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For bracing proof that a) Michael Shannon can portray the coldest of killers, while b) complicating and enlivening a potentially monochromatic slab of nastiness, check out Shannon as Richard Kuklinski in director and co-writer Ariel Vromen's "The Iceman."...

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In an ugly economy, murder becomes the last beautiful act. That's the state of the nation in "Killing Them Softly," a harsh and stimulating black comedy set in the recent past, starring Brad Pitt as a hit man hired to eliminate, in his own inimitable...

"The Iceman" — directed by Ariel Vroman from a script he cowrote with Morgan Land — is based on the life of Richard Kuklinski, a hired killer who is believed to have murdered more people than any number of serial killers. In a 1992 HBO special...

May 05 (TheWrap.com) - Millennium Entertainment connected with two limited releases -- "The Iceman" and "What Maisie Knew" --  at the specialty box office this weekend. "The Iceman," which features Michael Shannon as real-life mob killer Richard...

Michael Shannon has basically rewritten the book on how to portray dark, volatile men in film with his unerring way of channeling rage and repression. It was never more chilling, or more fully realized, than his turn as a family man both paralyzed and...

May 02 (TheWrap.com) - Richard Kuklinski was a killer for hire who once claimed that he had, during the course of his lethal career in the New York and New Jersey underworld, sent more than 100 victims to their final rest. He was convicted for five of...

Raccoons - we're not kidding - advance the friction in a marriage already on the rocks in this darkly humorous tale. Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks play the couple whose relationship is frayed when the animals invade their backyard, expectedly...

One of the most intriguing things about the new crime drama "Pawn" is Michael Chiklis' British accent. It's not that it's particularly bad or good, but every time he speaks — which is a lot — it does make you wonder why? The movie is a bit...

In director Derek Cianfrance's previous feature, "Blue Valentine," pretension found itself in a stern deadlock with dramatic honesty. Thanks to the performance of Michelle Williams, opposite the flashier, more contrived flourishes of Ryan Gosling, the...

Violence is the trigger in "The Place Beyond the Pines," Derek Cianfrance's latest love letter to bad breaks. But it's the ripple effect of responsibility, regret, limited resources and guilt that makes "Pines" particularly relevant in a time when so many...

Cue the sad violins -- Max is back. Not to worry, he's brought his guns and painkillers with him. "Max Payne 3" is a outstanding update to the 11-year-old series that helped make RockStar Entertainment a gaming juggernaut. Rockstar Games, maker of...