ActionMonster Hunter is one of the more enjoyable action camp productions of the early 2020s and a genuinely fun watch despite its substantial commercial disapp. Anderson had been working primarily on the Resident Evil franchise before Monster Hunter.
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.
ActionEdward Norton, Louis Leterrier, and the most underrated MCU film. Norton's psychologically committed Bruce Banner.
ActionThe film is thrilling on its surface and interesting underneath, which is rarer in the action genre than the genre's reputation suggests. This is not a film that accidentally achieved something.
Body HorrorThe Thing earns its 9.5 primarily through Rob Bottin's practical effects work, which remains the gold standard for creature design in horror cinema more than forty years later. Carpenter built something rare: a film where the monster is original, the…
ActionAliens earns its 8 by doing the one thing sequel filmmaking almost never manages: it doesn't compete with the original. Ridley Scott's Alien is a horror film about isolation and violation, one creature, confined space, systematic elimination of everything between…
HorrorExperiencing it blind, in a dark theater, with an audience that had no idea what was coming, that was specific and unrepeatable. The 8 reflects both what the film achieved and what watching it now is like, which are different…
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