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Motherless Brooklyn
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Awesome acting and a terrific musical score dominate Edward Norton's compelling, well-written, evenly paced, taut, unpredictable, dark, star-dotted (Leslie Mann, Fisher Stevens, Cherry Jones, Michael Kenneth Williams, Josh Pais, Robert Wisdom, and Deborah Unger), 144-minute film noir crime thriller based on Jonathan Lethem's novel in which a genius-level smart, tenacious, Tourette's-Syndrome-afflicted private investigator (Edward Norton) in New York City tries to figure out along with his gumshoe partners (Bobby Cannavale, Ethan Suplee, and Dallas Roberts) who mysteriously gunned down his boss (Bruce Willis) in 1957 and begins investigating how the murder is intertwined with a powerful, racist, corrupt Bureau Authority bigwig (Alec Baldwin), an award-winning engineer (Willem Dafoe), and a beautiful African-American activist (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) trying to help underprivileged people displaced from their Brooklyn homes.

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2019
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