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Acting
Terence Stamp's zen-like calm vs. Tim Roth's twitchy chaos.
Direction
Frears finds philosophy in a genre exercise.
Score
Eric Clapton and Roger Waters collab—unexpectedly perfect.

Director
Stephen Frears
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