16 Best John Cusack Movies Ranked
16 Best John Cusack Movies Ranked Buena Vista Pictures
By Michileen Martin/May 19, 2021 5:47 pm EDT/Updated: May 19, 2021 5:48 pm EDT
Saying the name John Cusack evokes a specific kind of nostalgia from members of the so-called Generation X. As a young, baby-faced leading man often cast in the 80s as passionate underdogs in teen romantic comedies like The Sure Thing and Say Anything. or wackier films like Better Off Dead or One Crazy Summer Cusack became one of the pillars of 80s cinema.
But his relevance didn t leave along with the leotards and leg warmers of the 80s. While he introduced himself to audiences as a teen heartthrob, he s since challenged both his own acting range and audience expectation. Far from the days when he stood outside houses holding boom boxes over his head, Cusack has gone on in some of his best films to play con men, professional killers, baseball outcasts, preachers, cowboys, and m
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The opening minutes of a movie can be a make-it-or-break-it proposition. They’re like the first 50 pages of a novel. If the author hasn’t hooked you and reeled you in by then, well it’s time to move on to the next book on your nightstand. Of course, no one’s going to get up and walk out of a movie after ten minutes not when they’ve already forked over fifteen bucks. But a less than great start puts a director at a disadvantage. He or she has to win you back.
I keep a list of movies with perfect openings filed away in my head, from tried-and-true classics like
Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick described them as “thoughtless, ahistorical and self-congratulatory” and proclaimed that we must stop trusting photography.
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Interventions like these are not unique among the history of photographic manipulation the Cottingley Fairies photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in 1917 are a prime example. But alongside sophisticated internet tools like deepfakes (where a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else), the use of algorithms to alter photographs has provoked renewed anxiety about the authenticity of photography in the digital era.
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