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- “ Roma” Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" takes place in the Mexico City neighborhood where he grew up in the 1970s. Filmed in vivid black-and-white (Cuarón shot it himself), "Roma" features long long takes, the camera moving horizontally through a house, across fields, into the sea, down city streets, creating a sense of reality so intense it almost tips over into dream.
- “ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Like so much of the best work of Joel & Ethan Coen, their latest film is a tough one to describe. On the surface, it’s an old-fashioned anthology piece, a reworking of what was once an iddea for a TV series into a collection of Old West vignettes, playing out like a storybook.
- “ Sorry to Bother You” Like many good dark comedies (ex: "Office Space," "Bamboozled") the hysterically caustic "Sorry to Bother You" feels like a full-blown panic attack.
- “ First Reformed” Ethan Hawke just gets better with age, as he casts aside the boyish good looks and swaggering sense of rebellion that made him both a superstar and an indie darling in the 1990s for more mature, fascinatingly flawed characters.
Dec 31, 2014 · A Most Violent Year. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. There's a kind of 1970s American movie that's catnip to directors who grew up in the '80s and '90s while watching that sort of movie on cable TV and home video. It's visually and thematically dark, and very male.
Feb 27, 2018 · The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Review: January 1, 1974 “Horror and exploitation films almost always turn a profit if they’re brought in at the right price. So they provide a good starting place ...
Feb 8, 2019 · Featured review. 7/10. A Violent Man is far more than your average fight movie. A struggling mixed martial arts fighter finds himself in a fight for his life after his one night stand is found dead in her home.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Matthew Berkowitz
- 2019-02-08
Feb 1, 2022 · The monotony gets broken up a little by a subplot about Steve’s cellmate Marcus (Stephen Odubola), a young man in for a seven-year stretch whom he begrudgingly protects from other criminals who ...
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- Leslie Felperin
Reviews The life of a violent and institutionalized prisoner gets disrupted when his estranged daughter asks to meet him and a 19-year-old serving his first sentence becomes his new cellmate.
Feb 4, 2022 · A Violent Man: Directed by Ross McCall. With Craig Fairbrass, Stephen Odubola, Zoë Tapper, Robin Laing. A prisoner's life is disrupted when his estranged daughter requests to meet him and a 19-year-old serving his first sentence becomes his new cellmate.
