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This is best movie I ever seen! Its fantastic for men, women, children ... everyone!! Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are so brilliant and hilarious they will both gain Oscars. No one now can deny that Greta Gerwig is Hollywood's greatest director. The movie give fresh insight to feminism and other serious issue while always being totally FUN and ENTERTAINING. What a great ride! You need to see twice -- no, more than twice! Don't forget bring along everyone you know because everyone deserve the incredible enjoyment only this masterpiece can provide. I am real moviegoer, NOT a bot or individual paid to post "10" rave reviews that all sound like they were written by the same person overseas, to counter bad votes from misogynists who don't love this movie everyone must see and love!!!!!

Few movies are as famous and acclaimed and this one largely earns it. The episodic story is mostly quiet and deliberately paced, punctuated effectively with sudden violence. The cast is excellent, except for James Caan, who simply can't act (his Italian American shtick is almost minstrel-show level) and horrifies us with his gross shoulder and back hair. For all its excellence, the movie pioneered some less-than-welcome trends Coppola and his generation would bring to movie making: 1. The absence of interesting female characters. As in JAWS, EASY RIDER, BUTCH CASSIDY, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARC, etc. women barely exist in these stories. 2. Capitalism = gangsterism. Organized crime and regular businesses are portrayed as basically the same. Senators, judges, and governors are no different than violent thugs. The "American dream" is a pretty name for racism and oppression. Baby boomers picked up these foolish ideas from their 1930s socialist college professors and they've been a Hollywood cliché ever since. The fact that so many Hollywood honchos ARE corrupt endlessly feeds filmmakers' silly implication that all businessmen are thugs. 3. Boomer cynicism. Baby boomers emerged flinging contempt in all directions, believing themselves to be the first generation in human history to properly recognize and judge immorality. This tendency gave birth to the harsh, unforgiving hate and bullying of "cancel culture" today and -- so much for its moral virtue -- gave license to several generations to lie, cheat and steal because the movies show us that EVERYONE does. (Only everyone doesn't.) So yes, THE GODFATHER is iconic, a massive hit, very influential and well crafted on every level. But it also embodied and popularized some regrettable trends in film and pop culture.

One of the greatest crime films of the 1940s. The wonderful sleaze that Marlowe wades thru in the novel is cleaned up enough for the Production Code, but still gives a sense of turning over a wet rock and finding these characters. I guess because of a similarly unnecessary scene in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, Bacall sings a song. Otherwise she's fine, especially for a 20 year-old with hardly any acting experience. She's terrific with Bogart and the film uses much of Chandler's superb dialog. This is a classic that holds up very well today.

If you look at the few 10 star reviews, they all sound like the same person wrote them,like a publicist for the film or studio. Definitely looks like they were planted in a desperate effort to raise the viewer score, which would be extremely low without them. I mean seriously: what ordinary moviegoer writes like this? "Stunning. Raw. Complex. Challenging. Heartbreaking. Iconoclastic. Innovative. Reverential. Sensual. I could go on foerver. Favorite movie of the year. Dunst and Cumberbatch are supreme. Jane Campion has done it again!"