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PRINCE OF THE CITY (Dir. Sidney Lumet, 1981, US)
* * * * Lumet’s NY films, which are so many, expressly the one’s rooted in the elements of crime map something venal about a city that few filmmakers have been able to articulate with such detail and intimacy. Prince of the City is often regarded as Lumet’s masterpiece; a sprawling crime epic about Daniel Continue reading
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CIVIL WAR (Dir. Alex Garland, 2024, US)
* * * In arguably Alex Garland’s finest work to date, Civil War transports audiences to a grimly plausible near future where America has devolved into a nightmarish civil conflict. This dystopian political road movie is notable for its perspective, chronicling the harrowing journey of a band of maverick freelance journalists. Their quest for truth Continue reading
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THE INCIDENT (Dir. Larry Peerce, 1967, US)
* * * In Larry Peerce’s harrowing thriller, The Incident (1967), a cross-section of native New Yorkers finds themselves confined in a subway car, facing a veritable nightmare as two malevolent street hoodlums turn the mundane journey into a claustrophobic crucible. Tony Musante, and a young, sinister Martin Sheen, whom we first encounter menacingly prowling Continue reading
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DEAD OF NIGHT / DEATH DREAM (Dir. Bob Clark, 1974, US)
* * * * This one has a haunting, traumatic premise about a young soldier who is killed in the Vietnam War but returns from the dead at his family home on the night of his death. Andy, a young soldier, is symptomatic of not only the return of the repressed, which in this case Continue reading
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KID BLUE (Dir. James Frawley, Dennis Hopper, 1973, US)
* * * A forgotten Western from the early 70s but an altogether brilliantly funny one with Dennis Hopper in fine form as Texas train robber and proletarian semi-Marxist desperado Kid Blue who decides to go straight in a small town in Texas. A comedy Western with a latent counterculture dimension, Kid Blue’s attempts to Continue reading
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