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Topaz

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Hitchcock hadn’t made a spy thriller since the 1930s, so his 1969 adaptation of Leon Uris’s bestseller seemed like a curious choice for the director. But Hitchcock makes Uris’s story of the West’s investigation into the Soviet Union’s dealings with Cuba his own. Frederick Stafford plays a French intelligence agent who works with his American […]

Bone Collector

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Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector turns the pulpy indulgence of Jeffery Deaver’s novel into a slick potboiler that is grisly interesting. Director Phillip Noyce expertly builds palpable tension around a series of gruesome murders that lead us into the darkest nooks of New York City. Now a bedridden quadriplegic prone to life-threatening seizures […]

Seven

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Seven is the most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal-maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs. The film is based on an idea that’s both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer (Kevin Spacey) forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully […]

Brokedown Palace

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Alice (Claire Danes) and Darlene (Kate Beckinsale) are best friends on their post-high-school whirlwind vacation. Telling their parents they’re off for Hawaii, they head instead to Thailand, where they stay at a $6-a-night dive and sneak drinks at a posh hotel. They both fall sway to the charms of a handsome Australian (Daniel Lapaine), who […]