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Michael Douglas plays a character who learns he has a “heart irregularity” in the new independent drama “Solitary Man.” In the context of the story, the concern is literal, medical, but it’s also a diagnosis of his social ill. In a way, it also describes the winning idiosyncrasy of the film, which resists comforting sentiment. ==I — PC==

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