Hard Eight (1996) - 7/10
I think nearly any other film tried to have a plot as absent as this and it would produce an unwatchable mess but here i think it really works. The actors and the writing holds you firmly. You want to hear more. You want to see more. You want this despite technically having nothing going on in a larger narrative sense.
The viewer, or at least I, easily get the impression theres something more to know. Whats the angle? That sort of thing. Im a bit too tired to really dig into this but i liked it.
I loved the last shot. Perhaps a PTA trope but his ability to give a massive ammount of information in the closing moments is possibly as good as it gets.
Sydney does clean the blood off. He just covers it up. This moment tells us, atleast perhaps, why he pseudo adopted John C Rileys character. He's stained with the past but perhaps has can cover his soul.