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The zany spirit of ’84 haunts a reimagined Ghostbusters

Ghostbusting today: Jones, McCarthy, Wiig and McKinnon

NO ONE HAS TO LOVE PAUL FEIG’S NEW GHOSTBUSTERS, or even like it. But anyone who continues to stand against it on principle—“My childhood has been defiled! I don’t like its stars! The trailer was bad!”—is an unimaginative schmuck. Because Feig’s Ghostbusters is its own definitive creature, an affable, inventive riff on

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