![]() ![]() (The 1961 movie The Hustler starred Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason). The Michael Curtiz directed film Casablanca (1942) also earned 4.5-stars, as did the Alfred Hitchcock directed film Psycho (1960). (The 1941 movie Citizen Kane is one of seven movies that Matt Lynn Digital gave 4.5-stars on a scale of 1-to-5).Ĭitizen Kane (1941) was written by Herman J. Today we share the sixty-eight (68) movies reviewed across ten (10) decades by Matt Lynn Digital in 2021. We look at these with individual categories, one per day through today. I don't regret having seen it, but there isn't exactly anything to recommend here.Continuing with the final part of our year in review, Matt Lynn Digital invites you to look back at the last year in reviews of books, movies, music and television. And the film is entertaining, albeit in an extremely lowbrow sort of way. It's hard to say if her performance is uneven, or it's just the character. ![]() So what's good about this film? Fairuza Balk is interesting. In effect, he invites everyone to overact as much as they care to. He lets everyone wink at the audience and make cute little sideways comments to the camera. In fact, he has next to no ability to rein in his actors. Speaking of Brian Dennehy (who I like very much as an actor), he is not a good director. Not that I have anything against the AA, but it just smacks of recent conversion fervor. At one point, his character references his time being sober as being virtually the exact same as Dennehy himself. The origin of this is embarrassingly close to the life of director/star Brian Dennehy. Then there's the shameless Alcoholics Anonymous propaganda. ![]() One of the lowest scenes is a retread of the old "death as an aphrodisiac" cliché. ![]() Scene after scene is right out of the cheapest, lowest quality pulp fiction. The judge's lines are inappropriate and unrealistic. The script of "Shadow of a Doubt" is bad. ![]()
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