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MOVIE REVIEW

Oscar nominee ‘Bullhead’ strays from its strengths

By Wesley Morris

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 24, 2012

** Bullhead Michael R. Roskam’s dramatic descent into the “hormone mafia underworld’’ has too many parts. Not enough of them are focused on the film’s psychological center, an emotionally damaged cattle farmer who has been injecting himself with the hormones. An Oscar nominee for foreign-language film. In Dutch and French, with English subtitles. (128 min., R) (Wesley Morris)

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