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Review: The old ‘Road House’: ridiculous trash. And fun. The new one with Jake Gyllenhaal: just plain vicious

Conor McGregor, left, and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Road House."

Writing about movies means succumbing to occasional bouts of reductive-itis, inspired by that great bonehead critic Emperor Joseph II in “Amadeus,” who told Mozart nice job on his latest composition, with one caveat: “too many notes.”

Folks, this week has been one of those bouts. First, it was the new “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” (verdict: too much “heart” and digital mayhem, not enough funny). And now,

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