All posts tagged "movie drama"
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
March 13, 2022This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Animal Kingdom, #55
March 11, 2022We place Jacki Weaver, as Grandma Smurf, on the Mount Rushmore of female movie gangsters, along...
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Movies
Movie Review: Argo
March 10, 2022As the eyes of the entire country are watching news reports of the hostages, the CIA,...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killing, #54
March 7, 2022There are two great reasons to see The Killing, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 caper film about a...
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Movies
Movie Review: Holy Motors
March 5, 2022More a collection of vignettes than one single story, Holy Motors features each of Oscar’s “characters”...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53
March 4, 2022This is the second of Guy Ritchie’s madcap mob capers. And Brad Pitt’s performance as Mickey...
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Movies
Movie Review: Cloud Atlas
March 3, 2022Spanning over 500 years and following more than a dozen characters, the film is composed of...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52
March 1, 2022Before High Sierra, Hollywood’s gangsters were not just black-and-white on celluloid; they were equally definitive in...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
February 26, 2022Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
February 26, 2022As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...