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THE PROFESSIONAL
June 4, 2014  | By David Bianculli

Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Natalie Portman plays a 12-year-old, and was a 12-year-old, in Luc Besson’s gripping 1994 thriller that stars Jean Reno as a professional hit man who decides to protect a young girl whose family was brutally murdered. Gary Oldman plays one of the very best – as in the worst – villains in his career-long rogue’s gallery. And Portman, even at such a young age, is remarkable, while the film itself is equally remarkable for not being at all exploitive.

 
 
 
 
 
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