Textbook example of what Sam Fuller referred to as "another goddamn recruiting film," but super entertaining anyway, with lots of very striking images. The tension is skillfully maintained, and there's…
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Sergeant York 1941
It's downright heroic, the way this movie doesn't make York's pacifism a joke or a point of condemnation. It treats it seriously and gives it its due weight, in a…
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Fast & Furious 6 2013
There was a ten minute stretch without a car chase or fight, and I nearly fell asleep. But then cars again.
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Forbidden Planet 1956
Fascinating for a number of reasons. I straight-up love the movie's look and sound, particularly those "electric tonalities" in lieu of a traditional score (how must that have sounded in…
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Forbidden Planet 1956
Only intermittently engaging but wholly charming, and it does (or at least valiantly, if clumsily, attempts to do) what all great sci-fi is supposed to: illuminate a dark corridor of…