Kevin Smith's Clerks III cashes in on nostalgia—at a dispiriting cost

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Smith returns to his Askewniverse with an all-too-familiar story about growing older that does a disservice to its characters and, in turn, the audience

Worse, Smith regurgitates similar third-act beats from the film’s 2006 predecessor, which not only feels redundant, but highlights a desperate need for overarching commentary in the meta-context of the franchise. Randal’s tasked to relearn the same exact lesson about his friendship with Dante as before, this time with less finesse. It’s a watered-down redux of their friction in bothwhose narrative poignancy gets undercut by unfunny jokes and gags.

life crises, their efforts could use a lot more polish. Ultimately, the absence of any meaningful sentiment about grief or personal growth makes the story’s maddening, rote familiarity feel especially lazy—which is why

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