"Rating: R (for brief strong language, strong sexual content, nudity, and violence)
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 105 min.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Cast: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli
It's a rare thing when a movie achieves the psychological depth of a novel (though many try). Movies need not do so to be great, certainly, but when they do the result is absorbing. The American is one such rarity, and is so by not using any literary tricks at all.
A particularly distinguished thriller, too, in that The American is driven by character rather than plot. In a genre almost-by-rule defined by high concepts and plot mechanics, it's daring to slow down, thin the narrative, and really explore a man's nature more intensely than the danger he finds himself in. "
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