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Soldiers.(In the Valley of Elah)(Movie review)

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In his long movie career, Tommy Lee Jones has never wasted a word or an emotion. When he's silent, his glinting eyes and suppressed smile suggest a secret held in reserve. When he speaks, at Gatling-gun speed, the words come out as definitive. There's no arguing with this man; he doesn't give you an opening. He says only what he wants to say, and he delivers his lines with commanding off-kilter intonations (rising when you would expect falling, or just deadpan). Jones is the driest and most thoroughly stylized of American movie stars--a natural-born hipster wit--but he's not a lightweight. Even in a spoof like "Men in ...

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