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'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'
This film about a botched heist finds Philip Seymour Hoffman at his wretched best as a pleasure-hungry payroll specialist who begins his life of crime by siphoning checks and graduates to robbing his own parents. And that's just the first half hour—things deteriorate from there. The acting is superb, the plot is relentless, and pity and fear crash through in successive waves. It's unadulterated nihilism from 83-year-old director Sidney Lumet. (See Movie Times, page 88, for details.) ANNIE WAGNER
but it has Ethan Hawke in it!!
ugh...
I think I'll wait until No Country for Old Men opens next week...I saw a screening of it on Wednesday and it's FABULOUS!
wait, you saw a screening of it on wednesday, and you are going to see it again next week? that's a pretty rave review...
Yes, you have to see it twice - once for the visceral shock and twice to attempt a body count. The new personification of evil is now embodied in Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). This film makes "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" look like "Anne of Green Gables". Cute shirtless teenager at the end brings everything back to normal.
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