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Ah, that difficult follow-up movie, the film to prove your attention-grabbing calling card was no flash in the pan. Some have done it, with breakouts as prodigious as The 400 Blows , Knife In The Water , Performance , Badlands and Reservoir Dogs followed, respectively, by Shoot The Pianist , …

“This isn’t Chicago”, yells Sean Penn. “It’s the Wild fucking West!” The first five minutes of Gangster Squad more than proves this, as a luckless thug chained between two vehicles is torn in half. Another gets his fingers sliced off in an elevator fight. And a room full of goons …

You got something the other guys don’t have,” Paul Giamatti tells Ryan Gosling in The Ides Of March. “You exude something. You draw people in.” Giamatti is talking about Gosling’s character Stephen Meyers, an idealistic press secretary whose success at propelling a Democratic candidate towards the Presidency has made his …