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But the movie is more effective as a grim, involving cop thriller than it is as an ostensible statement on the Order’s reverberations in the present.

Straddling the two is “Juror #2’s” ostensible hero, Justin Kemp, who knows that the murder defendant didn’t kill his girlfriend.

Despite the obvious love and respect the two have for each other, there was no brother-to-brother backing off, no ostensible sibling sympathy in Baltimore’s 30-23 victory.

As for ostensible dangers flowing from the “Caroline” ad, those were so tenuous that they didn’t give the state the right to act against the ad either.

As he celebrated the score, he placed his hands behind his back in an ostensible reference to his detainment earlier that day.

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