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Seeing these two films one after another I was struck by the masterful performances of seasoned actors whose age exponentially, awesomely pulverized viewers; John Turturro, approaching seventy, maneuvers dexterously as well as an athletic quinquagenarian; he stunned in 1991 as “Barton Fink”, winning at Cannes Film Festival Best Actor, in 1992 in Cannes, as director of “Mac”; awards have tracked him throughout his varied career but as “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York”, his depiction of “Harry Lehman” supersedes all past glorifications; still keen, sensitive, intelligent in a world of technological wizardry he outfoxes the “neophytes” in the larceny bureau. Actor Steve Buscemi, 68, soars as Harry’s “fence”. Director Noah Segan (“Knives Out”) has made a movie reminiscent of what they used to be.
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At 72, John Malkovich gives a celestial performance as “Chris”, a dying former CIA agent facing the “pearly gates”—or damnation. Chris and his younger former partner, “Lee” (Sam Rockwell), travel to Easter Island for their solitary farewells. Writer-director Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges,” “The Banshees of Inisherin”) sets the story in 1973, before the U.S.-backed Chilean military coup that ousted Salvador Allende and ushered in Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Malkovich is caustically funny, passing off truths as lies and lies as truths, with Rockwell as his perfect foil. The inimitable Steve Buscemi returns as their unsavory boss.
“Wild Horse Nine” delivers an imaginative, matchless pairing between director and actor.
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