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Actor: Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt broke through in Thelma and Louise in a role lasting a few minutes, and then spent much of his career deliberately working against the face, taking supporting and character parts when leading roles were available.

Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club, Burn After Reading and Inglourious Basterds are all performances by someone enjoying not being the handsome one. He won Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, playing a stuntman with almost no interiority.

His production company Plan B financed 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight and The Departed, which is a more consequential contribution to American film than most acting careers.

Se7en, Moneyball and The Assassination of Jesse James are the ones to argue for. The last of those is the most underseen thing he has done.

Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in a 1920s Hollywood scene from Damien Chazelle's film about the transition from silent to sound

Babylon (2022) Review

Babylon (2022) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It does not belong on a page called Modern Movie Slop and I am reviewing it here because that is where it was ranked. It is a three-hour failure…

Christoph Waltz as SS officer Hans Landa sits at a wooden table in a farmhouse kitchen, holding a glass of milk during the

Inglourious Basterds (2009) Review

Inglourious Basterds (2009) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Tarantino wrote it in 1998, could not solve the ending, made Kill Bill instead, and came back a decade later. The opening scene is a twenty-five minute conversation…

Bruce Willis in a dark futuristic setting, wearing tattered clothes and looking confused or distressed in a scene from the

12 Monkeys (1995) Review

12 Monkeys (1995) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A time travel film in which the loop cannot be broken and everybody involved eventually works that out. Gilliam made it for twenty-nine million dollars in Philadelphia and…

Two women in a convertible driving through desert landscape, looking ahead at the road. TITLE: Thelma and Louise in

Thelma & Louise (1991) Review

Thelma & Louise (1991) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Callie Khouri wrote it in six months as her first screenplay and took the Academy Award for it. Two women leave for a fishing weekend and never…

Two detectives stand in rain-soaked streets of a nameless city, surrounded by darkness and decay.

Se7en (1995) Review

Se7en (1995) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The rain never stops, the city has no name, and the killer wins exactly as planned. Fincher's second film, made after a first one he has disowned.

Brad Pitt's character stands amid zombie hordes climbing over each other in a chaotic mass, the film's most memorable

World War Z (2013) Review

World War Z (2013) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A great book turned into a competent chase film with the structure removed first. The Jerusalem sequence is worth the ticket and nothing else is.

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Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Soderbergh's 2001 Rat Pack remake. Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Roberts, Gould.

Moneyball (2011) film poster

Moneyball (2011)

Bennett Miller's 2011 baseball analytics drama. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, Jonah Hill as Peter Brand.

Interview with the Vampire (1994) film poster

Antonio Banderas

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Neil Jordan's 1994 Anne Rice adaptation. Cruise as Lestat, Pitt as Louis.

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Sleepers (1996)

1996 Barry Levinson drama with Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon. Hell's Kitchen friends face their abusers in court.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Bullet Train (2022)

David Leitch's 2022 Brad Pitt action-comedy. Five assassins on the same Tokyo bullet train, each with overlapping missions.

Cool World (1992) film poster

Cool World (1992)

Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne. The disastrous attempted Who Framed Roger Rabbit follow-up.