Review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) by Richard Brody for New Yorker — 02 May 2013
Cassavetes captures the gambler’s fatalistic joy in playing out a tragedy of his own making to the bitter end, and, revelling in the romantic solitude of the hunter and the hunted, presents a gun battle as a metal-and-concrete ballet.
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This review of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) was written by Richard Brody and published by New Yorker on 02 May 2013.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie has generally received positive reviews.
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