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Death Wish

Roger Ebert's review

Death Wish The Rewatchables

Ebert's three-star review is discussed as both attracted to and repelled by the movie.

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  • Ebert gave the film three stars while calling it a quasi-fascist advertisement presented as slick action.
  • The New York Times review is reported to have called the film irresponsible.
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Death Wish

Most Rewatchable Scene

Death Wish The Rewatchables

The roll-of-quarters defense and extended Tucson sequence lead the opening scene discussion.

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  • The panel says viewers troubled by the opening assault can enter the film around the Tucson passage.
  • The roll-of-quarters defense is the first action scene singled out for replay value.
  • The Wild West saloon brawl and the broader Tucson sequence receive explicit nominations.
  • Kersey's first shooting and the later three-on-one alley shooting are nominated separately.
  • The subway double murder is nominated as Kersey grows more deliberate.
  • The subway-platform attack is discussed as Kersey deliberately raising the stakes and exposing himself as bait.
  • The final park-staircase shootout, chase, and police ultimatum form the closing scene candidate.
  • The Tucson passage is preferred as part of the film, while the last shootout is called the iconic choice.
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Death Wish

The most "year the movie came out" thing

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1974 is represented by frightening New York, overcoats, magazine billboards, and long boozy lunches.

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  • Frightening New York, a Korean War veteran hero, TWA travel, and the assault are cited as 1974 markers.
  • Wide overcoat collars and magazine billboards used to advance the plot are selected as period details.
  • Long, alcohol-heavy lunches are treated as distinctly 1974.
  • Serving liver with spaghetti prompts a separate period-food discussion.
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Death Wish

What’s Aged the Best?

Death Wish The Rewatchables

The police-station atmosphere, media machinery, Bronson's physique, and Kersey's addiction to the hunt have aged well.

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  • The old police-station atmosphere is selected as a durable period pleasure.
  • The film's still-current conflict over guns is judged to have aged well.
  • A study about repeat viewing leads to a discussion of familiar movies as relaxing comfort food.
  • Traumatized characters becoming catatonic and the detective seeing himself on a magazine cover receive separate mentions.
  • Bronson's physique and Kersey becoming addicted to the hunt are separate Aged Best choices.
  • The newspapers, television coverage, and press conferences are praised as a pre-internet media machine.
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