Tell me about a great movie you watched and write a review?

I just rewatched the Maltese Falcon. Here is my review:

My father was a student of film, a critic, and a teacher of film history. He used to say that Casablanca was Bogart’s most famous film, but The Maltese Falcon was his best. He had a theory of the “perfect movie” where every line of dialogue, every shot, every cut, and every camera angle adds to the story. The Maltese Falcon was one of his perfect movies.

How much is a dream worth? How far will some lie, cheat, steal and kill just for a dream? The Maltese Falcon may or may not answer this for you, but it will challenge your assumptions. This is the movie that launched Bogart’s career into the stratosphere, with his iconic character of Sam Spade. It’s one of first noir films, with one of the first femme fatales.

Sure, viewed in the lens of 2020 (is it really 2020?) it’s sexist and perhaps a little misogynistic. But this filmed in 1941 when people in their prime were born in the late 1800s.

There are lots of great movies out there. But fewer are iconic. How many movies were made in the 1930s and 1940s that you can only find by mining IMDB? This movie stands the test of time more than most, and will be a great movie 100 years from now when we are all long gone.