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					Film
					
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					Reality
					
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				Really Great | Great | Really Great | Sordid | Glib | 
| AVERAGE | Really Great | Really Great | Really Great | Horrid | Glib | 
		
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				Really Great
			
			4.5
		
		 Denzel and Crowe at the top of their games, combined with a compelling (if familiar), interesting and assured story mak…  | 
	
		
			
				Great
			
			4.0
		
		 Russell Crowe, hardly movie star handsome, plays his shaggy dog cop to charismatic perfection, while Denzel Washington …  | 
	
		
			
				Really Great
			
			4.5
		
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				Risqué
			
			2.4
		
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				Glib
			
			1.6
		
		 "Inspired by a true story" is Hollywoodspeak for "bring on the dancing girls!" That said, the movie nicely uses the …  | 
		
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				Really Great
			
			4.5
		
		 Although I felt it got off to a slow start, Washington and Crowe lead us through this based-on-true-life film of the he…  | 
	
		
			
				Really Great
			
			4.5
		
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				Great
			
			4.0
		
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				Horrid
			
			4.2
		
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				Glib
			
			1.5
		
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				Perfect
			
			5.0
		
		 Frank Lucas (Washington) is living in Manhattan in the 1970’s trying to make a profit selling drugs. However, he does…  | 
	
		
			
				Great
			
			4.0
		
		 I have always been a fan of Denzel Washington. He continuously gives a powerful performance and American Gangster is no…  | 
	
		
			
				Perfect
			
			5.0
		
		 American Gangster effectively tells us the true story of Frank Lucas. It shows us the corruption all around and how h…  | 
	
		
			
				Horrid
			
			4.4
		
		 In a movie about the crime world violence is naturally going to come with it. The film opens up on Frank burning a man …  | 
	
		
			
				Natural
			
			1.0
		
		 American Gangster has a real subject matter not just because it is based on a true strory but because it relates to the…  | 
		







        
      

																


