Trilogies promise a shape: beginning, escalation, and an earned end. This tag collects reviews of film trilogies, the arcs that honored the shape, and the third acts that did not.
2010sTony Stark hunts a terrorist called the Mandarin while battling PTSD from the Avengers, with Christmas as the season-long backdrop. Iron Man 3 is Shane Black's 2013 American superhero film depicting Tony Stark hunting an apparent terrorist called the Mandarin…
2000sTom Hanks performs motion capture for six different roles including the boy, the conductor, the boy's father, the hobo, the narrator, and Santa Claus. The film's central technological achievement and its central technological problem are the same thing.
1980sFive college students vacationing at a Tennessee cabin awaken demonic spirits through a Sumerian text, in Sam Raimi's debut. Bruce Campbell plays Ash Williams.
1970sDario Argento directs the giallo horror about an American dance student who discovers her German ballet academy is run by witches. Suspiria is Dario Argento's 1977 Italian horror film depicting an American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious German…
2000sDanny Boyle directs the British zombie film about a man waking from a coma to find London depopulated by a rage virus. 28 Days Later is Danny Boyle's 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a bicycle courier who wakes from…
1980sOliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam drama. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe.
1990sRichard Linklater's 1995 single-night Vienna romance. Spawned two sequels every nine years.
1980sSergio Leone's 1984 final film. New York Jewish gangsters across five decades.
1990sRichard Linklater's 1993 last-day-of-school 1976 ensemble. Affleck, McConaughey, Adam Goldberg breakthroughs.
1980sSteven Spielberg's 1981 archeology adventure launcher. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
2000sBaz Luhrmann's 2001 jukebox musical. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in turn-of-century Paris.
2010s2012 Christopher Nolan finale to his Batman trilogy. Christian Bale, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman.
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