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Romantic Drama 'The Photograph' Is Unfocused

Stars Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield have great chemistry, but this earnest romantic drama feels "curiously flat and under-seasoned."
Michael (LaKeith Stanfield) and Mae (Issa Rae) look picture-perfect in <em>The Photograph</em>.

The photograph in is the lone portrait of the photographer herself, shown slumping at a kitchen table in a humble Gulf-side home in rural Louisiana. The man who took the shot is her boyfriend, a third-generation fisherman who's content to marry her and stay put. As it happens, it's the last night they spend together as a couple, because she's resolved to pursue

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