping with the fact that the Haikyu anime will end soon.
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Renee Cuisia
Renee Cuisia is the lead curator at A Good Movie to Watch. In her spare time, she likes to watch K-dramas and analyze them to death. She's also seen You've Got Mail one too many times but is still convinced it's one of the greatest films out there.
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Bilal Zouheir
Bilal Zouheir is the founder of A Good Movie to Watch. He is US-based and a member of the Nevada Film Critics Society. He grew up in Morocco, where he learned English from watching movies. Bilal's work with A Good Movie to Watch is focused on offering an alternative to streaming algorithms, which are often used as commercial tools by streaming services.
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Emil Hofileña
Emil Hofileña is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. He also writes as a theater critic, with work published in Rogue and Out of Print, among others. He’s probably crying over a movie or an episode as we speak.
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Farah Cheded
Farah Cheded is a UK-based curator at A Good Movie to Watch and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved freelance critic whose work has been published at outlets including The Playlist, Paste Magazine, and Film School Rejects. She lives in fear of the day she runs out of 'Columbo' episodes to watch.
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Savina Petkova
Savina Petkova, PhD, is a Bulgarian film critic and curator based in London whose work has appeared in Sight and Sound, Variety, Little White Lies, Cineuropa, and MUBI Notebook. She is the Programming Lead for Cambridge Film Festival and a senior editor at Talking Shorts, with a focus on contemporary European cinema.
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Kerine Wint
Kerine Wint is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. When she’s not absorbed in anime and weird docu-series, she reviews speculative fiction for Fiyah Lit Magazine or designs album covers and magazines. As for her film taste, One Cut of the Dead (2017), The Lure (2015), Inu-Oh (2021), and Dear Ex (2018) sum it up pretty well.
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Rory Doherty
Rory Doherty is a London-based culture journalist and film critic whose work appears in TIME Magazine, Vulture, British GQ, Big Issue, A.V. Club, and AnOther. He has reported from Cannes and Venice film festivals and is a two-time PPA Award finalist.
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Davide Abbatescianni
Davide Abbatescianni is an Italian film critic and journalist who serves as International Reporter for Cineuropa, covering European cinema, festivals, and the audiovisual industry. He has reported from over 40 countries and major festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Locarno.
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Emily Maskell
Emily Maskell is a UK-based freelance film writer with a monthly Vulture column on book-to-screen adaptations. She has written for BBC Culture, GQ, W Magazine, The Daily Beast, Nylon, Teen Vogue, and i-D, and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.
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Christina Ienna
Christina Ienna is a contributing writer at A Good Movie to Watch and an Italian-Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer. Her writing brings a craft-focused perspective to film and television reviews.
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Diego Andaluz
Diego Andaluz is a freelance film critic, journalist, and podcaster based in New York, serving as Awards Editor at DiscussingFilm and Editor-in-Chief of The Global Film Show. His commentary has been featured in AwardsWatch, The Film Stage, Deadline, IndieWire, People, and Mashable.
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Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson is a Scottish contributing writer at A Good Movie to Watch, reviewing films and shows across the major streaming services. He also writes for Loud and Clear Reviews.
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Jihane Bousfiha
Jihane Bousfiha is a freelance culture writer based in Florida whose work covers film, television, and popular culture. Her bylines include W Magazine, Vulture, The Daily Beast, The Cut, and Primetimer.
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Critics, journalists, and film lovers who have contributed reviews over the years.