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Page A-36 - Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 continued from page A-26 all the ingredients are still th'ere, but it’s just taking lon- ger for them to combust, and seeing that slow burn simmer manages to be both harrowL ing and hilarious at the same time. “The Game” rewards rapt attention and repeat view- ings, as it leaves countless The sun sets recently above a cabin in Lilliwaup. Journal photo Lloyd Mullen little clues as to its true na- ture in the figurative corners of your eye, and what makes it so challenging for me to encapsulate as a reviewer is that, while its template is little more than a boilerplate plot for an especially expan- sive genre thriller, it’s the sheer ambition of its execu- tion that transforms it into the sort of film that can’t be described or recommended, so much as experienced first- hand. By the time you reach what you might believe to be the final denouement (not a redundant pairing of words here) of “The Game,” you’ll already have had multiple rugs pulled out from under you, even before the last false bottom falls out from beneath your feet. However much “The Game” messes with your head, though, have faith that it’s not merely an exercise in mean-spirited nihilism, because all those reveals and reversals and switchbacks are indeed leading somewhere, and its punchline was enough to make me literally laugh out loud. Review: It is a modern-day twist on Uncle Scrooge All this, plus appearances by Peter Donat (Fox Mulder’s v dad from “The X-Files”) and James Reborn (returning to' my reviews for a second week, in a row after “Scent of a Woman,‘” and delivering one of the most darkly comic lines in “The Game”), so what more could you want? I’ll get more Christmasy next week, I promise. SheltOI they w teams. By Jus1 just/n@r As c of the creased weeks for a ht sports: At a ington sociatic Eflfll BquU JOHN