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In the Grey review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarrely buried action caper is a blast
There’s a great deal of fun to be had in the director’s sly and surprisingly serious thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza González While the actual quality might never threaten to float him above a three-star rating, I’ve grown an ...

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There’s a great deal of fun to be had in the director’s sly and surprisingly serious thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza González While the actual quality might never threaten to float him above a three-star rating, I’ve grown an ...
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According to The Guardian’s report, In the Grey review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarrely buried action caper is a blast, There’s a great deal of fun to be had in the director’s sly and surprisingly serious thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza González While the actual quality might never threaten to float him above a three-star rating, I’ve grown an odd, outsized fondness for Guy Ritchie’s recent run of solidly enjoyable lower-tier action films. Whether deadly serious ( Wrath of Man ), entirely unserious ( Operation Fortune ) or somewhere between the two ( The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare ), there’s been a real snap to them, one that’s usually missing from other recent films of that ilk. Ritchie is more deeply invested in the thought through craft of making a b-movie than many of his peers and there’s a smooth sensuousness to how he moves, each of them looking, feeling and sounding like films he genuinely cares about. If only audiences, and the companies releasing them, felt the sa
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