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We Own the Night - 8/10
Joaquin Phoenix did a top-drawer performance. The car-chase scene is one of the best you'll see--truly gut-wrenching. There were some pacing and believability issues. If it weren't for the latter, it would have been a 9 or a 10.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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