Michael Keaton has been on a roll lately, starring in two back-to-back Best Picture winners with Birdman and Spotlight. Now the actor has landed a role in CBS Films and Lionsgate’s upcoming adaptation of American Assassin.
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As you can tell from the title to this Michael Cuesta thriller, American Assassin is a disappointingly generic endeavour, that takes an intriguing premise and sadly gives it the cliched Hollywood treatment. It’s a shame for this title studies a contemporary landscape, and a very present anxiety in the Western world following the recent influx of terrorist attacks – but fails to transcend the tropes of the genre at hand, abiding to it too stringently if somewhat affectionately.

Mitch…
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“There may never be a wrong time to release a film about ethics in journalism, which is a depressing reality in itself, but with the imminent arrival of yet another Avengers film, Kill the Messenger does offers us a chance to see Jeremy Renner at his best.”
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A story centered on counterterrorism agent Mitch Rapp.
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Journalist Gary Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the…
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