Fabrications plague `American Gangster'
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In "American Gangster," which is "based on a true story," Denzel Washington Â as the `70s drug lord Frank Lucas Â confidently marches deep into the jungles of Southeast Asia as the Vietnam War rages in the background. He is looking for drugs.
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Greatness hovers just outside âAmerican Gangster,â knocking, angling to be let in.
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Filmmaker Sai Prakash makes a mess of a potentially serious subject.
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When U.S. authorities arrested suspected Mafia figures with nicknames like Jackie Nose and Tommy Sneakers, it sounded like a crime tale from a bygone era.
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GROTESQUELY muscled men. Tainted records. Suspicions of drug use. Sounds like professional wrestling - or is it Major League Baseball?
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Two films tackle a subject that Hollywood usually prefers to avert its eyes from
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Elliot Greenebaum's hardheaded comedy has the guardedly facetious tone of a fake documentary.
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America&#39;s presidential campaign has moved from the furious to the near farcical, amid a &quot;dirty tricks&quot; controversy over the authenticity of 30-year-old documents dealing with
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The pitfalls of the governmentâs use of informants with questionable backgrounds are illustrated by the case of an Afghan drug lord and Taliban ally.
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Dark tales of real-life crime dominate Hollywood's star-studded assault on the
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Even before its release, a new  movie about a police war against Brazil&#39;s criminal gangs has  become an underground hit and caused controversy, including a  police effort to block its screening.
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Tony Soprano's Mafia family was fictional. Joe Bonanno's was not. Gay Talese reveals what happened to the next generation of the American mob.
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The title is catchy but  misleading. Frank Lucas was less an "American Gangster" than an  original Old Gangster in sable, a caricature in the tradition  of '70s blaxploitation flicks.
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It sounds like an impossible heist: with the clock ticking and important people demanding payback, Danny Ocean and his eclectic crew of con men have to make off with millions under intense scrutiny.
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The latest and lamest version of Don Siegelâs 1956 pulp classic âInvasion of the Body Snatchersâ might have been an accidental camp classic if its politics werenât so abhorrent.
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Amid a slew of real  documentaries and richly detailed nonfiction books illuminating  the ways in which America's current leadership has used deceit  and misinformation to advance its political agenda and engineer  greater repression comes a fake documentary trying to do the  same thing.
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Jay-Zâs 10th proper album, âAmerican Gangster,â was inspired by the new movie â directed by Ridley Scott, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe â for which itâs named.