I think there's a better version of this movie where the audience doesn't see how Mickey Rourke survives being shot or the deal he cuts with the posse to lead them after his gang. In that version of the movie you have a group of outlaws who have just violently split with their long-time leader, who have a wounded man to carry, who don't know whether or not they're being pursued, and who suddenly find themselves hunted by a party…
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Carlito's Way 1993
The fact that David Koepp's career is fairly evenly divided between smash hits and enormous flops probably goes a long way to explain why he's one of the most financially successful screenwriters in Hollywood history: he's mediocre in exactly the way that plays to the masses.
The script for "Carlito's Way" is a bit mediocre at times: too much of the plot is driven by weird coincidences, or a character will move the story forward by boldly asserting something which…
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Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art 2020
Watching rich people knife each other in the back is like sinking into a warm bath.
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark 2020
At one point Patton Oswalt enthusiastically greets a crowd of people waiting for him to sign his wife's book as "murderinos." Because at the end of the day, true crime is just a fun puzzle for comfortable folks to noodle with in their spare time. And if the occasional crime blogger with delusions of grandeur ODs because of her obsession with a case, well, that's just one of the risks you take as a "citizen detective" [fucking gag me.]
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