Lizzie Borden’s sharp, funny, and frank Working Girls is a great testament to the value…
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Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth, from 1991, uses the story of five cab rides in…
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Delmer Daves’s 1947 noir Dark Passage is like a complex lucid dream. It’s both stylish…
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Katt Shea’s sultry, over-the-top Poison Ivy, a 1992 erotic thriller, begins with teenage bad girl…
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Jim Mickle’s Cold in July is a twisty, Southern-fried crime film that seems to have…
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1982’s sleazy, over-the-top Basket Case is a bizarre but entertaining combination of seedy slice-of-NYC-life and…
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Level 16 introduces us to a grim girls’ school that functions via bizarre and rigid…
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Amy Heckerling’s screwball gangster comedy Johnny Dangerously aims to give the viewer a fargin’ good…
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Together, Runaway Jury and The Firm comprise the tiny but surprisingly viable genre of “thoroughly…
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“Drifter comes to town” is a classic noir opener. When Dennis Hopper’s steamy 1990 film The…
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