Category: Movies
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Magnolia (1999)
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Read more: Magnolia (1999)Magnolia is, to me, one of those movies that are written, shot and cut in a state of grace. From the first to last frame, everything flows in a flawless rhythm.
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Good Boy (2025)
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Read more: Good Boy (2025)Anyone who has spent time around dogs (or cats, for that matter) has undoubtedly observed the way they will sometimes stare riveted at apparently empty spaces with great concentration.
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Tron: Ares (2025)
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Read more: Tron: Ares (2025)It’s been fifteen years since Tron: Legacy came out and about a hundred years since the original Tron released, based on how much Jeff Bridges appears to have aged.
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The Unsung: Duane, Annie Hall (1977)
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Read more: The Unsung: Duane, Annie Hall (1977)Before the Deer Hunter Oscar, there was Duane. Predating Fatboy Slim, the Tarantino flirtation, and More Cowbell – long before his signature style gave birth to an icon.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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Read more: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)What can you possibly expect from a movie that was made before CGI, a musical, and one that features stop motion animation? A dazzling masterpiece, that’s what.
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Jaws 3-D (1983)
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Read more: Jaws 3-D (1983)I never thought I’d become the resident shark movie guy here at Ruthless, but after Sharknado 3, Big Shark, and now this, it feels more likely than ever. I did this to myself
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The Unsung: Pamela Voorhees, Friday the 13th (1980)
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Read more: The Unsung: Pamela Voorhees, Friday the 13th (1980)All my life, I’ve admired the long game. Someone willing to take a slight from childhood, nurture it into a grudge, build into an obsession, and end as a singular fixation that explodes in violence.
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Jaws 3-D Got It Right: Some Thoughts on Sequels
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Read more: Jaws 3-D Got It Right: Some Thoughts on SequelsEarlier this year, I had the privilege of enjoying the latest installment in the possibly immortal (though it’s hard to imagine it without Tony Todd) Final Destination franchise, and enjoy it I did.
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The Smashing Machine (2025)
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Read more: The Smashing Machine (2025)I noted in my review of One Battle After Another that I had seen exactly none of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s previous films. That is nearly the case with The Smashing Machine’s director, Benny Safdie.
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The Unsung: Nick, Born to Be Bad (1950)
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Read more: The Unsung: Nick, Born to Be Bad (1950)Here we are again, all aboard the Robert Ryan Express: a one-way ticket to lands now long extinct, much to the displeasure of anyone inclined to take without asking