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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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All That Jazz 1979
When we talk about the artists that broke new ground and changed the way films are made, we like to talk about Welles and Kubrick and Bergman and Hitchcock and Fellini… even Lucas and Spielberg. Fosse isn’t part of the discussion nearly enough. In fact, he’s so left out of the discussion that he’s a rather new experience for me, and yet watching a magnum opus like All That Jazz feels like going back to the first time I fell…
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