Chinatown (1974)
Polanski's 1974 Los Angeles neo-noir. The water-rights conspiracy that defined New Hollywood pessimis.
CrimePolanski's 1974 Los Angeles neo-noir. The water-rights conspiracy that defined New Hollywood pessimis.
CrimeCurtis Hanson's 1997 neo-noir on 1950s LAPD corruption. The rare adult crime film that respects its audience.
CrimeDavid Fincher's 2007 procedural on the SF Zodiac killer investigation. Three protagonists, no killer caught.
DetectiveMinority Report is a Spielberg film arguing against surveillance and predictive control while being too Spielberg to commit fully to the darkness its premise requires. Dick's source material was about the arbitrary nature of certainty, and Spielberg captures that element…
DetectiveBlade Runner 2049 is visually extraordinary and narratively inert. Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins built some of the most stunning images in recent science fiction cinema, the orange desolation of post-collapse Las Vegas, the grey protein farms extending to the…
DetectiveThe theatrical cut of Blade Runner, with Deckard's voiceover narration intact, is the correct version of this film. That position is unfashionable.
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