two-fisted

Trump's usage of the track and jerky, two-fisted dance became a trend among Republican TikTok users celebrating his Election Day victory.

As mordant in its way as the slyly subversive movies Luis Buñuel made in Mexico, Brocka’s two-fisted melodrama is a hellish, compelling work by a director whom the French critic Serge Daney, then editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, called “the great filmmaker of the ’70s.”

“Most importantly, he had fire — things I’d never seen in a politician,” Alonzo said, and though he’d vote for Biden as a “lesser of two evils,” he wishes the president had a pinch of Trump’s two-fisted audacity.

Then he’d drive back and return to work, resume building toward his dream of head coaching, the competitor in Staley choosing to embrace — no, to cherish — the two-fisted challenger before him.

“What is in those cards is another unswerving performance by Cruise, whose onscreen commitment to the role is key to making these two-fisted tales — not to mention lines like ‘nobody leaves this hotel alive’ — believable.”