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A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop (seriously, that's the title)

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Brett Alan Dewing
Feb 14, 2011
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Yang Zhimou's finally done it!  What the world has long been waiting for.  He's turned the Coen brothers' tense thriller, Blood Simple, into a colorfully over-exposed 19th-century Chinese commedia del'arte murder farce.  I mean, how many times have you wanted to see that?  And now you can!

Seriously, this film (touted by some as one of the year's worst) …

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