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‘The Fall Guy’
The Fall Guy is, above all, a movie that loves movies, because it’s all about making one. Ryan Gosling runs on endless charisma as Colt Seavers, the film’s titular Fall Guy — a seasoned stunt performer returning to the fold after an injury. When he gets to set, not only does he discover that the film is being directed by his ex-girlfriend (Emily Blunt), but the movie’s lead actor (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has vanished, dropping Colt and stunt coordinator Dan (Winston Duke) into the middle of a conspiracy about the disappearance. Of course, this movie about a stunt man delivers on stunts involving cars, helicopters, boats, fire, and more (and how could it not when director David Leitch is a former stunt performer himself?), but it shines in the rare action-free moments, too, including the perfect use of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well,” and a split-screen sequence that I’m still thinking about over a month after catching the movie in theaters. If any one movie alone could act as a campaign to finally award stunt performers at the Academy Awards, it’s this one.
