The site dissects dozens of films, rating their cyberpunk visuals and themes and summarizing their major plot points. The site's breadth of content is impressive—the expected films are all there (Blade Runner, Robocop, The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell), but there are plenty of others that no one but die-hard cyberpunk enthusiasts will have heard of, let alone seen.

The site offers a forum to discuss the films, as well as a wiki for recording theories, resources and other finds. But ultimately Cyberpunk Reviews succeeds because it does more than just regurgitate the subgenre's facts—it also tries to understand them. Starting with the definition of cyberpunk and moving through the reviews, the site takes the time to analyze what makes a given movie cyberpunk—is it the visuals or the technology?—and identifies important themes and issues. The reviewers don't stop at saying Robocop was one of the definitive cyberpunk movies of the 1990s; they also dig deep into questions such as the ownership of an individual's post-death consciousness and whether someone can be considered human when almost every aspect of his former self has been stripped away.

Even better are essays like "The Matrix Trilogy: A Man-Machine Interface Perspective," which throws away the endless philosophical posturing over the nature of the Matrix and takes an entirely science-fictional look at the trilogies. The ensuing discussion of positive and negative feedback loops in computer systems might not redeem the trilogy in the eyes of those who've come to hate it—but it should give them something new to think about.