If the mainstream filmgoer cared more about independent film, it would feel a more just cinematic world – but lo, it will never be so. But even the supposed connoisseur would have to admit that a film that is both good and popular is at least just as miraculous as a low-budget indie treasure. Many […]
Year: 2017
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The 20 Best Slasher Movies of All Time
Back in the 1950s, horror seemed so genteel: there were mad scientists working out of crumbling castles in some vaguely European locale, flying hubcaps from space that arrived on Earth to reanimate the recent dead and vampires whose good looks were as disarming as their manners. If a movie took place in the modern day […]
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All 10 Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked from Worst to Best
Ranking the movies of London-born director Christopher Nolan is a difficult task, especially regarding the fact that he’s never made a totally bad movie. Other directors would be glad to include even his less brilliant films in their oeuvres. But what separates Nolan from other filmmakers of his kind? Over the years he’s developed a […]
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10 Recent Movies That Got the Double Standard Treatment
Underappreciated movies are nothing new here at Taste of Cinema. We’ve compiled countless lists pointing the flaws in the critics’ rating system or blaming the “go with the flow” mentality some have embraced. However, while a few of these pieces have been redeemed by the public, many have not received justice. Why? Mainly because, during […]
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6 Reasons Why “The Hurt Locker” Is One of The Best Modern War Movies
There’s one genre in cinema that attracts some of the greatest directors of all time, from Sergei Eisenstein, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and Christopher Nolan – films about war. They have been brought to the screen by many legendary filmmakers who all try to capture the bravery, insanity, […]
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The 10 Most Disturbing Film Scores of All Time
There are plenty of disturbing themes a movie can have, but without the correspondent acoustic part, the film couldn’t unfold its full range of fright. While a lot of movies, especially uninspired and cliche-dripping horror films, rely on sleazy shock moments, the real brilliance and power of musical scariness lays in something more subtle. The […]