daily stream: the movie Tom Hanks thinks we don’t talk about enough
2002’s *Road to Perdition* is on Prime, Apple TV, and other services on both sides of the Atlantic
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Tom Hanks is worried that no one talks about what his considers one of his most important films, Road to Perdition. So let’s talk about it! (And let’s not talk too much about his latest movie, A Man Called Otto. It’s not very good.) Sam Mendes’s 2002 crime noir is indeed, as Hanks says, one of his best films. Based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, this marvelous film is, to quote my own 2002 review:
pulpy to its core, in a way that recognizes the fundamental, mythic themes of pulp fiction, those of vengeance and honor and self-discovery. This story could only be set in the 1930s, when the desperation of the Depression gave rise to figures like Batman. Mendes and [cinematographer Conrad L.] Hall cloak much of the film in noirish darkness and rain, and their mobster characters in anonymous, almost clerical overcoats and fedoras…
Time to revisit this one…
US: rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV; stream on Netflix and Paramount+ (via Prime)
UK: rent/buy on Prime (free for members) and Apple TV; stream on Disney+
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