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Sick of the same old thing at the megaplex? Here's an offering that's not from the Hollywood pipeline.

Director David Cronenberg ("The Fly," "Naked Lunch") remains in the real world for "Eastern Promises," teaming up once again with his "A History of Violence" star Viggo Mortensen for another meditation on criminal brutality.

"Eastern Promises," in which Mortensen plays a cleanup man for London's Russian Mafia, doesn't have the mythical pull of "History," yet Cronenberg is too accomplished and clever of a filmmaker to let this gangster tale seem rote. Without even one fantastical, bug-like creature, he still makes you feel squeamish and icky.

Much of that is due to ...

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