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The Grifters (1990)

Myra: He was so crooked he could 

eat soup with a corkscrew.

There are a lot of fun lines of dialogue in Stephen Frears' neo-noir The Grifters but that one's my favorite -- that line and a person being beat with a bag of oranges are the things that pop up in my head from this movie way, way more often than might seem reasonable, but then I have a very odd brain, what can I say. Anyway we're obviously not alone in feeling this film because as we told you back in October was happening Criterion has gone and released it onto 4K blu-ray today so go buy it! And I hope they decide to drop some more Frears flicks into their collection in the near future -- I'd totally kill for good releases of Dirty Pretty Things and Prick Up Your Ears! Or if not "kill" perhaps just beat with a bag of oranges...