Shane Black
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Shane Black’s The Nice Guys couldn’t come at a better time. Actually, strike that. If it had come out just a few months later after the slog of the summer movie season of blockbuster remakes, sequels, reboots, and rehashes had polluted our minds, then perhaps it would be received all the more with acclaim.
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The Nice Guys is a comedy action set in the 70s, starring Ryan Gosling as a private investigator, and Russell Crowe, who plays a hired “enforcer” (basically someone who breaks people in two for cash). The two initially meet as Crowe is paid to kick Gosling to bits and breaks his arm. They end up having to work together when a woman disappears, and a porn star commits suicide These events are seemingly unrelated but as events and their investigation unfold, the couple uncovers a conspiracy.