The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
The studio, MGM, cut the film roughly in half after disastrous preview screenings. Lillian Ross's book Picture, a long-form New Yorker series about the making of the film, has become more famous than the film itself.
1950sThe studio, MGM, cut the film roughly in half after disastrous preview screenings. Lillian Ross's book Picture, a long-form New Yorker series about the making of the film, has become more famous than the film itself.
1990sCruel Intentions is the best classical adaptation American teen cinema has produced. The 10 rating is honest evaluation.
1980sWarGames is one of the best technological thrillers of the 1980s and one of the most influential American films about computer culture ever produced. John Badham had previously directed Saturday Night Fever and Blue Thunder.
2010sTangled appeared during a transitional period in Disney animation. The film adapts the Rapunzel fairy tale through the Brothers Grimm version.
1990sMulan is one of the substantial late Disney Renaissance productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Chinese cultural material. The film appeared during the latter portion of the Disney Renaissance period.
1980sThe Little Mermaid is the film that started the Disney Renaissance. Ron Clements and John Musker directed.
1990sThe film adapts Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to contemporary American high school setting. Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School, develops romantic interest in Bianca Stratford.
2010sJake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio, the European tour, the basketball court Blip gag that confirmed the franchise wouldn't engage with its own catastrophe. The 6 reflects honest evaluation of a competent Phase Three closing film that operates as the franchise's first major…
2000sKirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, and the cheerleading film that made its race plot load-bearing. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of one of the best teen films of the 2000s, anchored by Kirsten Dunst at her career peak, Gabrielle Union in…
2000sThe pacing is genuinely good. Some critics and marketing materials have positioned it as dark comedy, which is the wrong genre frame.
1980sMatthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and John Hughes's most ambitious teen film. Ferris narrates Cameron's story.
1980sFive teenagers, one library, one Saturday detention. John Hughes's bottle-episode masterpiece with Paul Gleason as the principal.
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