Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) Review
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The sequel that removed the one thing making the original work. A cruise ship cannot go fast, and the whole premise was speed.
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ActionPirates of the Caribbean (2003) Review
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film adapted from a theme park queue that had no business being good. Depp built a character the studio…
ActionMad Max: Fury Road (2015) Review
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A two-hour chase that explains an entire world without a line of exposition. The fourth film in a series, the best one by a distance, and…
ActionMortal (2019) Review
Mortal is what a superhero origin story looks like when the director comes from Norwegian horror cinema instead of from American comic book adaptation. Both films treat supernatural material as if it were happening in a country that has actual…
ActionThe Marvels (2023)
The Marvels is the Captain Marvel sequel that teams up Brie Larson with two female MCU successors. Megan McDonnell, Elissa Karasik and Nia DaCosta wrote it.
ActionIron Man 3 (2013)
Tony Stark hunts a terrorist called the Mandarin while battling PTSD from the Avengers, with Christmas as the season-long backdrop. Iron Man 3 is Shane Black's 2013 American superhero film depicting Tony Stark hunting an apparent terrorist called the Mandarin…
ActionFrom Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
The tonal whiplash is the entire experience. From Dusk Till Dawn earns its 7 by being two completely different movies stapled together, and by the strange fact that the staple holds.
ActionRenfield (2023)
Nicolas Cage's gloriously unhinged Dracula anchors a comedy about escaping a toxic boss, undercut by an overstuffed plot. Reframe Dracula's servant Renfield as a man in a toxic codependent relationship with his narcissistic boss, and play it as a workplace…
ActionUnderworld Series (2003-2016)
The Underworld films turned the vampire into a leather-clad action hero across five entries. As a whole it is more than the sum of its uneven parts.
ActionVampires (1998)
John Carpenter turns vampire hunting into blue-collar work and James Woods carries the whole film. That choice is the film.
ActionLethal Weapon (1987)
A suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…
ActionViolent Night (2022)
Violent Night is Tommy Wirkola's 2022 American action-comedy depicting Santa Claus, played as a disillusioned former Viking warrior, trapped inside a wealthy family's Connecticut compound as mercenaries take the family hostage on Christmas Eve, leading Santa to fight back with…