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It’s more like Heat, only with more smoking and bigger sideburns.

If its shape and trajectory are quickly mapped out, Jimenez hauls in punchy story and character beats...

The junkies, as expected, are the real show, and it's here that Gelber's theatrical predilections emerge, less that Barton Fink feeling and more The Iceman Cometh.

...feels like watching an artful and knowing pastiche of the history of late-century crime drama.

...gratifying and immersive enough, with the nerve and energy to deliver a steady stream of violent entertainment.