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Film reviews: New releases for July 24
Hadestown: The Musical; Motor City; Her Private Hell; The Dink; Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Dink *** It’s been 15 years since Jake Johnson started playing Nick Miller on New Girl , yet he’s still a master at capturing unformed man-children, as demonstrated by this charmingly goofy comedy. Johnson plays Dusty “The Hammer” Boyd, a never-was tennis pro working at the tennis club run by his disappointed father (Ed Harris), who finds new energy when he starts playing pickleball with recent divorcée Candace (Mary Steenburgen).
Director Josh Greenbaum ( Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar ) and screenwriter Sean Clements deliver a wonderfully absurdist comedic sensibility, most notably in…
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