The Greatest James Bond Films
September 11, 2026
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.
Tag: Film Series
Film series live or die on what they preserve between installments. This tag collects reviews of movie franchises and long-running series: continuity, escalation, and the entries where the machine kept or lost the plot.
1990sLast Action Hero (1993) Review
September 10, 2026
Last Action Hero (1993) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Columbia made a deconstruction of the action film starring the biggest action star alive, marketed it to children, and opened it one week after Jurassic Park. The…
1990sBatman & Robin (1997) Review
September 10, 2026
Batman & Robin (1997) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Warner Bros. told Joel Schumacher to make it more toyetic, and he did exactly that. Schumacher later apologized publicly to fans, which is a rarer and more…
2000sThe Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Review
September 10, 2026
The Matrix sequels rate 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Shot back to back and released six months apart, they answer questions the first film was stronger for leaving open, and they contain two of the best action…
2020sThe MCU Phase 4 and Beyond (2021-present) Review
September 10, 2026
The MCU from Phase 4 onward rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Scoring every project I have seen puts Phase 4 at an average of 4.4 and Phase 5 at 2.67. The interesting part is not the…
2010sPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Review
September 10, 2026
The later Pirates films rate 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. On Stranger Tides cost four hundred and ten million dollars, which made it the most expensive film ever made, and Dead Men Tell No Tales cost two…
1990sStar Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) Review
September 10, 2026
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lucas had not directed a film in twenty-two years, owned the company outright, and answered to nobody. The result opens with a trade dispute, gives…
2000sThe Bourne Identity (2002) Review
September 10, 2026
The Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…
2010sThe Dark Tower (2017) Review
September 10, 2026
The Dark Tower (2017) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Eight novels written across thirty-four years were compressed into ninety-five minutes, which is the shortest running time any studio fantasy has attempted this century. Idris Elba and…
2010sThe Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) Review
September 10, 2026
The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A three hundred page children's book became nearly eight hours of film at a reported seven hundred and forty-five million dollars. Guillermo del Toro spent two years…
1950sIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Review
September 10, 2026
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and eighty-five million dollars, seven hundred and ninety million back, and it is still the film that damaged the…
1960sIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Review
September 10, 2026
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale, and that is generous. Three hundred and eighty-seven million dollars, a loss of a hundred and thirty-four million, and trash from the first…