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OUR ONGOING, OCCASIONALLY SMARTASS, DEFINITELY UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO WHAT’S PLAYING IN ST. LOUIS THEATERS More than 60 percent of Americans do not own a passport, and the film No Escape is hardly a commercial for getting one — or for promoting tourism in Asia, where fewer than 5 million of us ventured last year, for that matter. Owen Wilson plays Jack, a married American father of two, who relocates there for work
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Asia is pretty much the same, so NBD?). But the timing is terrible: There’s a coup, and the uprisers’ main concern seems to be killing the Dwyers, because they hate the U.S.’ freedom
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or money or something. It’s not easy trying to
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of us just go to Destin. ● The trap of the stoner also advancing the plot. And much like complet-
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ing a book or making a life-long commitment, super high. In American Ultra Jesse Eisenberg plays Mike, an aspiring comic-book author who (kind of) pays the rent with the money he earns working at a convenience store. He has just never quite gotten around to proposing to his girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart). But somehow seemingly dim Mike manages to off a guy using just a spoon, which might begin to explain why CIA agents are after the pair. And who hasn’t been there while baked out of their mind? ● Here’s every Philosophy 101 class ever: Whorls of words and hypotheticals and logic and morality alternate between forcing
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a serious reevaluation of your worldview and just wanting to take a nap. In Woody Allen’s
Irrational Man, we’re asked to shift our worldview enough to believe Joaquin Phoenix as a drunken, depressed (but genius!) philosophy professor who is somehow charismatic enough to make an undergrad (Emma Stone) fall for him, hard. But it’s only when the prof takes
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utilitarianism into his own hands — killing a
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do attitude lifts. An intriguing enough premise, but the film is far from a Locke; critics are giving it low (sorry) Marx.
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