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NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN (1996)

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☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ More than 20 years after Serpico (1973), Sidney Lumet remained fascinated by police corruption in New York, his hometown. By the mid-1990s, he had already revisited the topic twice, in Prince of the City (1981) and Q&A (1990). However, while those three films focused primarily on the officers themselves, Lumet took a slightly different tack for Night Falls on Manhattan, making his protagonist a district attorney instead.
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THE DESPERATE HOURS (1955)

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☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ Overshadowed by uncontested classics in the filmographies of its director and leading man, The Desperate Hours is rarely heard of these days. Yet it deserves to be, and not only for the contributions of Humphrey Bogart (nearing the end of his career) and William Wyler (at the peak of his).
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12 ANGRY MEN (1957)

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☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ A courtroom drama without a courtroom to speak of, 12 Angry Men achieved its signature intensity almost by accident.Reginald Rose’s 1954 TV play was set in a single room by necessity, as live television in the 1950s couldn’t easily accommodate set changes. When Rose adapted it for director Sidney Lumet’s big-screen debut a few years later, he stuck to the original format.
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