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  The Night of the 12th 2022

  

  Adam Nayman ★★★

  Asking big questions and not so humbly offering up zero answers, it’s a saleable transnational thriller with craft to spare and a barbed, post Zodiac hook: a realistic, grimly linear…

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  Serpico 1973

  

  Will Sloan

  Like many well-meaning liberals, Frank Serpico thinks he can reform a diseased system. In fact, the only option is to dismantle it.

  Great '70s New York movie - every single…

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  Serpico 1973

  

  josh lewis ★★★★

  traffics in the principled obviousness of frank’s single-minded campaign to resist police corruption but also feels like watching it die a slow, painful death. it speaks to how good lumet…

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  Serpico 1973

  

  brendanowicz

  The birth of Loud Pacino, contains Lumet’s typically sharp staging, much about the police as an institution of class mobility with its own form of anti-solidarity, but mostly I kept…

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  Make Way for Tomorrow 1937

  

  Jake Bart ★★★★★ 1

  McCarey’s unerring eye for human behavior and the generous spontaneity he allows his actors lend his films a vibrant present-ness. His gag man ingenuity is brought to bear on every…

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  Trouble Every Day 2001

  

  Adam Nayman ★★★★★ 1

  Just watched about forty minutes to check out the new Blu transfer but I basically have every voluptuous camera move and flatlined line reading memorized anyway; I watched this movie…

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  Adieu Philippine 1962

  

  Scott Nye 2

  Wikipedia claims that Truffaut hailed it as one of the key films of the New Wave, and I can see why - not only is it a much more successful,…

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  Adieu Philippine 1962

  

  Ana Vitória ★★★★½

  Um dos filmes que melhor representam a juventude sessentista e, também, a nouvelle vague. Penso em Adieu Philippine como algo que vai em contramão à juventude proposta por Godard em…