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paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks .

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is good

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a document of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9/11

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filming the teeming life
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