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Pop culture triumphs

The movie says crime pays but also conveys that too much greed can be detrimental

Logan Lucky
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J Jagannath
When it comes to cinema and TV, I’m on the constant lookout for pop culture references. If highbrow is hard to come by, drench me in lowbrow. That’s exactly why I loved Logan Lucky and It for being suffused with so many chuckle-worthy moments on the zeitgeist of 2017 and late 1980s, respectively.

Steven Soderbergh returned from his self-imposed exile to make the year’s most interesting mainstream movie, Logan Lucky. West Virginia family man Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum as his regular self with a limp in his gait), who is freshly out of job and loves his young daughter, teams up