Review: `Gangster’ familiar but solid (AP via Yahoo! News)
So perhaps “American Gangster,” Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated mobster epic, doesn’t have a single original idea in its head, with its unshakable shades of “Scarface” and “Serpico” and “Superfly.” And maybe it’s a half-hour too long — this time of year, what film with awards ambitions isn’t?
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