 | | | Among the very greatest films noir; belongs on a short list alongside movies like ASPHALT JUNGLE, OUT OF THE PAST, DOUBLE INDEMNITY AND DIRECTOR Robert Siodmak's other great noirs, PHANTOM LADY and THE KILLERS. Love-struck loser Burt Lan... (See full description) |
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 | | | Recommended. I winced when I first heard someone was remaking George Romero's horror masterpiece DAWN OF THE DEAD. Much to my surprise, however, this remake is also a masterpiece. On the basic horror thriller level it is relentlessly exci... (See full description) |
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 | | | Truly unique. I consider this a great film, but I don't have much company. I have never seen a film critically savaged like DOGVILLE. For some reason this movie was UNIVERSALLY condemned as "anti-American." WTF? A work of art may be "anti-A... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Shekhar Kapur. This movie is in the drop-dead wonderful section primarily for Cate Blanchett's performance and ELIZABETH is the movie that made her reputation. The movie feels authentic, despite an unfortunate tendency to recast... (See full description) |
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 | | | Todd Solondz (STORYTELLING, WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) is a brilliant unsentimental artist, and his tragi-comic gaze takes in almost the entirety of modern life here in this sweeping study of desire and loneliness. In perfectly post-modern f... (See full description) |
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 | | | One of my favorite movies (like desert-island-disc favorite), and TOUCH OF EVIL's only competition as most subversive late-noir film. Beautifully photographed and composed. Aldrich viewed Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled detective hero Mike H... (See full description) |
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 | | | (The film itself is the same here as in the more expensive two-disc edition, but without the second disc of featurettes, comentaries, etc.) Kaufman is one of the great directors nobody talks about. His first film won the Cannes equivalent o... (See full description) |
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 | | | I'm a directors guy but I have to admit that screenwriting is under-rated. Almost all of Hitchcock's movies are wonderful in their way, but the stand-outs tend to have the sharpest screenplays. Playwright Thornton Wilder's words combined wi... (See full description) |
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 | | | There's more honesty in this stunning black comedy than in a dozen documentaries. Hilarious and brutally unsentimental look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with un-attentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older... (See full description) |
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