Category: Movies
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The Handmaiden (2016)
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Read more: The Handmaiden (2016)The Handmaiden is a movie made by Chan-Wook Park, the filmmaker who gave us the thrilling masterpiece trilogy, Oldboy (2003), Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance. This movie is an adaptation of Sarah Water’s Victorian tale, Fingersmith. The plot is set in 1930’s Korea, while still under the pre-war occupation of Japan. The Handmaiden…
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The African Queen (1951)
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Read more: The African Queen (1951)Here at Ruthless, we are famous for 80’s Action and Christmas Movie Reviews. One genre that is seriously underrepresented at Ruthless is the classics. Movies with dialogue that pops and sizzles, and with great acting and character development. The African Queen is one of my favorite classics and stars two of the greatest actors to…
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Biutiful
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Read more: BiutifulEven death is hard work.
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Downhill
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Read more: DownhillDear cruel world. The advantage in avoiding all trailers for a movie is that you do not know what is coming. Unfortunately, that is also the danger. What little I knew going into the screening of Downhill was that it starred Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and was about a family on ski trip. IMDb…
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Birds of Prey
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Read more: Birds of PreyDon’t oversell it. Watching a DC Extended Universe (DCEU) movie is a bit like Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy’s football. Every time you line up the kick, she promises that, this time, she won’t pull it away. By now, you have slipped four discs in your spine, bruised your tailbone, dislocated a hip, and…
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Airport 1975
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Read more: Airport 1975No, this is not a trend that should cause you great concern, so I promise that I will stay far, far away from both Airport ’77 and Concorde: Airport ’79.
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The 2020 Oscars: Some Picks And Thoughts From Team Ruthless
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Read more: The 2020 Oscars: Some Picks And Thoughts From Team RuthlessYes, I know, it is hard to imagine that it is Academy Award season again. Due to plummeting ratings, I don’t know what the Academy has in store for us this year. 2019 started out slow, but ended with some pretty awesome movies. Things are changing, with Netflix becoming a major movie player + a…
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Ace In the Hole
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Read more: Ace In the HoleIf it took losing his family to the ovens of Auschwitz (including his mother) in order for Billy Wilder to see humanity so clearly…
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Top 10 Worst Movies of 2019
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Read more: Top 10 Worst Movies of 2019How? How could one person see this many terrible movies in one year? Was I perhaps stricken with some mysterious curse? The answer is much simpler: cinematic masochism. Yes, I spent last year seeking out the worst movies I could find every bit as voraciously as I sought out the best, as I do every…
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Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2019
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Read more: Ezra’s Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2019As always, it is important to stress that this list is a compilation of my ten personal favorite movies of the year, and not necessarily the “best,” though I do consider the top three to be timeless, unassailable classics. The bottom three are, on the other hand, a few that I feel have not gotten…