Danny Boyle’s 10 Best Movies (According To Rotten Tomatoes)
Danny Boyle’s 10 Best Movies (According To Rotten Tomatoes)
From Trainspotting to Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle is a master of bending any genre to his signature filmmaking degree. Here are his best works.
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Danny Boyle is an auteur who may not specialize in one particular genre, but has an immense style with camerawork and editing to propel his storytelling to new heights. From bringing the story of five drug addicts in Edinburgh to life to following a group of astronauts on their quest to reignite the sun, Boyle employs a distinctive fast-paced style. Some of his films won heaps of awards, and others gained cult followings. Overall, they are subversive, cerebral experiences.
With that, here are the top ten movies that Danny Boyle directed, ranked according to their Rotten Tomatoes rating.
10 Trance (2013): 68%
Danny Boyle flexed his mind-bending action capabilities with caper thriller Trance. This 2013 underrated gem centers on art dealer Simon (James McAvoy) who gets kidnapped by a gang of robbers, led by Franck (Vincent Cassel), to obtain a missing painting, requiring the help of hypnotist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to retrace it.
What makes Trance unique is Boyle’s utilization of eye-popping shots to convey a mesmerizing experience of a caper that requires full attention. Each character feels unsafe in their own situation, almost with no sympathy nor remorse. For that, the viewer becomes the investigator of the case.
9 Shallow Grave (1994): 69%
For his first directorial effort, Boyle made a black comedy about three roommates who discovered their new roommate passed away but left behind a suitcase of money. Professionally, this is also Ewan McGregor’s acting debut; he plays as a self-absorbed freelance journalist who gets in contention with his roommates, mysterious doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox) and mentally unstable accountant David (Christopher Eccleston).
Boyle channeled the Coen brothers with unusual gore, bittersweet character development, and existential discussions. The film is almost an unnerving experience when dealing with every character. The three leads help sell it, particularly Christopher Eccleston.
8 Sunshine (2007): 76%
Written by future sci-fi master Alex Garland, Sunshine centers on a group of scientist aboard the spaceship Icarus II, who are assigned to launch a nuclear bomb to boost the sun. This underrated science fiction thriller hosts an ensemble cast that includes Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong and Michelle Yeoh, with the characters’ different range of philosophies becoming crucial for their decision-making.
This underrated masterpiece is the right balance of cerebral visuals and intellectual discussions that recalls other space exploration films like Solaris, Alien, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Like them, Sunshine’s visuals enhance the experience.
7 T2 Trainspotting (2017): 81%
T2 Trainspotting sees Danny Boyle return to the original iconic film after nearly two decades. And much like his return, the main lead Renton (Ewan McGregor) sees himself nostalgic for the old days after he snatched the drug deal money in the end of Trainspotting. But upon his return to Edinburgh, he has to confront his fractured relationships with his pals Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
While not trying to recapture the iconic success of the first film, T2 forms its own identity by recognizing the consequences of the characters’ youthful excesses.
6 Steve Jobs (2015): 86%
Adapting Walter Isaacson’s biopic of Steve Jobs, but using three product launches as the framing device is an unconventional choice for Danny Boyle. The method may not work for some, but with the assured direction from Boyle and the enhanced screenplay of Aaron Sorkin, it refreshes the biopic formula.
Michael Fassbender as the titular Apple founder gives a great performance, both physically and emotionally, to convey the complexity behind the charismatic figure as someone hard to work with or understand. A supporting cast that includes Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels supplement the script and structure well.
5 28 Days Later (2002): 86%
28 Days Later is one of the zombie films of the 2000s that revitalized interest in the genre. This cult hit centers on four survivors who have to deal with the fallout of an unstoppable virus that ravaged the UK population. Almost functioning both as a zombie film and as a virus-centered thriller, Boyle succeeded in building up the dread until the last second.
Cillian Murphy stars as survivor Jim who juggles between keeping his sanity and trudging to survive. The first scene of him walking around an empty London street is his most harrowing moment.
4 Millions (2004) – 88%
Millions is an interesting foray for Danny Boyle as it features a child protagonist. The plot is essentially about a boy who stumbles upon a bag of cash worth millions of pounds and how he deals with spending it. This is perhaps the lightest of Boyle’s directorial filmography, yet he invokes the same deep ideas of faith, morality and self-conscience that he always deals with.
As Damian, actor Alex Etel brings childlike wonder as he explores provided paths on how to deal with the bag of money. The journey brings imaginative sequences and important discussions that builds his character.
3 Trainspotting (1996): 90%
Here is the film that not only catapulted the director and its stars to worldwide fame, but also reinvigorated the British and world cinema as a whole. Irvine Welsh’s novels are not for the faint of heart. But Danny Boyle never shies away from depicting the overindulgences of debauchery and its deadly consequences. Renton struggles to break out of his drug-laden lifestyle, only to fall into the dark influences of his friends.
Every character is memorable on his or her character arcs. And there are a lot of iconic bits that made this an undisputed staple of British cinema.
2 Slumdog Millionaire (2008): 91%
In 2009, Danny Boyle received his first Academy Award for his work on Slumdog Millionaire. Based on the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup, the film is centered on a poor boy named Jamal (Dev Patel) who is accused of cheating on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. But he gets his shot to tell his story to the police inspector (Irrfan Khan).
The film is standard Oscar fare, exploring Jamal’s childhood with his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and his friend Latika (Freida Pinto) until he reaches adulthood. It is an endearing experience to see Jamal’s struggle from poverty to national fame, only to reunite with Latika.
1 127 Hours (2010) – 93%
After Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle grabbed his opportunity to bring the story of Aron Ralston to screen, and brought back the same crew from Slumdog to deliver a more intimate story. Proving from the eventual reception of 127 Hours, no one but Danny Boyle could have adapted Ralston’s autobiography.
Its true strengths are in James Franco’s committed performance as Ralston, and in the creative visual storytelling, which conveys Ralston’s emotional journey and his epiphanies.
The final minutes of the film may not be the faint of heart, but 127 Hours is a true Danny Boyle gem.
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