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Lone Star Columbia Director--John Sayles Starring Chris Cooper, Joe Morton Drama 138 min Rated R color Boarder Town Babylon | Tom Keogh Sayles' latest may not be his best work (Passion Fish still holds that distinction), and the film's narrative starchiness suggests the self-reliant writer-director-editor has not yet found the will to place stylistic instinct over storytelling strategy. With that said, Lone Star can only be described as a hell of a film by an artist with an increasingly complex and rich American voice, a film that will surprise viewers trained to expect certain generic cliches from murder mysteries set in Southwest border towns. Chris Cooper, the Steinbeckian actor who starred in Sayles' Matewan, plays Sam Deeds, the new sheriff in modern-day Frontera, Texas and son of the late, legendary previous sheriff, Buddy Deeds (played by McConaughey in flashbacks). The discovery of a skeleton and crusted-over lawman's badge -- buried some forty years -- sets the younger...

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