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Grand Illusion 1937
Lives up to the hype and then some—its portrait of shared humanity still resonates today and the snapshot of societies at an inflection point, turning toward modernity while still rooted in tradition, is both prescient and timeless.
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Killing Them Softly 2012
Solid and occasionally funny heist revenge but feels like a good amount of it is recycled and the focus on the 2008 crash is so heavy-handed that it hasn’t aged well—Tarantino imitation that isn’t bad but won’t be worth a second watch.
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Inglourious Basterds 2009
Tarantino’s Nazi-revenge fantasy follows the parallel stories of an elite Nazi-hunting group of American soldiers and an escaped Jew living undercover as a cinema owner in occupied Paris. Violent, surreal, and lots of fun, its alternative history at its most entertaining. While it doesn’t provide much insight into the time or tragedy of WWII, it is an odd, creative love letter to film that borders on the self-aggrandizing (cinema owner as hero, film writer as hero, art as fascist downfall) without stepping over the line.
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