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James Mason in a dark suit sits at a table, his expression controlled and distant, embodying Humbert's facade of civility.

Lolita (1962) Review

Lolita (1962) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kubrick adapted a novel about a predator by removing everything the Production Code forbade, which was most of the subject. He later said that had he understood the censorship…

Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit floating in orbit above Earth with debris and spacecraft visible in the darkness of space.

Shepperton Studios

Gravity (2013) Review

Gravity (2013) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron opens on a thirteen minute unbroken shot and then destroys everything in it. The technical achievement is genuine and permanent. The dialogue keeps explaining a film that was…

Flash Gordon stands in a colorful, theatrical space setting with elaborate gold and violet costumes and set design. TITLE

Shepperton Studios

Flash Gordon (1980) Review

Flash Gordon (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Dino De Laurentiis spent twenty-seven million dollars on a deliberately camp space opera, hired Queen to score it, and produced something no serious film could get near. The…

Alex DeLarge in white clothing and bowler hat, the protagonist of Kubrick's 1971 film adaptation. TITLE: A Clockwork Orange

London

A Clockwork Orange (1971) Review

A Clockwork Orange (1971) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kubrick makes you enjoy a monster's company, then cures him, then asks whether the cure was worse. Withdrawn from Britain by its own director for nearly thirty…

Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in a scene from the 2007 film Atonement, depicting the central characters whose lives are

United Kingdom

Atonement (2007) Review

Atonement (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A thirteen-year-old tells a lie and two lives end. The last ten minutes do not reveal a fact, they change what kind of object you have been watching.

Brad Pitt's character stands amid zombie hordes climbing over each other in a chaotic mass, the film's most memorable

Budapest

World War Z (2013) Review

World War Z (2013) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A great book turned into a competent chase film with the structure removed first. The Jerusalem sequence is worth the ticket and nothing else is.

Egypt

Death on the Nile (1978) Review

Death on the Nile (1978) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Christie on a paddle steamer with a closed passenger list and a cast of stars. The correct way to film a detective novel, and the only…

The MS St. Louis ocean liner at sea, carrying Jewish refugees denied entry to Cuba, the United States, and Canada in 1939.

Spain

Voyage of the Damned (1976) Review

Voyage of the Damned (1976) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The true story of the MS St. Louis, which carried 937 Jewish refugees out of Hamburg in 1939 and was refused entry everywhere it went. A…

Viggo Mortensen stands shirtless in a dimly lit room, his torso covered in prison tattoos, looking directly at the camera

London

Eastern Promises (2007) Review

Eastern Promises (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cronenberg on the Russian mafia in London, where the body is the filing system and the tattoos are the documents. The bathhouse fight works because nobody in it…

Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry in a cluttered retro-futuristic office surrounded by pipes and bureaucratic machinery.

France

Brazil (1985) Review

Brazil (1985) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A clerical error kills the wrong man and a whole film proceeds from a typo. The most internally consistent world in the genre, and Gilliam fought Universal for two…