The Greatest Samurai Films
Every samurai film reviewed on this site, ranked. Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Gosha and Okamoto, and a genre whose masterpieces are nearly all arguments against the thing they depict.
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Fiction WritingThe Greatest Movie Musicals
Every movie musical reviewed on this site, ranked. Astaire and Rogers, Bernstein and Sondheim, two Fosse films about self-destruction, and a De Palma rock opera nobody saw.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest World War I Films
Every First World War film reviewed on this site, ranked. The first Best Picture winner, a docudrama cast with the men who lived it, tunnellers under Messines, and the war nobody adapts as often as the one that followed it.
CrimeThe Greatest Courtroom Dramas
Every courtroom drama reviewed on this site, ranked. Wilder, Preminger, Lumet's descendants, a Scopes trial fictionalised, and a comedy that gets the evidentiary procedure right.
CrimeThe Greatest Vigilante Films
Every vigilante and revenge film reviewed on this site, ranked. Bronson across five films and twenty years, Seagal in his early-nineties peak, the Punisher three separate times, and a genre that is always arguing with itself about whether it approves.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Historical Epics
Every historical epic reviewed on this site, ranked. Dreyer, Bondarchuk, Kubrick, Zinnemann and Branagh, plus the two Musketeers films shot simultaneously and released as a swindle.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Supernatural Horror Films
Every supernatural horror film reviewed on this site, ranked. Tourneur's shadows, Argento's colour, two Japanese curses that rewired the genre, and a found-footage film that cost almost nothing.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Biopics and True Stories
Every biopic and true story reviewed on this site, ranked. Space procedure, the Manhattan Project, a surgeon's uncredited assistant, four hours of Gettysburg, and the worst-reviewed biopic of the century.
Art HouseThe Greatest Foreign Language Films
Every foreign language film reviewed on this site, ranked. Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, Bergman, Kurosawa, the French New Wave, Hong Kong action and the Iranian films that work under restriction.
Fiction WritingThrillers Part 5 – The Solid Craft
The fifth tier of the thriller ranking. De Palma, Verhoeven, Frankenheimer, Spielberg and Cronenberg, plus the debut features that cost less than a single day of a studio shoot.
Art HouseThe Greatest Independent Films
Every independent film reviewed on this site, ranked. Seven debuts, four Lynch pictures, the two Anderson brothers of American cinema, and the horror revival that came out of the same funding model.
Fiction WritingThe Greatest Medieval Films
Every medieval film reviewed on this site, ranked. Arthur, Becket, Bergman, Boorman and the Pythons, plus the crusader epic that exists in two completely different cuts.