Actor · Voice actor · 1967

Jamie Foxx

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Miami Vice

Michael Mann · 2006

Michael Mann’s 2006 Miami Vice is a digitally shot, atmospherically dense crime film starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Miami-Dade detectives infiltrating a transnational drug operation. Shot on location across the Caribbean and South Florida, it trades the 1980s TV series’ stylisation for a muted, immersive realism — prioritising surveillance aesthetics, ambient sound, and moral ambiguity over exposition or catharsis. Though polarising on release, its reputation has grown for its formal rigour and sensory coherence.

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Ali

Michael Mann · 2001

Michael Mann’s Ali traces ten years in Muhammad Ali’s life, from his 1964 title win over Sonny Liston to the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle. Will Smith performs Ali as physical and vocal presence rather than psychological portrait; Emmanuel Lubezki’s cinematography and Pieter Bourke and Lisa Gerrard’s score reinforce texture over exposition. The film prioritises endurance, visibility, and voice over narrative clarity or emotional exposition — landing hardest in its sensory fidelity, faltering where it attempts thematic breadth or relational depth.

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Collateral

Michael Mann · 2004

Michael Mann’s 2004 thriller follows LA cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) over one night as he shuttles contract killer Vincent (Tom Cruise) between hits. Shot digitally on the streets of Los Angeles, it uses tight framing, low-light cinematography, and precise editing to sustain tension without exposition. The film explores detachment, routine, and the quiet cost of competence—more interested in how its characters move through the city than in why they do.

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Soul

Pete Docter · 2020

Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher on the verge of his first real break as a jazz pianist, falls into a coma and finds his soul on the way to the Great Beyond, prompting a scramble to get back to his body paired with an unwilling mentee soul named 22 who has never wanted to be born. Pete Docter's Pixar feature, co-written and co-directed by Kemp Powers, spends four years of production building an afterlife bureaucracy in order to undercut the very idea, common to Docter's own earlier films, that a person needs a defining passion to justify their existence.