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Film This Week in the Film Section: Public Enemies
Posted by Lindy West on Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Paul Constant approves:
In many ways, this is a one-man show: Johnny Depp leavens folk-celebrity bank robber Dillinger with more than a dash of young Elvis Presley. When he smirks, you half expect him to be assaulted by a horde of screaming teenage girls. His scenes with Marion Cotillard make the most of that seductiveness: They look like they're going to eat each other. It's really adorable. Depp usually tries so hard to fugly himself up or weigh his character down with weird tics that to see him like this—as an attractive, charismatic, famous man—feels like a revelation.
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