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Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made Archive
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The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made: Star Wars Episode 1 : The Phantom Menace
Perhaps Lucas is too close to the action to realize what poetry he has in his own movie, but with Park moving like a ballerina as he beats the stew out of Neeson and McGregor, it’s high time someone told him the personal message of the Star Wars saga has always outweighed the flash and sizzle. -
The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made: Matrix Revolutions
Well, okay, not all of these would make for great cinema. I mean, virtue vs. vice? Who wants to see the embodiment of patience take on an avatar of smoking? -
The Best 45 Minute Movies Ever Made: Full Metal Jacket
Like so many of the movies on this list, this film’s strength lies in its first half. Stanley Kubrick’s observations about the horrors of human conflict (this bloody commentary on the Vietnam War predates Spielberg’s remarkable Saving Private Ryan by a decade and a half) begins in the seemingly much tamer world of marine boot camp.