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don't mix in 'Gangster Squad'    • Crime fighters (from left)
Giovanni Ribisi as Officer Conwell Keele, Josh Brolin as Sgt.
John O'Mara, Ryan Gosling as Sgt. Jerry Wooters, Anthony Mack...
Wilson Webb / Warner Bros. Pictures     • Emma Stone is Grace
Faraday, Mickey Cohen's girlfriend, in "Gangster Squad."
Wilson Webb / Warner Bros. Pictures   "Gangster Squad" is the
kid who desperately wants to be like the other kids, observes
how everybody else acts and then mimics the behavior and the
lingo in hopes of being taken for one of the gang. It rarely
works, and it sure doesn't work for "Gangster Squad." This is a
lively but lame affair that wishes it were "L.A. Confidential"
or "The Untouchables." The setting is postwar Los Angeles, where
gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) has bribed and murdered his
way into a violent reign of terror. The police chief (Nick
Nolte) picks out a Di