Too overly-plotted, Petzold’s attempt at revising Casablanca for the modern age—and in his own oblique style and sensibility—doesn’t come out as deeply compelling as his best works.
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Transit (2018)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Not as incisive and critical as the first film, Stone’s sequel, set in the context of the global financial crisis, is still decent enough to warrant a casual viewing.
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Dracula (1992)
When it is not weird and dark, its gaudiness might annoy, but there is a method to the madness as Coppola pulls every trick in the cinematographic and editing handbook to deliver a studio movie that no one would probably dare try to make in this vein again.
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From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
While it isn’t as narratively bold and exciting as some of Studio Ghibli’s best works, there is still an emotional story about family and complicated pasts lying within.
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Old Joy (2006)
It’s so simple—two men go on an impromptu camping trip—yet Reichardt’s cinema of healing is deeply insightful about the ephemeral nature of life and friendship.
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Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Under Cocteau’s inventive sleight-of-hand, this early postwar work may be the most magical and poetic adaptation of the beloved fairy tale ever filmed.
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Minority Report (2002)
This underrated Philip K. Dick adaptation is an absolute sci-fi gem by Spielberg and a legitimate contender for the most entertaining, cerebral sci-fi thriller of the 2000s decade.
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Ali (2001)
Generally solid if slightly overlong Muhammad Ali biopic with an underrated performance from Will Smith—it doesn’t push the envelope for the boxing genre, but Mann delivers the fundamentals right.
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Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999)
Kiarostami’s observant eye for landscapes and people reaches its apotheosis here in this graceful, if sometimes elusive, meditation on life and mortality.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Spielberg’s warm touch of sentimentality is obvious if reassuring in this sci-fi project that Kubrick was working on before his untimely passing.
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