Directed by Gregory Hoblit Primal Fear is a fun courtroom drama with a few twists and turns, notably in the final ten minutes, like those of Billy Wilder’s The Witness for the Prosecution. The nature of the story is dead serious, including possible mental illness and the murder of a priest caught up in real … Continue reading Primal Fear (1996)
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Mystic River (2003)
Directed by Clint Eastwood Mystic River tries to tell you that the past never really dies. This is a film about a working class neighborhood in Boston in which the three central characters are deeply haunted by a moment from their childhood. The story opens with this tragic memory before jumping multiple decades into the … Continue reading Mystic River (2003)