The Marx Brothers reinvented comedy for the sound era, but had to tone down their sheer anarchy (a little) to score their biggest hit.
Category Archives: American movies
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
A movie that looks deep into its own soul and finds only horror.
LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000)
A very different kind of sports movie, or maybe a very different kind of romance.
AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)
A very weird movie about a guy who desperately wants to fit in, while also periodically axe murdering people.
ALMOST FAMOUS (2000)
This comedy/drama about a teenage Rolling Stone writer hanging out with a 1970s rock band is probably the 2000 movie I’ve watched the greatest number of times.
THE GENERAL (1926)
In which Buster Keaton almost dies over and over in the name of comedy, and also drops an actual train off an actual bridge.
THE GODFATHER PART III (1990)
Francis Ford Coppola recently released a re-edited version of the least-acclaimed film of his famous mafia trilogy, but how much of a difference does it make?
STAR WARS (1977)
Somewhere beneath everything that’s been piled on top of it is one of the greatest movies ever made.
SOPHIE’S CHOICE (1982)
Meryl Streep’s all-timer of a performance can’t make me ever want to watch this movie again.
COOLEY HIGH (1975)
In which we learn that it’s possible to be nostalgic about something yet not remember it as perfect.
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