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    We All Float Down Here, But 'It Chapter Two' Treads Water

    Despite a stellar cast, the back half of Andy Muschietti's adaptation of King's novel gets bogged down by lugubrious pacing and exhausts the audience.
    by Scott Tobias Sep 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Bill Skarsgård (right) is back as Pennywise to torment the town of Derry one final time...probably.

    When a running joke becomes a "Kick Me" sign: In , James McAvoy stars as an author and screenwriter who's first seen on a Hollywood movie set, tweaking an adaptation of a horror opus that appears to be as long as , Stephen King's cinder-block of a novel. At issue is the ending. Nobody likes his endings — not the studio, not the director who lied to him about liking it, not even his wife. It's

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