Scott’s work is an odd beast of melodramatic excesses—a largely lumbering biopic yet cold and campy enough to just about work as an unintended ‘tragicomedy’.
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House of Gucci (2021)
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Blade Runner (1982)
One of the greatest sci-fi films ever made, this is a masterpiece of mood setting, existential themes and unforgettable images.
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Matrix Resurrections, The (2021)
This is the worst ‘Matrix’ by miles—a tediously talky, muddled mess of meta-recursive ideas that dilutes the mythology that made the trilogy, flawed as it may be, such a blast.
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Alien (1979)
Of all the science-fiction horror movies ever made, Ridley Scott’s significant cultural touchstone of a film might just be the greatest.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
The tick-the-checkbox fan servicing approach is a mixed bag—the nostalgising can be oddly satisfying but the storytelling ironically feels regressive in the very construct designed to entertain a range of creative possibilities.
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French Dispatch, The (2021)
Anderson’s weakest in a long while despite the indelible images and precise mise-en-scene which he is so good at—there’s hardly any character worth resonating with, and the stories are way too dry and lack sentiment.
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Baby Driver (2017)
Edgar Wright’s engaging if offbeat heist film ticks like clockwork, and is accompanied by a terrific iPod playlist for a soundtrack.
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Last Days, The (1998)
Any film about the Holocaust is always essential viewing—this Oscar-winning documentary details the testimonies of five Hungarian Jews who survived the concentration camps during the time when the Nazis brutally intensified their extermination plan despite knowing they were losing the war.
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Metropolitan (1990)
Stillman’s accomplished comedy (his debut feature) tackles a particular class milieu in America—what the young, well-to-do Manhattanites deem as ‘urban haute bourgeoisie’—with a wry and sardonic tone that is uniquely his.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
A riveting if underrated postmodernist tale by Jarmusch about the multiplicities and intersections of cultures new and old, starring an excellent Forest Whitaker as a hip-hop listening African-American hitman deeply influenced by the ancient mythos of the Japanese samurai.
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