New Line Cinema

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Rating: ★★★★
Sep 5, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man
One of the most influential horror films of the 1980s, creating a series of dream horror copycats. Before the campy, makeup effects driven sequels kicked in, Wes Craven's original creates a genuinely unearthly series of nightmare jumps
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part II: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part II: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
Rating: ★
Jul 15, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man
The first and worst of the A Nightmare on Elm Street sequels. The dream logic becomes incoherent, while the film is twisted out of shape to become a bizarre gay Coming Out parable
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A Nightmare on Elm Street III: The Dream Warriors (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street III: The Dream Warriors (1987)
Rating: ★★
Jul 29, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man
The point where Robert Englund's Freddy went from a boogeyman into the equivalent of Wile E. Coyote, popping up like a malevolent jack-in-a-box to quip a one-liner and dispatch victims
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Oct 19, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man
The fifth of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films offers up the same old thing but director Stephen Hopkins enters at an inspired level that transforms the set-pieces with a genuine weirdness
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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Rating: ★
Nov 1, 2002A Nightmare on Elm Street Sequel
The sixth of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films, sold with the gimmick of a 3D release. New director Rachel Talaly refuses to take the material seriously and turns the show into an absurd cartoon
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Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 2002Meta-Fictional A Nightmare on Elm Street Sequel
Seventh of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films where Wes Craven returns to direct the most remarkable of all the sequels, an extraordinary meta-fiction that takes place in the real world
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Mortal Kombat (1995)

Mortal Kombat (1995)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 25, 2002Interdimensional Combat/Videogame Adaptation
This film adaptation of the videogame is a lot of fun. The plot is a rehash of Enter the Dragon but the film offers up wall-to-wall action and exotic creatures. A directorial debut for Paul W.S. Anderson
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The Stupids (1996)

The Stupids (1996)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 9, 2023Family of Very Stupid People/Gonzo Comedy
A mind-bogglingly surreal John Landis film about a family who take everything literally. A completely demented viewing experience in watching as they bumble around trying to puzzle over who is stealing the garbage
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The Island of Dr Moreau (1996)

The Island of Dr Moreau (1996)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 15, 2001Mad Scientist Creates Beast Men
A legendary cinematic train wreck filled with behind the scenes stories of fired directors and star egos. Despite all of this, this remake of the H.G. Wells novel emerges as a well made and watchable film
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
Rating: ★
Sep 23, 1999Interdimensional Combat/Videogame Adaptation
Sequel to the Mortal Kombat film. While the first film was fun, here anything resembling plot has been stripped away to concentrate on fight scenes such that the film blurs into a single shapeless action sequence
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Pleasantville (1998)

Pleasantville (1998)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 16, 1999Trapped Inside a 1950s TV Show
Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon are modern teens who become trapped in a 1950s tv show and end up puncturing its innocence. The messages made end up being broad and heavy-handed but the premise and the visual palette of the film is extremely clever
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Blast from the Past (1999)

Blast from the Past (1999)
Rating: ★★
May 6, 1999Out of the Nuclear Fallout Shelter Comedy
A comedy with the amusing premise where Brendan Fraser is raised in a nuclear fallout shelter since the Cuban Missile Crisis and emerges into the present for the first time, mistaking it for a post-apocalyptic world
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Frequency (2000)

Frequency (2000)
Rating: ★★★½
Apr 30, 2000Cross-Time Radio Communication
Intelligent and well written film where freak weather conditions allow a son to communicate with his late father by radio across thirty years in time. Where the film starts to get interesting is when this creates unexpected changes in the present
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Final Destination (2000)

Final Destination (2000)
Rating: ★★
Mar 19, 2000Precognition/Doomed Air Crash Survivors
This spins the old plot about a clairvoyant dream of an airline disaster out as a teen horror film based around a series of bizarre novelty deaths. This became the first in a franchise of popular horror films.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 19, 2001Epic Fantasy Adventure
Peter Jackson wowed the world with this first part of his adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy. This is epic filmmaking and one that shows Jackson in full command of his craft
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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Rating: ★★
Dec 2, 2003Friday the 13th/A Nightmare on Elm Street Crossover
The long promised crossover between the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street films, this seems caught in a juggling act that fails to satisfy the requirements of either franchise
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 23, 2003Epic Fantasy Adventure
The weakest of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. This is the most variant from the source material and the one where Jackson allows his tendency to visual effects bloat to take over
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Final Destination 2 (2003)

Final Destination 2 (2003)
Rating: ★★
Jun 28, 2003Precognition/Doomed Car Crash Survivors
The first of the sequels, this has a group receiving bizarre deaths after receiving a premonition that prevents a deadly pile-up on the highway. It reveals the problems of creating a sequel to a film that was never intended to be a series
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Highwaymen (2004)

Highwaymen (2004)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 11, 2025Cat and Mouse Game with a Killer on the Backroads
Robert Harmon made the classic The Hitcher, but failed to ever follow up on it. This is the sole work that ever came close – a beautifully tense series of games between Jim Caviezel and a motorised killer on the backroads
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Blade Trinity (2004)

Blade Trinity (2004)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 6, 2005Comic-Book Vampire Hunter
Third of the Blade films with Wesley Snipes. As director, series screenwriter David S. Goyer emulates the same exhilarating, kinetic moves that Guillermo Del Toro infused the second film with, while the script zings with his wryly cynical dialogue
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 21, 2007Backwoods Brutality
Prequel to the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, which sets out to tell the origin story of the cannibal family. New director Jonathan Liebesman pushes the gore and sadism to Torture Porn extremes
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The Number 23 (2007)

The Number 23 (2007)
Rating: ½
Feb 3, 2008Numerological Obsession and Paranoia/Reality Bender
Demented Joel Schumacher film in which Jim Carrey sees occurrences of the number 23 everywhere and finds his life is being predicted by a book. Featuring one of the most absurd scripts ever written
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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008)

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008)
Rating: ★★
Oct 9, 2008Underground Adventures/Jules Verne Adaptation
This family friendly adaptation of the classic Jules Verne novel was made to highlight the 3D process and throws most of the book out to essentially become Jules Verne the theme park ride
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Rating: ★
May 10, 2009Playboy's Supernatural Redemption/Romantic Comedy
From the period when Matthew McConaughey was coasting through romcoms without making any effort. This rewrites A Christmas Carol where playboy McConaughey is visited by the ghosts of three ex's
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The Final Destination (2009)

The Final Destination (2009)
Rating: ★
Feb 10, 2010Precognition/Doomed Accident Survivors
The fourth in the series of films about a series of deaths for survivors after premonition of disaster at a speedway. This is shot in 3D but the novelty death set-pieces have become preposterous
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Final Destination 5 (2011)

Final Destination 5 (2011)
Rating: ★★½
Aug 12, 2011Precognition/Doomed Bridge Collapse Survivors
The series drags another entry out set around the premonition of a bridge collapse. This one is played with such an enthusiasm for the bizarrely improbable deaths that it is one of the best of the sequels
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The Rite (2011)

The Rite (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 29, 2011Demonic Possession and Exorcism/"True Story"
Full-blooded possession and exorcism that takes its Catholic cant seriously and emerges as dramatically gripping, with Anthony Hopkins delivering a tour-de-force performance. Supposedly based on a true story.
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Rating: ★
Feb 8, 2012Jules Verne Adaptation/Island of Giant Fauna
Sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, a supposed adaptation of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island and a consistently silly, nonsensical film that operates at the level of a children's cartoon
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Rating: ★½
Dec 14, 2013Epic Fantasy Adventure
The Hobbit became Peter Jackson's equivalent of the Star Wars prequels and this is the weakest work he has produced under the J.R.R. Tolkien banner. Five picaresque chapters of the book are extruded into bloated set-pieces
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The Conjuring (2013)

The Conjuring (2013)
Rating: ★★½
Jul 19, 2013Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
Supposedly based on a true story. A film that feels written entirely by cliches taken from every other haunting and exorcism film, but you cannot deny that director James Wan generates a more than fair degree of spooky atmosphere
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 20, 2014Epic Fantasy Adventure
After two bloated and over-padded Hobbit films, Peter Jackson finally gets it together and produces what everyone was expecting him to deliver, even if it means dragging one battle scene out to last an entire film
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San Andreas (2015)

San Andreas (2015)
Rating: ★
May 31, 2015Disaster Movie/California Hit by Super-Earthquake
As the spectacle of mass destruction goes, you could hardly get more epic in scale than this. On the other hand, as someone whose hometown was obliterated by an earthquake in 2011, I find it offensive that such devastation is arranged for our enjoyment while the suffering and even the idea that anybody has been killed has been edited out
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Annabelle: Creation (2017)

Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Rating: ★★½
Sep 24, 2017Sinister Doll
Audiences and critics alike hated the first Annabelle – I went into this prequel with little enthusiasm but ended up pleasantly surprised. All it takes is a change of director to David F. Sandberg who provides a series of genuinely eerie jumps
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Rampage (2018)

Rampage (2018)
Rating: ★★½
Oct 27, 2018Videogame Adaptation/Giant Animals Amok
The idea of Dwayne Johnson facing a giant gorilla in an adaptation of a 1980s arcade game doesn’t exactly shout out Academy Award material; on the other hand, appreciated as a zero expectation cartoon of a film and the mindless mass destruction spectacle it is, this works in a goofily entertaining way
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It: Chapter Two (2019)

It: Chapter Two (2019)
Rating: ★★
Nov 30, 2019Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster
I had mixed feelings about the first part Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's novel. The second part here is a better film, although it too eventually gets buried in over an hour's worth of Muschietti's jumpshocks
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Rating: ★★
Jun 12, 2021Possession/“True Story”
The third of the Conjuring films, this lacks the presence of James Wan in the director’s seat while peddling an even more highly dubious Based on a True story claim regarding a demonic possession
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Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 28, 2025Precognition/Descendants of a Doomed Survivor
A return to the Final Destination franchise after fourteen years, this comes with an undeniable sense of humour, producing a series of highly entertaining despatches to make the best entry in the series so far
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