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'The Rhythm Section' Misses A Beat

Stephanie (Blake Lively) trains to become a super-assassin to avenge the murder of her parents in this well-paced, well-directed, but poorly scripted Bond knockoff.
A Super-Assassin Named Stephanie: Blake Lively looks pensive in <em>The Rhythm Section</em>.

The heroine of doesn't process grief well. After her parents and siblings die in a plane crash, Stephanie Patrick quits Oxford — she was a "top student," of course — and becomes a drug-huffing hooker in London. Then she learns that the aircraft was downed by a saboteur, so she sobers right up and sets out to

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