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Pacific Heights

Picking Nits

The panel questions how Carter moved in without payment and why Drake did not use his keys before the locks changed. Carter’s scrapbook and a con man sending a return-address postcard are challenged as implausibly careless.

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  • The panel questions how Carter moved in without payment and why Drake did not use his keys before the locks changed.
  • Carter’s scrapbook and a con man sending a return-address postcard are challenged as implausibly careless.
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Pacific Heights

Who Won the Movie?

Michael Keaton is the repeated winner for following Batman with a memorable villain performance.

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  • Michael Keaton is the repeated winner for following Batman with a memorable villain performance.
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The Good Son

Most Rewatchable Scene

The treehouse-to-rock-throwing-to-well passage, dog chase and killing, Mr. Highway crash, therapist bench, ice-skating attack, Henry’s shed, Mark’s shiv, therapist confrontation, and cliff climax are nominated; Mr. Highway leads.

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  • The treehouse, rock throwing, smoking, and well material slowly reveals Henry testing Mark and discussing death.
  • The Rottweiler chase changes the mood when Henry stares down the dog.
  • Henry kills the dog with his homemade weapon and dumps it into the well.
  • Mr. Highway causes a multi-car crash and is the leading rewatchable set piece.
  • Mark’s bench conversation with the therapist about evil is nominated.
  • Connie on the ice is nominated because the set piece repeats the danger of drowning a sibling.
  • Susan discovering Richard’s duck and Henry’s weapons in the shed exposes how much she has ignored.
  • Mark pulling a shiv on Henry and the father catching him reverses who appears dangerous.
  • The overhead tracking shot of Mark locked in the office is singled out as unusually stylish.
  • Henry appearing at Mark’s therapist is a peak gaslighting scene.
  • The cliff climax is praised for real stunt work, danger, and the choice Susan must make.
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Is There a Better Title for This Movie?

Susan’s Choice, Every Mother’s Son, Bad Brother, and Henry: Portrait of a Future Serial Killer are proposed; Bad Brother is favored.

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  • Susan’s Choice riffs on the cliff decision.
  • Every Mother’s Son captures the competing parent-child bonds.
  • Bad Brother is the favored concise alternate.
  • Henry: Portrait of a Future Serial Killer repeats Ebert’s formulation.
  • The existing title is read through the observed Cane-and-Abel comparison as a question about which child is good.
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