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A real son of a gun

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK

directed by Alan Taylor

Is it worth seeing a movie prequel to one of the best television dramas ever made without having watched a single episode of The Sopranos? To quote Tony Soprano, “What use is an unloaded gun?”

Half the comes from some familiarity with the Mafia crime-family series, which ran from 1999 until 2007. If you’ve watched or rewatched every episode, there are deeper rewards.

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