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    Unhappy lives and lacerating truths in Alex Ross Perry's exquisite 'Golden Exits'

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Feb 19, 2018 3 minutes

    The unnervingly talented 33-year-old writer-director Alex Ross Perry seems intent on liberating American independent cinema from the tyranny of "likable characters," one movie at a time. The men and women moving through his brittle, blistering dark comedies stake little claim on our affection, which may partly explain why they so easily command our attention.

    "It's one of the worst tendencies of human nature to assume the best of others," someone remarks in Perry's 2015 psychological thriller, "Queen of Earth," coming as close as anyone to summing up the governing ethos of his work.

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