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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jake Coyle

Richard Linklater's 'Hit Man,' with a movie-star turn by Glen Powell, is a Toronto festival hit

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There's been no shortage of hit-man movies at film festivals this fall. You could line them up on a rooftop somewhere, each with their sniper rifles aimed out at audiences: David Fincher's “The Killer,” Michael Keaton's “Knox Goes Away," Harmony Korine's “Aggro Dr1ft.”

But the one that has most resonated — killed, you might say — has been a gentler, funnier take on the genre that says right up front: The hired hit man is a Hollywood myth.

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