I recently watched Straight Time on Netflix streaming and I was not impressed. I thought it was confused. It starts out making you think that Hoffman was not such a bad guy and that he was the victim of a corrupt system. Eventually, Hoffman comes off as being truly evil and you all of a sudden start hating him and wishing he were back in prison. The film was never clear whether he was evil or not, or whether we should hate him or not. I was not sure what to think of his character. This uncertainty frustrated me.

Christopher, you inadvertently made Gene Siskel’s point. You wouldn’t allow the movie to tell its own story to you.

I wrote a research paper on Night Moves, and I would recommend it to any noir fan!

Jennifer Warren was ultra s*xy in Night Moves. I mean hot in a grown woman way, not like some of the kids that you normally see runniing around Hollywood.

Absolutely. In real life there’s no such thing as categorically "evil" or "good" people (besides Adolf Hitler and Mother Teresa, perhaps), and the most interesting movie characters are the ones that acknowledge how complicated it is to be human.

I saw the Sorcerer based on this review recently, and I have to admit I wasn’t as impressed as Roger. Actually the Sorcerer is basically a remake of "Wages of Fear", which in my opinion is much better.