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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Indecipherable on the surface, but underneath that cold exterior is a film with more heart than most, and more skill than any. And the greatest montage ever.
The first time you watch, maybe you understand just enough to appreciate the film. The second time, you appreciate just how little you understood the first time. By the third time, you can appreciate each scene for how perfectly it fits into the jigsaw, and how immaculately they stand by themselves.
At the…
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Million Dollar Baby 2004
A boxing film which isn't really about that, and yet still lands a blow quite unlike any other.
Clint Eastwood isn't always a subtle director, but when he strikes the ball cleanly he hits it better than anyone. Eastwood turns Haggis' screenplay into something unique. This film would still have been excellent had it finished half an hour earlier - Maggie would have been champion, and we would have been talking about the great interplay between Frankie and Scrap, and…
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Unforgiven 1992
The Western that ruined all other Westerns with its sheer brilliance and depth.
If you want to mine for gold, mine the West for stories. Over about a hundred years, the land and the culture in it was transformed through zeal, greed and lawlessness. It is, maybe, one of the most recent times in history where pure human nature was laid bare in all its forms; good, bad and ugly. The early days of Hollywood was preoccupied with its potential…
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Into the Inferno 2016
Herzog instills a fear of volcanos, then distills said fear into a realisation of one's own irrelevance. Mesmerising. 6/7
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