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January 27, 2017

At the Movies: Fun performances aren't enough to save ‘Split'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

“Split “ is a movie in which James McAvoy plays a man with 23 personalities. Some of them are kind. Some are strange. Some are talented. Some are deranged. One is a woman. One is a child. And one of them likes to kidnap teenage girls, lock them in a basement and make them dance naked.

As with any thriller, of course, this one from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan chooses to focus on the increasingly scantily clad teenage girls in peril.


 
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