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Movie review: 'Lucky's' Harry Dean Stanton gives a beautiful final star turn

Harry Dean Stanton died earlier this month at age 91. This week sees the release of his new movie, "Lucky," in which he plays a 90-year-old contemplating his own mortality. It's a peculiar instance of life imitating art (or is it the other way around?) that feels less like a coincidence than the punchline to a bizarre, cosmic joke - as if fiction had posed some deep questions about existence and mortality that only a cold, hard slap of reality could answer.

But if "Lucky" is inevitably sadder to watch now than it was six months ago, when it premiered at

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