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Mickey 17 2025
It's great fun, but not every element of it entirely works. Some stuff feels half baked and over cranked, but all the while Bong is putting on a show. It's great entertainment, Pattinson is a great fun in his run of wackos, and the trademark black comedy Bong adores is here in spades.
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Black Bag 2025
Entertaining, with a game cast, but almost hurried to the extent that few scenes have the crackle or tension they deserve to. This film warrants a little more breathing room on it so the twists and reveals sing. Like so much latter-half Soderbergh it's too efficient for its own good.
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An Officer and a Gentleman 1982
While its reputation is now one that is slightly mocked, Taylor Hackford's romantic drama has a real sense of time and place with riveting performances and is a riveting watch despite a few contrived unnecessary scenes towards its conclusion. This is a film truly for adults, with real issues and baggage that the real world unfairly saddles its occupants with.
Richard Gere is great in the lead. Being every inch the movie star but with a vulnerability that may have…
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Nobody's Fool 1994
A fairly anodyne silver haired dramedy elevated by a few choice things.
Firstly, Paul Newman. He's simply brilliant here; making an asshole utterly human and likeable. He never hides the darkness and spite in the character but the charm is obvious throughout.
Two, it's actually funny. Genuinely so, which for a film about a cantankerous old letch in a blue collar town is quite the surprise.
Three, it is a rare example of a film that successfully threads the needle…
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