Trial by Fire
The film plods at points, trudging along, and there are a few misguided narrative "devices" tacked on, but still, "Trial by Fire" bristles with anger.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
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Himself, Himself (archive footage)
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Family Plot (1976)
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Psycho (1960)
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Rear Window (1954)
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Produced and directed by
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
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Directed by
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Notorious (1946)
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Directed by
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Directed by
Roger Ebert
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#334 August 7, 2018
Matt writes: On August 2nd, Chaz Ebert announced that RogerEbert.com is gender balancing its regular rotation of film critics. Nell Minow, Monica Castillo and Tomris Laffly join Sheila O’Malley and Christy Lemire to round out the website’s roster of female critics to achieve a fifty-fifty split of five women and five men. The site also will publish more frequent contributions by diverse critics, including Castillo and Odie Henderson, who bring valued perspectives from their Cuban- and African-American roots. Minow has also been appointed the website's first female assistant editor.
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A Lit Fuse: The History of the Mission: Impossible Franchise
If all blockbuster-sized entertainments were even half as ambitious and ingenious as these films have been, moviegoers would be infinitely better off.
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A body of work at once austere, beautiful, tactile, allusive and deeply generous.
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Stop watching movies made by assholes. It'll be OK.
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