Layer Cake (2004) Review
Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut. Daniel Craig's career-defining performance that secured him the James Bond role.
2000sMatthew Vaughn's directorial debut. Daniel Craig's career-defining performance that secured him the James Bond role.
1950sGeorge Stevens's foundational classical Western. Alan Ladd as the title gunfighter.
1990sPaul Verhoeven's foundational erotic thriller. Sharon Stone's career-defining performance.
2000sRoger Donaldson's heist film based on the 1971 Lloyds Bank Baker Street robbery. Jason Statham outside his action register.
2010sKaren Shakhnazarov's Russian Eastern Front tank film. Soviet T-34 hunting mysterious phantom German Tiger.
2000sClint Eastwood's Japanese-language masterpiece. Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi.
1950sDavid Lean's POW masterpiece. Alec Guinness's career-defining performance as Colonel Nicholson.
1990sTom Tykwer's German structural innovation cinema. Franka Potente runs three times through the same twenty-minute scenario.
2000sNicolas Cage's precognition thriller with two-minute future-seeing capability. The unreliable narrator ending recontextualizes the entire production.
2000sThe 10 rating reflects honest evaluation that critics never gave the film. Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a reverse engineer specializing in proprietary technology.
2000sDavid Mamet wrote and directed. Heist is the writer-director showcase that closes out 2001's heist cinema trifecta.
1970sFutureworld (1976) earns its 7 as a lean 1970s paranoid thriller. Cheesy, dated, and genuinely unsettling.
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