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There were many civilians in the next village we entered, Tal al-Shaeer, but there was no need to liberate them: all the militants, they told the SWAT team, had fled the previous day, crossing the Tigris in skiffs

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The stylization of Carpenter's direction never leans into film noir, but it's impossible to watch 'Cigarette Burns' and not be reminded of other horror noir like Alan Parker's Angel Heart and, in particular, Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate ." The reviewer said admiringly, "There is a nightmarish inevitability to the mystery at the center, in that we want to see it solved to satisfy our own curiosity about the resolution, but at the same time don't want to see Sweetman getting closer and closer to the truth because we know some form of Hell awaits him at the end of the trail

This is why people might bite their nails, nibble on pens, or chew their inner cheeks