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Fast-Paised review: 'Fracture'
Before jumping to a higher paying job at a big firm, young prosecutor Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) takes on a seemingly open-and-shut case to convict engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) of killing his wife. Soon, Beachum learns the case isn't as...Tags: Drama (genre), Movies, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Hopkins, Music Industry
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Movie review: 'Fracture'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Effective dialogue doesn't necessarily mean witty dialogue, but wit certainly helps, and you tend not to get much of it in a low-key legal thriller. "Fracture" is an exception. It features some pungent exchanges between, among...Tags: Crimes, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Companies and Corporations
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'Fracture'
Times Staff Writer"Fracture" is the kind of movie that can get you really worked up if you take it too seriously and try to parse all the twists. Rather, the best way to enjoy it is to suspend your disbelief and soak up the actorly tête-à-tête that pits wily veteran...Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Values, Movies, Kevin Costner, Celebrities
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Fracture
Zap2It.comThere is a shot of Ryan Gosling in the new crime thriller "Fracture," tooling down a residential street in Los Angeles behind the wheel of a well-used red BMW. The famous Hollywood sign sprawls across the hills behind him, floating above his head like a...Tags: Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Crime (genre), Ryan Gosling
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Movie Review: 'Untraceable'
A competent but unremarkable crime thriller, "Untraceable" does introduce one fascinating, troubling notion - that Americans are so addicted to their media that they would happily become accessories to murder in order to get their daily fix of...Tags: Crimes, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, Diane Lane, FBI
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Fallen
FOR THE TIMESFriday January 16, 1998 Somewhere in the dark woods of the cold Northeast, a man is crawling in a panic across the ground. He looks about done in, ready to chum for earthworms, when we hear the calm voice of a narrator saying he wants to tell us...Tags: New York City Police Department, Movies, Milan (Italy), William Holden, Donald Sutherland
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Frequency
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 28, 2000 "The past is a funny thing," John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) says in "Frequency," an effective but finally overreaching science-fiction thriller, but even he doesn't yet appreciate just how out of the ordinary it can be. ...Tags: Noah Emmerich, Movies, James Caviezel, Science Fiction (genre), Science and Technology
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Movie review, 'Hart's War'
Just because a movie was inspired by real life and has good intentions doesn't mean it can't wind up as phony as a three-dollar bill. "Hart's War" is a courtroom thriller, set in a World War II POW camp, that begins as if it were destined for greatness...Tags: Movies, Justice System, William Holden, William McNamara, Mark Twain
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'Hart's War'
Times Staff WriterFrom "Stalag 17" through "The Great Escape," prisoner-of-war movies set in German camps during World War II were a lot simpler back then. Guys groused about the enemy and tried to break out with a zeal so convincingly parodied in the animated "Chicken...Tags: Movies, William McNamara, Adolf Hitler, Civil Rights, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Primal Fear
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday April 3, 1996 "Primal Fear" makes fools of us and makes us like it. A tight courtroom melodrama that serves up twist after twist like so many baffling knuckle balls, this film handles its suspenseful material with skill and style. ...Tags: Movies, New York City Police Department, John Mahoney, Frances McDormand, Maura Tierney
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Jan 15, 1998
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Apr 27, 2000
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Feb 14, 2002
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Apr 6, 1996
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