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Acting
Phoenix's sweaty, desperate Willie is career-best supporting work.
Direction
Gray's Queens is a suffocating, beautifully grimy character.
Cinematography
Harris Savides makes industrial decay look like Renaissance painting.

Director
James Gray
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