Monsieur Spade is Clive Owen at his most Clive Owen
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I recently rewatched Croupier, director Mike Hodges’ grimy look at London casino culture that’s led by a babyfaced, 35-year-old Clive Owen as a writer moonlighting as a croupier, the French word for someone who runs gaming tables. Everything that made Owen a star is in this dark little morality tale: his intensity,…