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  • The Wrong Man

    ★★★½

  • Toy Story 4

  • Whatever Works

    ★½

  • Thunderball

    ★★★½

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  • The Wrong Man

    The Wrong Man 1956

    ★★★½ Watched 03 Dec 2024

    Such an unusual film – for anyone, but especially Hitchcock. It’s a very successful technical work, and it definitely creates an atmosphere of anxiety and dread. On the other hand, it’s slow and clinical, and I found Fonda too placid. (Possibly, though, his performance contributes more to the strange vibe than is obvious.) There’s an unexpected left turn with his wife midway through which throws everything off balance, but I mostly enjoyed it nonetheless.

    The worst part is wanting to shout at the screen, “Manny! Demand a phone call! Demand legal counsel!”

  • Whatever Works

    Whatever Works 2009

    ★½ Rewatched 30 Nov 2024

    If you created a parody of Allen’s laziest work this century, this is what you would get. Any character nuance or depth is stripped away, and instead it’s about as lazy and superficial as it could be. Even the central premise, “whatever works,” seems like it was jotted down in a notebook and stretched to 90 minutes after filming started. On top of that, it feels like a apologia for Allen’s personal life choices. To be clear, that’s usually an…

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  • Taps

    Taps 1981

    ★★★★ Rewatched 22 Feb 2021

    A long-standing personal favorite that I think deserves more respect than it gets. One has to suspend some disbelief, but the plot’s unfolding, however implausible, is a worthy vehicle for the ideas it explores — particularly how “honor” is depicted and utilized at personal, institutional and generational levels, both as a moral compass and a motivational (and manipulative) device. The drama is never handled as anything but dead-serious, and the actors (young and old) give it all the credibility and…

  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985

    ★★½ Rewatched 15 Aug 2020

    I’ve seen criticism that this movie is a “Hollywoodized” Mad Max, and it’s hard to disagree. In the first half of the ’80s there was a rush to center films around children and innocent, child-like characters (e.g. E.T., Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi, the Goonies, etc.), and this falls under the same spell. A great franchise previously known for its bleak, gritty, unflinching (and entertaining!) depiction of humans at their basest, turns here to…

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