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.
Eggers is a great craftsman and cares a lot about an authenticity to regional and period-piece dialogue, production design, and costuming. These elements come together to achieve a particular tone and atmosphere that permeates from every shot and scene in his movies.
His atmospheric movies are always quite dark because Eggers focuses on horror, supernatural elements and evil. The various kinds of…
