Knives Out and The Irishman

Add 2 more contenders to the year end ten best list. 

Knives Out is the Rian Johnson murder mystery with one of the best casts of the year. Most people know Johnson from Star Wars, but my favorite film of his is Brick, and this is him very much back in Brick mode. I loved the way this movie was structured, where instead of waiting the whole movie to find out whodunit, we are basically told flat out maybe 30 minutes into the film(although there is more yet to come). The ultimate reveal really works too, and in between we get just one terrific scene after another. This ensemble is just a ton of fun. Daniel Craig is hilarious, Chris Evans just tears into his douchebag part, and Ana de Armas is completely endearing.

The Irishman is Martin Scorsese's $150 million, 3 and a half hour crime epic on Netflix, with DeNiro, Pacino and a more than welcome return by Joe Pesci. I thought watching such a long movie on my phone would be a tedious ordeal, even for a Scorsese film. Instead I watched it almost straight through. I wouldn't put it in the level of a Goodfellas or Wolf of Wall Street, but it's very absorbing. Yeah it probably could be shorter, and sometimes the de-aging they do on DeNiro and Pacino is a little iffy, but these performances by the big 3 are fantastic. All should be Oscar nominated. DeNiro hasn't been close to this good in years. 

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