Year: 2006
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
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Read more: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)Fucking hippies. Nixon was right to fear them, though not because their silly idealism and bed-ins would have accomplished little more than ensuring that otherwise ugly people got lai
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Interview With The Assassin
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Read more: Interview With The AssassinThe one who delivered the kill shot.
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Stolen (2005)
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Read more: Stolen (2005)Directed by Rebecca Dreyfus Matt Cale hearts the arts Goddamned Irish. When the drunken sons-a-bitches aren’t stinking up assorted bars, pubs, and city streets, they’re fixing elections, irritating the uninformed with endless tales of woe, and speaking so romantically of the mother country that one can’t help but wish the fuckers had been wiped out…
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Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)
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Read more: Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)Although Raging Bull will always hold the title among depressing boxing movies, Ralph Nelson’s 1962 downer Requiem for a Heavyweight holds its own quite nicely, refusing to give us a final triumph, or even a glimmer of hope of any kind. The film considers sad, pathetic Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn), a good-hearted soul (aren’t they…
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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Read more: Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)Die! Die! Die, my Darling.
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Children of Men (2006)
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Read more: Children of Men (2006)Cuaron’s Children of Men is one of the few post-apocalyptic nightmares I can believe in. Its dystopian vision of a future world not so far away (its events are set in 2027) rings true from start to finish, and its unrelenting bleakness never reeks of hyperbolic fantasy.
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Art School Confidential (2006)
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Read more: Art School Confidential (2006)Holding snooty, painfully untalented art students (hell, artists in general) up to ridicule might not sound like the peak of…
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THE PROPOSITION
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Read more: THE PROPOSITIONIs it possible to be both beautiful and dull? Striking, yet on the whole, a complete waste of time?
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Under Siege
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Read more: Under SiegeTagline: None listed. Really. Boo. Entire Story in Fewer Words Than Are in This Sentence: Villains overrun ship, Seagal transforms from cook to butcher. Homoeroticism: OK. I have to go into stupid chief mode here: Chief Schulte: Seagal!! Get in here! Seagal: Yes sir. Chief Schulte: You mind telling me what the hell you think…
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Toy Soldiers
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Read more: Toy SoldiersThis film is practically Tiger Beat writ large.