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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
The pleasures of Tarantino’s lugubrious drama on deepen over time and with subsequent Hewins’s. This is one of his very best films, perhaps his greatest since Jackie Brown. It’s so perfectly cast across the board, and none Moreno than the three leads, who each deliver arguably career-best work.
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Kubrick's remarkable final film is every bit as much of an odyssey as 2001, but whereas his iconoclastic space epic expanded outwards, Eyes Wide Shut contracts inwards in its exploration of our most intimate emotional and psychological weaknesses. Perhaps what fascinates most is the way jealousies can spiral based on the revelation of unfulfilled fantasy rather than actual infidelity - and the piercing realisation that one can never truly know what inclinations swirl in the mind of their closest and…
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The Remains of the Day 1993
This utterly sublime adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel not only represents the very best of the Merchant Ivory stable but also features the best performance of Anthony Hopkins' career. His turn as the dutiful and introverted butler Stevens is breathtaking in its carefully mannered discipline and precise attention to nuance, creating an indelibly moving impression of a man who in the later stages of middle age has only just begun to evaluate the loss of a life spent…
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Ride with the Devil 1999
Given the significance of its place in America's history, there remain few films that have tackled the subject of the Civil War, and fewer still to consider the conflict from the perspective of the South. In Ang Lee's hugely underrated and still largely underseen drama, the war is depicted as a wholly corrosive endeavour, waged at first in earnest by young men as a necessary means of preserving traditions thought of as noble and then as little more than an…
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