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LA Film Festival Review: &#039;Concussion&#039; and &#039;The Spectacular Now&#039; - Daily Bruin

LA Film Festival Review: &#8216;Concussion&#8217; and &#8216;The Spectacular Now&#8217;

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Another day at the L.A. Film Festival brings me to remarkable debut film “Concussion,” a subtle, almost European in temperament film about lesbians and transgression, and “The Spectacular Now,” the much anticipated new film by the writers of “500 Days of Summer.” Miraculously, they manage to work the magic of “500 Days” again with “The Spectacular Now,” bringing the same sort of cliche-busting honesty to a genre (high school romance) chock full of eye-rolling formula.

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LA Film Festival Review: ‘Concussion’ and ‘The Spectacular Now’

By Tony Huang

June 22, 2013 10:44 a.m.