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Movie Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Petrified Forest, #31
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Early Review: Burma
September 6, 2024Puga has selected actors that neither underplay their roles nor try to outshine their co-stars. Abbott...
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The French Connection, #30
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Movie Review: The Place Beyond the Pines
September 4, 2024Despite all of these good elements, the movie ends up significantly less than the sum of...
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Eastern Promises, #29
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Movie Review: Trance
September 2, 2024In its brief run time of an hour and 40 minutes, Trance includes a heist to...
Movie Review: Upstream Color
September 2, 2024The problem with writing this review of Upstream Color is that I've only seen it once....
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Untouchables, #28
August 30, 2024In the midst of a dinner party in his honor, Capone (Robert De Niro) takes out...