Public Enemies
Synopsis: G-man Melvin Purvis vows to capture John Dillinger.
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Michael Mann’s vigorous John Dillinger picture Public Enemies contains an ecstatic visual flourish for nearly each of its 140 minutes—prison walls as stark as a Kafka castle, black Fords galloping through the night with deadly riders clinging to the sideboards, and everything speckled with a dusting of Tommy gun fire—but it’s only really interested in Johnny Depp’s singular Dillinger. “We rob banks,” Bonnie and Clyde crowed during their 1967 escapades. In Public Enemies, there is no “we.” John Dillinger stands—and sits and runs and escapes and dies—alone. He robs banks. Everyone else is just trying to catch up. Depp is an actor whose best talent—a twitch around the mouth that says he’s two steps ahead of everyone else—has often been wasted on roles that ask him to be merely bizarre, but here he is allowed his quickness. In the film’s peak sequences, including a breathtakingly choreographed jailbreak, Mann builds suspense simply by cutting to his star’s face, so we can wonder (along with everyone else) what he’s plotting next. Public Enemies moves at an electric-wire tempo, and its gleaming Midwest winterscapes single-handedly justify Mann’s belief in high-definition video. It’s all nearly enough to make you forget that the movie isn’t about anything, except perhaps the pleasure of losing yourself in the pictures. R. AARON MESH
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Released: 2009
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action, Crime drama, Thriller
Official site: http://www.publicenemies.net/
Director: Michael Mann
Producer: Kevin Misher, Michael Mann
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Running time: 140 minutesReleased: 2009
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action, Crime drama, Thriller
Official site: http://www.publicenemies.net/
Director: Michael Mann
Producer: Kevin Misher, Michael Mann
Showtimes: Tuesday, February 9th
No showtimes found for Tuesday 2/09.
 Johnny Depp | ... | John Dillinger |
| Christian Bale | ... | Melvin Purvis |
| Marion Cotillard | ... | Billie Frechette |
| Billy Crudup | ... | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Stephen Dorff | ... | Homer Van Meter |
| Stephen Lang | ... | Charles Winstead |
| Channing Tatum | ... | ``Pretty Boy'' Floyd |
| Stephen Graham | ... | Baby Face Nelson |
| Giovanni Ribisi | ... | Alvin Karpis |
| Jason Clarke | ... | ``Red'' Hamilton |
| David Wenham | ... | Harry ``Pete'' Pierpont |
| Emilie de Ravin | ... | Barbara Patzke |
| Lili Taylor | ... | Sheriff Lillian Holley |
| James Russo | ... | Walter Dietrich |
| Rory Cochrane | ... | Agent Baum |
| Branka Katic | ... | Anna Sage |
