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Apr 21, 2023 · To Catch a Killer. After a deadly sniper leaves 29 people dead on New Year’s Eve, the FBI's chief investigator Geoffrey Lammark ( Ben Mendelsohn) lectures the Baltimore Police Department that their suspect is not a type, reminding them that he is a person and that “somebody loved him, somebody trained him, and somebody sold him that gun.”.
Mar 23, 2006 · Spike Lee's "Inside Man" has a detective tell a bank robber: "You saw 'Dog Day Afternoon.'. You're stalling." The problem is, we've seen "Dog Day Afternoon," and Lee is stalling. Here is a thriller that's curiously reluctant to get to the payoff, and when it does, we see why: We can't accept the motive and method of the bank robbery, we can't ...
Aug 20, 2020 · Unhinged. The license plates in the unnamed state where the thriller “Unhinged” takes place read: “America’s Heartland.”. The suggestion is that the horrors that occur over the course of one inordinately eventful day—and the ire that prompts them in the first place—could happen anywhere, even in a seemingly wholesome, secure part ...
Apr 26, 2023 · With the war nearing its end and the specter of war crimes looming large, Bruno sees the gold as his ticket out of future punishment. In their struggle, the film piles bodies as high as a Rambo death count. But "Sisu" is more than its enjoyable carnage. Conventionally, prospectors have been symbolic harbingers of colonization and land theft.
Dec 25, 2019 · As indicated by the title, “1917” is set amidst the turmoil of World War I and takes place in and around the so-called “no man’s land” in northern France separating British and German troops. Two young corporals, Blake ( Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield ( George MacKay ), are awoken from what could have only been a few minutes of ...
The January Man. "The January Man" is worth study as a film that fails to find its tone. It's all over the map. It wants to be zany but violent, satirical but slapstick, romantic but cynical. It wants some of its actors to rant and rave like amateur tragedians, and others to reach for subtle nuances. And it wants all of these things to happen ...
Sep 18, 2020 · That's the question at the heart of "The Nest," a wrenching, beautiful drama about a married couple who relocate from upstate New York to a drafty old estate near London, where their union unravels. The marriage of Rory and Allison ( Jude Law and Carrie Coon) was already frayed. But the spouses were so comfortable with the family's routines ...
