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Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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"I gotta give it up -- as earnest and awkward as Two Lovers -- a loose rethink of Dostoevsky's White Nights -- can get, it frequently moved me," writes Some Came Running's Glenn Kenny. "Perhaps it's something to do with my own past as a fall-hard guy for troubled, difficult women. Then again, a lot of my male colleagues not giving this movie any love have similar skeletons in their closet."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 20, 2008 at 06:51 AM

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p.Vice says ...

What he's saying is that most film critics are a bunch of emotionally retarded boy-men unable to hold down a steady relationship and naturally resist films that hit their sore spots about women. Surprise surprise. Wells, I'm sure, knows the words to that song. When's the Judd Crapatow movie coming out?

Posted by p.Vice at May 20, 2008 07:11 AM

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T. S. Idiot says ...

If we all promise not to be derisive, perhaps we can coax JW into revealing his skeletons. I'm sure all will join me in swearing to a sympathetic response.

Posted by T. S. Idiot at May 20, 2008 10:38 AM

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