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The Bone Collector

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  • Title: The Bone Collector
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Feeling every bit the 90s movie it is, The Bone Collector throws Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie together in a crime thriller based on Jeffery Deaver’s novel. Washington stars as brilliant, but suicidal, quadriplegic homicide detective Lincoln Rhyme who sees wasted potential in Officer Amelia Donaghy (Jolie) who takes the kind of initiative he, but not her superiors, appreciate in preserving a crime scene. Not initially pleased with her reassignment, Amelia works as Rhyme’s legs in the field helping to track down a serial killer leaving obscure clues and removing bones from his victims.

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Play Dirty

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  • Title: Play Dirty
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A less successful adaptation of the Parker novels than that of Jason Statham (there’s a sentence you don’t hear often), Mark Wahlberg stars in what is easily the worst, and most bland, Shane Black movie ever made. After a heist gone wrong, Parker (Wahlberg) works with the duplicitous Zen (Rosa Salazar) on an even larger heist which will pit him against his old enemy Lozini (Tony Shalhoub) and the Outfit.

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The Hunt for Red October

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  • Title: The Hunt for Red October
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Easily the best adaptation of any Tom Clancy novel, 1990’s The Hunt for Red October starred Sean Connery as defecting Russian submarine captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as CIA analyst Jack Ryan who sniffs out the truth and finds himself thrown into the field to bring Ramius in before the United States or the Russians (claiming Ramius plans to fire his missiles on U.S.) can sink the stealth prototype submarine the Red October.

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A Lot Like Love

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  • Title: A Lot Like Love
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Released 20 years ago, A Lot Like Love feels a bit forgotten by time. The romantic comedy starred Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet as affable and charming leads whose lives intersect every few years before finally realizing that each belongs with the other. Kutcher is in full shaggy dog mode, especially early as the good-natured but largely clueless dude compelled to see his “five-year plan” to fruition. Peet (perhaps in her most intoxicating on-screen performance) is the more spontaneous, but also emotionally-distant, burned often by love.

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Blackhat

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  • Title: Blackhat
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In what is certainly a lesser Michael Mann film, Chris Hemsworth stars as hacker Nicholas Hathaway released from prison to help a joint taskforce between the United States and China headed by Hathaway’s college roommate PLA Captain Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang). The small group also includes Dawai’s sister Chen Lien (Tang Wei) with Viola Davis and Holt McCallany making up the American side of the group. While not connected to the cyber-attacks themselves, Hathaway is responsible for the code used by the hackers to break into systems in both the United States and China.

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