Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

How to Get Carter

Noir, nihilism and Jack Carter

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Kenaz Filan
May 21, 2026
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There’s nobody to root for but the smartly dressed sexual athlete and professional killer (Michael Caine) in this English gangland picture, which is so calculatedly cool and soulless and nastily erotic that it seems to belong to a new genre of virtuoso viciousness. What makes the movie unusual is the metallic elegance and the single-minded proficiency w…

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