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<em>The Dead Don’t Die </em>Is Awfully Lifeless

Jim Jarmusch’s star-studded zombie movie is heavy on cynicism and low on entertainment.
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In Jim Jarmusch’s , a terrible calamity engulfs the world: Zombies rise from the grave and start indiscriminately consuming the flesh of the living. The townspeople of Centerville, the fictional sleepy burg where the film’s action is set, react as one might imagine, by running in terror, barricading themselves in their homes, and praying for survival. Some of them hope against hope that the whole thing will end as mysteriously as it began. “Maybe it’ll all just go away, like

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