Dumb and Dumber is not a dumb movie at all, but rather a smart movie about dumb people.
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Victoria Large holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Her writing about film has appeared in Bright Lights Film Journal and Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and her short fiction has appeared in various print and online publications.
The visuals in Yolanda and the Thief take explicit inspiration from the surrealist landscapes of Salvador Dalí, and while it isn’t the most successful of Vincente Minnelli’s celebrated musicals, it is perhaps the most experimental—and, for me an object of fascination.
Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary is so odd, and yet so memorable, that it feels more like a vivid dream than a cookie-cutter Hollywood love story.
To revisit True Romance nearly 25 years later is to be carried away by a rush of color and action and character, to gasp and to wince and to laugh oneself breathless.
He still rages, still kills, but his time is running short, and his conscience is bothering him. This story is about an old warrior facing himself.
The Nice Guys’ mean streak—springing from its noir roots—seems worth emphasizing as we reach the end of what was, for many, a bruising year.
