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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 12

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The Player is a Hollywood satire which, as all great satire does, looks less like satire today than it did when it was made.

  Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill, a big studio producer worried about being pushed out of the business by younger talent. He's been receiving death threats via postcards from a writer he snubbed at some indeterminate point in his career. When he thinks he's found a lead, he goes out to investigate and ends up killing a writer. He is forced to cover up his crime while maintaining his position at the studio and juggling his budding romance with—of all people—his victim's widow.

  And for the most part, Griffin Mill is a pretty sympathetic guy. We all…

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  Review by karsten ★★★★½

  trying to come up with something to say about this but can only think about how much young lyle lovett looks like my friend jeff

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  Review by BRAT ★★★★½ 4

  hail caesar (2016) WISHES!!!!

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  Review by iana ★★★★ 5

  i really should start checking if the film has nudity before i start watching it in the library and i look up from writing notes to see tim robbins with his dick out

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  Review by Tylot Lantern ★★★★ 4

  124 minutes of me doing the Pointing Rick Dalton meme.

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★★★★★ 5

  I loved this - except the casting was terrible, just a bunch of nobodies.

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★½ 4

  I’ve seen this so many times but only now noticed that Tim Robbins orders a different brand of bottled water in almost every scene and never drinks any of it.

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★★★ 6

  Movies, Now More Than Ever!
  
  This honestly might be my favorite fictional slogan. If I were to rename my podcast, it would probably be that.

  Altman hates Hollywood and that’s never been clearer. He weaves this story together so well and makes you despise but root for your protagonist. And Tim Robbins plays the character perfectly. I would put this ahead of Shawshank as my favorite performance of his.

  The cameos add a while additional layer to this film. They’re quite fun to spot but they serve a purpose, in giving you a sense of glamor that Tim Robbins is leading. (My absolute favorite is Buck Henry pitching The Graduate 2!)

  *SPOILERS AHEAD*

  Never has a happy ending been so…

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  Review by liam f ★★★★ 3

  the very definition of meta is characters in a film talking about a six-minute tracking shot during an eight-minute tracking shot

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 2

  Now, more than ever, they don’t make ’em like they used to.

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★★ 1

  best part of that opening long shot has gotta be seeing Richard E. Grant's name come up in those credits, baby!!!

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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★ 2

  In Hollywood, there’s only one word you gotta know: movie