Eli Roth continues a rocky road downhill with Ice Cream Man
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Insofar as commentary is a reason anyone watches an Eli Roth movie, Ice Cream Man has less on its mind than the director’s previous and more successful splatter exercise, Thanksgiving. Where that film paid belligerent lip service to the obscene pageantry of American self-satisfaction, Ice Cream Man narrows its focus—if “focus” is the word to use here—to something at once familiar and more diffuse: The experience of growing up in small-town America, where the menace of bullies is eclipsed by a sm
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