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May 30, 2019
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Octavia Spencer stars in this horror film about a lonely woman befriended by a group of teens, whom she lets party at her house, but who grows increasingly obsessed with them.
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Nov 29, 2016
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A Marine returning home from Afghanistan searches for his estranged wife and son in this thriller from director Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints).
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Dec 9, 2005
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Based on a French lieutenant's account of his 1942 escape from a gestapo fortress in Lyon, this stately yet uncommonly gripping 1956 feature is my choice as the greatest achievement of Robert Bresson, one of the cinema's foremost artists.
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Apr 21, 2015
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Jack Arnold directed this cowboy noir (1958) about a local sheriff investigating a crooked landowner.
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Jan 26, 2012
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Asger Leth, best known for the political documentary Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2006), isn't someone I expected to revive the taut, unpretentious crime filmmaking that flourished in 1950s Hollywood, but this noirish thriller is as self-knowingly ludicrous and thoroughly enjoyable as Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt or While the City Sleeps.
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Apr 25, 2019
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Frank Perry directed this 1974 crime film about a police chief investigating a killing in his small town who is offered help by a psychic.
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Sep 13, 2018
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Writer-director Panos Cosmatos follows up his underground hit Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) with another atmospheric, slow-moving horror film set in 1983.
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Mar 25, 2005
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After creating Miami Vice, Michael Mann returned to the action-movie fray with this 1986 story of an FBI investigator (William L. Petersen) on the trail of psycho killer Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox).
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Feb 10, 2015
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An Iranian political thriller about a pair of writers persecuted by their government for writing a controversial book.
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Jun 15, 2012
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This insanely complicated, almost incoherent thriller (1976) has to resort to nonstop violence to hold your attention.
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Oct 20, 2011
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Writer-director J.C. Chandor has said that he wanted to portray the 2008 financial meltdown in all its complexity, assigning everyone a fair share of the blame.
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Jan 19, 2021
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When The Marksman opens, hardened rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) is les misérables.
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Aug 16, 2018
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A grieving widow's act of self-defense against a gang of would-be robbers and rapists leads to a series of encounters with a pregnant girl, the police, remnants of the gang, and a haunting apparition.
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Aug 25, 2009
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Universally despised on its first release, Marnie (1964) remains one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest and darkest achievements.
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Oct 27, 2011
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The horror aesthetic of B-movie producer Val Lewton—that the unseen is more frightening than the seen—is carried to a merciless extreme in this unnerving debut feature by writer-director Sean Durkin.
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