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Review of by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 19 Apr 2012

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There's simply too much stuff for a two-hour feature, and three writers, including Tony Gilroy, haven't figured out how to boil it down into a readily comprehensible narrative, or how to solve the problem of an ending that goes blah rather than bang.

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This review of State of Play (2009) was written by and published by Wall Street Journal on 19 Apr 2012.

State of Play has generally received positive reviews.

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