2010sSeptember 10, 2026
Gone Girl (2014) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Gillian Flynn adapted her own novel and took a hammer to her own third act. Fincher shot it entirely in one small Missouri town for sixty-one million dollars,…
1980sSeptember 10, 2026
American Psycho (2000) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mary Harron read a novel everybody called unfilmable and found the comedy in it. Made for seven million dollars, mostly in Toronto, and it is far funnier and…
1990sSeptember 10, 2026
The Usual Suspects (1995) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A confession improvised from the noticeboard behind the detective's head. The twist survives knowing it, which is the only test that matters.
1970sSeptember 10, 2026
A Clockwork Orange (1971) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kubrick makes you enjoy a monster's company, then cures him, then asks whether the cure was worse. Withdrawn from Britain by its own director for nearly thirty…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
Atonement (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A thirteen-year-old tells a lie and two lives end. The last ten minutes do not reveal a fact, they change what kind of object you have been watching.
AmbitionSeptember 10, 2026
All About Eve (1950) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The best script ever written about ambition, in a film where everybody is intelligent and nobody has to be dim for the schemer to win. Fourteen nominations,…
1980sSeptember 10, 2026
Amadeus (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Not a biography and not trying to be. A film about a competent man given exactly enough talent to hear genius in somebody else and never produce it himself.
1970sSeptember 10, 2026
Taxi Driver (1976) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Schrader wrote it living in his car after a divorce, and the film never once steps outside Travis Bickle's head. The narration sounds reasonable. That is the horror.
Book ReviewsJune 3, 2026
A murderer insists on his sanity while his telling betrays his madness, in the definitive unreliable-narrator story. In barely two thousand words Poe builds unbearable tension to the famous confession. A masterpiece of Gothic horror and a perfect compact classic,…
Book ReviewsJune 3, 2026
A blackout-prone alcoholic narrator becomes entangled in a missing-person case she may have witnessed from her commuter train. A gripping, twisty page-turner built on genuinely unreliable narration, with a messy, unlikable heroine whose dysfunction is the point. Strong entertainment, a…
Book ReviewsJune 3, 2026
A child's catastrophic lie and the lifetime spent trying to atone for it, spanning a 1935 English estate, the retreat to Dunkirk, and wartime London. Beautifully written and structurally daring, with a final turn that reframes the entire book and…
Book ReviewsMay 29, 2026
On the morning of his fifth anniversary, Nick Dunne's wife vanishes, and what follows reshaped domestic suspense: dual unreliable narrators, a mid-book reversal both shocking and scrupulously fair, and a savage look at marriage and performance. A masterclass in structure…
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