Tag: samuel fuller
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My Favorite First-Time Watches of 2025
The best movies I saw in 2025 that weren’t released in 2025.
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‘House of Bamboo’’s Style Can Only Take It So Far
Samuel Fuller’s Tokyo-set noir is a visual treat, but it’s thwarted by a thoroughly unengaging lead performance.
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The Thoughtful Pessimism of ‘White Dog’
Samuel Fuller’s American swan song is characteristically sharp and cynical.
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Barbara Stanwyck Towers Over Everything in ‘Forty Guns’
Director Samuel Fuller seems to appreciate the veteran actress as if she were a national monument in this 1957 Western.
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Cold Sweat: Two by Samuel Fuller
On ‘Pickup on South Street’ and ‘The Crimson Kimono.’
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‘The Big Red One’: The Glory of War
‘The Big Red One’ has the look and feel of a far more romantic movie but is perhaps even more pessimistic than its more conventionally pessimistically-presenting counterparts.
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