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They discouraged people from seeing it, but Romero’s images proved to be indelible

Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema, art-directed for a new era of violent self-pity, economic decline, and racial appropriation.

Argento plays the courtesan as alternately fawning and louche

Paul Ryan grinned his new grin, a crazy-looking rictus he had worn since the Republican National Convention

Chastain looks on with louche disdain while she indulges the players’ addictions and confusions and takes large amounts of cash off them