Wonder Wheel (2017)

When a gangster's wife on the run seeks refuge in her estranged father's home overlooking Coney Island's theme park amusements, a Tennessee Williams-style love triangle develops between her, her father's wife, and a lifeguard (a conspicuous, heavily made-up and eager-to-impress Justin Timberlake who is given the job of providing the voiceover narration and direct-to-camera monologues that are so often a tired, unnecessary feature of recent Woody Allen movies).

★★★☆☆

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Magic Magic (2013)

A young female traveller trapped in remote Chile in the company of a constantly whelping puppy and three personality-free travel companions (the worst being Michael Cera's incessantly talking Brink) witnesses animal cruelty, overdoses on unprescribed medication, doesn't have the others' confidence to jump off a rock into the ocean, and so descends gradually into madness and anyone watching this shrill, pointless, infuriating "psychological thriller" will likely do the same before the movie's exceedingly daft final exorcism scene.

☆☆☆☆☆

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