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Reviews

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  Thief 1981

  

  Edward Charles ★★★½

  Feels like I've seen dozens of movies cast at least partly from this one's mold. It's not the first 'one last job' movie, but Thief is prototypical - for better…

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  The Awful Truth 1937

  

  Edward Charles ★★★★½ 3

  A great screwball comedy. Delightfully contrived, this caliber banter is my quiptonite. The romance is somewhat low-heat, but the comedic chemistry is off the charts. I can see why it…

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  The Train 1964

  

  Edward Charles ★★★★

  Been watching (and loving) a lot of B&W movies this year and really noticing the differences depending on when they were made. Apparently this was the last Hollywood action spectacle…

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  King Creole 1958

  

  Mana Naki ★★★★

  I was not expecting this from an Elvis movie

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  Young Frankenstein 1974

  

  Former Film Snob ★★★★½

  Such a beautifully shot and directed film. Gene Wilder gives perhaps the greatest screaming performance in film history.

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  Sunset 1988

  

  Dale Nauertz ★★★★

  I know that Tom Mix was a real silent era cowboy star. I know that Wyatt Earp was a real, and legendary, lawman of the Old West who lived long…

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  Sunset 1988

  

  Joe ★★★ 1

  Blake Edwards directing Bruce Willis and James Garner as Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp solving a lurid old Hollywood murder mystery would be one for Why Isn't This Better? file…

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  Cleopatra Jones 1973

  

  Michael Ritchie ★★★★

  Not your typical "blaxploitation" flick, this is a fun action movie with a Black female drug agent fighting a white female drug lord in 1970s Los Angeles. Tamara Dobson as…