Directed by Jules Dassin Rififi is a tense, dark little heist film with a cruel protagonist and friends who quickly turn on each other. Outside of a nearly 30 minute-long silent heist sequence, very little about this film romanticizes its story. These aren't rough and tumble heroes punching up but rather selfish characters reaching too … Continue reading Rififi (1955)
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Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Directed by S. Craig Zahler Dragged Across Concrete is a purposefully slow genre movie. It moves with what at first seems like the type of patience that implies something more going on underneath the surface, but ultimately I think it's just the scattered first draft of a movie that isn't sure what it wants to … Continue reading Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
I Draw on My Wall 