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January 7, 2010

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One, Two, Three, 1961 - ★★★★½
December 24, 2024
I’m grouchily having a head cold for Christmas so I can’t promise I registered every staccato beat of yet another Billy Wilder masterpiece and even so, wow. Cagney was verbosely magnificent. About halfway through I thought well, there’s been a lot, we must be close to the climax. Nah: there was an hour left and there […]
Carry-On, 2024 - ★★½
December 22, 2024
Scripts that depend on precision planning should be precise. This was not; there’s too much concidence and too many plot holes for my taste. And the car fight would have been fun if it hadn’t been so CGI, which kills plausibility.On the redemptive side, it’s fun having action scenes in the back corridors of an […]
Seven Days in May, 1964 - ★★★★
December 22, 2024
I swear Aaron Sorkin has spent his entire career trying to make this movie. He’s not Rod Serling, though, and he’s sure not as capable a director as Frankenheimer. This is close to as good as it gets for classical liberal spirit.(Seriously, though… President Lyman? Probably the West Wing character’s name is just a coincidence.)This […]
Troll Hunter, 2010 - ★★★½
December 21, 2024
Troll Hunter gets what a lot of found footage movies don’t: it’s about the mystery, not the jump scares. About half an hour in, the puzzle takes shape, and the movie trundles along steadily from there. Not that there aren’t scary bits — Øvredal generates a pretty cool sense of awe in the final confrontation with […]
Naked, 1993 - ★★★★★
December 17, 2024
All that and a bag of chips. I kept marveling at the way Dick Pope captured London as hell; the early driving sequence, which is one of the few times Johnny has to be alone with himself, reminded me of Crash in the way the cold highway implies isolation. Then Johnny throws himself against kindness until […]