Movie Diary 4/8/2024

Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024). Will write about this for Friday. On first glance it seems like a serious misstep.

Madigan (Don Siegel, 1968). Have had less time lately for random movies-for-pleasure re-watching. The casting is rich in this NYC policier, even if the dialogue frequently reverts to standard-issue cop-movie material. Widmark’s renegade detective anticipates Dirty Harry and The French Connection, which will arrive very soon, but doesn’t go all the way, as those pictures do.