2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Prisoners (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…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
True 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.…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Warm Bodies (2013) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A zombie romance narrated by the zombie, which is a better idea than it sounds and is executed with more wit than the premise deserves. It is also…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
One Cut of the Dead (2017) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first thirty-seven minutes are a bad zombie film shot in one take, and the remaining hour explains every mistake in it. Made for about…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Kingdom (2019-2020) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A zombie series set in the Joseon dynasty where the outbreak begins because a court faction resurrected a dead king to hold power, and spreads because the starving ate…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
The Magnificent Seven (2016) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Antoine Fuqua takes the same structure, casts it the way the American West really looked, and gives the villain a coherent economic argument. The last forty minutes…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
The later Pirates films rate 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. On Stranger Tides cost four hundred and ten million dollars, which made it the most expensive film ever made, and Dead Men Tell No Tales cost two…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
Room (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Emma Donoghue adapted her own novel and kept the one decision that makes it bearable, which is that everything is narrated by a five-year-old who thinks the shed is…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
The Dark Tower (2017) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Eight novels written across thirty-four years were compressed into ninety-five minutes, which is the shortest running time any studio fantasy has attempted this century. Idris Elba and…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A three hundred page children's book became nearly eight hours of film at a reported seven hundred and forty-five million dollars. Guillermo del Toro spent two years…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
The 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…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
John 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…
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