Ridley Scott

1h 40m

The debut. Two officers duelling on and off for fifteen years.

1h 57m

A haunted house in space, and still the purest horror film in the series.

1h 57m

Watch the Final Cut. Slow, cold, and endlessly influential.

1h 34m

A fairy tale with Tim Curry under three hours of prosthetics.

2h 10m

A road movie that became a cultural argument, and has not aged a day.

2h 35m

Best Picture, and the film that briefly brought back the historical epic.

2h 24m

Mogadishu, in near-real time. Technically astonishing and morally thin.

2h 11m

The Silence of the Lambs sequel, and a much stranger film than that one.

2h 24m

The theatrical cut is poor and the director's cut is excellent. A rare genuine difference.

2h 37m

Washington and Crowe on opposite sides of 1970s Harlem.

2h 4m

Back to Alien after thirty-three years, to ask where it came from.

2h 24m

A competence fantasy about botany, and by far his most likeable film.

2h 2m

Answers the questions Prometheus raised, more bluntly than anyone wanted.

2h 12m

Reshot at speed to replace Kevin Spacey weeks before release, and it does not show.

2h 38m

Released the same year as The Last Duel, in a completely different register.

2h 32m

The same events three times, from three perspectives. A flop, and one of his best.

2h 38m

Enormous battles and a curiously small central performance.

2h 28m

Twenty-four years later, with Denzel Washington stealing all of it.