THE EQUALIZER (Antoine Fuqua) - Fuqua has never climbed back to the heights he reached with TRAINING DAY (one of the Great Movies of Our Age) (though he made a good effort with the underrated BROOKLYN’S FINEST), but I’m glad to see that he’s become one of the stronger director of old-fashioned-in-spirit-if-not-in-style action-movies-for-guys (SHOOTER, OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, and, now, THE EQUALIZER). Anyway: I pretty much loved this from start to finish, although it’s comically stupid. Richard Wenk’s script simultaneously has…
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Ricky Stanicky 2024
Badly made - almost shockingly so, given the care with which Dumb & Dumber To and Green Book were made: it’s lit like slop and there’s no shape to any of the sequences. Nonetheless, I laughed quite a bit and it’s certainly good-hearted.
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Colorado Territory 1949
"Colorado Territory" (WALSH) - a couple of thoughts:
1) I tend to consider Walsh at least the equal of Hawks/Ford/Hitchcock/whomever else you want to put here. His rep suffers a bit because none of his films are especially well known (and so much of the early stuff is LOST), and the most (relatively) famous ones aren't necessarily the best of the best. Because of that, I get why people might scratch their heads when I talk about Walsh in such…
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Paris Belongs to Us 1961
A young woman studying for her entrance exam in literature hears someone crying in an apartment down the hall from her: she goes to investigate and gets caught up with a group of artists and intellectuals (some of whom are putting on a production of Shakespeare's "Pericles") who are engaged in a struggle with a secret, global fascist conspiracy. The movie is so close to Rivette's fully-formed, mature works (from OUT 1 to VA SAVOIR) that it can be, paradoxically,…
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