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 James Badge Dale and Melissa Leo co-star in John Swab's Oklahoma-based story, which follows several characters caught in a brutal war on drugs. The shadow of Steven Soderbergh's 2000 drug war epic, Traffic, looms large over all the drug dealers, cartel members, local gang members, and fentanyl addicts who populate John Swab's gritty thriller, King Ivory. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Director: John Swab Writer: John Swab Stars: James Badge Dale, Ben Foster, Michael Mando Drawing inspiration from a modern classic that depicted the fight against crack cocaine to stem its devastation in the United States, Swab repeats the same structure more than two decades later to address the opioid epidemic, and generally achieves powerful results. Less dramatic and poetic than Soderbergh's film, King Ivory nevertheless features some chillingly realistic action sequences, steely characters, and a level of brutality that demands attention. His relentlessly bleak vision of...