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Eddie Redmayne’s ‘The Day of the Jackal’ Is a Torturous Bore
Padded with sluggish sequences and uninteresting subplots, this aggravatingly inert affair lumbers its way toward an unsatisfying finish line, in the process squandering a captivating performance by Eddie Redmayne as its chameleonic protagonist.
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