Former staff critic for Slant Magazine. Now I just like to watch.
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The Violent Men 1955
If you're an aging, wealthy cattle baron, you REALLY don't want to be married to Barbara Stanwyck.
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Men in Black 1934
Early, manic Stooges short briefly steered into an adjacent universe by Billy Gilbert ("There were RATS coming out of this BUTTONHOLE!").
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Listen Up Philip 2014
Guys like Philip Lewis Friedman do saunter through Brooklyn without getting punched in the face, but Art needs to be better than Life.
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The Irishman 2019
The phone call to Hoffa's widow is perhaps de Niro's late-career peak -- it's like the whispery equivalent of cut-up poetry, or Beckett dialogue.