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admirers of director abel ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form .

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a really bad imitation

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he does n't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car

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the thornier aspects
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