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Next Door

Something about the cruise ship in Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine reminded me of the Marx Brothers and the crowded stateroom scene in A Night at the Opera, leavening the film with a ready hint of absurdity.

THE REAL SUBJECT OF THIS COLUMN AT a moment of zero theatrical releases could be “all of them,” but in the interest, is both humble and far-reaching in its casually fantastical conceit.

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