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.
2000sMay 19, 2026
Tom 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.
1980sMay 19, 2026
Five college students vacationing at a Tennessee cabin awaken demonic spirits through a Sumerian text, in Sam Raimi's debut. Bruce Campbell plays Ash Williams.
1970sMay 19, 2026
Dario 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…
2000sMay 19, 2026
Danny 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…
1980sMay 19, 2026
Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam drama. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe.
1990sMay 19, 2026
Richard Linklater's 1995 single-night Vienna romance. Spawned two sequels every nine years.
1980sMay 19, 2026
Sergio Leone's 1984 final film. New York Jewish gangsters across five decades.
1990sMay 19, 2026
Richard Linklater's 1993 last-day-of-school 1976 ensemble. Affleck, McConaughey, Adam Goldberg breakthroughs.
1980sMay 19, 2026
Steven Spielberg's 1981 archeology adventure launcher. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
2000sMay 19, 2026
Baz Luhrmann's 2001 jukebox musical. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in turn-of-century Paris.
2010sMay 18, 2026
2012 Oliver Stone crime drama with Travolta, Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek. California marijuana growers versus Mexican cartel.
2010sMay 18, 2026
2012 Christopher Nolan finale to his Batman trilogy. Christian Bale, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman.
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