Thriller
Thriller
Mission Impossible: Fallout
The best action film I’ve seen in ages.
Basic Instinct
This famous erotic thriller is much better than it gets credit for.
Margin Call
This toothless financial thriller takes several hours to say nothing.
Goldfinger
The most iconic and influential of the Connery era Bond movies, in ways both good and bad.
Gunpowder Milkshake
Not just disappointingly derivative and unnecessarily gory, but also poorly written and haphazardly executed.
Safety Last!
For my money, maybe the best silent comedy of all time.
Hard Boiled
Style over substance, but a treat for any aficionado of gunfights in action films.
Aliens
This follow-on film is up there with The Godfather Part II as one of the best sequels ever made, despite its many deviations from its equally excellent predecessor.
Dark Passage
This noir tour of San Francisco is tense and experimental, to mixed results.
The Protege
This slick, high quality action thriller offers superb fight scenes and solid character work, but occasionally feels a bit too much like a John Wick clone.
The Bodyguard
Great songs, solid premise, disappointing everything else.
Traffic
This film pairs complex narrative structure with stylistically pronounced visuals to create one of the best movies about the drug war out there.