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Pacific Heights The Rewatchables
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Pacific Heights

Picking Nits

Carter moving in without payment; Drake not using his keys before the locks changed; Carter’s scrapbook and return-address postcard

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Approx. transcript time · 01:41:15Read transcript
  • 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.
The Good Son The Rewatchables
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The Good Son

Most Rewatchable Scene

Mr. Highway

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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.
The Good Son The Rewatchables
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The Good Son

Is There a Better Title for This Movie?

Bad Brother

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Approx. transcript time · 01:03:27Read transcript
  • 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.
The Good Son The Rewatchables
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The Good Son

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Takes argue this is Macaulay Culkin’s greatest performance, both child stars should already have had supporting Oscars, and Susan should save her own son; another take says Henry could have become an NHL pest.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:14:53Read transcript
  • Culkin’s Henry is argued to be a harder and greater performance than Kevin McCallister.
  • Culkin is hypothetically awarded for My Girl over Jack Palance, and Wood for Radio Flyer over Gene Hackman.
  • Susan choosing blood over truth and saving Henry is defended as the parental choice.
  • More engaged parents could have directed Henry’s skating and aggression into hockey.
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