Keyword: whodunit
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The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight arrived in 2015 with a simple pitch and a director, Quentin Tarantino, who clearly had bigger ambitions for the drama genre than the logline suggested. You can tell a lot about a movie from its tagline, and “No one comes up here without a damn good reason.” gives away the game in…
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Knives Out
Not every film needs to reinvent its genre to be worth your time, and “Knives Out”, a comedy and crime and mystery entry, proves the point. That reputation, as it turns out, is well earned. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “Hell, any of them could have done…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
There is a reason “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” keeps coming up in conversations about comedy and crime and mystery filmmaking since its 2022 release. It is easy to see why it keeps getting recommended long after its initial release. “When the game ends, the mystery begins.” That is the tagline, and it does…
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Rear Window
Few things separate a forgettable night of scrolling from a night you actually remember, and “Rear Window” (1954) lands firmly in the second camp for a specific kind of viewer. That reputation, as it turns out, is well earned. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “It only takes…
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Gone Girl
Few things separate a forgettable night of scrolling from a night you actually remember, and “Gone Girl” (2014) lands firmly in the second camp for a specific kind of viewer. That reputation, as it turns out, is well earned. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “You don’t know…