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starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstar Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Berge Garabedian - JoBlo.com
starstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstar Lou Lumenick - NY Post
starstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstar Bob Graham - SF Chronicle
starstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstar Al Brumley - Dallas Morning News
star Robert Horton - Film.com

[T]his surprisingly edgy, risk-taking movie eschews such typical Hollywood thinking, and also turns quite a few conventions on their ears in the process

- Jeff Vice

[H]as the bloated, tentative feel of star vehicle with too much riding on it

- Robert Horton

The Mexican

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A mob errand runner (Brad Pitt) has to go to Mexico to retrieve a priceless pistol, but he also has to keep his promise to his girlfriend (Julia Roberts) that this trip is his last as a mobster. James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, J.K. Simmons. Director: Gore Verbinski (2001, R)

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