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The Greatest Documentaries

Every documentary reviewed on this site, ranked by the rating its review carries. Natural history, true crime, sport, surveillance, and the two films that got a conviction overturned and a genocide described on camera.

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Animated Films, Ranked

The studio animation canon ranked end to end, from the 1941 Disney features to the DreamWorks era. A complete ranking instead of a greatest list, because the bottom of it matters as much as the top.

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The Greatest Vampire Films

Every vampire film reviewed on this site, ranked. Dreyer's dream logic, Herzog remaking Murnau, Bava's gothic, Hammer's decline into sex, and the one film that asks whether there is any such thing as a vampire at all.

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The Greatest Samurai Films

Every samurai film reviewed on this site, ranked. Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Gosha and Okamoto, and a genre whose masterpieces are nearly all arguments against the thing they depict.

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The Greatest Movie Musicals

Every movie musical reviewed on this site, ranked. Astaire and Rogers, Bernstein and Sondheim, two Fosse films about self-destruction, and a De Palma rock opera nobody saw.

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The Greatest World War I Films

Every First World War film reviewed on this site, ranked. The first Best Picture winner, a docudrama cast with the men who lived it, tunnellers under Messines, and the war nobody adapts as often as the one that followed it.

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The Greatest Courtroom Dramas

Every courtroom drama reviewed on this site, ranked. Wilder, Preminger, Lumet's descendants, a Scopes trial fictionalized, and a comedy that gets the evidentiary procedure right.

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The Greatest Vigilante Films

Every vigilante and revenge film reviewed on this site, ranked. Bronson across five films and twenty years, Seagal in his early-nineties peak, the Punisher three separate times, and a genre that is always arguing with itself about whether it approves.

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More Great Christmas Films

Every Christmas film reviewed on this site, ranked. Capra and Curtiz, the Berlin musicals, three Shane Black pictures, and the action films that keep being argued about every December.

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The Greatest Satires

Every satire reviewed on this site, ranked. Brooks, Verhoeven, Altman, Ashby and the Zuckers, and a run of films that turned out to be documentaries.

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The Greatest Historical Epics

Every historical epic reviewed on this site, ranked. Dreyer, Bondarchuk, Kubrick, Zinnemann and Branagh, plus the two Musketeers films shot simultaneously and released as a swindle.

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The Greatest Supernatural Horror Films

Every supernatural horror film reviewed on this site, ranked. Tourneur's shadows, Argento's color, two Japanese curses that rewired the genre, and a found-footage film that cost almost nothing.