Stripped to its bare essentials, this Melville-esque car chase thriller sees Ryan O’Neal and Bruce Dern go head-to-head as a getaway driver and dirty detective respectively.
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Driver, The (1978)
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Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
A well-built historical action epic by Mann about the British and French battling for control over the American colonies, but it does sometimes feel bogged down by its warm, romantic tone amid the bloodshed.
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Babel (2006)
Four narrative threads combine, however intricately or tenuously, to create a tapestry of natural and human geography, as Inarritu explores the theme of incommunicability and personal responsibility with the kind of storytelling bravura he has been known for.
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Side Effects (2013)
Soderbergh’s latest is immensely well-shot and takes a methodical approach to storytelling, but still falls short of being a first-rate dramatic thriller.
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
Eco-‘terrorism’ is explored in this tense and pulsating thriller about a group of environmental activists planning to bomb an oil pipeline in Texas as they try to find a precarious balance between agency and morality.
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Women Talking (2022)
It will surely spark more conversations on women’s agency in dealing with sexual assault and toxic masculinity, but Polley’s work is visually uninteresting, and the performances might sometimes feel maudlin.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
The Daniels’ wacky vision of a ‘multiverse’ action-comedy somewhat revels in its outlandish excess, and is blessed with a cast (headlined by a superb Michelle Yeoh) pretty much game to realise it to its fullest potential.
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Primer (2004)
An antecedent to the likes of ‘Tenet‘, this low-budget cult sci-fi sensation about two engineers who discover that they can manipulate time feels so raw and indecipherable that it could just be paralyzingly real.
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21 Grams (2003)
The second film of Inarritu’s ‘hyperlink’ trilogy may occasionally feel overwrought by design, but the top-tier performances from Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro give it the requisite emotional intensity to work.
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Tar (2022)
This could be the ‘Mulholland Drive’ for this generation—a deliberately-paced hallucinatory deep dive into the physical and psychological realities of a world-famous (if fictional) composer-conductor that sees Todd Field and Cate Blanchett in extraordinary form.
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