Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
A lot of Crowe's protagonists are quite earnest, usually because they are young, and are pursuing something new as a reinvention of themselves. These endeavors push the characters into new experiences and relationships with new people. This invariably both causes pain and allows for joy as a kind of growing-up process.
He also often uses parents, and sometimes other characters, to reveal…
