Films featuring
Sean Penn

The Thin Red Line

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Terrence Malick’s first film as director in twenty years assembles various pieces of a great film into a mediocre one. The Thin Red Line is a meandering, obtuse rumination on the dehumanizing effects of war and will test the patience of even the most indulgent filmgoer. It runs close to three hours but probably only contains about two hours of story worth telling and not all of that feels like it comes from the same story.

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The Interpreter

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The Interpreter is, on one hand, a by-the-numbers poltical thriller, raised above the crowd by a first-rate cast, polished and professional execution and, most importantly, its primary filming location. Sydney Pollack’s crew was the first ever allowed to film within the confines of the United Nations complex in New York. The heightened sense of reality gained by this access gives the film an urgency and potency that it would not have achieved if they’d had to fake it.

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