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| Put the lazy comparisons to the Bourne films to one side, Green Zone is a smart and well-thought-out action film with a biting political edge. It may take some pot-shots at easy targets along the way, but it's served up with real passion.
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| Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are in the midst of forming the sort of collaborative partnership that in the past has yielded some of the greatest films ever made. Some of their earlier films might not have been up to the high standards they are aiming for, but this dark and complex psychological thriller is a mouth-watering opportunity to watch the pair at the top of their game.
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Films about filmmaking are rarely something everyone can enjoy, even the effort to use Rober de Niro to attract audiences to the adaptation of producer Art Linson's memoirs failed pretty miserably. So it is with some surprise that my first acknowledgement of this review is that this film about filmmaking is also a film of great humanity, and an absorbing portrait of one man juggling his obsession and his life.
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| A unique modern fairy tale, Ondine somehow makes the simplest and most far-fetched of plots into something that is not only believable and absorbing, but utterly devoid of all that is saccharin, self-indulgent or over sentimental.
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