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‘Riff Raff’ Review: A Drawn-Out Family Comedy With Criminal Entanglements
Dito Montiel's holiday movie 'Riff Raff,' with Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Coolidge and Bill Murray, has little warmth or humor.
As the secrets of the past catch up with a father and son, threatening to detail their new idyllic lives, the film’s established ideas of love and family don’t so much come into play as they simply hover out of focus, waiting to be deployed. A fleeting, one-shot prologue portrays a climactic moment during which meek teenager DJ (Miles J. Harvey) holds an older, bloodied man, Vincent (Ed Harris) at gunpoint. Pullman departs from his timid “Top Gun: Maverick” character and takes on the role a leather jacket-wearing “bad boy” with a temper and daddy issues, making him a treat to watch.
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