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Gangs of New York 2002
It’s a flawed movie but I love it anyway. DiCaprio is really good, but Daniel Day-Lewis is spectacular. Brendan Gleeson as well; he elevates every project he is part of, including this one.
Cameron Diaz should have learned from Sean Connery and Denzel Washington: if you can’t hold an accent, just don’t try to do one. She is the weak link in this film, though her performance isn’t nearly as bad as it’s often made out to be.
Parting thoughts: an underappreciated gem of the early 2000s; has the worst end-credits song of all time.
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The Lady Eve 1941
It has its charms, but it is slow to start and the premise in the second half of movie stains credulity a little too much.
But . . . Henry Fonda plays the most convincing and earnest dumb guy I’ve ever seen on screen, and it’s worth watching just to see this performance. He’s just so dumb.
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Kingdom of Heaven 2005
Your enjoyment of this film will be dictated by two things; first, whether you watch the studio-butchered theatrical cut, or the restored director’s cut (the only cut that tells a coherent story). Second, whether you approach it as literal history, or an impressionistic and fantastic story based loosely in a real place and time. As history, it is deeply flawed. Every character is much more in this film of what they actually were. Baldwin is far more magnanimous, Saladin more…
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The Dark Knight 2008
It's the best Batman movie that has ever been made, and it's close to a perfect movie on its own merits.
To start with the obvious; Heath Ledger out-acts every other actor in this film by a mile. And it's not just because he's wears makeup and does a funny voice. He is utterly convincing as the nihilistic and sinister mystery that is the Joker, and he takes what could have been a goofy character (looking at you Jared Leto)…
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