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Character Star

REPTILE. There are character actors and there are movie stars, and in between is Benicio Del Toro. Like many, I first became fully aware of Del Toro with The Usual Suspects (1995), written by the now-anointed Christopher McQuarrie and directed by the lately canceled Hollywood monster Bryan Singer. Standing out among a cast of standouts, […]

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Self Sabotage

Reviews SABOTAGE. I greet new David Ayer movies with probably inappropriate enthusiasm. Like it or not, he has made a career out of stories in which those who’ve sworn to serve and to protect occasionally serve themselves first. I return to his criminally under-acknowledged End of Watch (2012) several times a year, and it makes […]

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