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starstarstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert – Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstarstar Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
starstarstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington – Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar Edward Guthmann - SF Chronicle
starstarstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times

[A] great, despairing squall of a film...may be the first Hollywood movie since Robert Altman's Nashville to infuse epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid- washed palette

- Stephen Holden

[F]eels a little like seeing a version of The Insider that thought it politic to waffle on whether cigarettes were a danger to your health

- Kenneth Turan

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Michael Douglas plays a U.S. Drug Czar who can't control his own daughter's addiction much less make headway in the war on drugs. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Steven Bauer, Miguel Ferrer, Amy Irving, Dennis Quaid, Jacob Vargas, Albert Finney. Director: Steven Soderbergh (2000, R)

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