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The scene I'm talking about features Postlethwaite squeezing every drop of malice he can out of his lines, which he delivers while casually trimming roses in his flower shop that's also a front for his assorted criminal misdeeds. Affleck plays bank robber Doug MacRay, who comes by the shop to tell Colm he's not working for him anymore.

He's out. The big meathead by the door keeps his arms crossed, eyeing Affleck's MacRay warily. He continues by letting loose a torrent of invective and malice aimed at MacRay, in a devastating monologue that manages to insult both of MacRay's dead parents. While also making clear that MacRay has obligations he can't get out of, and oh yeah, I know where your girlfriend lives, too.

It's a killer scene. That scene is all the more impressive, at least to me, since as I understand it Postlethwaite was pretty sick at the time. And this was the last movie he was in before his death. Next-level work, till the very end. The rest of the movie is pretty great, too. The robberies are gripping to watch, the gunfights are messy and chaotic, and I found my attention never wandering pretty much throughout the whole thing.

I love heist movies almost as much as I do anything related to espionage. It's a format that dictates very specific parameters, which forces you to get creative as an artist and bring your writing and filmmaking A-game in order to not produce something run-of-the-mill. I ask you: What more could you want from a trip to the cinema?

As for audiences, meanwhile, The Town has an 85 percent Rotten Tomatoes audience score. While that's slightly below the critics' score, it's arguably more impressive — because it's derived from more than , user ratings.

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