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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

9/25/2016

Two Step (2015)

James is having a crap year: his parents died, he got kicked out of college, and he’s shown up at his grandmother’s as she’s experiencing the stroke that will kill her. Webb is also having a crap year: he’s just spent 8 months in jail, his girl isn’t waiting for him, she took their shared bank account, and he owes a local boss man 10k. It isn’t pretty when the two cross paths.

The story is pared to the bone -- like they lost every extra bit that they could to tell it as cleanly as possible. This is a tense surprise.

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