Date: January 15Location: Clifton Living Room
What a great year for movies this has been. So great that this powerful, absorbing crime thriller can't crack my top ten. Viggo Mortensen gives one of the year's best performances as a driver for the Russian mob caught up in some particularly messy business. Everybody talks about the naked steamroom fight scene, and it is indeed a doozy, but it's just one aspect of the extraordinary physicality Mortensen brings to this role. Between this film and A History of Violence it seems Cronenberg has found the De Niro to his Scorsese.
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