Category: Mystery/Thriller
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Movie Review: “Looper” (Rian Johnson, USA/China 2012)
Since 2005, there have been three films that, to me, are always linked as extraordinary debuts from young American directors to watch in the future: Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, USA 2005), (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, USA 2009), and, best of all, Brick (Rian Johnson, USA 2005). These were all fantastic…
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Movie Review: “Caché (Hidden)” (Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany/Italy/USA 2005)
One of the great unnoticed jewels of the last 20 years of cinema history is Lost Highway (David Lynch, France/USA 1997), a complex and difficult journey into the mind of a psychotic that opens with a bizarre and unnerving sequence of events: a man awakens to hear a message on his home’s intercom system of…
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Mini-Review: “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (Tomas Alfredson, France/UK/Germany 2011)
I don’t have enough to say about this film, so I’m reviewing it very briefly. I had some optimism for this film. John le Carre’s work is difficult to adapt to film because it is so intricate and complex. His novels aren’t long, but that owes more to the plainness of his prose than…
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