BiopicMonster (2003) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Charlize Theron gained weight, wore prosthetic teeth and won an Academy Award, and the performance underneath all of that is better than the transformation it became famous for. The…
CrimePrisoners (2013) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two girls disappear on Thanksgiving and one of their fathers abducts and tortures the man he believes responsible. Roger Deakins shot it, Villeneuve directed it, and the film refuses…
CrimeThe CSI Trilogy rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three separately produced network shows ran one continuing investigation across three consecutive nights in 2009, with three production teams, three visual styles and one case. Nobody has attempted…
CrimeTrue Detective's pilot rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two detectives are interviewed in 2012 about a case from 1995, and the gap between what they say and what the audience is shown is the entire architecture.…
CrimeBadlands (1973) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Malick's first film takes a real killing spree and narrates it in the voice of a fifteen-year-old girl who describes murder in the vocabulary of a movie magazine. The…
ActionHawkeye (2021) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A small warm Christmas crime story about a middle-aged man who wants to go home, and the modesty is the point. Hailee Steinfeld is the best new character of…
Black ComedyNatural Born Killers (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone made a satire about media appetite for violence that is itself a two-hour delivery system for violence. Tarantino wrote the story, disowned it, and asked…
CrimePoint Blank (1967) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lee Marvin threw the script in the bin, handed his script and casting approval to a British director who had never worked in Hollywood, and the result is…
CrimeIn Cold Blood (1967) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Richard Brooks shot Capote's book in the actual house where the murders happened, cast two unknowns for their resemblance to the killers, and used seven of the…
CrimeThe American (2010) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Anton Corbijn made a slow European art film about a gunsmith in an Italian hill town, Focus marketed it as a George Clooney thriller, and it opened at…
ActionJohn Wick (2014) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two stuntmen directed it for twenty million dollars, put the camera far enough back to see the whole body, and built an entire criminal economy out of about…
CrimeGodfather of Harlem (2019-2025) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A mafia series where you can state the protagonist's motivation in one sentence, which almost none of them manage. Bumpy Johnson wants his neighborhood back, and the…
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