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...young protege joins the police force and rises quickly through the ranks. Each man knows there's an infiltrator in the other group, but neither knows who the mole is. The two double agents, good and bad, have to find out and, finally, they have to face off. Donnie Brasco, meet Kim Philby...
...Alfonso Cuaron did wonders with Book Three, The Prisoner of Azkaban. This time, Producer John Heyman and screenwriter Steve Kloves, who have worked on the whole series, handed the job to Mike Newell, a Brit who has directed a few good, tense melodramas (Dance With a Stranger, Donnie Brasco) and some engaging sentimental fare (Enchanted April, Four Weddings and a Funeral), as well as the ninth-worst movie ever made (his last one, Mona Lisa Smile...
...funniest moment for Potterheads, the platonic Hermione-Krum relationship of the book is sullied with suggestions of snogging, when she dismissively refers to her admirer as a “physical being.” This is the first Potter film for director Mike Newell (“Donnie Brasco,” “Mona Lisa Smile”), and nothing in his canon thus far could have predicted the astonishing visual dexterity he brings to “Goblet.” Newell’s vision avoids the cringe-worthy pandering of the first two Chris...
...that those in the know have been talking about since its 2002 megablockbuster release in its native country: Infernal Affairs. It is the story of a cop who is undercover in the mob and a mob man working undercover as a cop. But this is no namby-pamby Donnie Brasco knockoff. Both sides realize they have a traitor, and the action begins in the classic Hong Kong action style. The remake, to be directed by Martin Scorsese, is already in production. Catch the original now. 7:30 p.m. The Brattle Theater. 16 Brattle...
...pounder--dubbed "the Last Don" for evading prison while the heads of New York's other four Mafia families were behind bars--was also found guilty of having a role in the slaying of Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano, who let FBI agent Joe Pistone (posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco) infiltrate the family...