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Any Tom Hardy movie starts at five stars and goes up or down from there. It would be fascinating to be a fly on the kitchen wall when the English actor is offered a role, especially one such as this that involves a real life character who has been played by everyone from Edward G. Robinson to Paul Muni to Rod Steiger to Jason Robards to Ben Gazzara to F. Murray Abraham to Robert DeNiro to (loosely) Al Pacino.