Blake gives an elusive score to a criminally neglected film.

I think we can all agree that the plentiful annals of the Netflix streaming library are the textbook definition of “hit-and-miss”. Odds are they won’t have the films you’re looking for, but if a sudden overabundance of Food Network content is your bag, then game on. The searches sometimes seem to go on forever, but every once in a while you’ll come across a forgotten gem that introduces you to a film with the capacity to redefine what we view as cinema. You get introduced to a filmmaker who embodies the auteur theory as if it was based on his memoirs. I’m talking about Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover . If there ever was a film that deserved this site’s highest rating, this is it. So here it comes: Number one, with a bloody bullet.