The Parallax View (1974) (15)
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Perhaps the conspiracy movie. Alan J. Pakula’s nail-biting thriller about an ambitious reporter who’s snooping into an assassination and ends up setting a target on his own head, spooked an already disillusioned America. A precursor to All The President’s Men, Pakula’s The Parallax View is a masterclass of Hitchcockian tension.
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