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the script is obviously too on the nose in places and certain moments strain credulity, but it doesn't really matter. this is so brilliantly conceived and realized, a hyperreal nightmare of flaring synapses, swiveling video game POV shots, deeply disturbing dialectical edits (when he's reminded of his unit raiding a house and black-bagging two random guys bc he's looking at a revolting luncheon buffet, i mean jesus christ). i have no idea what to make of the people who think…

a miserable, unglamorous street-level depiction of the dog-eat-dog economy of the boston underworld. respect that yates doesn't play any of this for melodrama despite how easy it would've been to do so, instead committing to a style that's equal parts mundane and melancholy because these are characters who (despite the friendly faces and desperate negotiations) feel it in their bones that there's no future. nothing to do but just resign yourself to waiting around in shitty bars and anonymous parking…

A message to David Sirota: You are the co-writer of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie by an Academy Award-winning filmmaker that is currently the #1 movie on Netflix. You are living the dream. You don't need to be upset because some NPR critics think your movie is smug. You don't need to argue online with the haters all day about why you deserve respect for making a movie with good politics. Take the W.

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In a world that has strip-mined and sold seemingly every last piece of Beatles ephemera, I was amazed to learn that 160 unused hours of footage from the shooting of Let It Be had somehow gone unexploited. But having now seen this documentary, I realize that all the raw footage from all those whirring cameras would have been meaningless without a great filmmaker who could make the thousands of small but crucial editorial decisions to shape it all into something…

Clooney does exceptional work in this movie as a fixer not a trial lawyer, too dirty to be considered a partner, too much of a lawyer to be a real cop. He’s tired, looks like he’s beaten down from years of bending congressmen and rich white shoplifters. Wilkinson’s great, with his truthful mania, and Pollack steals the scene at times with his corporate coldness, but I always go back to Clooney’s transformation. His face goes through so much during the…