Full Metal Jacket (1987, Matthew Modine, Dir: Stanley Kubrick)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941, Joel McCrea, Dir: Preston Sturges)
Fantasia (1940, Walt Disney)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, James Stewart, Dir: Frank Capra)
The Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplin, Dir: Charlie Chaplin)

I’ll confess, political satire isn’t usually my thing. Often, it feels too on-the-nose, too preachy. But then there’s Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, a film that manages to be both hilariously absurd and profoundly moving, a tightrope walk few could manage. Released in 1940, as Europe was already engulfed in war, it’s a film that took guts to make, a ...

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