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 | | There are small details throughout that are quietly effective, such as a scene, beautifully underplayed, in which Madsen tries to hold a meeting in one room while Pacino hammers endlessly at a stolen parking meter in another. |
 | | And Pacino's final scene is an elegiac, wordless marvel...though, again, it would have been even more moving had Newell and Attanasio not chosen to telegraph it (twice, in fact). |
 | | In one of the film's numerous, endless marital squabbles, Brasco strikes his wife in the face, prompting my fellows in the theater (the ratio of men to women was, predictably, about 5:1) to give him what very nearly amounted to a standing ovation. |
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