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We used to be huge fans of twist endings (the end of Usual Suspects still sends chills down our spines, Fight Club not so much), but lately the third act mindfuck has become something of a gimmick. How many times can our narrator turn out to be a ghost with amnesia, and how often will [...]

There’s a great deal of perverse pleasure to be taken from ruining the endings of movies. That pleasure is heightened when the film in question takes great pains to provide a twist ending, like, say, Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Citizen Kane, Soylent Green, Psycho, or the office favorite The Usual Suspects. All these [...]

Bound as they are to the shaky territory of racial politics, movies about ethnic mobs are both highly specific and can stand for the experiences of just about any immigrant community. Also, a disproportionate number of them have been directed by Martin Scorsese (at right).
Still, some of our favorite films take these small groups as [...]