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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Critics' Pick

(No longer in theaters)

Rating: R — for a scene of strong graphics sexuality, nudity, violence, drug use and language
Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris
Running Time: 117 minutes
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Genre

Drama, Suspense/Thriller

Producer

Michael Cerenzie, William S. Gilmore, Brian Linse, Paul Parmar

Distributor

ThinkFilm

Release Date

Nov 2, 2007

Release Notes

Limited

Official Website

www.thinkfilmcompany.com

Review

It opens with an explicit sex scene between Marisa Tomei and Philip Seymour Hoffman, but we’re not planning to show up late to Sydney Lumet’s latest achievement. “His touch,” David Edelstein says of the 83-year-old director—who our critic points out has made more clunkers than classics—“is so sure, so perfectly weighted, that it’s hard to imagine him capable of making a bad movie. The thing is just enthralling.” And hey, at least you don’t have to see him naked.