The debut feature of twenty-five-year-old James Gray is a creditable attempt to resuscitate the American film noir, perked up a bit (if "perked up" can apply to something so somber) by the untrafficked milieu: the Russian Jewish community in Brighton Beach. Fine feel for gloom and doom on the faces of Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, and Maximilian Schell; fine feel for New York winter weather, with its fast-changing thicknesses of coats of snow; fine feel for drab décor; fine feel for spiritual isolation and poverty. The plotting too is impoverished: big-brother hitman and little-brother idolizer and I-have-only-one-son papa. With Vanessa Redgrave and Moira Kelly. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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