Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1970

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’ve got to warn you. I saw Borsalino under less than optimal circumstances, which might cloud my judgement on the merits of the film.
The print I saw was copied from a long ago TV broadcast, so the quality was low to start with and the […]

Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Corey Yuen
Year: 2002

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s hard to believe that anyone involved with the ghastly Transporter 3 had anything to do with the original, but it’s true. Luc Besson produced both movies and Besson and his regular screenwriting partner, Robert Mark Kamen, wrote both scripts.
I dunno, maybe Besson has gotten […]

Country: France
Genre: Art/ Drama
Director: Amos Gitai
Year: 2008

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Please understand. I don’t think One Day You’ll Understand is a bad film necessarily. It’s just that this is a website devoted to Trash Cinema, and One Day You’ll Understand has neither the energy or intent of the movies that I gravitate to. And it […]

Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Year: 1972

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The biggest strength of Un Flic is it’s willingness to take it’s time, to develop atmosphere and suspense, to dwell on procedural details. Unfortunately, writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville allows this leisurely pace to extend to even the most boring scenes, in which nothing much of note occurs, […]

Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The title Female Agents conjures up the image of a junky, campy romp, featuring scantily clad women seducing Nazis and enduring nipple torture from the SS. Instead, Female Agents is more of a French Dirty Dozen, featuring women.
But that doesn’t really capture the flavor of the […]

Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Olivier Megaton
Year: 2008

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Transporter 3 is just a terrible movie, but it didn’t have to be this way. Blame some lazy screenwriting from longtime collaborators Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and inexcrebable direction from Olivier Megaton.
The story itself is perfectly serviceable. Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbé), a muckety-muck high […]

Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-François Richet
Year: 2008

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Public Enemy No 1 isn’t quite as compelling as Death Instinct, the film that chronicled the first half of Jacque Mesrine’s two decade criminal career, but that isn’t because the events are any less dramatic. The problem lies more in the directing and screenwriting.
Whereas director Jean-François […]

Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-François Richet
Year: 2008

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Death Instinct takes a kaleidascopic approach to its subject. Jacques Mesrine, the most notorious criminal in France’s history, had a twenty year criminal career. It would be difficult to take the full measure of the man, even over the course of two feature films. Director […]

Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Guillaume Canet
Year: 2006

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Tell No One is an update of a kind of thriller that isn’t really made anymore in the United States. And that’s a shame, because it’s great fun.
Pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) has been mourning the murder of his wife for eight years […]

Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Olivier Assayas
Year: 2004

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Every once in a while, a movie surprises you with how good it is. I knew that Maggie Cheung, who stars in Clean, was an excellent actress, but Nick Nolte hasn’t given a decent performance in a long time. I was expecting another […]