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Monday
Oct022023

First & Last 034

Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? 

Party music is blasting. No, it's not a Spider-Man movie despite the upside down cityscape. The next cut, once fireworks go off, turns the image right-side up.

And a shot of an FBI building. The movie is from 2023. The answer is after the jump...

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This one is To Catch a Killer (2023) starring Shailene Woodley as a traumatized cop who an FBI bigwig (Ben Mendelsohn) realizes has the gift for thinking quickly in catastrophes and chasing leads after a sniper takes several lives in the quite chaotically disturbing opening scene. 

Shailene Woodley and Jovan Adepo in "To Catch a Killer"

The movie was met with ho-hum reviews, but it's a totally solid crime investigation thriller so apparently critics just weren't feeling generous in April. If you're in the mood for that particular genre one of these nights -- I was the night I watched it -- it will definitely hit the spot. The director is Damián Szifron who you will remember hit the international scene very potently with the exciting Oscar-nominated short story collection Wild Tales (2014). Somehow this is his first feature since that splashy breakthrough. Why did it take so long? Why? 

To Catch a Killer is now streaming on Hulu. 

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The only acceptable follow-up to Wild Tales would be Wild Tales 2

October 2, 2023 | Registered CommenterMike in Canada

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October 3, 2023 | Registered CommenterRobin Gutierrez
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