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GANGSTER SQUAD
February 15, 2014  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 2013 full-color film noir drama is set in Los Angeles 1949 – a few years later than usual for this genre – and is about a successful bootlegging operation whose crime boss is targeted by a particularly persistent pair of cops. Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling star, but the scene-stealer here is Emma Stone, who plays a noticeably different type than she displayed in the likes of Zombieland, Easy A and The Amazing Spider-Man. In Gangster Squad, she plays the requisite, but very attention-getting, femme fatale – a sort of three-dimensional Jessica Rabbit.

 
 
 
 
 
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