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Director: James Cameron

James Cameron directed one film reviewed here: Titanic (1997). It rates 8 out of 10 here.

The bow of the Titanic tilts upward as the ship breaks apart and sinks into the ocean at night. TITLE: Titanic Sinking SceneJames Cameron

Titanic (1997) Review

Titanic (1997) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cameron built the ship at ninety percent scale, sank it, and hung the oldest story in the world off the side of it. The door problem is real. The…

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The Abyss (1989) film posterJames Cameron

The Abyss (1989) Review

The production achievement of The Abyss is extraordinary even by Cameron's standards. The Deepcore rig is a superbly designed setting, confined, functional, full of the specific texture of working machinery that Cameron consistently brings to his industrial environments.

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Aliens (1986) film posterJames Cameron

Aliens (1986) Review

Aliens earns its 8 by doing the one thing sequel filmmaking almost never manages: it doesn't compete with the original. Ridley Scott's Alien is a horror film about isolation and violation, one creature, confined space, systematic elimination of everything between…

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Avatar (2009) film posterJames Cameron

Avatar (2009) Review

Avatar is a white savior film wearing the costume of environmental progressivism, and the combination is more offensive than either element alone. The Na'vi, despite everything that makes them extraordinary, apparently needed Jake Sully.

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