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Best line of the year 2023 (from the classic noir ‘The Big Steal’)
R. Mitchum, to the femme fatale while framing the villain: When your teeth stop chattering, you get Ortega on the phone ... R. Mitchum, alla protagonista femminile mentre tiene sotto tiro il cattivo: Quando i denti finiranno di batt... -
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Sorry, we missed you
Non c'è fine agli effetti collaterali del capitalismo post-moderno. Quando andrà in pensione, signor Loach, sicuramente ci mancherà Director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty have come storming back to Cannes with another tactlessl... -
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THE IRISHMAN
Sorry Mr P. Bradshaw, but The Irishman is definitively not Martin Scorsese's finest film for 30 years. It is a kind of Goodfellas part 2, same narrative technique, use of soundtrack, voice-over, multiple timeline narration and flashbacks... -
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MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
Post Chandler classical noir revisited, with a protagonist with an obsessive-compulsive syndrome that makes him look like a Dustin Hoffman character of the 60s. There is indeed a 60s feeling, of ideological revisitation, mixed with the c... -
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Knives Out
Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime nove... -
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WESTERN STARS
The magic is there. Welcome to Bruce's barn where all the Western Stars tracks are performed live. The emotion of the boss live is still there, at 70, with a tough unchanged voice, which is a miracle that remains untouched. Bruce cr... -
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A Rainy Day in New York
Quintessential Allen. Back to his early NYC movies where a fascinating New York is the real protagonist, city of dreams and chances and neurosis, but THE CITY. And back to his early protagonists, a Catcher-in-the-Rye young man unsatisfie... -
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L’UFFICIALE E LA SPIA di Roman Polanski
Lezione di cinema. Nel setting, nei costumi, nelle scene ma anche nella struttura narrativa. Soprattutto una vicenda di grande attualità: il pregiudizio, l'arroganza del potere, la menzogna per mantenere lo status quo, l'indifferenza all... -
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Yesterday
It’s ridiculous and indulgent at all times ... Yet there is a weird and heavy backwash of sadness at the end, a kind of melancholy comedown, and I can’t quite decide if that was intentional or not (The Guardian, Richard Curtis'... -
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VICE
Bale brilliantly captures the former vice-president’s bland magnificence in Adam McKay’s entertainingly nihilist biopic (The Guardian). Ambitious, amusing, but confused portrait of Dick Cheney. The movie works in itself but fails to capt...