Defining Moment: T2, its moniker already pilfered from a classic and better film, expertly employs callbacks to its more engaging predecessor, but maybe the slower pacing and remixed soundtrack and revenge-driven overtures transcend a sense of "No more Catholics", Spud's appraisals of the past, and drunken rantings for a time that felt better but wasn't, if taken in the full light of day. Nostalgia hangs heavy over Boyle's follow-up, but it doesn't devolve into empty rumination. The nostalgia is nested;…
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Trance 2013
Defining Moment: Who is our main character? It seems like a simple question, and is for 99% of films. Until one comes along layering twist on top of twist on top of obfuscation on top of enigma. Boyle's trashiest pulp captivates moment-to-moment but falters with scrutiny applied to its structure and machinations, relying on a last-minute reveal that Dawson's Lamb pulled every string leading up to the finale.
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Se7en 1995
Defining Moment: It's a career-definer, the kind that might sink a lesser director (and frankly, if you direct a Seven and nothing else you're still pretty damned good!), but Fincher found ways to overcome the lingering shadow. But what a shadow it is, coming right within the heart of the resurgent studio era and balancing itself on the razor's edge of the burgeoning indie uprising, at home in both worlds and demonstrating an auteur that would outlive both. And Seven…
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Back to the Future 1985
Defining Moment: Do you ever just marvel at the balancing act going on here? Let's get it out of the way and acknowledge that no movie has ever had better pacing; this thing just rollicks, introducing and giving heft to a half-dozen major characters and at least a dozen other background players that have more interiority to them than many films' protagonists, while paying off just as many stories and substories and sticking the landing of the dreaded time travel…
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