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All Stanley Kubrick Movies, Ranked By Tomatometer. Stanley Kubrick is one of the most influential directors in movie history, working across a remarkable number of genres. He began with noirs...
- Fear and Desire
- Killer’S Kiss
- Lolita
- Spartacus
- The Killing
- Paths of Glory
- Dr. Strangelove OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
- Full Metal Jacket
- A Clockwork Orange
- Barry Lyndon
It's almost hard to judge Kubrick’s directorial debut Fear and Desire against the rest of his filmography, as the hour-long anti-war film is more or less an extended student short project that’s mostly fascinating in how it predicates his later achievements. Like any great filmmaker, Kubrick didn’t come out of the gate fully formed, and his experim...
Kubrick’s second film is certainly a step up from Fear and Desire, but it was still the work of a developing filmmaker who was more trying to perfect current trends than innovate his own. Compared to the rest of his filmography, Killer’s Kiss is perhaps the biggest outlier. It showed genuine empathy for sympathetic characters, and crafts a tragic s...
Lolita is a fascinating example of Kubrick biting off more than he could chew. On paper, matching the novel filmmaker with the controversial 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokovseemed like a perfect fit, as Kubrick had shown he could adapt great literature and offer his own interpretation. Unfortunately, much of the brilliance of Nabokov’s novel was from...
It's fascinating that a film as iconic as Spartacus is Kubrick’s most compromised work, and although the film is hailed as a classic, is the one film within Kubrick’s filmography where he didn’t have complete artistic control. The importance of Spartacus ranges beyond Kubrick himself; written by Dalton Trumbo amidst the Hollywood blacklisting crisi...
In only a few short parallels, it's easy to see how The Killing is one of the most influential films ever made. Kubrick’s 1956 neo-noir heist thriller tells its robbery plot from multiple perspectives and was among Quentin Tarantino's primary influences for Reservoir Dogs. If you consider how Reservoir Dogs laid the groundwork for Pulp Fiction (and...
Anti-war themes are prevalent within a good portion of Kubrick’s work, and in many ways Paths of Glory is a more mature version of his early attempts to make a statement in Fear and Desire. Kubrick trekked into less ambiguous territory with a grounded narrative set within an actual historical context. Set in World War I, the film follows the trial ...
What has always made Kubrick such a fascinating filmmaker is that despite the dark subject material that he frequently tackles, he’s never failed to have a sense of humor. There are satirical elements woven into all of his films, and unsurprisingly his only outright comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is both...
There is a broad misconception among cinephile circles that Full Metal Jacket is a lesser Kubrick work that only works in its first half. Undoubtedly, the first hour of Kubrick’s 1987 war film includes some of the most powerful imagery of his career as it follows the brutal training process of U.S. Marines as they undergo boot camp training. Lee Er...
The only thing more shocking than the highly disturbing material within A Clockwork Orange is how completely ahead of his time Kubrick was, and how half a decade later his 1971 dystopian classic is just as impactful and relevant (and unfortunately subject to the same debates over whether or not it's “promoting” its characters' behavior). A Clockwor...
It goes without saying that Barry Lyndon is one of the most beautiful-looking movies ever made. Rarely will you find a three-hour film that’s this entertaining, as Barry Lyndon saw Kubrick lampooning the self-seriousness of the cinematic epic with a titular character that’s selfish, repugnant, and generally unlikeable. Ryan O’Neal crafts one of the...
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Feb 7, 2021 · But for what Kubrick lacked in quantity he made up for in quality: Each film he directed was a product of detailed planning and masterful execution. Here, we’re going to rank the best Stanley Kubrick films based on these four criteria: acting, filmmaking, and story.
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, based on Clarke’s novel. Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain.
- DR. STRANGELOVE OR; HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George, based on George’s novel ‘Red Alert.’
- THE SHINING (1980) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King. Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd.
- PATHS OF GLORY (1957) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb.
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Eyes Wide Shut, a sexual odyssey starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, was Kubrick’s final film. Set against a dream-like Christmas backdrop, Eyes Wide Shut steers Cruise’s upper-crust doctor through a hazy mess of conspiracies and perversions, leading to a masked orgy in a private mansion; the most resounding and talked-about sequence in the film.
- Full Metal Jacket (1987) (Warner Bros.) Kubrick’s shocking take on the Vietnam war arrived in the wake of several other classic Vietnam movies (Apocalypse Now; Platoon; The Deer Hunter) but found its own place in the public imagination thanks to its unusual diptych structure.
- Barry Lyndon (1975) Barry Lyndon is a superlative feat of filmmaking craft and is considered by many Kubrick purists to be the director’s finest feature.
- A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' also gained accusations of so-called obscenity, prompting the director to withdraw it from circulation.
Jan 18, 2020 · Stanley Kubrick directed 13 feature-length movies during his impressive career, and it can be difficult to rank them from worst to best. Born in the summer of 1928, Stanley Kubrick is regularly and deservedly regarded as one of the best filmmakers and directors in the history of cinema.
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Mar 14, 2017 · All 13 Stanley Kubrick Movies Ranked From Worst To Best. Posted on March 14, 2017 by Redmond Bacon. Stanley Kubrick’s obsessive level of detail was both a blessing and a curse, in that the films he made rank as some of the best of all time, but there are only thirteen of them. Nevertheless, his relatively scarce output has lead to a relative ...
