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Film Reviews: New Releases for May 30
Karate Kid Legends, Bring Her Back, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Bad Shabbos, Tornado
Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio in Karate Kid Legends Bad Shabbos *** The comedic line between “farce” and “cringe” is a thin one, but co-writer/director Daniel Robbins walks it fairly deftly in this tale of family connection with a dark twist: During the Shabbos dinner in New York when David Gelfand (Jon Bass) will be introducing this parents (David Paymer and Kyra Sedgwick) to the parents of his non-Jewish fiancé, Meg (Meghan Leathers), the already-fraught scenario gets complicated further when another one of the dinner guests winds up dead on the bathroom floor.
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