12 Angry Men (1957) Review: One Room, Twelve Minds, No Wasted Scenes
Twelve men in a hot room, one table, one case, one vote that has to be unanimous. On paper, 12 […]
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Casablanca (1942) Review: The Classic That Still Plays Like a Thriller
There is a particular problem with reviewing Casablanca, which is that nearly everyone arrives already knowing the lines. “Here’s looking
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The Wizard of Oz Review
The strange fact about The Wizard of Oz is that almost nobody remembers it as a movie about being afraid.
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The Shawshank Redemption Review
The Shawshank Redemption is the rare film whose commercial failure and eventual canonization tell you something true about how audiences
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The Breakfast Club Review
Strip The Breakfast Club down to its logline and it sounds like a stage exercise: five teenagers, one room, one
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The Big Lebowski Review
The received wisdom about The Big Lebowski is that it is a shapeless, stoned hangout comedy that happened to accumulate
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Alien Review
Ridley Scott’s Alien is filed, reasonably enough, as science fiction, and AFI counts it among the ten best of the
Role Models (2008) Review
Role Models arrived in 2008 into a comedy landscape thoroughly dominated by the Judd Apatow house style, and it is
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Fight Club Review
David Fincher’s Fight Club is routinely misread on both sides of the culture war it has been drafted into, praised
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Review
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind takes its title from Alexander Pope’s poem about a nun’s untroubled peace of mind,
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