The French Connection has kept itself in the classic-films discussion for the better part of five decades based on a single car chase.

A fantastic two hours; I didn’t get bored once. I like Tom Cruise so much more when he’s playing a borderline douche, as he does here.

Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. Ya killin’ me here.
…Okay. I haven’t seen Central Station, The Heiress, Judgment at Nuremberg, or Monster’s Ball, so I won’t vote for them.
That doesn’t help much in terms of ruling things out, …

Wow.
I don’t know if Blow Out will do very well, but it’s a great film with no hope for human beings — as well as 1) De Palma at his best at harnessing his intensities …

It’s…fine. It has a few charming bits; the return of Jojo is predictable, but done well, and a funeral at the end has a sweet callback to a running sight gag. But the coda is …

Facing two subtitled hours about an Italian politician I’d never heard of, merely for the sake of crossing a Best Makeup nominee off the list, I considered withdrawing from the Oscars 2010 Death Race entirely …