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The Gray Man (2022) Review

The Gray Man (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Netflix spent around two hundred million dollars on an action film with two of the largest stars available, and produced something nobody can describe afterward. The Prague…

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Tenet (2020) Review

Tenet (2020) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Nolan bought a real 747 to crash because it cost less than building a model, and then mixed the film so that a substantial number of people could not…

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The Bourne Identity (2002) Review

The Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…

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Munich (2005) Review

Munich (2005) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Spielberg's coldest film and the one that cost him most. A revenge picture in which every success makes the situation worse, and the argument is in the arithmetic.

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