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Ethan Hawke
Taking Lives (2004)
Willfully stupid and obvious for most of its running time, this serial-killer thriller lulls the audience into one gasp-worthy, rug-pulling moment that, while stupid, isn't exactly obvious.
Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunset (2004)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Plays more like
Die Hard 2
on a budget than a remake in spirit of Carpenter's scrappy original....When the remake is so flavorless...it's time to hit the video shelves.
Gattaca (1997)
Ripe for reappraisal...the storytelling integrity and thoughtful themes of a good novel.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
New York, I Love You (2009)
Some of the twelve short films are nice enough, some are shaky and a few are outright awful...
Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Getaway (2013)
Getaway
does inspire escapism, as its title implies, but not in the way the filmmakers had in mind: rather, you’ll be looking for the exits.
Boyhood (2014)
Cinematic poetry...As that greatest of screen rarities—a potentially mainstream experimental film—the writer-director earns a bit of slack in gratitude for the strange and wonderful gift
Boyhood
is...
Maggie's Plan (2015)
A not-unpleasant 98 minutes that’s nevertheless understocked with comic zest and thematic incisiveness.
First Reformed (2018)
It’s Schrader’s on-point filmmaking--a nouveau spin on the spiritual films, character studies, and transcendental style of cinematic Old Masters like Bergman and Bresson--that functions as what Toller calls 'another form of prayer.'
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