1980sSeptember 11, 2026
Ms. 45 (1981) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Abel Ferrara made a rape-revenge film with a mute protagonist, almost no dialogue and a budget of around sixty thousand dollars, and Zoe Lund's performance is better than…
1980sSeptember 11, 2026
Avenging Angel (1985) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The sequel recast its lead, aged the character to university student, and converted a squalid character piece into a revenge picture with a real estate conspiracy. It is…
1990sSeptember 11, 2026
8MM (1999) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Joel Schumacher directing Andrew Kevin Walker's script about a private investigator tracing a snuff film, with Nicolas Cage restrained and Joaquin Phoenix excellent, undone by a third act that…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Black Adam (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Dwayne Johnson spent fifteen years getting this made, declared that the hierarchy of power in the DC universe was about to change, and the studio he was in…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The last film of a continuity that had already been cancelled, released into an audience that knew it, with a villain whose plan is to…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Fast X (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The tenth entry in a series that began with a film about stealing DVD players, costing around three hundred and forty million dollars, ending on a cliffhanger, and…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
Prisoners (2013) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two girls disappear on Thanksgiving and one of their fathers abducts and tortures the man he believes responsible. Roger Deakins shot it, Villeneuve directed it, and the film refuses…
1960sSeptember 11, 2026
True Grit (1969) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. John Wayne finally won an Oscar for playing a fat, drunk, one-eyed marshal who shoots men in the back, and the performance works because he is willing to…
1970sSeptember 11, 2026
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A revenge Western that abandons the revenge about halfway through and becomes a film about a man accumulating a family he keeps trying to leave behind.…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
The Magnificent Seven (2016) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Antoine Fuqua takes the same structure, casts it the way the American West really looked, and gives the villain a coherent economic argument. The last forty minutes…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
Open Range (2003) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Costner directed a slow, patient Western about two cattlemen who decide to kill a rancher, and then staged the best gunfight in the genre's last forty years. It…
1970sSeptember 11, 2026
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man goes into the mountains to be alone and the film spends two hours on the practical difficulty of that. Almost no dialogue, real winter, and a…
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