Review: 'The Sopranos' prequel is made for the TV fans
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Review: 'The Sopranos' prequel is made for the TV fans

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The real death in 2013 of the great James Gandolfini ended hopes of putting that debate to bed, but David Chase the creator and showrunner of “The Sopranos,” has intriguingly kept the show alive with the new prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark.” It's intriguing mainly because the film conjures the greatest character ever created for TV back to life but doesn’t frame him in the middle. Credit “The Many Saints of Newark” — screenplay by Chase and Lawrence Konner, and directed by series regular Alan Taylor — for attempting to tackle generational violence, structural racism and opening up a story to add more than just Italian Americans shooting each other while forking in plates of gabagool. Tony is as mysterious at the end of “The Many Saints of Newark” as he is at the sudden end of “The Sopranos.” Perhaps that's as it should be. “The Many Saints of Newark,” a New Line Cinema release, is rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content and some nudity.

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