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The Noose Hangs High
Even lesser Abbott & Costello movies are still comedy gravy to the avid fans of the fast-talking duo. Their first film deal…
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The Stranger
Edward G. Robinson uncovers another killer, but this time he's after a Nazi mass murderer, not an insurance salesman. Orson Welles' most…
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The Long, Hot Summer
Barns are a-burning, Paul Newman is recommended to Joanne Woodward as 'a big stud horse' and Lee Remick oozes sexuality all over…
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Held for Questioning (Der Aufenthalt)
Sylvester Groth shines in this East German movie about a luckless private in a Polish prison, thrown in with a group of…
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Prizzi’s Honor
Richard Condon and John Huston's show is like a gangland version of Moonstruck, bouncing effortlessly between earnest romanticism and cynical satire. Hit…
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Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky's bizarre philosophical science fiction epic may be his most successful picture overall -- every image and word makes its precise…
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The Man with Two Brains
Steve Martin brings down the house with this adoring, hilarious pastiche of mad doctor and disembodied brain motifs -- surely the epitome…
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Tobor the Great
Robot roll call! This also-ran robotic fantasy from the 1950s is precisely the kind of movie one would expect from Republic, a…
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THE 2017 MURIELS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
The history of the Muriel Awards stretches aaaalllll the way back to 2006, which means that this coming season will be a…
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Night Moves
Arthur Penn's detective movie is one of the best ever in the genre, one that rewards repeat viewings particularly well. Gumshoe Harry…
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Ronin
Robert De Niro picks up a gun once again as a highly paid spy-mercenary-thief hired for a bit of international larceny, the…
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Bob Hope on Blu-ray
You pick up a lot of baggage when you live to be 100, a sentiment confirmed by the long, long movie career…
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Duel in the Sun
David O. Selznick's absurdly over-cooked western epic is a great picture, even if much of it induces a kind of hypnotic, mouth-hanging-open…
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 50th Anniversary
Sergio Leone's Civil War gunslinger epic is everybody's favorite western, and most everybody has a bone to pick regarding problems with the…
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Meantime
Nobody stands up for Britons in the lower class trenches like the fierce, opinionated and outright brilliant Mike Leigh; his unusual writing…
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The Crimson Kimono
Another great Samuel Fuller film on Blu-ray -- this one is a crime tale set in downtown Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, that…
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Séance on a Wet Afternoon
It was only recently that I saw, for the very first time, Bryan Forbes’ adaptation of Mark McShane’s novel Séance on a…
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Re-Animator
Released in 1985, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator remains the grandest of Grand Guignols, a viscerally entertaining comedy that is just grindhouse enough for…
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Beggars of Life
A happy discovery! This is a major late- silent-era gem on the order of Von Sternberg's Docks of New York -- a…
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Freebie and the Bean
Here's how one pushed the limits of good taste in 1974. James Caan and Alan Arkin run the gamut of racist, raunchy,…
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OPENING WEDNESDAY AT A THEATER OR DRIVE-IN NEAR YOU: THE SHADOW CINEMA OF THE AMERICAN ‘70S
“All the films in this book share an air of disreputability… I have tried to avoid using the word art about the…
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The Dinner
How far will the new American aristocracy go to protect its privileges? Oren Moverman's intense four-way war of wills is sourced from…
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Hopscotch
A generic spy story becomes an inspired light comedy with the application of great talent led by the star-power of Walter Matthau.…
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Silkwood
It's a quality true-life mystery-exposé that doesn't come off as tabloid trash or Oliver Stone hysteria -- the true story of Karen…
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Night People
Nunnally Johnson hands us a well-written spy & hostage drama set in Cold War Berlin, with plenty of intrigue and good humor…