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Bad Luck: A Zack Walker Mystery #3

Linwood Barclay

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Zack Walker, the most unlikely of detectives, faces a new mystery to unravel in this brilliantly...

The Tower

Simon Toyne

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The much anticipated final instalment in the bestselling conspiracy thriller trilogy by Simon Toyne,...

Freefall

Adam Hamdy

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James Patterson hailed Adam Hamdy's first PENDULUM novel as 'one of the best thrillers of the year'...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Richard Jewell (2019) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020 (Updated Nov 26, 2020)

There were long stretches of this movie where I liked it a lot... right until I remembered who made it and why (a story about a 'good ole boy' famously + very publicly under investigation by the government where both the FBI and the media are both portrayed as parasitic losers with nothing better to do - yeah I'm sure this has absolutely no parallels to anything going on in the present day whatsoever...……..). Other than that it's like your regular late-period Eastwood: mostly just fine with assorted confirmation biases, too much fat, drippy over-fabrications, unabashed factual inaccuracies (the addition of the sex-for-news bit is just ew let alone stupidly unoriginal), a general oversimplification of the events, and a dated view of women - though not without a fair amount of awesome scenes to keep it (for the most part) watchable. I think even this movie's supporters underplayed how fortifyingly *amazing* Paul Walter Hauser is in this - he's not only uncannily casted but straight-up riveting, I recommend this movie simply to see him alone tbh. He's behind only Phoenix and Sandler for the best actor of 2019 imo - nothing else in this film even matters. The last ten or so minutes are horrendous.