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Aubrey Plaza is stellar in so-so crime thriller ‘Emily the Criminal’

A kind of gravitational pull emanates from Aubrey Plaza as the title character in “Emily the Criminal,” a passably diverting crime thriller where, in place of a moral center, Plaza delivers a performance that is entertainingly blackhearted. (Well, perhaps not entirely black, but certainly a lovely shade of charcoal gray.) As a 30-something art school […]

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‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’: A slasher with some surprisingly sharp satire

It’s telling that the official synopsis for “Bodies Bodies Bodies” – a darkly comic slasher film centering on a party game that turns deadly – does not, as you might expect, use the word “friends” to describe the participants: eight (mostly insufferably) young and (mostly insufferably) hot soon-to-be victims. Rather, they are a “group” of […]