The Greatest James Bond Films
Every James Bond film ranked, with the rating each one carries in its own review. Casino Royale first, Die Another Day last, and a series that survives by periodically admitting it has gone wrong.
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Film ListThe MCU Phase 1 – Proving It Could Work
The six films that built the MCU, ranked and reviewed in release order, with scores and craft notes. Phase 1 averages 8.00, the highest of any phase.
Film ListThe MCU Phase 5 – The MCU Pushes the Message
Fourteen projects, an average of 2.62 and a median of 1. The lowest scoring phase in the franchise, examined entry by entry.
Film ListThe MCU Phase 6 – The Reset
The reset in progress. Released entries scored, announced entries held as placeholders and filled in as the phase arrives.
Film ListThe MCU Phase 3 – The Payoff
All eleven Phase 3 films in release order with scores. The first six average 6.0 and the four conventionally rated films that close it average 4.5, which is where the decline starts.
Film ListThe MCU Phase 4 – The MCU Becomes the MSHEU
Seventeen projects in two years, scored and reviewed in release order. Phase 4 is where the cinematic universe became a content pipeline.
Film ListThe MCU Phase 2 – Finding the Formula
Iron Man 3 through Ant-Man, in release order with scores and craft notes. Phase 2 found the formula and set both the ceiling and the floor of the franchise.
Fiction WritingHorror for People Who Do Not Like Horror
Twenty horror films for people who believe they do not like horror. Almost none are gore, most contain no monster worth the name, and several are among the best films ever made in any genre. Ranked gentlest to hardest so…
ChristmasThe Greatest Christmas Films
Twenty Christmas films ranked, including several that are genuinely bleak, one about an attempted suicide, one about a family destroying each other over the English crown, and one nobody thinks of as a Christmas film despite every scene being lit…
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Cruise Ship and Ocean Liner Films
Twenty films set on cruise ships and ocean liners, from Titanic's class-divided sinking to Triangle of Sadness's savage yacht satire to The Love Boat's aspirational not-sinking. The ship is never just a ship. It's a floating world, a class system,…
Cult ClassicMovies Rotten Tomatoes Got Dead Wrong
Twenty-one films that Rotten Tomatoes scored wrong, from Blade Runner's lukewarm 1982 reception to Soldier's inexplicable 10%. Why critics get films wrong, what the aggregator measures, and the political bias that explains why Disney's worst remakes score 90% while audiences…
CountercultureThe Greatest Road Movies
Twenty road movies covering every register of the genre, from Easy Rider's counterculture elegy to The Straight Story's 240-mile lawnmower journey to Mad Max: Fury Road's two-hour chase. The road does not take you to a destination. It takes you…