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PLAY DIRTY – Alan Silvestri
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
A fun action-thriller crime caper from writer-director Shane Black, Play Dirty is the seventh film based on the ‘Parker’ series of novels by author Donald E. Westlake, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark. In this film Mark Wahlberg steps into the cinematic shoes previously occupied by notables such as Lee Marvin (Point Blank, 1967), Robert Duvall (The Outfit, 1973), and Mel Gibson (Payback, 1999) as the titular hard-boiled professional thief. In this story Parker gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world’s richest man. The film co-stars LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar, Keegan-Michael Key, Gretchen Mol, Thomas Jane, and Tony Shalhoub, and premiered on Amazon Prime Video in October 2025, to mostly positive reviews. Read more…
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