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Ring In 2025 With 12 Essential New Year’s Eve Movies
Plus one New Year’s Day movie.
When he hits it off with a young woman in a similar boat who is applying at the same company, the pair are late coming back from a coffee break, and it’s only in retrospect that we realize that those extra stolen seconds of being carefree before the labor begins are quietly more meaningful than the arbitrary changing of the year. Full of huge ideas about topics like technology, voyeurism, and police brutality in addition to some of Bigelow’s most gripping action filmmaking, Strange Days works as a New Year’s watch both because it’s a fun sci-fi noir and it’s a grim (but not hopeless!) 200 Cigarettes ’ obscurity is shocking given the cast; Paul Rudd, Ben and Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, Dave Chappelle, Janeane Garofalo, Gaby Hoffman, Jay Mohr, and Courtney Love are just some of the stars in this ensemble comedy, which follows a group of 20-somethings around the East Village on New Year’s Eve 1981.
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