The Coen Brothers’ ”The Man Who Wasn’t There” is shot in black-and-white so elegantly, it reminds us of a 1940s station wagon — chrome, wood, leather and steel all burnished to a contented glow. Its star performance by Billy Bob Thornton is a study in sad-eyed, mournful chain-smoking, the …
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