Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Jun 1991Alan Rickman's Sheriff treats every inconvenience as a personal insult, stretching a word or dropping his voice until an ordinary threat becomes a miniature comic scene. His irritated physical energy gives this uneven, rather solemn adventure a much-needed pulse. Morgan Freeman supplies warmth…0
  2. 2Street Fighter (1994)Street Fighter (1994) 4.2/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Dec 1994Raul Julia gives M. Bison the gracious manners and grand diction of a ruler who cannot imagine anyone declining his invitation to be conquered. That consistent vanity holds together scenes which otherwise feel assembled from separate arcade characters. The affection for theatrical excess is the…0
  3. 3Prometheus (2012)Prometheus (2012) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased 30 May 2012Michael Fassbender's David listens with immaculate courtesy while his tiny head movements and borrowed mannerisms keep raising questions about what that courtesy means. The humans' convenient decisions often make the expedition harder to believe; David's controlled curiosity makes it worth…0
  4. 4Venom (2018)Venom (2018) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 28 Sept 2018Tom Hardy turns Eddie Brock's relationship with his alien occupant into an argument conducted through one body: sudden recoils, swallowed protests and an ungainly scramble for composure. The film's horror, superhero action and broad comedy do not always settle into the same rhythm. Hardy makes the…0
  5. 5The Iron Lady (2011)The Iron Lady (2011) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 26 Dec 2011Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher is most compelling when public command leaks into private confusion: a firm vocal attack can survive even as the situation around it becomes uncertain. The film's compressed political history offers too little room to examine the decisions behind that authority. Her…0
  6. 6Judy (2019)Judy (2019) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Sept 2019Renée Zellweger makes Judy Garland's readiness to perform look like work already under way before the first song. The lifted chin, guarded smile and flicker of calculation register someone measuring what an audience needs against what she has left. The suffering-star structure can be familiar, but…0
  7. 7Split (2016)Split (2016) 3.6/10 on IMDbReleased 7 Apr 2016James McAvoy changes the balance of a room through posture, pace and the way a character claims another person's attention. His shifts give this captivity thriller interest beyond its increasingly elaborate revelations, with Anya Taylor-Joy providing a watchful counterweight. The premise turns…0
  8. 8300: Rise of an Empire (2014)300: Rise of an Empire (2014) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased 5 Mar 2014Eva Green's Artemisia brings amused command to a sea of digitally heightened combat. She can make a pause before an order feel more dangerous than the next wall of bodies, and her appetite for retaliation gives the otherwise thin conflict a personal temperature. The graphic violence and sexual…0
  9. 9The Lovely Bones (2009)The Lovely Bones (2009) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 26 Dec 2009Stanley Tucci makes the neighbour George Harvey alarming through ordinary social effort: a tentative smile, an over-managed voice, a wish to appear harmless that never quite relaxes. The film's elaborate vision of the afterlife can smother the sharper story of grief around it. Tucci's uncomfortable…0
  10. 10The Devil's Advocate (1997)The Devil's Advocate (1997) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 17 Oct 1997Al Pacino's John Milton understands the pleasure of being listened to. His conversational ease slowly opens into extravagant verbal performance, giving this glossy legal-horror film a persuasive advocate for its own excess. The plot can become ponderous as it explains its design, but his timing…0