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Collateral 2004
Javier Bardem asking “do you believe in Humpty Dumpty” is peak cinema.
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National Treasure 2004
Harvey Keitel is the lead detective for the FBI's puzzles unit I guess. why did Jon Voight (presumably living alone...?) have so many lemons
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Ganja & Hess 1973
Hypnotic, impossibly freighted, holy in its sense of inner rhythm, operating on an intellectual frequency so heightened and unique that it feels beamed down from a higher consciousness. Ganja & Hess is astonishing for how deeply Bill Gunn is able to delve into the well of Black American identity, duality, and contradiction here, crafting a vampire film that is at once about class and racial stereotypes, status, privilege, addiction, assimilation, sand the horrors of heritage — all without sacrificing his characters’ ability to…
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8 Million Ways to Die 1986
“I lived in a world I didn’t make.”
This is very different movie from Hal Ashby and you can almost see the parts that were unfairly ripped from him. Bridges, Arquette, and Garcia are all super committed to the premise and it breaks your heart knowing how a little fine tuning could have made this a classic. Tragically fitting that his final film was all about control and trying to hold on to something chaotic with a mind of its own.
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Mission: Impossible III 2006
more up paced than 2, the shift in the series starts here but it’s still supremely watchable and fun which a lot of franchises forgot about at a certain point
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
spielberg and kubrick can both catch some hands for this one tbh 😭
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Phantom Thread 2017
On what must be somewhere between my third or fifth viewing, I still think about my first time seeing it where I left work early and heard several 50-something-year-old members of the audience I was in excitedly go, “uh ohhhh!” whenever Alma or Cyril would say something catty to Reynolds. I can’t wait for this pandemic to be over so I can experience that all over again.
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The Sisters Brothers 2018
Considering the stacked cast of lovable weirdos under the helm of Jacques Audiard - director of the similarly subversive Dheepan - its any wonder how they weren’t able to strike a consistent tone and keep me from looking at my phone.
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