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Macao 1952
It doesn’t matter how troubled the production of this film was, it was doomed before the first frame of film was exposed. The screenplay is totally insipid—the same paint-by-numbers RKO script that plagued the studio during the Hughes years. Terrible dialog—always a setup from one character, and then a dud of a punchline from another. Character actions and motivations that are constantly at odds with one another. We have Jane Russell playing—yet again—a lounge singer, so there are the obligatory…
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Heaven Can Wait 1943
Don Ameche dies and goes to Hell, having to tell the Devil of his wicked ways on earth to get in. The stories mostly add up to him being a bourgeois brat and constantly losing and winning back his wife, Gene Tierney. Lubitsch‘s first color film is well-crafted, but shallow by the director’s standards. The film’s impeccable cast, Technicolor photography and rousing Alfred Newman score salvage the production from being another mediocre Fox period piece. Solid escapism.
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The Holdovers 2023
THE HOLDOVERS is an unlikely Christmas film that has a lot to say about being a loser. You can be a boarding-school junior in 1970, or you could be a burnt-out, alcoholic savant from the same time and place with nothing to show for it. Or you can be an alcoholic school cook who’s just lost her son. Giamatti heads the cast out in a role not too far off from many of his others, but with a palpable amount…
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The Fisher King 1991
This is a very good Robin Williams movie, and a very bad Terry Gilliam film.
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