Let Me In (2010)
Matt Reeves remakes Let the Right One In with care and conviction. Let Me In earns its 8 by being the rarest of things, an American remake of a beloved foreign film that justifies its own existence.
Filming Location: New Mexico
Films in this library shot in New Mexico, a state whose landscape and incentives made it a standing double for the Southwest. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
New MexicoVampires (1998)
John Carpenter turns vampire hunting into blue-collar work and James Woods carries the whole film. Not a calling, not a tragic destiny, not a brooding romance with the dark.
CaliforniaOppenheimer (2023)
Christopher Nolan's 2023 Manhattan Project biopic. Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer.
New MexicoHell or High Water (2016)
Mackenzie's 2016 modern western. Chris Pine and Ben Build as bank-robbing brothers, Jeff Bridges as the Ranger.
New MexicoLast Man Standing (1996)
Hill's 1996 Walter Hill remake of Yojimbo. Bruce Willis as the drifter who plays two Prohibition-era gangs against each other.
ArizonaThe Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Ford's 1940 Steinbeck adaptation. The film that established American social-realist cinema.
CaliforniaIndependence Day (1996)
Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
New MexicoThem! (1954)
Ted Sherdeman wrote, from a story by George Worthing Yates. The film made approximately two million dollars at initial release on a two hundred thousand dollar budget.
CaliforniaJohn Carter (2012) Review
John Carter is one of the most unfairly maligned films of the past fifteen years and one of the most expensive commercial failures in Disney history. The production was Stanton's live-action feature debut after his Pixar work on Finding Nemo…
New MexicoNo Country for Old Men (2007) Review
Coen Brothers' perfect Best Picture winner. Bardem's Oscar-winning Anton Chigurh.
CaliforniaThor (2011) Review
The MCU mythological foundation. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of the film that gave the MCU its mythological foundation and the entry that Kenneth Branagh directed with sustained Shakespearean theatrical attention.
CaliforniaThe Avengers (2012) Review
Joss Whedon's ensemble breakthrough, Tom Hiddleston's Loki, and the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale. The 8.5 reflects honest evaluation of the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale and the entry that…