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www.rollingstone.com - : In the more ambitious Hoffa, Nicholson plays the Detroit street fighter who rose from the ranks of trucker and labor organizer to build the Teamsters into the nation's most powerful union. The boldness of director Danny DeVito's violent epic is matched by Nicholson's astonishing physical and vocal transformation into Jimmy Hoffa. The changeover might constrict another actor. Not Nicholson. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : Jimmy Hoffa was many things. Chances are, warm fuzzy fella wasn't one of them. In ''Hoffa,'' Jack Nicholson plays the tough-talking Teamster leader with friendly edges. Suggesting a crew-cut teddy bear with an endearing deviated septum, he exhales valiantly through clogged nostrils. He smacks his lips together, like someone who has awakened himself by swallowing his own drool. His eyes tread water in a stupefied gaze, behind a Mussolini-esque nose job. more...
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