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Noir with nuance
MARIA DUARTE sees a thriller set in 1950s New York which, unusually, tackles social and political issues

Motherless Brooklyn (15)
Directed by Edward Norton

IT HAS taken Edward Norton almost two decades to get this homage to film noir to the big screen.

 

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