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A perfect film, every film student should watch. |
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Considered by many to contain Tyrone Power’s finest performance as an actor(admittedly not setting the bar too high here) “NIghtmare Alley” is a noirish psychological thriller about an ambitious sleazebag who enters the world of carnys with the goal of getting really good as one of those phony fo… |
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Oscar winning British actor Charles Laughton directed only 1 movie in his 30 year plus career but in this case 1 movie was enough. “Night of the Hunter” remains not only one of the great thrillers in the history of cinema but one of the better “Children in Peril” movies, not quite up there wi…
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A film noir twisting and turning and presenting Bogart at the top of his game, The Maltese Falcon is a deservedly classic Hollywood movie packed with subterfuge and manipulation from beginning to end.
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Perhaps the quintessential film noir, The Big Sleep offers Bogart and Bacall in a riveting, fiesty murder mystery that’s perhaps too beguiling for its own good at times. |
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Hollywood must be licking its chops to remake this Swedish hit. Chockablock with career-making roles, combining fashionable anti-capitalist politics with feminist blood-lust, and striking a crisply efficient thriller tone, it suffers only from a poor title, not that that matters given how huge t…
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Good trailer, great movie.
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Most everyone gets murdered in this crackerjack Scandinavian noir, making In Order of Disappearance – a long yet telling title for the most assured film of the year – serious as a headshot, yet often funny as hell. The dominos start falling after an innocent guy gets mistakenly knocked-off b…
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A common man takes down the mob.
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Classic film noir doesn’t necessarily age well, The Third Man a case in point, cool cover notwithstanding. Slow and stilted by contemporary standards, it nonetheless deserves its status as a benchmark of the genre, if not the perfect rating so many give it. Most intriguingly, it would make a …
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The movie's better than the trailer.
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