The Usual Suspects: The Twist That Ate the Film

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Some films are remembered for a performance, some for an image, some for a line. The Usual Suspects (1995) is remembered for a single narrative move so effective that, thirty years on, it is genuinely hard to talk about anything else the film does. The twist ate the film. The question a revisit has to answer is whether there was a good film underneath the trick, or whether the trick was the film all along — and that turns out to be a more interesting problem than it first appears.

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The Usual Suspects: The Twist That Ate the Film