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In the opening, we follow as an unseen operative infiltrates "Gaddafi's Old Chemical Plant," drawing out a guard. BAM! The guard is killed by incoming fire from a helicopter. That tells you what kind of movie this is, where no one in the middle of the desert sees or hears a fucking military chopper until it's right on top of them. I will never not hate that gimmick, because it will always take me out of the story. You're telling…
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My one-word assessment of Poolman would probably be, "affable". Chris Pine, who co-wrote and directed, gives a likable performance as Darren Barrenman, the titular pool man for a small apartment complex in L.A. Sometimes we're meant to laugh with him, sometimes at him. Where the film succeeds best is in the chemistry between Pine and Annette Bening and Danny DeVito, who play his married friends. Bening's Diane is also his therapist, while DeVito's Jack is an out-of-work director who agrees…
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★★★★½ Rewatched 12 Nov 2013
Sicko came out in a particularly upsetting time in my life. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2005. Two years later, my health was so unreliable that it was a major reason my family chose to close the doors on the business we'd owned and operated for twenty years. No single topic has dominated my daily life these last eight years more than the vulnerability of the sick and injured in America. Not even Batman.
Michael Moore is still…
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Boxing is easily the most cinematic sport. Partly, this is because the ring is so manageable a setting, but mostly it's because a match develops a dramatic narrative improvised by its two stars. The dynamics of power shift from one thrown punch to the next, and knowing spectators can also place the story at hand in the larger context of the combatants' careers and lives for even greater depth and complexity.
Raging Bull is designed to reveal to us those…
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