The fourth season of Barry is its richest and darker accomplishment

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The latest cinematic attempt to understand one of comedy's most tragic success stories celebrates its subject's life until it can't any longer.

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It may be prefaced by a brilliant, heartfelt short, but Sony Pictures Animation's latest, like its adaptation, is a huge waste of time.

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