The Greatest Coming of Age Films
Every coming of age film reviewed on this site, ranked. Truffaut, Hughes, Crowe, Coppola and Gerwig, plus the horror films that use adolescence as the actual subject.
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AdaptationRemakes, Ranked
Every remake and side-by-side contrast reviewed on this site, ranked. The ones that justified themselves, the ones that repeated the plot and lost the point, and the studio programme built on strip-mining a back catalogue.
Art HouseThe Greatest Foreign Language Films
Every foreign language film reviewed on this site, ranked. Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, Bergman, Kurosawa, the French New Wave, Hong Kong action and the Iranian films that work under restriction.
Fiction WritingThrillers Part 5 – The Solid Craft
The fifth tier of the thriller ranking. De Palma, Verhoeven, Frankenheimer, Spielberg and Cronenberg, plus the debut features that cost less than a single day of a studio shoot.
Black and WhiteThe Greatest Film Noir
Every film noir reviewed on this site, ranked. Huston, Wilder, Reed, Polanski and Hanson, plus the neo-noir and science fiction descendants that kept the form alive after the studios abandoned it.
Art HouseThe Greatest Independent Films
Every independent film reviewed on this site, ranked. Seven debuts, four Lynch pictures, the two Anderson brothers of American cinema, and the horror revival that came out of the same funding model.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Medieval Films
Every medieval film reviewed on this site, ranked. Arthur, Becket, Bergman, Boorman and the Pythons, plus the crusader epic that exists in two completely different cuts.
Fantasy FictionThe Greatest Ray Harryhausen Films
Every Ray Harryhausen film reviewed on this site, ranked. The skeleton duel, the cyclops, the Medusa and the giant creatures that an entire generation of directors grew up wanting to make.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Creature Features
Every creature feature reviewed on this site, ranked. Universal's monsters, Harryhausen's models, Rob Bottin's practical work on The Thing, and the films that understood the thing in the dark is worse than the thing on screen.
Fiction WritingAction Films Part 6 – The Dependable
The sixth tier of the action ranking. Carpenter, Romero, Singleton and the Wachowskis, plus the video game adaptations that worked and the disaster films of 1996 and 1997.
Fiction WritingThrillers Part 1 – The Masterpieces
The first tier of the thriller ranking. Hitchcock, Melville, Kubrick, Carpenter, Mann and Demme, and twenty films that established what the form could do.
Fiction WritingThrillers Part 2 – The Near Perfect
The second tier. Lynch, Fincher, Park Chan-wook, Nolan and Affleck, plus the television pilots that build a whole series in one hour.