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Taxi (1998, Gérard Pirès)
Taxi benefits greatly from its length–eighty-six minutes–and from Besson’s general understanding of how to amuse an audience. He does it to some success in his American films (a rather limited one, but...
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Taxi 2 (2000, Gérard Krawczyk)
Taxi 2 is a sequel in the least artistic, but possibly most admirable way. It picks up an indeterminate time after the first movie, doesn’t deal with the first movie’s conclusion (Samy Naceri becoming...
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Taxi 3 (2003, Gérard Krawczyk)
Taxi 3 starts with a superior set-up, a James Bond-esque chase scene through Marseilles, the good guy on a bicycle, running from the bad guys (on rollerblades). It’s goofy and funny–the best part being...
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Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
Inception is a moderately engaging, globe-trotting adventure. On any reflection, it’s also mind-numbingly dumb. What’s brilliant is how Nolan packages it. He takes a heist film, with all its inherent...
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Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen)
Midnight in Paris is one of Allen’s single stroke films. There are some painters in it, so using the paint stroke metaphor works rather nicely. The film’s about one thing; it’s about Owen Wilson’s...
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Rust and Bone (2012, Jacques Audiard)
Until about eighty minutes into Rust and Bone, the film resists predictability. Director Audiard has a couple moments of Marion Cotillard bouncing back after a tragedy to pop music, but they’re...
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Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen)
Midnight in Paris is one of Allen’s single stroke films. There are some painters in it, so using the paint stroke metaphor works rather nicely. The film’s about one thing; it’s about Owen Wilson’s...
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Rust and Bone (2012, Jacques Audiard)
Until about eighty minutes into Rust and Bone, the film resists predictability. Director Audiard has a couple moments of Marion Cotillard bouncing back after a tragedy to pop music, but they’re...
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)
Much of The Dark Knight Rises is rushed. The film runs over two and a half hours and director Nolan can’t find anything he wants to spend much time on. He’s got a lot of characters to occupy that run...
View ArticleAnnette (2021, Leos Carax)
Right up until the end, it seems like Annette will maintain some level of success solely due to the audacity of the project. It’s a musical set in Hollywood, where an edge lord white male comedian...
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Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen)
Midnight in Paris is one of Allen’s single stroke films. There are some painters in it, so using the paint stroke metaphor works rather nicely. The film’s about one thing; it’s about Owen Wilson’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rust and Bone (2012, Jacques Audiard)
Until about eighty minutes into Rust and Bone, the film resists predictability. Director Audiard has a couple moments of Marion Cotillard bouncing back after a tragedy to pop music, but they’re...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)
Much of The Dark Knight Rises is rushed. The film runs over two and a half hours and director Nolan can’t find anything he wants to spend much time on. He’s got a lot of characters to occupy that run...
View ArticleAnnette (2021, Leos Carax)
Right up until the end, it seems like Annette will maintain some level of success solely due to the audacity of the project. It’s a musical set in Hollywood, where an edge lord white male comedian...
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