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‘Shortcomings’: Film’s too-clever world misses chance to say something truly memorable

August 4, 2023 By John Thomason

The best compliment I can pay to Randall Park’s Shortcomings is that I would have loved this movie in college. The 20-year-old me would have appreciated the lovesick angst of its central character, an Asian-American film-school dropout named Ben (Justin H. Min) who works at a struggling Berkeley art-house cinema and binges Criterion DVDs at night while trying to reconcile the … [Read more...]

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