A precursor to The Sixth Sense in the "don't spoil the twist ending" genre, this always had a shakier critical reputation as a relatively down-the-middle legal drama with one breakout performance so electric it overshadows the movie. But none of Edward Norton's moves work if we are not convinced by the ensemble bearing witness to his performance that he's the greatest actor who ever lived. The movie hinges on us buying that everybody in this is very, very smart with…
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Married to the Mob 1988
You could describe a movie as Demme-esque (like others are Hitchcockian) but nobody ever rips off Jonathan Demme. This feels like one of his most Demme-esque because it’s almost trying harder than others of his not be Demme-esque, to stick the landing as a screwball mob comedy in the vein of Some Like it Hot and all it can ever be is another Jonathan Demme melting pot of favorite kindred spirits popping in and out of the frame to put…
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973
But damn if this isn’t the perfect template for what this is - a gangster movie about what gangsters will do to each other. Mitchum is the model every actor aspires to when they attempt a “Baaaaston” accent for a Boston crime film but what he nails isn’t the vocality but the physicality, hunched and exhausted, tired of running but nowhere to rest. We like him even as we watch him lure a fellow crook into an FBI trap hoping…
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Light Sleeper 1992
David Spade! Every Schrader movie arguably has the same ending.
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