Scorsese’s “masterpiece” about a boxer whose life falls apart because of his toxic masculinity.
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
The car chase is justly famous, but these days its cops with a “shoot first ask questions later” attitude are extremely hard to root for.
CHINATOWN (1974)
The definitive neo-noir, a movie I love, now inextricably linked with the crimes of its director.
SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
Maybe the definitive movie about one of the worst events in human history.
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
A surprisingly universal and human story of three soldiers returning to their home town after World War II, from decades before “PTSD” was a term.
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
Showbiz is an eternal, elemental struggle in one of the greatest of all satires.
THE SEARCHERS (1956)
John Wayne drags a handsome guy around the American West because he is so racist. It’s kind of like the Odyssey.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
Sidney Poitier has to solve a murder in a small southern town that hates him. A great social movie but kind of a blah procedural.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
The first Indiana Jones movie defined its genre for more than one generation of moviegoers.
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
Two paranoid journalists do the leg work that ended up bringing down a president. Never has watching guys slowly dial rotary phones been so compelling.
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