Let’s be honest. When the movies leave your favorite streamer, some of them will miss more than others – so when Rappin‘ Leave prime video in a little less than a week, there will probably be no people who openly cry in the streets.
But although you can probably live without Mario Van Peebles showing her neighbors “how to drive Riffraff with rap music”, there are real jewels that leave the privileged video at the end of this month and there are three in particular, I think they are essential films.
For my choices this week, I tried to cover a wide range of films, and I think it is just to say that apart from their impressive notes of rotten tomatoes, these films do not have exactly a lot of time: there are not many killers in the literary biopic Hood or urgency and suspense The taking of Pelham a three three. But the three films are guaranteed to have fun, although in a very different way.
Hood
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is superb as a titular writer, and this dramatization of real events follows Truman Capot as he investigates the murder of a Kansas family. The writer of the big city goes to America in a small town with his friend, Harper Lee, and his research on the case and friendship that he trained with one of the killers leads to the creation of one of the classics of American literature, in the cold 1965.
The film has a very high note of 89% of the Rotten Tomatoes Critical Roundup, and it comes with praise from the New York Books Review: “Hood Is the only film I know that gets closer to the success of what the complex process of creating a literary work looks like. “”
The Village Voice also evaluated it (no link available), saying: “Hood is a hall of cool and polite mirrors reflecting the ways that Truman Capote came to write (and be written by) in cold blood. “And Empire gave the film the full five stars. It is” an exceptional film, anchored by great central performance “.
Terrifier 2
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It is unlikely that it appears in a double bill with a hood, but the Slasher suite of Damien Leone has a huge note of 87% of criticism with a strong stomach. Once again, the clown targets adolescents in a small town, and during its two hours and more, the film offers an elegant and really frightening story.
It is not a film for the timid. “Jump the dinner before looking at,” recommends the Weekly, “and maybe take a shower and then do something good for humanity after?” And Horrorbuzz was prudent in his praise, saying: “Mae West was cited once as saying:” Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! “. Here it depends entirely on what you felt for the first Creepy. “”
But even common sense media have been won over. “The heinous art that the clown returns to this intensely bloody suite which tries much stronger – and is much smarter – than the original film.”
The taking of Pelham one two three
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This classic thriller was redone, largely without success, as a vehicle of Denzel Washington in 2009. But the one you want is the original show of 1974 Walter Matthau, which is currently seated with a 98% fully deserved on rotten tomatoes. This is the story of a daring crime: four men are going on a New York metro train, separate the car and hold 17 passengers hostage. If their requests are not satisfied, they will pull hostage every hour.
The “sense of wonderfully tired irony is perfect is perfect”, explains the Hollywood Reporter, while the late Roger Ebert told readers of Chicago Sun-Totes that “what is good in the example of Pelham of the form is that the performance is authorized enough latitude so that we do not care about the mechanics of the plot.
As the Empire said, it is “the kind of gravelly and relentless thriller who could only come from” 70s “and he influenced a lot of culture:” Quentin Tarantino would later be criminals using colors like code names for tank dogs; The Beastie Boys would reference it in the song. “”
