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Tag: Drama

Blonde (2022)

Drama Rated NC-17

“…an overcorrection, an attempt to negate the gloss by burying it in bile.”

Double Indemnity (1944)

Drama Rated NR

“…it’s a thrill to watch Stanwyck go to work and assert her dominance.”

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

Drama Rated R

“I appreciated the craft, but never felt the longing.”

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)

Drama Rated R

“Brown vacuums up the movie in a way that’s both entrancing and entirely true to the complicated character he’s playing.”

Always (1989)

Drama Rated PG

“Steven Spielberg’s attempt to bring classic-cinema panache to a modern, mystical romance.”

Meet John Doe (1941)

Drama Rated NR

“Frank Capra was fond of speeches – and Meet John Doe is stuffed with them.”

Thief (1981)

Drama Rated R

“…as if Le Samourai got mugged in an Uptown alley.”

Hustle (2022)

Drama Rated R

“Just enough insider detail to tantalize a hardcore basketball fan, but too much inspirational sports hooey to hook one…”

Stella Dallas (1937)

Drama Rated NR

“Barbara Stanwyck flings her voice around like a lasso.”

Baby Face (1933)

Drama Rated NR

“Stanwyck’s Lily flips gender and power dynamics on their heads.”

Recent Reviews

By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)

Drama Rated NR

“While always mesmerized, I admittedly got lost amidst the layers…”

Two Minutes Late (1952)

Drama Rated NR

“… aims to be a big-screen version of a lurid pulp crime novel.”

Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) (1997)

Drama Rated NR

“… a scrappy, neo-realist tale of societal scrounging that’s paused by poetic moments of slow cinema.”


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