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November 13, 2009

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MILLER’S CROSSING
(Encore on Comcast) Somber, powerful, stylistically stunning Prohibition gangster movie that seems a pop culture dream curling hypnotically up from our collective psyche. It’s not just visuals - there’s a satisfying moral weight in its hard-boiled postmodern take on an underworld where you can either have a heart or have a hat, but not both. Terrific performances from Gabriel Byrne’s taciturn gang knight, Albert Finney’s regal boss, and John Turturro’s double-crossing weasel. (R; runs through Nov. 26)

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
(Comcast Free Movies) So-so slasher movie in which a Darth Vader-like stalker starts picking off high school grads sharing a guilty secret in a North Carolina seacoast town. Although Kevin Williamson wrote it, it’s no “Scream.’’ It’s more like one of the movies Williamson’s “Scream’’ parodies. (R; runs through Nov. 25)

FALLING DOWN
(Encore on Comcast) Deliberately provocative white-urban-paranoia fantasy. Michael Douglas is riveting as a disenfranchised cipher of a defense worker who walks away from his car (stuck on a gridlocked LA freeway) and goes on a rampage, especially against ethnic and social stereotypes. (R; runs through Nov. 26)

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