Catholic Film Reviews

Body of Lies is a slick political thriller that only begins to be bothersome later, in quieter moments, when its implications can be mulled over minus the mind-numbing sound and fury. During its running time, veteran action-painter Ridley Scott (Gladiator, American Gangster) delivers a fast-paced, tightly-edited genre exercise about a CIA operative (Leonardo Dicaprio) combating [...]

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Directed by Ridley Scott
Starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe
Emphasis on American. This is a Horatio Alger story, Harlem-style — the rise and fall of a drug lord who bests the competition with old-fashioned MBA tactics: a product twice as good at half the price.
The entrepreneur is Frank Lucas, played by wolfishly lean-and-hungry Denzel Washington. His [...]

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