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Shutter Island

Paramount Pictures

Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels and Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule

There are long sequences in Shutter Island that smack of half-baked genre loopiness, weighed down with the kind of rambling explanations and plot exposition that you might find in a bad detective novel. These moments seem designed to make us feel as confused and frustrated as the short-tempered federal marshal (Leonardo DiCaprio) in charge of investigating an inexplicable escape at a mental hospital for the criminally insane.
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