Corey Hiscocks

Corey Hiscocks

Favorite films

  • The Third Man
  • Children of Men
  • Black Narcissus
  • Casablanca

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  • Wild at Heart

  • How to Train Your Dragon

    ★★★★

  • Longlegs

    ★★½

  • Michael Clayton

    ★★★★

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  • Carlito's Way

    Carlito's Way

    ★★★★

    Just flabbergasted by how much better this is than Scarface.

  • The Devil's Advocate

    The Devil's Advocate

    ★★★½

    Deeply stupid movie, and might be more than half an hour too long, but Pacino and Reeves are clearly having a blast.

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  • Scarface

    Scarface

    A perfect storm of crap: another spectacularly inept and painfully obvious script from Oliver Stone meets Pacino's farce of a performance (in which he erratically switches between a baker's billion different accents before finally deciding to add "meng" to the end of every sentence to remind himself he's supposed to be Cuban) meets a sleepwalking Michelle Pfeiffer meets a floundering DePalma, who has apparently remembered how to use a camera well enough to coordinate a functional dolly zoom... but doesn't…

  • Fireproof

    Fireproof

    Look, I'm a deeply religious man who grew up in an evangelical community in the South, so I understand the sentiment behind a film like this. I've got beef with the casual attitude we have toward divorce in American culture and I don't think it's a reflection of our evolution as a society so much as it is indicative of our collective fear of commitment and worship of the self. There's something to be said for a film that, subtlety…