A plague story is a society story: the disease is the pressure and people are the subject. This tag collects reviews of pandemic and plague films and what the premise reveals about a population.
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Kingdom (2019-2020) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A zombie series set in the Joseon dynasty where the outbreak begins because a court faction resurrected a dead king to hold power, and spreads because the starving ate…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
I Am Legend (2007) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first hour is one of the best depictions of solitude ever filmed. Then the ending inverts the meaning of the book it is named after, and…
1990sSeptember 10, 2026
12 Monkeys (1995) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A time travel film in which the loop cannot be broken and everybody involved eventually works that out. Gilliam made it for twenty-nine million dollars in Philadelphia and…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
World War Z (2013) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A great book turned into a competent chase film with the structure removed first. The Jerusalem sequence is worth the ticket and nothing else is.
2020sMay 19, 2026
1997-98 championship season as spine. The production runs across ten episodes totaling approximately eight hours.
2020sMay 16, 2026
Kenneth Branagh's 2020 Disney+ Eoin Colfer adaptation. Substantial production failure where multiple compounding decisions destroyed the source material.
2020sMay 16, 2026
Mulan (2020) is the live-action remake of the 1998 Walt Disney Animation Studios musical. Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Lauren Hynek, and Elizabeth Martin wrote.
2020sMay 16, 2026
Wonder Woman 1984 is the sequel to Patty Jenkins's 2017 Wonder Woman and one of the steepest critical reversals in modern superhero cinema. Jenkins directed and co-wrote with Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham.
2010sMay 15, 2026
Black Death is a small British medieval horror film that wants to be a serious meditation on faith and plague and mostly succeeds. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a knight commissioned by the church to investigate a village in the marshes…
2020sMay 15, 2026
Monster Hunter is one of the more enjoyable action camp productions of the early 2020s and a genuinely fun watch despite its substantial commercial disapp. Anderson had been working primarily on the Resident Evil franchise before Monster Hunter.
Film ListMarch 23, 2026
Twenty zombie films covering six decades and every register of the genre — from Romero's shopping mall satire to Korean historical drama to a Japanese comedy masterpiece shot behind the camera. The zombie is not scary because it wants to…
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