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Those who follow my reviews, especially those of narrative films, know that I am averse to hyperbole. So when I tell you that “Moscow Never Sleeps” is a masterpiece, you’d better damn believe it. Now playing at the Village East Cinema, it has a superficial resemblance to films like “Babel” or “Crash” in which the paths of total strangers keep intersecting with each other in overlapping narratives—by now a cliché. Although sharing this framework, “Moscow Never Sleeps” is far less about random twists of fate than it is about the fate of an entire society. Its characters, drawn from different class strata, are actors in a drama that is unfolding throughout a nation that has become a kind of bogeyman during the current political crisis in the White House. It has devolved upon Irish Director/Screenwriter Johnny O’Reilly to create a picture of Russian life that reflects both the humanity of the people as well as the demons that are eating away at the very fabric of their society.
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