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Tag: Revenge

Revenge is the cleanest motive in fiction and the hardest to end well. This tag collects reviews of films and fiction driven by revenge, what it costs the avenger, and what the story does once the target is reached.

Carey Mulligan as Cassie in a bar scene, her expression serious and focused as she executes her nightly routine to catch

Promising Young Woman (2020) Review

Carey Mulligan plays a medical school dropout who fakes being drunk to catch predatory men. The first act is a 7, the middle sags to a 4, and the third act took me by surprise. It's a 6.5, worth it…

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The 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.

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Ms. 45 (1981) Review

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…

Betsy Russell as a young woman in 1980s clothing, looking serious or determined.

Avenging Angel (1985) Review

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…

Nicolas Cage as a private investigator in a dark room, watching film reels on a projector in a scene from the 1999 thriller

8MM (1999) Review

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…

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Black Adam (2022) Review

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…

Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry and Patrick Wilson as Orm stand together in underwater armor against a dark ocean background.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) Review

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…

Jason Momoa as Dante Reyes in Fast X, wearing sunglasses and styled as a Roman emperor character.

Fast X (2023) Review

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…

Hugh Jackman as Keller Dover stands in shadow inside an abandoned building, his face tense and determined.

Prisoners (2013) Review

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…

John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, one-eyed and weathered, alongside Kim Darby as young Mattie Ross in a scene from the 1969

True Grit (1969) Review

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…

Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales in a cowboy hat and poncho, spitting tobacco and looking toward the horizon.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Review

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.…

Seven gunfighters stand together in a dusty Western town street, armed and ready for battle.

The Magnificent Seven (2016) Review

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…