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Intolerable Cruelty 2003
Why is this the black sheep of the Coens’ filmography? Because the studio marketed it as a traditional romcom when, in fact, its blood runs true Coens through and through? I’m delighted to finally discover this. This film’s middling reputation preceded it so well that I avoided it for so long, but it’s actually a hilarious war between cynicism and romance loaded with nonsense that would instantly turn off your typical romcom lover.
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Runaway Jury 2003
Nobody ever says much about Runaway Jury—largely because it’s one of those “pretty good” thrillers that never strays far from its conceit, keeps the pace light, and is loaded with a heavy-hitting cast. Not much here to make it great (comes close with that bathroom fight), but virtually nothing to make it bad either.
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S1m0ne 2002
Always fun to revisit the early days of how artists interpreted the way technology would transform our lives. Nowadays it’s like that tech is acting out a revenge fantasy by stealing art at unfathomable rates.
Pacino might be a touch miscast here. He does a fine job, but the energy of the film often feels deflated by his strictly realistic portrayal. There’s a scene where he’s singing and kissing headshots, his lips plastered in obscenely red lipstick, and it’s a very funny image. The film needed more of that heightened lunacy from him, especially in the third act, but instead he’s Glengarry Glen Rossing it.
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