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Especially during his heroic run of work in the 1970s, Hackman was an astonishingly versatile actor, whether in the perverse satire of “Prime Cut,” the downtrodden naturalism of “Scarecrow” or countless other roles.

But it's also been thrust into the headlines because of an astonishingly vitriolic exchange between Kigali and Johannesburg.

Kaitlyn Dever — doing an astonishingly convincing Australian accent — stars as Belle, playing the wannabe guru as a lonely but conniving young woman who uses lies to evoke sympathy.

"What the government has announced today is not a review at all, as it actually astonishingly excludes reviewing the loan charge," said group founder Steve Packham.

In the first decades of the 20th century, police officers across the country had an astonishingly effective method of getting suspects they believed guilty of certain crimes to confess.