What emerges is a brutally honest but also surprisingly inspiring origin story" (as my Marvel fan nieces and nephews would say), following Easy as he discovers the freedom and power that comes with his new job as an amateur detective, and learns how to assert and protect his own dignity in a racist world that tries to diminish and destroy it at every turn
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Time reviewer Richard Schickel wrote "Carl Franklin's cool, expert adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress ...evokes the spirit of '40s film noir more effectively than any movie since Chinatown [1974]" and added that Denzel Washington as Easy "gracefully reanimates a lost American archetype, the lonely lower-class male absorbing more cigarette smoke, bourbon whiskey and nasty beatings than is entirely healthy, as he pursues miscreants and moral imperatives down mean, palm-lined streets." Washington's performance deserved to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar but the film was virtually ignored by the Academy voters, even Don Cheadle's scene-stealing supporting role as the wildly unpredictable Mouse
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