Diego Pacheco

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The 10 Best Fantasy Movie Endings of All Time, Ranked

1 week ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

A fantasy movie is only as great as its ending. A film's conclusion is arguably its most important part—it's the impression that audiences walk home with, after all. For movies as grand, expansive, and imaginative as fantasy flicks in particular, having an ending that's memorable, satisfying, and perhaps even a little surprising is crucial. Thankfully, throughout the genre's long and historic trajectory, there have been plenty of films with exceptional endings.
The 10 Best International Movies of the Last 30 Years, Ranked

1 week ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

The American film industry is, needless to say, the biggest and most influential in the history of the art form. However, those willing to look farther and get past the subtitle barrier will be open to a limitless world of exceptional non-Hollywood movies. The past three decades in particular have seen the release of some incredible films outside the U.S. From Africa to Asia to Latin America, the best international movies since 1995 are among the greatest films from their respective countries.
The 10 Best Animated Movies of the Last 30 Years, Ranked

1 week ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

Animation isn't a genre, it's a medium—and a medium that has been on a steady climb in quality, quantity, and popularity over the past 30 years. These stories are visually limitless and perfectly fit for stylistic uniqueness, allowing filmmakers to give their imagination free rein. The past three decades have thus been home to some of the greatest animated films of all time.
10 Fantasy Movies That Are Hard To Watch All the Way Through

1 week ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

Since the dawn of cinema as a storytelling art form, audiences have been in love with fantasy movies. These stories have captured cinephiles' imaginations for over a century, enticing them with magic, mythological creatures, grand world-building, or the presence of fantastical things in our boring, very-much-not-fantastical world. However, fantasy is most definitely not an infallible genre—quite the contrary, in fact.
10 Movies With the Most Nonsensical Character Development, Ranked

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

There are plenty of elements that can make or break a film. If it's not directed with a strong sense of voice, decently acted, intelligently written, or competent in its technical qualities, the chances that a film will be genuinely great are slim. Another big element of that sort is character development. If a film has character arcs that make no sense or feel entirely wrong, it's not likely that it will become a beloved classic.
10 Mexican Movies You Must Watch at Least Once

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

Mexico's film industry has a rich and fascinating history. It had its own era of silent cinema from the 1910s to the 1920s, a Golden Age from the late 1930s to the late 1950s, and the birth of the New Mexican Cinema movement in the '90s, which some experts argue is still going on to this day. During its Golden Age, it produced countless Latin American icons that endure as legends today, from Pedro Infante and María Felix to Dolores del Río andJorge Negrete.
10 Movies From the 2020s That Are Absolutely Destined To Be Classics

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

All things considered, and at least as far as the quality of the films released during the period is concerned, the 2020s have been pretty kind to movie fans. The past five years have seen the production of some of the greatest, most memorable films of the 21st century so far, from huge Hollywood blockbusters to foreign animated gems. But while not every great film has a particularly good shot at becoming a classic in the future, plenty of the 2020s' best movies definitely stand a chance.
The 10 Bleakest Animated Movies, Ranked

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the movies discussed! Animation isn't a genre: it's a medium unto itself, a kind of filmmaking capable of telling unique stories in ways that no other kind of movie can imitate. It's the perfect realm for filmmakers' imaginations to run wild, for them to harness the medium's virtual visual limitlessness to tell whatever narrative they want to tell in whatever way they can think of. Sometimes, though, those narratives can get gloomy — very, very gloomy.
10 Best 'Better Call Saul' Quotes, Ranked

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

From 2008 to 2013, Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad ran on AMC. To this day, it's still remembered as the single greatest drama TV show in the history of the medium. When a prequel/spin-off created by Gilligan and Peter Gould was announced, fans didn't know what to expect. How to follow up the greatest show in history with something that lives up to its quality? Somehow, Better Call Saul did so with ease.
The 10 Best Performances in Sci-Fi Movies, Ranked

2 weeks ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

Sci-fi is a genre that tends to mostly focus on story and technical aspects. It's easy to tolerate less-than-impressive acting when you have a grand story of technological advancement and intergalactic conquest, fantastic visual effects, or creatively-put-together action scenes. However, it's especially impressive when an actor finds room in this epic genre to deliver a strong, intimate performance.