This had been on my watchlist forever and I’d never been able to track it down until today, and it lived up to all expectations I had for it. Feels like a movie that was specifically made just for me. A perfectly crafted, stylish, gritty, bloody, neon-and-sun-soaked LA crime thriller that refuses to engage in typical notions of who’s good and who’s bad. Petersen’s agent is just as corrupt and crooked as Dafoe’s sleazy counterfeiter villain. Nobody wins in a…

An incredible feat of gonzo, death-defying, white-knuckle filmmaking. One of the most heart-racing, pulse-pounding movies I’ve ever seen. Friedkin doesn’t truly dial up the intensity until the second half of the film, but even the setup is a masterclass in its own right, establishing a bleak and nihilistic framework where the only way these troubled men on the run can make enough money to get by is to drive across the jungle in a beaten-down truck filled with explosives. By…