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<em>Incredibles 2</em> Is a Masterful Action Movie

Brad Bird’s long-awaited Pixar sequel is exhilarating to watch, even if its many heady ideas sometimes clash with one another.
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Every bigshot filmmaker in Hollywood could stand to buy a ticket to and take a few notes. In an industry clogged with blockbusters, where nearly every week brings a new massively budgeted extravaganza, it’s disheartening how many of them don’t know how to stage an action sequence. Enter Brad Bird, the maestro behind two of Pixar’s greatest successes (and ) and the most death-defying of the movies (). His return to the medium of animation, where he got his start in the business, is dazzling, thought-provoking, and sometimes overwhelming in terms

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