
Right right right, better get back on this if I have any hope of finishing before 2027….
#74: Mr. Right (2015)

Amazing, really, that there was a movie starring Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell and it took more over a decade for me to watch it! Silly, silly fun, and of course the leads are great. The plot details are silly but it’s a highly enjoyable little trifle.
#73: Un Prophete (2009)

A young man goes to prison and gradually rises up to become, if not a kingpin then something close to it, as he learns to work every possible angle – learning from prison in a way that he never had a chance to on the outside. Oooooohhhhh, deep man, Its long but it uses the length effectively to build both a mood and a feel of the time very gradually passing as it must in prison.
#72: Twinless (2025)

Talk about an original idea! really interesting, great performances, really fun tone – it’s kind of several ideas in one, and the big reveal (and its fallout) was fascinating. Marci really pulls the film together.
#71: Caught Stealing (2025)

Got generally poor reviews, but I liked it! One of the most realistic-feeling portrayals of how someone would act in this situation – go to the cops, not trust anyone, panic panic panic – not coming up with the most complicated and perfected little scheme but just trying to make things work for the love of god so that he can survive and can nobody just give me a freaking second here to think??? And the business with the girlfriend is also extremely well done. Just a really good character even if the situations he’s placed in are more than a little on the ridiculous side. The Hasidic characters are a LOT of fun, and everyone else is very believable
#70: To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Beautiful 80s throwback counterfeiting (?) thriller, complete with great Wang Chung (!) soundtrack! The hero’s partner even got murdered 2 days before his retirement! He hates his new by-the-book partner! Dance interludes! Willem DaFoe! A ludicrously implausible chase scene where the bad guys would’ve needed 3000 minions minimum to pull off all the ambushes and sabotages. The classic noir hero-turns-into-a-scumbag portion of the plot would’ve been more interesting if they hadn’t set him up as kind of a jerkass all along. Ending was bold though, especially for 1985!
#69: Before Sunset (2004)

Finally watched these – this was very nice but I preferred Sunrise – this is the more mature version (since the characters are more mature, duh) but it’s so filled with regret at its core and it’s sad. Two really good things – one, they don’t remember the details (including some fairly important ones!) of Before Sunrise correctly (which I know because I just saw it) which is so very very real, and two the connection that these two have with each other is undeniable and also they don’t even try to deny it, which is just right. Okay, three things – I kind of love how it ends – just trailing off as it resolves how we were hoping it would (although as an old prude fuddy-duddy (technical term) he really should’ve broken things off with his wife first).
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