The following works of art have all received A+ grades from Colin’s Review.
A+ Albums
- Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions (Louis Armstrong, (1925 – 28)
- Avalon Blues (Mississippi John Hurt, 1928)
- King of the Delta Blues Singers (Robert Johnson, 1937)
- The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Benny Goodman, 1938)
- Zodiac Suite (Mary Lou Williams, 1945)
- Genius of Modern Music (Volume One) (Thelonious Monk, 1951)
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Clifford Brown & Max Roach, 1954)
- Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis, 1954)
- In the Wee Small Hours (Frank Sinatra, 1955)
- Pithecanthropus Erectus (Charles Mingus, 1956)
- Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley, 1956)
- Miles Ahead (Miles Davis, 1957)
- Brilliant Corners (Thelonious Monk, 1957)
- Saxophone Colossus (Sonny Rollins, 1957)
- Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958)
- Buddy Holly (Buddy Holly, 1958)
- Time Out (Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959)
- The Genius of Ray Charles (Ray Charles, 1959)
- The Shape of Jazz to Come (Ornette Coleman, 1959)
- Kind of Blue (Miles Davis, 1959)
- Mingus Ah Um (Charles Mingus, 1959)
A+ Films
- Double Indemnity (directed by Billy Wilder, 1944)
- White Heat (directed by Raoul Walsh, 1949)
- The Night of the Hunter (directed by Charles Laughton, 1955)
- The Ballad of Narayama (directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (directed by Robert Bresson, 1966)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (directed by Werner Herzog, 1972)
- Amarcord (directed by Federico Fellini, 1973)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (directed by Werner Herzog, 1974)
- Barry Lyndon (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- All That Jazz (directed by Bob Fosse, 1979)
- Three Colours: Red (directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
- Eyes Wide Shut (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
- The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (directed by Peter Jackson, 2001)
- Spirited Away (directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (directed by Michel Gondry, 2004)
- Ratatouille (directed by Brad Bird, 2007)
A+ Books
(Novels, Non-Fiction, Plays and Poems)
- Little, Big by John Crowley (1981)