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THE RED ROBIN

By | April 2014

2014 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! It’d be real easy for this film to explode into scene-chewing melodrama or, the other extreme, undersold boredom, but it maintains a proper balance that takes advantage of the film’s consistent tone of mystery and steady pace forward…

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