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Jack Nicholson in a scene from Five Easy Pieces, wearing casual 1970s clothing with a contemplative expression. TITLE: FiveDrama

Five Easy Pieces (1970) Review

Five Easy Pieces (1970) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A concert pianist is working an oil rig and pretending he never had another life. The diner scene is the most quoted and the least representative thing…

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Two men on motorcycles ride down a desert highway in the 1960s, the road stretching behind them toward distant mountains.Drama

Easy Rider (1969) Review

Easy Rider (1969) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It invented the modern road movie and killed the counterculture's mythology in the same hundred minutes. The film is loose, self-indulgent and occasionally incoherent, and the ending is…

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

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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Two men sit in a car during daytime, one driving and one in the passenger seat, both looking ahead at the road.Comedy

Sideways (2004) Review

Sideways (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two middle-aged men drive north for a week of wine tasting before one of them gets married, and both of them are worse people than the film initially lets…

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

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…

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