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Control

Director: Anton Corbijn

Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, James Anthony Pearson

(Weinstein Company, 2007) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 3 June 2008 (The Weinstein Company)

[12 November 2007]

by Matt Mazur

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What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.

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