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John’s top 10 TV shows of 2024

Prestige miniseries and streaming franchise “content” ruled the roost, but traditional network TV surprisingly hung on to life this year – even if the format

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The Apartment

‘The Apartment’ (1960) is worth renting, maybe even owning

Although many rom-coms have used the broad structure of “The Apartment” (1960’s Best Picture winner), few have matched its genuineness. At the broadest glance, C.C.

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It's a Wonderful Life

‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (1946), but is it a wonderful movie?

Director Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) stands as a wonderful Christmastime perspective check. Along with James Stewart’s George Bailey, viewers should also remember

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Edward Scissorhands

‘Edward Scissorhands’ (1990) a too-thin slice of heartfelt weirdness

Tim Burton is the most idiosyncratic of mass-appeal directors, but his weirdness is only skin deep. This is especially evident in one of his most

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The Night We Lost Him

Dave’s ‘The Night We Lost Him’ blends romance, mystery

In the 19th century, authors snuck mystery elements into their stories and an exciting and popular new genre gradually emerged. In “The Night We Lost

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Challengers

Smartly structured ‘Challengers’ breaks at love

“Challengers” gets a lot of mileage out of what is essentially a “Gossip Girl” premise: Two male tennis players – besties who have won the

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The Immortalists

‘The Immortalists’ (2018) examines life through lens of death

Chloe Benjamin’s “The Immortalists” (2018) has a spicy premise – four young siblings in 1960s New York City learn the dates of their deaths from

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Under Capricorn

‘Under Capricorn’ (1949) rightly buried under Hitchcock’s suspensers

Alfred Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense, but one thing he never mastered was a consistent sense of proper pacing and movie length. “Under Capricorn”

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Three Days of the Condor

‘Three Days of the Condor’ (1975) provides holiday-season conspiracy chill

Political conspiracy films were so common in the Seventies that some people were probably getting sick of them, but today they stand as a rich

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Paradine Case

Old Hollywood meets film noir in ‘Paradine Case’ (1947)

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case” (1947) is so nice looking and features such great performances that it almost overshadows the thin story by uber-producer David

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