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The Maltese Falcon: The Template Nobody Improved On
Every private-eye film since has been rearranging furniture Huston already placed in 1941.
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A private eye picks at a simple infidelity job and uncovers something the city would rather he hadn't.
Knives Out is the best entry point the genre has had in decades
A modern whodunit that plays fair, moves fast, and does something structurally clever about a third of the way in.
The Third Man: the greatest entrance in film is also the best clue
A post-war mystery where the city does half the work and the answer has been in front of you the whole time.
Memories of Murder is a detective film about not solving it
Bong Joon-ho's 2003 procedural is funny, then it is not, and the shift is the point.
Rear Window makes you the detective, then makes you feel bad about it
Hitchcock's cleanest premise: a man with a broken leg, a window, and a suspicion he cannot verify.
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