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Feb 12, 2021
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Maybe the first thing worth mentioning about All My Friends Are Dead is that press screeners were unavailable—a fitting kiss of death for this mediocre movie.
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Sep 12, 2019
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Jim Gaffigan stars as a desperate ride-share driver who kidnaps a drug dealer's kid.
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Jan 10, 2019
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The notorious Argentine criminal Carlos Robledo Puch committed dozens of robberies and at least ten murders before turning 18; this stylish docudrama considers the last few years of his life before his arrest in the early 1970s.
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Oct 4, 2007
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Moseying along for 160 minutes, this 2007 revisionist western by writer-director Andrew Dominik makes a wan attempt to present the Jesse James legend as the dawn of celebrity culture in America.
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Jan 21, 2020
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“All our lives we’ve been bad boys, now it’s time to be good men.” Franchise revivals can be tricky, but Martin Lawrence and Will Smith prove that the third time really is the charm in the long-awaited third installment of the Bad Boys film franchise.
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Jun 23, 2020
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A jaunty, rollicking ride, this black-and-white film follows two teenage boys in Scotland in 1994.
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Oct 26, 1985
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It's not the convoluted yet obvious plot of this 1998 drama about the domestic lives and criminal careers of two childhood friends (DMX and Nas) that draws you in—it's the splendid visuals.
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Apr 13, 2021
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Chinese student Chen Nian (Zhou Dongyu) falls in love with petty criminal Liu Beishan (Jackson Yee) after they become prime suspects in the murder of a school bully, Wei Lai, in Kwok Cheung Tsang's Better Days.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Finished in early 1945, Howard Hawks's original remodeling of the Raymond Chandler mystery is in fact two minutes shorter than the version released more than a year later, but it contains 18 minutes of footage Hawks discarded to make room for new scenes.
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Feb 14, 1985
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A very good movie (1946), and by far the best Raymond Chandler adaptation, but it isn't one of Howard Hawks's most refined efforts—it lacks his clarity of line, his balance, his sense of a free spirit at play within a carefully set structure.
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Oct 24, 2019
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A Black cop finds herself caught between her community and her fellow officers in the aptly named Black and Blue.
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Oct 26, 1985
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This 1991 first feature by writer-director John Singleton, then 23, about growing up Black in South Central LA, shows some genuine talent in handling character and action, and equal amounts of confusion and attitude when it comes to matters of gender and ghetto politics.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Reportedly (and understandably) Youssef Chahine's most popular film among Egyptians, this gritty and relatively early (1958) black-and-white masterpiece also features his most impressive acting turn, as a crippled news vendor working at the title railroad station.
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May 9, 2019
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One might think that director Mary Harron (American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol) would fashion a biting tale about the Manson Family and their murder spree in the summer of 1969.
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May 2, 2019
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Ben Hernandez Bray directed this all-Hispanic-cast crime film about a Los Angeles cop investigating a gang and finding clues about his own criminal twin brother's death.
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