Knives Out
Rarely will one relish their time at the cinema as much as when seeing Knives Out, a wonderfully enjoyable romp from writer/director Rian Johnson.
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Tag Archives: Mystery
Veronica Mars Season 4
Like all noir protagonists, Veronica continues to be the instrument of her own demise – don’t expect that to change anytime soon.
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Altered Carbon
Because if Blade Runner 2049 taught us anything, it’s that future noir is just as obsessed with dead naked women as old-fashioned noir.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Seriously, if you want to know how to shoot a scene in a confined space, this is the feature to study.
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Blade Runner 2049
I have no doubt that if Ridley Scott himself had been behind the camera, rather than simply producing, it would have been much worse.
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Jasper Jones
Racism and sexism lurk around the edges of the interpersonal drama, though there isn’t anything particularly nuanced about the depiction.
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Arrival
The build up towards each reveal is brilliant, and recalls the best bits of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Inferno
Irrfan Khan is surely an actor that’s next in line to play a Bond villain.
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Backtrack
Part of my genuine love for this film has to do with the fact that we don’t see as many of its kind as we used to.
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The Absent One
I’ve grown to like Kaas’ performance as Carl a little more this time around, and once more Fares steals the show with an effortlessly charismatic performance as his more sociable offsider.
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