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MARTIN Scorsese has made movies about Jesus, Bob Dylan, Howard Hughes, Italian cinema, even the Dalai Lama and his own parents. But it’s the crime genre that the 76-year-old has most artfully made his own – perhaps because his interests run so much deeper than guns and machismo. The Irishman is a rich and thrilling return to this territory. It tells of one man’s absorption in the East Coast underworld of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, and offers echoes of Scorsese’s past mob tales, from the scrappy tussles of

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