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...Traffic The only solid nomination in this category. Not to say it's a perfect movie; while I loved a lot of things about this movie - particularly every scene with Benicio del Toro - there were moments of doubt, like when Michael Douglas' drug czar slipped so easily from his professional perch in order to address (cue very serious voice) the crisis in his own family. Overall, though, a brilliantly conceived epic...
...returns to the mean streets of London where high-octane lowlifes compete in fixed fights and diamond heists. This time Ritchie brings along Brad Pitt as a quick-talking, bareknuckle-boxing Gypsy. Pitt was such a fan of Ritchie's work that he took a pay cut to join Benicio Del Toro and Dennis Farina in the ensemble; Snatch's entire budget is about half Pitt's usual $20 million...
...former colleagues, however, nab a handy dull-witted fall guy (strikingly played by Benicio Del Toro), and when he commits suicide, they gratefully close the case. Jerry doesn't. There are similar, unsolved crimes in the area, some of them dating back years, and he thinks there will be more. He buys a gas station-convenience store in a fishing village near the center of the various crime scenes, adopts the pose of a benignly retired guy and awaits developments. He also takes up with Lori (Robin Wright Penn), a battered but brave waitress who happens to have a daughter...
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...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum--a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in Traffic, the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...