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It's hard not to go into this with "English Patient" expectations and, on some levels, it succeeds. The canvas is much smaller, and so is the emotional scope. But the distorted worlds of these characters make for quite the head trip. Look, Hollywood, you CAN make a thriller with actual characters in it.

Note: I saw this film some weeks ago in a very rough form; there may have been some big changes since I saw it and I will re-review it after I see the final cut this weekend. A

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly