The Old Man and the Gun (2018)

In simpler times, when police work involved rifling through file boxes, having leads faxed through and using a rewind button to review grainy black and white surveillance footage, an old man, real-life San Quentin prison escapee Forrest Tucker, indulges in his greatest pleasure: robbing banks and going on the run, and like the wind rustling Robert Redford's impossible blonde tresses through the window of his Chevrolet getaway vehicle, this based-on-a-true-story crime drama is a gentle, refreshing breeze, like Heat meets geriatric Catch Me If You Can with a laidback soundtrack.

★★★★☆

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JFK (1991)

As New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Kevin Costner is required to deliver only short and grammatically simple lines and he delivers them all the same wooden way with upward inflection as though everything is a question, but his woodenness suits the machine-gunned details of the JFK investigation, presented here in the first of Oliver Stone's three President movies (so far), this one an epic three-and-a-half hour conspiracy theory, some of the details of which you have the advantage over Jim Garrison of being able to shoot out of the water with a quick Wiki search on your phone while you are watching.

★★★☆☆

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Carrie (1976)

The original 1976 film version of Stephen King's Carrie is a not especially enjoyable American gothic horror story about an alienated student bullied into the sort of destructive behaviour that these days happens in American high schools with guns, not telekinesis.

★★☆☆☆

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