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Photo: Philippe Bosse “Crisis,” the thoughtful film directed and written by Nicholas Jarecki, is definitely worth your consideration. Timing, as has long been said, is everything and this film should have been blessed by the timing of the revelations into the OxyContin industry and the part played by Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family. Instead it is damned by the timing of the sexual abuse allegations against the film’s star, Armie Hammer. Still, in a baby with the bathwater co...

2/26/2021 Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer and Evangeline Lilly star in Nicholas Jareckis multi-narrative look at the opioid crisis. Setting out to be the Traffic of the opioid era, Nicholas Jareckis Crisis presents a trilogy of storylines whose tendrils involve everyone from big-pharma execs to undercover cops to addicts at various stages of despair. Sprawling and serious but not nearly as involving as it should be, the pic — Jareckis sophomore feature, after 2012s similarly topical Arbitrage �...