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Actor: Warren Oates

Warren Oates was in The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, and was the definitive Peckinpah actor until he died at fifty-three. Both his films here rate 9 out of 10.

Four men in Western clothing walk side by side down a dusty road toward an uncertain fate. TITLE: The Wild Bunch Final WalkBen Johnson

The Wild Bunch (1969) Review

The Wild Bunch (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peckinpah cut the violence at multiple film speeds and assembled it at a rate nobody had attempted, and the result changed how every action film since has…

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Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek stand together in a natural landscape, the central figures in Terrence Malick's 1973 filmMartin Sheen

Badlands (1973) Review

Badlands (1973) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Malick's first film takes a real killing spree and narrates it in the voice of a fifteen-year-old girl who describes murder in the vocabulary of a movie magazine. The…

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