Matthew Vaughn rode the post-Tarantino tsunami of indie crime cinema, and has leveraged it into a very industrious Hollywood career.
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Layer Cake (2004)
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The Harder They Fall (2021)
Perhaps what’s most surprising about The Harder They Fall is the fact that it is not subversive at all.
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Self Reliance (2023)
When you see the rating below, please understand that it took some restraint for me not to get even more carried away.
“Gangs of London” is quite a freighted title to give to a piece of media.
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Birth (2004)
Birth presents us a patently silly premise with clear eyes:
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They Die By Dawn (2013)
Jeymes Samuel had a roundabout path to making films.
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Sexy Beast (2000)
Sexy Beast pulls the artful trick of telling the viewer it’s about one thing and then abruptly, hilariously, poetically becoming something different.
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Nyad (2023)
Every year we get one or two or more biopics, increasingly relegated to streaming, that are shamelessly engineered and promoted to get acting Oscar nominations.
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Dream Scenario (2023)
Dream Scenario became one of the “weird movie” sensations of 2023, and it’s not really hard to see why.
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The Holdovers (2023)
It would be reductive to say that The Holdovers works because Alexander Payne once again cast Paul Giamatti, the perfect vessel of his writing in Sideways.