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Tag: The Irishman

Another Look: Casino (**1/2) is a stale imitation

Aug 11, 2020

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coolpapae

in 2.5 Stars, Another Look, CPE, Drama, Historical Nugget, Movie Reviews

It’s one of the fruits of the labor of a great career that he’s been able to keep remaking the same film over and over. This doesn’t make the stale fruit taste any better.
Netflix and Scorsese’s The Irishman (***1/2) – Charge with a gun; with a knife you run away

Nov 28, 2019

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by

coolpapae

in 3.5 Stars, Action, CPE, Historical Nugget, Movie Reviews, Netflix

The biggest challenge for this viewer is when it comes to true crime sagas, Scorese peaked with Goodfellas and he’s never really come close since.