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Weekend Movie Forecast: Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans or Broken Embraces

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Weekend Movie Forecast: Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans or Broken Embraces

As parodic of cop movies as the Metacritic summary makes it sound ("Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugsâwhile playing fast and loose with the law."), Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans has been getting decent reviews across the board. Set in Post Katrina New Orleans, Cage runs a corrupt city while dealing with a tumultuous affair with a prostitute. J.R. Jones at the Chicago Reader says that director Werner Herzog "deserves the lion's share of the credit for the movie's quality, but Port of Call New Orleans is also a comeback for Cage." Bonus points of course for any movie with Xzibit in it. — Gothamist

Jaya Saxena

Published Nov 20, 2009

Modified Nov 20, 2009

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Click on the images above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Broken Embraces, Fix, The Blind Side, Missing Person, Mammoth, Planet 51, Staten Island, Defamation, New Moon, Psycho, Jabberwocky, Red Cliff, and Rene'.