POTA Franchise Ranked: #9 Escape the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Another franchise viewed, reviewed, and ranked definitively. It’s gonna be a while before the tenth film in the franchise gets released, so it avoids being…
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Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #1 ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968)
#1 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. This is a terrible way to start this retrospective, but this is the first movie on…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #2 ‘Barry Lyndon’ (1975)
#2 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. Dehumanization is a theme that pops up with some regularity in Stanley Kubrick’s films. From…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #3 ‘Paths of Glory’ (1957)
#3 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. Okay,…This kid from New York has real talent. This is Stanley Kubrick’s first great…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #4 ‘Dr. Strangelove’ (1964)
#4 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. Mutually assured destruction is inherently absurd because no sane person would trigger it. Only a crazy…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #5 ‘The Shining’ (1980)
#5 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. Analysis of Kubrick’s 1980 horror film tends to devolve into pure symbology, and I find…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #6 ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999)
#6 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. This might be the best approximation to the experience of a dream in…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #7* ‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence’ (2001)
A few months back I went through the entirety of Stanley Kubrick’s filmography in about two weeks. It was a wonderful experience since I love…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #7 ‘Clockwork Orange’ (1975)
#7 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. I’ve struggled a bit with this film more than any other Kubrick. The problem is that…
Stanley Kubrick’s Films Ranked: #8 ‘The Killing’ (1956)
#8 in my Ranking of Stanley Kubrick films. This Kubrick fellow just gets better and better with every movie. Fear and Desire was bad. Killer’s…