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Tag Archives: Sean Penn
The Game (1997)
The one Fincher flick everyone agrees is underrated, right? Every time I return to The Game I’m struck by the level of craft Fincher applies to an otherwise dopey idea. It’s not hard to imagine the various, sensational ways this … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Rewatch
Tagged 1997, David Fincher, Deborah Kara Unger, Harris Savides, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn
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This Must Be the Place (2011)
This spends a lot of its time, too much time I suspect, amusing itself with the image of Sean Penn dressed like Robert Smith. However, as Cheyenne, Penn’s slow, mild-mannered rhythms soon become patience-testing. Yes, that’s the point, but as … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, David Byrne, Frances McDormand, Harry Dean Stanton, Judd Hirsch, Paolo Sorrentino, Sean Penn
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U Turn (1997)
It’s a good time to be an Oliver Stone fan. Or at the very least it’s a good time to be thinking about Oliver Stone. His latest film Snowden has just hit cinemas but more interestingly, Matt Zoller Seitz recently published The Oliver Stone Experience; … Continue reading
Posted in Movies Watched In 2016, Reviews
Tagged Claire Danes, Jennifer Lopez, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, U Turn
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