'Body of Lies': Crowe the winner

Rating: 2 1/2 stars (fair-good) Russell Crowe is one of the wittiest character actors in movies. People forget this because technically he's a movie star. For example: Take the way Crowe, who plays a Central Intelligence Agency spymaster in the busy new thriller " Body of Lies," tosses off one of screenwriter William Monahan's nuttier non-sequiturs. Getting off a plane in Amman, Jordan, Crowe—who gained ...

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