John Huston: The Definitive Ranking

I’m going to be honest, I found John Huston’s body of work as a director to be frustrating. His highest highs are very high indeed, but his lows are really low. And, in addition, there’s a whole lot in the milquetoast middle that seems to be missing something, some key ingredient, that could have elevated the film around it. Huston went on record late in life that he’d take directing jobs just because they were set in places that he wanted to travel to (it’s hard to imagine what else would h...