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American Gun Misses TargetThe critics on the week's new movies.

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In this week's audio-only Summary Judgment, Mark Jordan Legan sums up how the critics feel about three new releases: American Gun, a drama that does for gun culture what Crash did for racism; Stay Alive, a horror film about a deadly video game; and Inside Man, Spike Lee's latest, which stars Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster.

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