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Welcome Back, Denzel

In <em>The Little Things</em>, the actor returns to the kind of role that helped make him a movie star.
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For the past few years, American cinema has been deprived of one of its most dependable assets—. Since he earned his ninth Oscar nomination, for the interesting but underseen 2017 drama, the biggest superstar of his generation has largely been missing from Hollywood. (His only other recent credit is the disappointing 2018 sequel ). So when Washington shambles on-screen in , a somber detective thriller debuting in theaters and on HBO Max tomorrow, I delighted in the soothing familiarity of his presence. I was relieved to see Washington once again play a haunted and weary cop

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