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Year
1976
Runtime
106 min.
Director
Elaine May
Genre
Drama
Rating *
7.4
Votes *
1,358
Checks
1,072
Favs
92
Dislikes
15
Favs/checks
8.6% (1:12)
Favs/dislikes
6:1
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  1. Saundenf's avatar

    Saundenf

    Can you imagine remaking this movie without emotionally unintelligent, macho men causing every other character around them miserable? There’d be nothing left. 2 years 7 months ago
  2. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    Be careful how you treat your friends... As Mikey and Nicky begins, the latter (John Cassavetes) is a low-level gangster who has called his colleague and childhood pal (Mikey, Peter Falk) for help. He's sure their boss has put a hit out on him. And so follows a night of paranoia where the audience is progressively ahead of Nicky in terms of who he can trust. The movie feels raw and semi-improvised (which, as I found out, it was) and is essentially a two-hander between two neurotic forces of nature. Nicky probably deserves what he gets - he's such an A-hole - and it's something we discover through Mikey's responses to him. This is a friendship on the rocks, one that has been neglected, taken for granted, and was rooted in pecking order masculinity in the first place. But has it deteriorated to the point where Mikey would sell him out? There are surface answers to that, but also deeper, more ambivalent ones. 1 week 5 days ago
  3. Esnaider's avatar

    Esnaider

    Worst killer ever 4 years 3 months ago
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  1. This movie ranks #432 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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  2. This movie ranks #551 in The New York Times's Book of Movies
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  3. This movie ranks #586 in The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
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  4. This movie ranks #671 in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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  5. This movie ranks #798 in David Thomson's Have You Seen?
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  6. This movie ranks #873 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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  7. This movie ranks #1169 in The Criterion Collection
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