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Den of Thieves 2018
It's as if the director focused on the best parts of Heat to summarily jettison, then watched 300 and decided that there just wasnt enough testosterone flowing through Gerard Butler as a comical Hellene, and decided on a mashup. Give me Triple Frontier or Zero Dark Thirty instead for a more authentic representation of domestic machismo clothed in fatigues.
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One Way Passage 1932
This is a charming pre-code picture with a believable central combo, minimal melodrama, and something of a fatalistic ending that wouldn’t have been allowable even two years subsequent to ‘32. A film that I think is ripe for re-imagining and exploration by a confident modern filmmaker, as long as the charm doesn’t devolve into schmaltz.
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The Holdovers 2023
Is Payne my favorite living director? He makes the films I want to make...
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The Brutalist 2024
I don’t know what to make of this film, or its director for that matter (I watched The Childhood of a Leader the morning prior to better familiarize myself with his past work; I haven’t seen Vox Lux). The ambition is there, but after primary viewing it strikes as a good, not great, rendition of the ever-so-valid immigrants’ tale. There are some puzzling narrative shifts here, especially in the second act, and it occasionally feels like a series of scenes…
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