Robert Zemeckis is one of the defining popular filmmakers of the late 20th century.
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Every Robert Zemeckis Movie Ranked
Author: Dan Stalcup
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The Fabelmans (2022)
It is noteworthy on multiple levels that Steven Spielberg has a writing credit on The Fabelmans.
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Foolish Wives (1922)
Erich von Stroheim is a complex and compromised figure from early cinema history.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Normally when a film is cutting edge in visual effects, it looks like crap five years later, let alone thirty-five.
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The Last Exorcism: Part II (2013)
The Last Exorcism: Part II is dreadfully boring.
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Troll (2022)
A competent enough Nordic riff on Godzilla, at least until it gets into kooky royal conspiracy material. The ending lost me a bit, and I’m not wild about the creature design, but the production is quite good at conveying the massive scope of the creature, which is the single most important part of a movie like this.
(Important, Disappointing Note: Not a Troll 2 prequel.)
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Whiplash (Short Film) (2013)
In 2013, Damien Chazelle premiered at Sundance a short film called Whiplash designed to build up interest in creating a feature film version of the story, which already had a script.
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Moonfall (2022)
I understand there’s a sense of nostalgia around these dumb, effects-heavy, non-superhero blockbusters. But this is just a far worse Independence Day (you gotta love that downgrade from young Will Smith to Patrick Wilson) with a little bit of Contact sprinkled in there, blended into the stupidest possible slurry. And it’s not even that fun. There are a few cool images, and the score gave me goosebumps once or twice, but that’s it.
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Puss in Boots 2 is:
- The best movie in the Shrek franchise.
- The best Dreamworks movie since at least How to Train Your Dragon 2, maybe 1.
- The best mainstream American animated movie since at least Spider-Verse, and possibly as far back as the early 2010s.
- A vessel for the best animated villain in so long I can’t even think of the last one better than this — you might have to go to the Disney Renaissance.
- And, in all seriousness, maybe the best movie of 2022.
Here it is: The first list or ranking published on The Goods.