Sparks truly fly in this superb film about a love triangle set in the milieu of television reporting, featuring a terrific Holly Hunter as a feisty news producer.
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Broadcast News (1987)
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
An ex-thief must clear his name in this touristy if somewhat middling Hitchcock film set in Southern France, but the scenery is amazing to look at, and the flirtatious energy between Cary Grant and Grace Kelly imbues it with mild erotic tension.
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Marriage Circle, The (1924)
A delightfully humorous early silent classic from Lubitsch that efficiently tells the interlocking story of two couples whose marriages teeter towards a crisis.
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Casablanca (1942)
An endlessly quotable love triangle drama set in the context of WWII politics, this is truly one of the greatest films of the Classical Hollywood era with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in their most iconic roles.
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Informant!, The (2009)
Based on an incredulous true story, this easy-going and quirky effort by Soderbergh starring a delightful Matt Damon, should leave a smile on your face.
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Traffic (2000)
Soderbergh is at his commanding best in this powerful and unsettling film that captures the essence of the U.S-Mexico drug trade as it is, and without the need to moralise.
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Nope (2022)
Peele’s third feature is his most ambitious yet though not necessarily as sharp as his previous works, firmly locating itself in sci-fi horror territory while expressing our innate desires for attractions and spectacles.
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Collateral (2004)
A cab driver and an assassin cross paths in Mann’s nocturnal crime escapade—it may stray into incredulity in its final act, but it accrues just enough stylistic points and storytelling rhythm to power all the way through.
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Ace in the Hole (1951)
Kirk Douglas is sensational as an amoral journalist with an acerbic wit, who exploits the news of a man trapped in a cave, as Wilder gives us one of his most cynical films.
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Blood Diamond (2006)
Generally entertaining political actioner about diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone, though it rarely escapes Hollywood’s fetishised view of a bloodshed-laden Africa.
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Eternality Tan 