Why did you do that Karen! They never woulda found it! Cops can't look in cupboards! Everybody knows that! And they have to tell you they're a cop if you ask them! And they can't arrest a husband and wife for the same crime! Karen!
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011
Deducting half a star from this funny, well-constructed movie for its atrocious sexual politics. And somehow I'm not talking about the pickup artistry (the depiction of which is fully defensible), or even the 17-year-old lusting after a middle-aged man (the depiction of which is... not indefensible).
I am talking about the moral of the film being that you should never stop romantically pursuing someone even if they clearly and repeatedly tell you they are not interested. And I don't mean…
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Lucky 2017
A beautiful, tender piece of filmmaking even if it's maybe not the movie it thinks it is. Lucky would like to be about facing mortality, and has a bad habit of saying so right in the dialogue; but in between these little spasms of profundity it has any number of touching little episodes I won't soon forget. Harry Dean Stanton singing unprompted at a child's birthday party he was invited to out of polite concern; or watching old footage of…
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Crimson Tide 1995
If you're making a movie with apocalyptic stakes but confined, modest action, Tony Scott is the guy you want in the chair. He shoots Gene Hackman walking his dog in the rain as if it's an explosion on a highway.
Crimson Tide is the only time in Denzel Washington's career he'd let himself get smoked off the screen. The genius of the screenplay is finding the exact circumstances when "fire off the nukes without double checking" would be most sympathetic,…
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