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    Movie review: 'It' delivers nightmarish visuals but misses true horror of Stephen King's classic

    by By Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Sep 07, 2017 4 minutes

    The 1950s small-town America of Stephen King's youth provides a deceptively wholesome backdrop for the author's nightmarish 1986 novel "It," about a group of adolescent misfits in Derry, Maine, who band together to fight an evil, shape-shifting clown. But transplant the timeline to the summer of 1989 - the setting of Warner Bros.' slick new adaptation (the first for the big screen) - and you get different nostalgic touchstones.

    The dark saga's young heroes now bike past movie theater marquees advertising Tim Burton's "Batman" and "Lethal Weapon 2" as they flee the bullies, monsters and adults who terrorize them along the dusty backroads of a sunbaked town suffocating under an

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