Scorsese-Ranked.
One masterpiece (“Taxi Driver”). Seven near masterpieces including “Raging Bull”, “The Age of Innocence” and “The Irishman”.
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Author: Patrick Browne
The Films of Elia Kazan
Because of his naming names at the HUAC, what you think of Elia Kazan’s oeuvre depends on whether you can separate the artist from the art.
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The Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All twenty JLM films rated to coincide with a retrospective at the Criterion Collection. This includes his masterpiece “All About Eve”.
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (2023) The Perfect Judy Bloom A-
We also discover, in a beautifully acted scene by McAdams, who steals the picture, that Barbara is estranged from her devoutly Christian parents.
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The Delinquents (2023) Borges Anyone? (A)
With its labyrinthine structure, discursive storyline, and exploration of themes such as duality, reality, identity, and the nature of time, the movie is reminiscent of the great Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges
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