Sam Mendes

What makes a Sam Mendes film a Sam Mendes film

Across 9 films, they run much more beauty and somewhat more nostalgia than films in general. Their films vary about as much as any director’s do, so this is an average rather than a template.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.