Observe and Report
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Seth Rogen stars in this “mordant comedy” as a security guard who bolsters his ambitions of crime-fighting glory by pursuing an “aggressive flasher,” said The New Republic. The film is “crass, violent, profane”—but ultimately a worthy “addition to the mall-cop canon.”
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