Fiction WritingEvery 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.
CrimeEvery courtroom drama reviewed on this site, ranked. Wilder, Preminger, Lumet's descendants, a Scopes trial fictionalized, and a comedy that gets the evidentiary procedure right.
CrimeEvery 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.
ChristmasEvery Christmas film reviewed on this site, ranked. Capra and Curtiz, the Berlin musicals, three Shane Black pictures, and the action films that keep being argued about every December.
ComedyEvery satire reviewed on this site, ranked. Brooks, Verhoeven, Altman, Ashby and the Zuckers, and a run of films that turned out to be documentaries.
Fiction WritingEvery 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 WritingEvery supernatural horror film reviewed on this site, ranked. Tourneur's shadows, Argento's color, two Japanese curses that rewired the genre, and a found-footage film that cost almost nothing.
Fiction WritingEvery 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.
ChildhoodEvery coming of age film reviewed on this site, ranked. Truffaut, Hughes, Crowe, Coppola and Gerwig, plus the horror films that use adolescence as the real subject.
AdaptationEvery remake and side-by-side contrast reviewed on this site, ranked. The ones that justified themselves, the ones that repeated the plot and lost the point, and the studio program built on strip-mining a back catalog.
Art HouseEvery 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 WritingThe 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.
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