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Leon

Why you should see

Leon

Luc Besson's sly crime thriller pitched Gary Oldman's drug-scrambled cop against a 12 year-old Natalie Portman and gave Jean Reno's weary 'cleaner' (for those of us who don't live in a Quentin Tarantino film he wipes out people rather than stains for a living) a fabulous pair of mirror shades for the poster. C'mon. You know this stuff's important. Oldman does severely loopy in the way only a British actor playing a stoned American in a French director's film can. Besson shoots New York like it's the Left Bank. Simon Pegg snuck a little spoof into Hot Fuzz. But it's for Reno's existentialist exterminator and Oldman's visibly vibrating enforcer that you really need to see one of the best crime thrillers of the 1990s. "Death is... whimsical, today."

Jon Fortgang

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