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  • Eyes Wide Shut
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  • Sorcerer
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  • The Lady from Shanghai

    ★★★★

  • The Third Man

    ★★★★★

  • A Decade Under the Influence

  • The Northman

    ★★★

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  • Into the Night

    Into the Night

    ★★

    Into the Night

    Released the same year as After Hours, Into the Night shares some similarities with Scorsese's masterpiece, with admittedly a fantastic performance by Goldblum, but Landis cannot balance this material in anything meaningful whatsoever. By the end of it, I was exhausted from boredom, and seeing the credits after nearly 2 hours was just the relief I needed.

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  • The Lady from Shanghai

    The Lady from Shanghai

    ★★★★

    The Lady From Shanghai

    We might not be so lucky to ever get the full 1+ hour of extra footage that the studio chopped out of Welles' directors cut, but what the studios were admittedly good at achieving were creating lean, non-fat cuts of films, including to more than a few of Welles' pictures. If The Lady from Shanghai is this fantastic at 1h27m, I can only imagine what Orson had cooking with over 2 hours.

    In any case, it's…

  • The Third Man

    The Third Man

    ★★★★★

    Done had myself a good old fashion Welles double feetch tonight. In both cases, I enjoyed each more than I did when I first viewed them.

    Starting with The Third Man, nothing beats cinematographer Robert Krasker's Oscar winning imagery. The shadows, the beaming lights, the back and foreground movement.

    It's a hell of a directed picture, and Welles' extended cameo performance is a complicated anomaly. We're taught to hate him for all the horrendous shit he's done, for which he's…

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  • Us

    Us

    ★★★★★

    Us

    Jordan Peele's best film.

  • The World's End

    The World's End

    ★★★★

    The World's End

    There is nothing in this world quite like Edgar Wright's signature editing, movement, blocking, entertainment value, heart, action, and laughs. Absolutely nothing.