62/2373. Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A woman loves her man so much, she lets him believe that he murdered the policeman she shot. It's every film noir cliche in one movie! The ending is... well, even if you saw it you wouldn't believe it. True story: it put me to sleep.

63/2374. Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home (2024)
The hardest part to believe about this Hallmark Mystery Movie (in which the murderer's motive is -- surprise! -- greed) is that the protagonist doctor (a former military doctor who seems to be the only person in town who has ever heard of poisoning someone to death) has so much spare time (and office space) on her hands that she can be up in everyone else's business.

64/2375. Tipline Mysteries: Dial 1 for Murder (2024)
This Hallmark Mystery Movie leans hard into being a Hallmark Mystery Movie, and I think that's the correct impulse. We don't watch these puzzle movies for realism. In fact, although there were several moments where the police procedure was questionable, the enthusiastic protagonists were always enjoyable to accompany as they stumbled their way to the solution.

65/2376. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
I saw the Pierce Brosnan in theater on release, but this was my first time watching the Steve McQueen original. The first half is a heist film; the second is a romance. I enjoyed the heist (and the ending, which made me Google which was the first movie in which the criminal gets away with his crime), but the pacing is way too slow and McQueen's character and fickle love interest Faye Dunaway are way too unlikable to really enjoy spending time with them.

66/2377. The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
If you look this up online, you'll see many critics in its day called it the worst movie ever made. It's not that bad, but they've made a lot of movies since 1948. Personally, I thought it was a good time. It's a clearly sanitized version of The Babes life story intended for kids, and that's fine.

67/2378. Arsène Lupin (1932)
If you do Google which was the first movie in which a criminal gets away with a crime, the original British 1916 version of this movie will come up. (The Italian film Filibus beats it by a year, and the French Fantomas by three. I'm still not sure what the first American film to feature successful criminal was, though if I stretch the definition to short films, the answer is probably D.W. Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley in 1912.) The reason to watch this version is to see the two Barrymore brothers acting opposite one another, as cop vs. robber, in the same film. Boy, that family had some acting talent.

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