The behind-the-scenes creation of Citizen Kane, Mank is a dream ciné-experience chronicling the avant-garde writing of a masterpiece with orgasmic meta-analysis, blithe axioms, ’30’s paean, Fincher/Oldman-pedigree, glorious chiaroscuro. 9.2/10.
[category:drama/film-noir/period-historical/political-drama,date:2020-12-02,rate:9.2,type:movies]
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Category: Film Noir
Tenet (2020)
A cerebral evolution of the spy-thriller from the Da Vincian-imagination of Nolan, TENET is a time-distortion of remarkable metaphysical aspiration – w/a proficient JDW performance, chef d’oeuvre Zimmer-Göransson score, aciculate reparté. 9/10.
[category:drama/actionadventure/time-travel/spy-futurism/cyberpunk/film-noir/crime-films/experimental/mystery/science-fiction,date:2020-03-01,rate:9,type:movies]
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Taxi Driver (1976)
A bronx-swanky masterpiece of sociological civilization analysis, experimental cinematography styles, jazzy soundscape, intellectually-sophisticated cynicistic worldview, & definitive De Niro performance for a legend Scorsese flick. 9.6/10.
[category:classics/drama/experimental/film-noir/psychological/revengethriller,date:1976-04-07,rate:9.6,type:movies]
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M (1931)
A skin-crawling crime film with noir/arthouse elements, a legendary Lorre performance, terrific Fritz Lang direction laden with mystery, and stark ponderances on society and criminality decades ahead of its time. 8.8/10.
[category:classics/crime-films/film-noir,date:1931-04-07,rate:8.8,type:movies]
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Dial M For Murder (1954)
Another mantle piece for the definitive suspense master, Dial M For Murder boasts an unbelievably-intelligent ‘perfect-murder’ concoction screenplay, twisty tale of jealousy/blackmail in classic-Hitchcockian auterism, elegant performances. 8.7/10.
[category:classics/crime-films/film-noir/revengethriller,date:1954-12-07,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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Psycho (1960)
A legacy of immortality jumpstarting horror & creating slashers with a once-in-a-lifetime Shower Scene that changed the course of cinematic history, Hitchcock’s Psycho: voyeuristic, avant-garde horror/thriler/noir/detectve masterpiece. 9.8/10.
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Good Time (2017)
An energy-dripping crime indie & homage to brotherly love with a sensational power-driven Pattinson performance surpassed only by its synthy 80’s electronica-ecstasy score, noir/cyberpunk blend, and oblique mental illness cogitation. 8.8/10.
[category:drama/crime-films/film-noir/cyberpunk,date:2017-05-20,rate:8.8,type:movies]
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Death Note (2007)
The Greatest Animé Of All-Time, D.N.: chef d’oeuvre like nothing else in TV history from complex divine/mankind justice & religion themes to nightmare chiaroscuro, nihilistic prolix vs. God, hyperimaginative supernature, noirisms, wild twists. 10/10.
[category:horror/drama/manga-anime/animation/revengethriller/film-noir/fantasy/mystery,date:2007-10-17,rate:10,type:tvshows]
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Casablanca (1942)
The Quintessential Romance Picture; masterpiece performances & ciné elegance boasting a perfect script: political allegory, oedipus complex, sacrifice, noir fringes, war, action, drama, love, comedy, exaxis propaganda, lurid glitz-and-glamor. 10/10.
[category:classics/comedyromance/film-noir/drama,date:1942-04-07,rate:10,type:movies]
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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
One of the quintessential proto-noirs, Dmytryk gives us a hard-boiled private eye in a web of murder, blackmail, night-drenched double-dealing, and glib rat-a-tat worth investing in – a criminal underworld with vital legacy in genre history. 8/10.
[category:classics/drama/film-noir/crime-films/drama,date:1944-04-07,rate:8,type:movies]
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