Devil in a Blue Dress is now on Tubi, allowing me to finish off my…
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Kirk Douglas’s Chuck Tatum tells us who he is as soon as he barges into…
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Ida Lupino’s minimalist noir film The Hitch-Hiker may come to us through some fault in…
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“People don’t talk to me like that!” In both 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptations, a woman…
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Film noir! The genre of femme fatales, moral ambiguity, doomed antiheroes. Stories where one bad…
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Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
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McKenzie Woodward’s Mr. Weekend is a great example of how to do stripped-down, stylish filmmaking…
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Scandal Sheet is a tight little crime melodrama set in the world of tabloid journalism.…
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In the Land of Lost Angels is Bishrel Mashbat’s feature-length directorial debut, and he makes…
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Bound is an intensely playful movie. This was the directorial debut of the Wachowskis—who also…
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