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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Match Point Early in Woody Allen's terrific upscale noir, a narrator gives the audience a little lecture about luck. Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) believes in luck, fervently, and with good cause. A former professional tennis player, Chris moves to London, where luckily he lands a job teaching tennis at a posh club (the Queen's Club). In a stroke of good luck, Chris hits it off with his first student, Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), a good-natured, generous, very rich young man. Read more... The Matador A character-driven hit-man movie may be oxymoronic, but a character-driven hit-man movie with heart? But Richard Shepard's (Oxygen) The Matador keeps its genre straight. Pierce Brosnan is perfect as the burned-out hit-man, Julian Noble, a seedy boozer who's losing his touch. I first noticed Brosnan's dry comic wit in his memorable performance as Andy Osnard in John Boorman's excellent 2001 The Tailor of Panama. Andy was a spy for "our" side. Dressed like a dandy, Andy was a sleazy opportunist looking for a way out of the game. Read more...
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