Jackie Chan is one of the greatest film performers of all time. After all, performance doesn’t just mean acting; a dancer is a performer, just like a musician, a comedian, and of course, a professional screen fighter. So while it’s undisputed that Chan is far from a brilliant actor, he’s an unequaled performer; in the […]
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The 10 Best John Frankenheimer Movies
What is the measure of a genius? How many masterpieces must a director make so that they may be officially accepted as canon as “one of the greats,” to join the pantheon of major cinematic auteurs? The career of John Frankenheimer begs that question. Active for almost 50 years, the vast majority of his films […]
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All 7 Kelly Reichardt Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
One of the great independents of American cinema, Kelly Reichardt has a relatively small body of work compared to most of her contemporaries, but practically every single one of her films is an essential piece of the last 20 years of indie filmmaking. That’s something that definitively cannot be said for the majority of other […]
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All 12 Clint Eastwood Westerns Ranked From Worst To Best
Is there any other cinematic artist more synonymous with a single genre than Clint Eastwood is with the western? Of course, there are comedians such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Steve Martin or Eddie Murphy, but that’s something else, since they rarely venture outside of their comedic vehicles. And then there are the Hammer stars […]
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10 Great Recent Crime Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
As it is common practice when every decade comes to an end, in the final months and weeks of 2019, film sites across the internet started to multiply with more and more lists recapping and assessing the best of cinema of the previous 10 years. The problem with these kinds of lists is that they […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Crime Movies of The 2010s
Crime is one of the most traditional and fruitful film genres; it’s embedded into the very essence of cinematic history and language, from Fritz Lang’s “M” to “Uncut Gems.” It’s something so essential that any overview of “The Best Of” movies from any decade will doubtlessly feature countless crime pictures, the 2010s being no exception. […]