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Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, UK, 2000)

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As the mobster Don Logan in Sexy Beast, Ben Kingsley is so intensely frightening that it’s as if the actor were on a personal mission to deep-six Gandhi and his loincloth once and for all.
— Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

Ben Kingsley plays brilliantly against type as the gangster who persuades Ray Winston out of his sunny Costa Del Crime retirement.

One of the best British films of the 2000s and an audacious feature film debut from Glazer (Under the Skin).

Ex-criminal Gary 'Gal' Dove's (Ray Winstone) idyllic retirement is disrupted when psychopathic crime boss Don Logan (Sir Ben Kingsley) asks, nay demands, that he do one more job. Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Birth, Under the Skin), written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto (Gangster No.1), and also starring Ian McShane, Amanda Redman and James Fox.

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