The writer behind Mystic River and Shutter Island is back with another hardboiled crime thriller featuring private detective Patrick Kenzie.
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Movie Review: Ben Affleck’s The Town
Even while watching The Town, it’s tempting to make comparisons to one of the other big Boston crime thrillers of the decade, Martin Scorcese’s The Departed. Both films were crime dramas set in gritty white Boston neighborhoods. Both cast seasoned screen legends as neighborhood crime lords (Pete Postlethwaite and Jack Nicholson). Both featured one half of the […]