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Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950
The quandary inherent of becoming the very thing you hate, and Andrews' Detective Dixon's got plenty of hate to spare as evidenced by his innumerable violent brush-ins that have landed him squarely in his precinct's hot seat, his latest the worst of all albeit of an accidental nature. Good news travels fast but this implies that falsehood travels faster as Andrews expertly fashions this man's guilt around his neck like an albatross, throwing up one deceitful Hail Mary after another…
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Adventureland 2009
Post-collegiate apathy/ennui in full swing in all its dead end, Smalltown, USA glory as a man begrudgingly takes up a part-time gig to pay his way toward a more desirable graduate endgame. Not so much about the innate shittiness of a job as it is recognizing that you're nearing the bedrock beneath your existential quagmire, and it's up to *you* to either push past it or stagnate in a state of arrested development, selling drugs to teenagers out of the…
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The Devil All the Time 2020
Undeniably messy and misanthropic as it embraces ironically nihilistic throughlines regarding the unsavory nature of humanity in a specific time and place as a fictional pre-Vietnam microcosm of societal dysfunction and depravity. As Campos' first larger-budget ensemble outing, there's indeed the aforementioned messiness but this rests firmly in his wheelhouse as something obviously dour and godless, and to be honest, he kinda knocks it outta the park. If you wanna watch pretty people looking ugly-ish and absolutely not practice what…
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Night and the City 1950
The high cost of a scheming, low-down wolf dreaming big in sheep's clothing as evidenced by his rapid decline and repeatedly wronging the one person that actually cares for him despite a monumental losing streak. Widmark perfectly embodies the infectious, childlike temperament of Fabian's that proves time and again he's undeniably got a way with scummy coercion, yet he's so intoxicated by the notion of finally succeeding that he throws blinders on to those he crosses sealing his fate on…
