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Atomic Blonde kicks you where it hurts

Theron seduces Sofia Boutella, who plays one of the gaggle of spies running and gunning around East Berlin

IF YOU’VE WATCHED A LOT OF VIOLENT action movies, you may have seen the old knife-in-forehead trick or its subtler cousin, the cheek key-jab. But you’ve never seen those moves in a picture that stars Charlize Theron, the tall drink of gunpowder that

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