AustraliaSan Andreas is a Dwayne Johnson disaster movie. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department rescue pilot whose helicopter and skill set turn out to be exactly what is needed when a magnitude nine earthquake destroys California.
British ColumbiaRomeo Must Die is one of the substantial American martial arts productions of the early 2000s and one of Jet Li's substantial Hollywood productions follow. Jet Li had been working substantially in Hong Kong cinema across multiple decades before his…
CaliforniaThe Birds is one of Alfred Hitchcock's great achievements and one of the most influential horror productions in American cinema history. The British-born filmmaker had produced substantial work in both British and American cinema across multiple decades.
California50 First Dates is one of the more substantive Adam Sandler romantic comedies and the second major collaboration between Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The Wedding Singer had established the romantic comedy partnership that 50 First Dates extended.
CaliforniaPaul Verhoeven's foundational erotic thriller. Sharon Stone's career-defining performance.
AustraliaTony Leung's career-best Wenwu, Hong Kong-influenced martial arts choreography, the Phase 4 entry that demonstrated the alternative. The 6.5 reflects honest evaluation based on what the available material shows, the broader critical reception, and the documented commercial response.
AtlantaPaul Rudd's likability anchors a heist-comedy that survived Edgar Wright's departure. The Quantum World setup that would matter.
CaliforniaRenny Harlin takes McClane to Dulles Airport on Christmas Eve for the twistiest entry in the franchise. The 8 reflects what the rewatch test has confirmed: the film is genuinely twisty, the action sequences land, the Christmas-Eve airport setting works,…
CaliforniaPaul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist household in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's a hard film to watch, not because of what it shows, which is less explicit than its reputation suggests, but because of what it understands about…
AustraliaThe Wachowskis accomplished something that almost never happens in blockbuster cinema: they made a philosophy lecture into one of the most viscerally entertaining action films ever made, and the philosophy and the action are the same thing. This review is…
CaliforniaThe 1978 Body Snatchers remake improves on the 1956 original in one key respect: it doesn't flinch at its own ending. Philip Kaufman follows the premi.
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