21 Grams: Oscar nominees Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro have all been brilliant before, and if we’re lucky they’ll be brilliant again. But to watch these three – working alone and in tandem – is to experience the strange, immensely satisfying alchemy of great screen acting. Mind-bending and startlingly crafted, 21 Grams is absorbing drama that’s as much about loneliness, retribution and redemption as it is about the (literal) heart.

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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