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Breach 2007
An extremely solid Paperwork Thriller that I somehow never even knew existed. I'm no particular fan of Ryan Philippe, but he's fine here, and Laura Linney and Chris Cooper are both stern and terrific.
This movie hits even harder in the context of all the fuckery of the Trump administration. How many agents have THEY gotten killed?
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Down with Love 2003
Like many people (most, even), I did NOT see this in the theater, because it got pretty middling reviews, and I'm not really a Doris Day fan.
I DID watch it basically the minute it dropped on HBO, thought it was wildly underrated, and immediately bought the DVD- which I promptly lent to someone and never got back.
I watched it again early in the pandemic, and was sort of let down.
This time, though, it hit on all the…
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The Package 1989
Gene Hackman seemed to be in his 50s for almost four decades- from seeming about 50 in Bonnie and Clyde to about 60 in Welcome to Mooseport. Here, he's *actually* pushing sixty, and spry as most 38 year olds.
Tommy Lee Jones plays a dark universe iteration of his hypercompetent boy scout fed from the Fugitive, and almost everyone this movie's narrative glances at sideways is having a pretty, pretty bad time, often rather more convolutedly than seems entirely necessary.…
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Demon Pond 1979
Painterly, theatrical, and fantastical. I kiiind of feel like I shouldn't have seen this until I'd had at least a semester's worth of lectures on the pertinent comp lit, art history, and theater studies that would properly illuminate its resonances for non-Japanese audiences.
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