Friday, Jan. 23, 2009

The International

How bloody timely: a spy thriller where the root of all evil is ... bankers. Clive Owen is the Interpol hero, Naomi Watts his American enabler, in director Tom Tykwer's dour, generically tense drama with two snazzy kill scenes — one in a Milan piazza, the other in Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum.

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