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Criminally Overrated: Chinatown
Placing Roman Polanski within the parameters of the auteur theory isn’t the simple task it…
Criminally Underrated: The Mosquito Coast
With a terrific cast headed by Harrison Ford, the biggest movie star of the day,…
Criminally Underrated: The Sun Shines Bright
The Searchers appeared for the blink of an eye at this year’s Academy Awards, one…
Criminally Underrated: Bandits
Cate Blanchett is currently receiving endless accolades for her performance as wounded trophy wife Jasmine…
Criminally Underrated: Abel Ferrara
I’ve never been overly fond of the terms “overrated” and “underrated.” They imply a superiority…
Criminally Underrated: One from the Heart
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl and boy gets her back again in a cinematic…
Criminally Underrated: Hook
For a filmmaker like Steven Spielberg, financially speaking the most successful director of all time,…
Criminally Underrated: Dead Again
Kenneth Branagh’s directorial forays outside of Shakespeare are few but varied. His adaptation of Frankenstein…
Criminally Underrated: Timothy Carey
Character actor heavy Timothy Agoglia Carey was the ur-Nicolas Cage. You want over-the-top performances from…