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Check it out if you get a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This movie is a cartoon caricature of racism, and for the first 15 minutes I didn&#8217;t get it. Example after example of unresolved racist behavior had me squirming in my seat thinking &#8220;arty movie designed to make you uncomfortable&#8221;. But c&#8217;mon, this won an Academy Award, it can&#8217;t not resolve! I was not disappointed, once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/95-crash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9.0 Crash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-cool-movies","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1948,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2014\/9-0-leon-the-professional\/","url_meta":{"origin":167,"position":0},"title":"9.0 Leon: The Professional","author":"m","date":"October 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Where to start... you thought you liked Kick Ass?\u00a0 Ha, child's play compared to this... 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