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    Matt Damon gets small in Alexander Payne's fascinatingly muddled sci-fi satire 'Downsizing

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Dec 26, 2017 4 minutes

    There's a moment late in Alexander Payne's science-fiction comedy "Downsizing" that balances a gentle burst of heartwarming sentimentality with a precisely timed comic jab. You'll know it when you see and hear it - the sweet-and-sour combo is something of a Payne specialty - and you may wonder, as many already have, exactly what kind of filmmaker he is.

    Is he a soulful humanist or a smirking cheap-shot artist? Does he empathize with his sad-sack characters or make light of their circumstances? His fans and critics alike may find that the difference doesn't really matter. Whether he's scouring the frosty emotional landscape of his home state in "Nebraska" (2013), or embarking on a warmer road trip of

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