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Dirty O'Neil 1974
A sexploitation movie bordering on softcore before it turns into a "Dirty Harry/Death Wish" riff, where Morgan Paull's titular small-town cop is forced to find his inner brutish masculinity in addition to his hedonistic virility. And, wouldn't you know it, but that allows him to finally melt the local ice queen! Not deep enough to make its content morally suspect, co-director Lewis Teague (on loan from New World Pictures) helps writer and co-director Leon Capetanos keep the film engaging, giving…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
The optimistic existentialist flip-side to "nothing matters"--what if everything mattered? What if empathy could be a constructive weapon? What if a once-huge child actor could come back in a big way and make it seem like he'd never left? What if an international movie star finally got the leading role she'd always deserved? What if the weirdos who made Lil' Jon music videos and the farting corpse movie went bigger, not smaller, for their follow-up feature? What if people had hot dogs for fingers?
It's great to have a film that asks the big questions and answers them in the most exciting, innovative and heartwarming manner.
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Coming Home in the Dark 2021
Character: let’s not drag this out any longer
Coming Home in the Dark: *proceeds to drag it out longer*
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The Irishman 2019
THE IRISHMAN (or, I Heard YOU Paint Houses) is a reckoning with legacy, morality, and loyalty. De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci give layered and vibrant performances—some of the best in their careers. Haunting in its reflectiveness. Also, I really want some ice cream now.
