X-Men (2000) Review
Bryan Singer's foundation of modern superhero cinema. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman's debut.
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British ColumbiaThe Incredible Hulk (2008) Review
Edward Norton, Louis Leterrier, and the most underrated MCU film. Norton's psychologically committed Bruce Banner.
AustraliaX-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Review
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber's underrated Sabretooth, and the Deadpool handling that damaged the property for years. The 8.5 reflects honest evaluation of the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale and the entry that established the commercial…
CanadaFrequency (2000) Review
A father in 1969 talks to his son in 1999 through a ham radio during an aurora. The film works on a viewer who comes to it cold.
CanadaThe Score (2001) Review
Frank Oz, De Niro, Brando, Norton, and the best heist ending of the 21st century. The Score earns its 10+ through ninety minutes of pure character setup.
CanadaTotal Recall (2012) Review
Critics judged Wiseman's 2012 Total Recall against the wrong reference film. The 1990 and 2012 versions of Total Recall are different films, not competing films.
British ColumbiaThe Thing (1982) Review
The Thing earns its 9.5 primarily through Rob Bottin's practical effects work, which remains the gold standard for creature design in horror cinema more than forty years later. Carpenter built something rare: a film where the monster is original, the…
British ColumbiaThe Butterfly Effect (2004) Review
The Butterfly Effect has a disturbing premise, childhood trauma so embedded in a group of people that any attempt to fix one person's damage creates worse damage elsewhere, and squanders it through arbitrarily defined mechanics, darkness deployed for shock instead…
CaliforniaBattlefield Earth (2000) Review
Battlefield Earth is the most comprehensively failed film in science fiction history. This isn't hyperbole or enthusiasm for the negative, it's an honest.
CaliforniaInterstellar (2014) Review
Interstellar is a bad film that has convinced a large number of people it's a profound one. The misdirection is accomplished through scale: everything is so large, so loud, so visually ambitious, so heavily scored that the emptiness at the…
CanadaeXistenZ (1999) Review
eXistenZ is Cronenberg doing what Cronenberg does: making the body the site of horror and the technology that interfaces with it the vector of corruption. The bio-ports, the organic game consoles connecting directly to the spine, the game-meat assembled from…