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What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Well, as the old song goes, “We’ll find out as sure as we live …Something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give.” Screenwriter Mike White and director Miguel Arteta — frequent collaborators, most recently on HBO’s “Enlightened” — make our nation’s political intractability the stuff of comedy and drama in their provocative new film “Beatriz at Dinner,” which dramatizes the spiritual exhaustion of our time.

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