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Halsey and Mia Goth in MaXXXine, which River Page wasted his Friday night on. (Photo by A24)
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Friday night, I wasted the evening on MaXXXine, the final installment of Ti West’s slasher horror trilogy. It was bad enough that I whispered, …
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