Reservoir Dogs
Tarantino's debut is 99 minutes of men in a warehouse figuring out who lied to them, and it is riveting cinema.…...
WOKE: 20.43
TRAD: 16.38
AUTH: 45%
John Wick
John Wick is the purest action film of the 21st century. Not because it is the most complex, or the most emotionally ambitious, but because it has total clarity of purpose and executes that purpose with absolute technical excellence.…...
WOKE: 0.7
TRAD: 14.65
AUTH: 95%
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street is a masterpiece about a man you should despise, made in a way that makes it hard to despise him.…...
WOKE: 10.14
TRAD: 4.2
AUTH: 70%
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction scores Woke Lean at -6, and I want to explain why that number is actually lower than many people expect....
WOKE: 17.98
TRAD: 10.08
AUTH: 55%
The Order
The Order is about as complicated as VirtueVigil gets, and I want to be honest about that before I score it....
WOKE: 10.14
TRAD: 10.99
AUTH: 86%
Tulsa King
Sylvester Stallone is 77 years old and he is having the best run of his career. Tulsa King is not a great show in the prestige television sense.…...
WOKE: 4.9
TRAD: 20.44
AUTH: 76%
The Dark Knight Rises
When Occupy Wall Street's David Graeber, one of the movement's most prominent intellectual voices, publicly called The Dark Knight Rises 'a piece of anti-Occupy propaganda,' he handed Nolan the most accurate review the film ever received.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 24.78
AUTH: 88%
The Bikeriders
Jeff Nichols's The Bikeriders is a quietly magnificent film about what happens to institutions built on brotherhood when the culture around them changes.…...
WOKE: 5.5
TRAD: 23.1
AUTH: 81%
Joker
Joker made a billion dollars. Critics gave it a 69% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences gave it an 88%. The FBI and several law enforcement agencies issued security warnings before its release, fearing it would inspire mass violence.…...
WOKE: 13.05
TRAD: 13.6
AUTH: 78%
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight is not just the best superhero film ever made. It is one of the best crime films ever made, full stop.…...
WOKE: 3.5
TRAD: 19.6
AUTH: N/A
The Batman
Matt Reeves made the rare superhero film where you forget you are watching a superhero film....
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 22.05
AUTH: 43%
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man delivers exactly what its six seasons of television promised: a masculine, violent, morally complex crime drama about a deeply flawed man who comes out of hiding to save his son, fight fascists, and protect his family…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 28
AUTH: 82%
Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez is a film that managed the rare feat of uniting both progressive and conservative critics against it while simultaneously earning 13 Oscar nominations - the most for any non-English-language film in Academy history.…...
WOKE: 28
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 40%
Adolescence
Adolescence is the most important piece of television produced in 2025, and that's not the same thing as saying it's the best....
WOKE: 22.54
TRAD: 14.76
AUTH: 88%
MaXXXine
Ti West's X trilogy ends the way it began - with a woman who refuses to apologize for wanting more.…...
WOKE: 32
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 55%
The Alto Knights
The Alto Knights is a late-career gift from two of the most important figures in American crime cinema.…...
WOKE: 2.1
TRAD: 13.58
AUTH: 75%
Cruella
Disney's Cruella is what happens when a studio takes one of its most iconic villains and runs her through the Joker-meets-The-Devil-Wears-Prada sympathy machine.…...
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 70%
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 is the rare action sequel that earns the word epic. Chad Stahelski's nearly three-hour opus scales everything that made the first film work to operatic proportions without losing the personal stakes at its core.…...
WOKE: 0.5
TRAD: 23.52
AUTH: 79%
The Accountant 2
The Accountant 2 does something rare: it delivers a sequel that is as good as the original without flinching from what made the first film work....
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 26.46
AUTH: 76%
Havoc
Havoc is the closest thing to a Gareth Evans Raid film in English, and for a certain kind of audience, that is exactly enough....
WOKE: 8.4
TRAD: 17.22
AUTH: 67%
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Den of Thieves 2 does not break any new ground. It does not need to....
WOKE: 4.3
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 62%