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‘Headhunters’ is a sleek Norwegian crime thriller

By Ty Burr

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 10, 2012

**1/2 Headhunters A sleek Norwegian crime thriller about an Oslo executive-by-day/art thief-by-night (Aksel Hennie) who gets in over his head. Based on a novel by the best-selling Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, it’s crisp Tom Ripley-esque entertainment even as the bodies and plot absurdities pile up. In Norwegian, with English subtitles. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synnøve Macody Lund. (100 min., R)

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