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Mar 10, 2014
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No one makes cop movies like David Ayer.
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May 3, 1985
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Alfred Hitchcock's 1942 thriller (often confused with his 1936 Sabotage) follows the usual structure of his comedies: an innocent man, mistaken for a spy, is chased across the country.
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Apr 26, 2012
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Through a string of plot developments too convoluted to recount here, former cop Jason Statham takes a brainy Chinese girl under his wing and goes on the run from Russian gangsters, Chinese gangsters, and his estranged buddies in the NYPD.
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Feb 14, 2013
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As often as Lasse Hallström has directed melodrama (Dear John, Chocolat), he has yet to master the style; his films are excruciatingly self-serious in a genre that rewards good-natured uncouthness.
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Feb 9, 2012
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Making his Hollywood debut, Swedish director Daniel Espinosa models this big, noisy espionage thriller on the movies of Tony Scott (Déja Vu, Unstoppable), borrowing his oversaturated color palette, hyped-up editing, macho bluster, and perennial star (Denzel Washington).
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Jan 26, 2015
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Two streetwise women discover the dead body of an elite political leader.
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Jul 22, 2010
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Just as elite soldiers are taught to assemble their weapons blindfolded, screenwriter Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet, Law Abiding Citizen) seems to have been given a bag full of stale thriller scenes—a foot chase in which the hero disables a series of surveillance cameras, a freeway chase in which she leaps from the roof of one moving truck to another, a countdown to nuclear annihilation on brightly colored computer screens—and jammed them together in the dark.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 story of a lonely hit man (Alain Delon) is stylish and elegant, though not really the holy writ that Quentin Tarantino and John Woo have claimed.
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May 28, 2015
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My resistance to summer blockbusters crumbled like a collapsing skyscraper in the face of this big, loud, exuberantly destructive movie, in which a series of unprecedentedly large earthquakes erupt along the title fault line.
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May 28, 2015
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My resistance to summer blockbusters crumbled like a collapsing skyscraper in the face of this big, loud, exuberantly destructive movie, in which a series of unprecedentedly large earthquakes erupt along the title fault line.
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May 28, 2015
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My resistance to summer blockbusters crumbled like a collapsing skyscraper in the face of this big, loud, exuberantly destructive movie, in which a series of unprecedentedly large earthquakes erupt along the title fault line.
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Feb 4, 2011
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After a sluggish half hour, this well-crafted adventure kicks into high gear and never lets up.
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Feb 4, 2011
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After a sluggish half hour, this well-crafted adventure kicks into high gear and never lets up.
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Feb 4, 2011
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After a sluggish half hour, this well-crafted adventure kicks into high gear and never lets up.
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Jan 26, 2012
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Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, and Harvey Keitel star in this 1980 sci-fi thriller.
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