Hit Man (2024)
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”A college professor posing as a hitman falls for a client, leading to a risky romance.”
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Hit Man marks the triumphant return of filmmaker Richard Linklater after three lackluster films: Last Flag Flying, Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, and Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure. In the story, Gary (Glen Powell, from Top Gun: Maverick) is an ordinary guy. He teaches philosophy and psychology at a college, owns two cats, and is friends with his ex-wife. In his spare time, as a side job, he works undercover for the police – specifically, he pretends to be a professional hitman. And it is while playing this role that he falls in love with Madison (Adria Arjona), a woman who wants to hire him to kill her husband. How to deal with that? It’s a story of misunderstood and impossible love between Gary and Madison, which borders on the absurd. With another director, it could be a spy comedy about characters who don’t know how to navigate different personalities – something like the recent Family Plan. However, as fun as it is, Linklater knows how to extract something more from the plot, discussing themes like ego, superego, id, Freud, and Jung, and featuring brilliant chemistry between Powell and Arjona, placing the film on a high shelf in Linklater’s filmography.
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A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake contract killer sparks a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a client.
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Last Flag Flying
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Before Sunset
Melancholy and sublime, 'Before Sunrise' - the first installment of what would become the 'Before Trilogy' - became a successful portrait of modern love and youthful hopes, beautifully filmed and with intelligent dialogue. 'Before Sunset', written by director Richard Linklater and its protagonists Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, picks up the story of their characters nine years later: Celine has settled down in Paris, where she reunites with Jesse, who is now a novelist and is promoting his book there. With the same style full of dialogue and real-time events as its predecessor, the movie paints a more mature, melancholy, and reflective portrait of love, opening up the wounds left by loves that got away, and consolidating itself as the rare sequel that is as good or better than the first part.
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School of Rock
Although it doesn't talk about a real rock band, it's hard not to think of the musical genre and not remember the beloved movie 'School of Rock'. An unusual foray of filmmaker Richard Linklater ('Before Sunrise') into a typical afternoon session production, this production is to be kept under lock and key in the heart. After all, just like 'Dead Poets Society', 'School of Rock' talks about the influence of a teacher - who isn't really a teacher in the end - on the lives of a group of young students. The rhythm is contagious, the children's acting makes a caress in the heart of the viewer and Jack Black has the biggest role of his career, along with 'High Fidelity', 'King Kong' and 'Bernie: Almost an Angel'.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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