Jeff's Reviews

Thoughts on every movie I've ever seen.

Directors

More than anyone else, a director is the person most responsible for the quality of a film. Here’s a list of the ones I seem to like the most.

Top 25 Directors
This list is generated using a modified "true Bayesian estimate," similar to the ranking system on imdb.com
James Cameron 8 movies 3.89
The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
The Abyss (1989)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
True Lies (1994)
Titanic (1997)
Avatar (2009)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
John Hughes 6 movies 3.29
Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Weird Science (1985)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Uncle Buck (1989)
Robert Zemeckis 12 movies 3.19
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Contact (1997)
Cast Away (2000)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
The Polar Express (2004)
Beowulf (2007)
Flight (2012)
Allied (2016)
Steven Spielberg 24 movies 3.18
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind [Special Edition] (1977)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
The Color Purple (1985)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
Amistad (1997)
The Lost World (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
The Terminal (2004)
Munich (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Lincoln (2012)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Ready Player One (2018)
Christopher Nolan 10 movies 3.18
Memento (2000)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Prestige (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Interstellar (2014)
Dunkirk (2017)
Tenet (2020)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Alfonso Cuarón 4 movies 3.10
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Children of Men (2006)
Gravity (2013)
Roma (2018)
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo 5 movies 3.08
You, Me and Dupree (2006)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Peter Berg 8 movies 3.06
Very Bad Things (1998)
Rundown (2003)
Friday Night Lights (2004)
The Kingdom (2007)
Hancock (2008)
Battleship (2012)
Lone Survivor (2013)
Patriots Day (2016)
Edward Zwick 6 movies 3.00
Glory (1989)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Courage Under Fire (1996)
The Siege (1998)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Blood Diamond (2006)
David Fincher 9 movies 3.00
Alien³ (1992)
Se7en (1995)
The Game (1997)
Fight Club (1999)
Panic Room (2002)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Social Network (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gone Girl (2014)
Tony Scott 10 movies 2.95
Top Gun (1986)
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Revenge (1990)
True Romance (1993)
Crimson Tide (1995)
The Fan (1996)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Man on Fire (2004)
Deja Vu (2006)
Unstoppable (2010)
Bryan Singer 9 movies 2.95
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Apt Pupil (1998)
X-Men (2000)
X2 (2003)
Superman Returns (2006)
Valkyrie (2008)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Danny Boyle 7 movies 2.94
Trainspotting (1996)
The Beach (2000)
28 Days Later... (2002)
Millions (2004)
Sunshine (2007)
127 Hours (2010)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Sam Mendes 7 movies 2.94
American Beauty (1999)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Jarhead (2005)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Skyfall (2012)
Spectre (2015)
1917 (2019)
J.J. Abrams 6 movies 2.93
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Star Trek (2009)
Super 8 (2011)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Frank Darabont 3 movies 2.88
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Green Mile (1999)
The Majestic (2001)
Mel Gibson 3 movies 2.88
Braveheart (1995)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Martin McDonagh 3 movies 2.88
In Bruges (2008)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Ron Howard 14 movies 2.87
Splash (1984)
Cocoon (1985)
Gung Ho (1986)
Parenthood (1989)
Backdraft (1991)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Ransom (1996)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Cinderella Man (2005)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
The Dilemma (2011)
Rush (2013)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Thirteen Lives (2022)
Denis Villeneuve 6 movies 2.86
Prisoners (2013)
Sicario (2015)
Arrival (2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Dune (2021)
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Steven Soderbergh 11 movies 2.83
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Out of Sight (1998)
Traffic (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Solaris (2002)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
The Informant! (2009)
Contagion (2011)
Magic Mike (2012)
Side Effects (2013)
Stanley Kubrick 9 movies 2.80
Paths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Jim Sheridan 4 movies 2.80
My Left Foot (1989)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
In America (2002)
Dream House (2011)
Kathryn Bigelow 5 movies 2.75
Point Break (1991)
Strange Days (1995)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
M. Night Shyamalan 7 movies 2.75
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Unbreakable (2000)
Signs (2002)
The Village (2004)
Lady in the Water (2006)
The Happening (2008)
Split (2016)