Category: Review
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‘A Page of Madness’ is a Movie in a Dream State
‘A Page of Madness’ is disorienting from the outset.
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‘Memories of Murder’ is an Exemplary Police Procedural
Writer-director Bong Joon-ho, doing masterful work in what was surprisingly only his second feature film, assiduously avoids offering a familiar “one bad apple” argument.
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‘The Long Good Friday’ is a Perfect Gloomy Mob Drama
Bob Hoskins, masterful, manages to make us care about a man who is for all intents and purposes ruthless and blackhearted.
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Sentimental Journeys
On ‘The Great Race.’
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Robin Givens Sizzles in ‘A Rage in Harlem’
After a while I stopped watching ‘A Rage in Harlem’ looking for a thrill via the narrative and more for its handsome period atmosphere.
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Telling Stories
On ‘Bad Trip’ and ‘Night of the Kings.’
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Cold Sweat: Two by Samuel Fuller
On ‘Pickup on South Street’ and ‘The Crimson Kimono.’
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‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ Should Have Kicked Off a Franchise
‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ remains the only Easy Rawlins film adaptation to date.
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‘Pulp’ is a Winking Homage to Detective Fiction
‘Pulp,’ Mike Hodges and Michael Caine’s follow-up to the crime movie ‘Get Carter,’ continues in the hard-boiled tradition of its predecessor but is looser.
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‘The In-Laws” Relentless Chaos
The closing credits might begin before some viewers have caught their breath.
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On ‘Ghost Dog’
This is a movie where you’re more interested in watching Ghost Dog move about life than you are where the narrative takes you.
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‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ is Top-Tier Sci-Fi
Disheartening final sentiment aside, ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ is among its era’s most assuredly made, thoughtful science-fiction movies.
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