Ernst Lubitsch: The Definitive Ranking

In retrospect, I had literally no idea what I was getting into when I decided to go through the works of Ernst Lubitsch. It took me a little while to find the right wavelength from his films, his Germany period being largely mediocre in my opinion with a handful of small bright spots, but once…

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Ralph Bakshi: The Definitive Ranking

Hey! An actual top ten! That hasn't happened in a while. I had a better time going through Wes Craven's body of work than this. The bright spots of Ralph Bakshi's career rise all the way to the pinnacle of mediocrity (interesting mediocrity, I should add), while the rest of it gets mired in different…

Erich von Stroheim: The Definitive Ranking

Erich von Stroheim's directing career lasted little more than a decade from the middle period of the silent era right through the beginning of the sound era, though his first full sound film can hardly be called his at this point, reshot by two other directors and mangled by the studio. Several of his films…

Clint Eastwood: The Definitive Ranking

I'd happily be wrong if Clint Eastwood managed to find the money for one more film after Cry Macho, but I don't think it's going to happen. His last two films were box office disappointments, he's been on the wrong side of the political monoculture of Hollywood for too long, and the man is well…

The Dirty Harry Franchise: The Definitive Ranking

This is one of those franchises that probably shouldn't exist because its first film was so obviously built to be a stand-alone film. The story of a cop who becomes so jaded by the institutional rot around him that he kills the bad guy and throws away his badge probably shouldn't have been followed up…