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Dinner for Schmucks

Photo-illustration by Sean Mccabe for TIME

Tim (Paul Rudd) has one big chance to impress his boss: by bringing an idiot — Barry (Steve Carell), who makes mouse dioramas — to a dinner at which mockery is the main course. Director Jay Roach's remake of a French farce neatly juggles big laughs with the subtler ribaldry of acute pain.

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