'leviathan' Review: From Russia, With Corruption

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Andrey Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan" is a tough sell for a night at the movies. The story of a poor Russian villager fighting a corrupt bureaucracy, "Leviathan" sounds almost like a parody of an Oscar-nominated foreign-language film. Fair warning: The movie that won, the Polish Holocaust drama "Ida," is upbeat by comparison.

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