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THE HEAT

By | June 2013

While “The Heat” does employ the basic tropes, it also reinvigorates the genre. Mullins’ (Melissa McCarthy) plainclothes cop grittiness isn’t any more credible than Axel Foley’s wiseass ways. But seeing a woman steal the film as effortlessly as Eddie Murphy used to do is absolutely thrilling…

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