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It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses, and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions

The film has three sections, and each part seems to assume a different set of genre conventions, a different set of emotional cues.

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When these performers get the chance to exchange dialogue, to react to each other rather than declaim the movie’s themes, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool rouses to life.

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Citizen Rose is strongest at the start, when it juxtaposes McGowan’s present-day anguish with the media coverage of her as a young starlet.

Great News has a screwball charm and a flair for rapid-fire jokes, built on a premise that amusingly literalizes the classic sitcom concept of coworkers as family.

The Ritual finds a quartet of British lads/drips hiking through the deserted woods of northern Sweden.

While the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset, it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down.