“Miami Vice looks and moves like no other movie. It was shot in large part on grainy handheld digital video, which lends the action a sense of immediacy. Though its technology has become outdated, Miami Vice still feels new and different.” – Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club

Michael Mann’s oft-maligned masterpiece Miami Vice retools the glossy 1980s series into a moody, achingly romantic thriller that captured the look and feel of the mid aughts, even as audiences and critics at the time of its release largely rejected the film for its smudgy digital textures and murky moral ambiguities. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx anchor a terse, emotionally raw undercover cop drama that takes us through Miami’s cartel-dominated underbelly (and across the Florida Strait for some Mojitos), while Mann and cinematographer Dion Beebe paint the scenery with dancing digital pixels. The nocturnal heat of South Florida has never felt so wonderfully oppressive as it does during the film’s grainy nighttime action. Whether or not you’re a convert, Miami Vice, now 20 years young, deserves another look on the big screen.

Before the film, we’ll play tribute to the movie and show’s iconically sulky soundtrack with a Moody Rock pre-show starting at 6 pm. (Is this just an excuse to rock some Phil Collins? Maybe.)

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