The obligation to pay moral respect to truthfulness means bouncing between chest-bumping slo-mo and ashen faces facing down certain death. It's an elusive wavelength, and I'm not sure it quite nails that split. But the performances make this, primarily Beale's Beria because he doesn't get to go for laughs.
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MacGruber 2010
First R-rated movie I legally saw as a 17-year-old. Seen it a billion times since. Jorma Taccone and co.'s facsimile of generic action movies, while occasionally boring, is vital to the comedy working as well as it does. And their masterstroke is burying the lede of MacGruber being an absolutely repugnant piece of shit.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 2017
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Good Time 2017
The title cuts three ways. First, it's obviously an ironic joke about the viewer's experience. While undoubtedly invigorating, it's nobody's idea of a "good time". But more importantly, the Safdies explain in a bonus feature it's a term that describes the parole a prisoner earns for good behavior. Good behavior begets "good time". It's here where the film poignantly earns its name: many recent parolees, like Buddy Duress' Ray, have little to return to. Ray finds himself in hot water…
