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‘Everybody Knows’ – Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are movie’s saving grace

The problem with “Everybody Knows” is that nobody cares.

Nobody in the audience, that is.

A surprising misfire by Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director behind the remarkable Oscar-winners, “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” “Everybody Knows” takes place in a small Spanish village dominated by a dusty old clock tower.

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