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Man From Reno

by Mike D'Angelo

Co-writer/director Dave Boyle spins a rare and thoughtfully orchestrated cinematic mystery on a low budget, but the dense plotting too often gets in the way of the film’s arresting mood. 

  • A vengeful drifter tries to blackmail a fugitive war profiteer in Robert Montgomery’s curious 1947 film noir, which is less interested in plot than the small details of a small New Mexico border town. 

    Ride The Pink Horse

    by Noel Murray
  • Writer-director-star Lawrence Michael Levine has crafted what initially appears to be another chatty New York art-indie, but it quickly develops into a smart, stylish, entertaining murder mystery. 

    Wild Canaries

    by Noel Murray
  • Who killed the woman in the secret sex apartment shared by five men? Could it be… everyone?

    The Loft

    by Scott Tobias
  • A 197-minute comedy from the director of Humanité and Twentynine Palms? It sounds unlikely and unappealing, but Bruno Dumont’s made-for-TV production is full of dark, funny, disturbing surprises. 

    Li’l Quinquin

    by Mike D'Angelo
  • Before Inherent Vice, there was Robert Altman’s definitive SoCal noir, which adapts a Raymond Chandler novel into a shaggy private-eye picture that’s full of hazy atmosphere and irreverent attitude. 

    The Long Goodbye

    by Noel Murray
  • Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 mystery novel sends pot-smoking P.I. Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) on a case that signals the changing Southern California culture of 1970.

    Inherent Vice

    by Keith Phipps
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