In the best film noir, there's always a sense of doom as the story tightens its grip on the lead and mercilessly pulls him back into the darkness. So when a movie opens with Leo (Mark Wahlberg), a young man fresh out of prison, riding on a train as it emerges from a tunnel, you'd expect it to signal an optimistic mood. However, this is the second film by James Gray (Little Odessa), so you know that this train is trundling along on a one-track journey to tragedy.
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