Anne Kingston: McCarthy plays a figure we don’t often see onscreen—a single, clever woman on the margins who isn’t a mother. She’s also deeply, inescapably human.
Melissa McCarthy is pure genius in this comic thriller
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Bring on the dumb comedy, mindless action . . . and surf porn
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