Taxi driver and Dog Day afternoon are both brilliant. Among my favourites for sure.
What both have in common is the movie's intensity.
Taxi driver is so amazing as it's a movie in almost a unique genre. The only other movie I can think of that is as subtally disturbing is Midnight cowboy(Which is very good as well).The plot is maybe quite thin, but the atmosphere in the movie and the almost a gothic city kind of horror in it is magnificent. The eerie music played backwards, the movie just gets itself stuck in your mind. That, De Niro's portrayal and development of Bicke's madness, the climax and the open interpretation of the ending it leaves you with, make it a brilliant whole.
About Dog day afternoon, no movie has managed to create suspense as that one did. Such a gritty and confrontive movie. Both Pacino and Cazale are brilliant. The movie is both funny, disturbing and very well written.
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