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The Training Day Moment That Won Denzel Washington an Oscar

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In Training Day, Denzel Washington’s undercover detective Alonzo Harris is playing the long game, and edging both sides against the middle. “This shit’s chess, it ain’t checkers,” he explains to Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), the rookie cop being led down the road to perdition. As another Denzel copper learned in the 1998 Satanic thriller Fallen, the devil often appears in the least likely of guises. For Training Day, Washington plays against type to lay out the temptations of easy money and real, street legal power. Alonzo may not have nabbed Jake’s soul with his opening gambit, but he walked away…

The Little Things and the Mystery of Denzel Washington’s Character Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Denzel Washington’s The Little Things. Read our spoiler-free review here. The opening of John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things is pure adrenaline. A young woman minding her own business and rightfully bopping to the B-52’s “Roam”—and also making a nice homage to Buffalo Bill’s final victim in The Silence of the Lambs—is targeted by a mysterious driver who tries to run her off the road. Once cornered at a nearby gas station, the would-be victim is only able to escape by the skin of her teeth. It’s all terrifying, partially because it likely has real…

The Little Things Review: Denzel Washington Brings Back Creepy Serial Killer Thrillers

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With the 25th anniversary of Seven having passed and the 30th anniversary of The Silence of the Lambs upon us in just a few weeks, it wouldn’t be surprising if nostalgia for the serial killer thrillers of the ’90s is now upon us. That makes the arrival of The Little Things, directed and written by John Lee Hancock (The Founder), almost uncanny in its timing. The film is an unabashed throwback with the visual and narrative cues of the films mentioned above, and others along those lines, like Manhunter and Kyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure, liberally baked into its DNA. With its…

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The Training Day Moment That Won Denzel Washington an Oscar

The Little Things and the Mystery of Denzel Washington’s Character Explained

The Little Things Review: Denzel Washington Brings Back Creepy Serial Killer Thrillers

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