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Tag: Film List

Sometimes the right format is a ranked argument. This tag collects curated film lists: the greatest of a genre, a theme, or a decade, each ranking an argument you are invited to have with me.

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Animated Films, Ranked

September 11, 2026

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

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The Greatest Courtroom Dramas

September 11, 2026

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

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The Greatest Documentaries

September 11, 2026

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 convictions overturned and a genocide described on camera.

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The Greatest Satires

September 11, 2026

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 Vampire Films

September 11, 2026

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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