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Jonathan Glazer’s Films Ranked Seven Ways

English director Jonathan Glazer has directed four films in the past 25 years, and they present an intriguing cross-section of many of the ways films can be great.

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TV Review Guest Post

Gangs of London, Season 2, Episode 1

There was little doubt that Gangs of London would be renewed for a second season: it was a big hit for Sky Atlantic in 2020, to say nothing of the prestige it conferred upon production company Pulse Films.

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Review

Dune: Part Two (2024)

As I review Dune: Part Two, which I quite like, I must confront a question

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Review

Atomic Blonde (2017)

Atomic Blonde is the first film credited to director David Leitch, but it is not the first film he made.

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Review

La Roue (The Wheel) (1923)

Silent cinema is full of legendary figures, but none is quite so mythic as Abel Gance.

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Review

Dune (2021)

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is, above all else, an adaptation.

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Review

After Everything (2018)

Cancer movies are typically a tug of war:

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List/Ranking

Every Matthew Vaughn Movie Ranked

Earlier this year I did a binge of Matthew Vaughn’s movies, and my main takeaway is that I am not a Matthew Vaughn fan.

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Review

Holes (2003)

Louis Sachar has written some of my favorite children’s books ever.

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Review

Band Aid (2017)

Zoe Lister-Jones bubbled under the surface of the indie comedy-drama film scene for the better part of the ‘00s and early ‘10s.