Drive (2011)

Written by: Hossein Amini (screenplay) and James Sallis (novel)
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours no matter what.”

Reviewer's Rating: **** (Four Stars)

Cross of Iron (1977)

Written by: Julius J. Epstein, Walter Kelley, & James Hamilton (screenplay), Willi Heinrich (novel)
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, and David Warner
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Steiner is a myth. Men like him are our last hope, and in that sense, he is a truly dangerous man.”

Reviewer's Rating: **** (Four Stars)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Written by: Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, & Whitfield Cook (screenplay) and Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, and Ruth Roman
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“My theory is that everyone is a potential murderer.”

Reviewer's Rating: **** (Four Stars)

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Written and directed by: Mike Figgis
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Elisabeth Shue & Julian Sands
Reviewer: Brett H.
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“Is drinking a way of killing yourself?”
“Or, is killing myself a way of drinking?”
Reviewer's Rating: * * * * (4 Stars)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham & Jim Thompson (screenplay), Humphrey Cobb (novel)
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race, and this is one such occasion.”
Reviewer's Rating: * * * * (4 Stars)

The Wrestler (2008)

Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Written by: Robert D. Siegel
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Marissa Tomei & Evan Rachel Wood
Reviewer: Brett H.
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“You're my little girl. And now, I'm an old broken down piece of meat... and I'm alone. And, I deserve to be all alone. I just don't want you to hate me.”
Reviewer's Rating: * * * * (4 Stars)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two (2011)

Written by: Steve Kloves (screenplay), J.K. Rowling (novel)
Directed by: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“The boy who lived...come to die.”

Reviewer's Rating: **** (Four Stars)