Once upon a time, movie houses were full of all sorts of pictures — big pictures, little pictures, A pictures, B pictures, smart pictures, silly pictures. Nowadays, with the film business contracting around blockbusters, the little pictures, the B pictures and the silly pictures have deserted the theaters for television which, in its streaming multiplicity, has room to absorb them. The current theatrical market can only bear so many Adam Sandler movies, but Netflix is happy to show as many as he wants to make.

When it comes to critical attention, these features will often fall through the cracks, like a body in a jurisdictional dispute between the police and sheriff’s departments, all the easier as their caseloads are already too heavy and maybe this one doesn’t seem worth the time. Still

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