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  Movies so rarely get everything right that when a perfect film graces our screens, we should hail it as the miracle it is. La La Land is good. Arrival is good. Hell or High Water is good. Manchester by the Sea is great. Its characters are three-dimensional people. The direction is crisp but gives the actors space. The camera work is the kind that’s so assured and purposely unspectacular it doesn’t receive accolades bigger, flashier pictures—like say, Arrival—receive. But perhaps most wonderful of all is that Manchester by the Sea knows what it’s like to live through a rotten New England winter. It
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