ActionRaiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Temple of Doom in 1984, and The Last Crusade in 1989 form a complete trilogy that arrived before Hollywood started planning trilogies as franchise products. Raiders is the first and the best.
AdventureFinding Nemo is one of the foundational documents of Pixar's golden era and one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century. Stanton would subsequently direct WALL-E in 2008, Finding Dory in 2016, and various other major…
AdventureFinding Dory is one of the more substantive Pixar sequels and one of the more thoughtful contemporary animated productions about cognitive disability. The substantial gap between productions reflected Pixar's broader sequel discipline during the period.
AdventureChicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial. Aardman Animations had been working primarily in short subject and television animated production before Chicken Run.
AdventureDreamWorks Animation had been established in 1994 by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen as substantial competitor to the Walt Disney Company and to Pixar. Both productions handled comparable insect colony source material.
AdventureThe film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
AdventureThe 1998 production represented his second feature directorial work and the broader Pixar studio's continued development as substantial animated production company. Flik is an ant inventor whose inventions consistently fail and damage the broader colony operations.
AdventureOne Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the great Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful early 1960s feature. Sleeping Beauty had been the most expensive animated production Disney had attempted and had generated substantially disappointing initial commercial…
AdventureFoundation of modern sci-fi cinema. The 10+ rating reflects honest evaluation of a film that holds up nearly seventy years after release despite the inevitable dating that any production from 1956 carries.
Action1960s retro-futurist aesthetic as protection against contemporary political fatigue. Galactus underdeveloped, period setting works.
ActionJordan's Killmonger is one of the franchise's best villains. Production and costume design earned Academy Awards.
ActionFlorence Pugh's Yelena carries another film that fails. Mental health as decorative content.
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