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...Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, Frank Langella the fractious Judge Julius Hoffman....
...Synecdoche’s Caden, an awkward, ailing theatre director played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, could be a cousin of I’m Thinking’s Jake, played by Jesse Plemons....
...In a somewhat more complicated context, Dustin Hoffman had to get himself to the University of California at Berkeley to gaze upon the loveliness of Katharine Ross in The Graduate (as Simon and Garfunkel...
...Pitt played a sympathetic true-life outlaw in Dominik’s last film, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Here again he is the maniac every mother loves....
...Pacino’s characterisation is no kin to the Yiddish-tailor reading of Dustin Hoffman in the last production of the play on Broadway....
...With a worse film or actor, he would be Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man mixed with Leonardo DiCaprio in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? But Sandler rises above potential mawkishness....
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