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Mystic River

Evildoers get away with murder, innocents get whacked, and so on — hardly a new theme. Clint Eastwood’s 24th directorial endeavor Mystic River dares to be bleaker. It suggests that between crime and misdirected punishment, men mope around miserably, women are whiny and worse, the past controls our fate, and hope is as empty and fleeting as a marching band on Main Street. River’s getting Oscar buzz for method-acting histrionics, and Sean Penn certainly impresses with his latest fits of extreme anguish. (His brow is not as deeply furrowed, however, as it is in 21 Grams, where contrived crisis coincidences...  read more