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In the new iteration of “A Star is Born,” a rock star and his protege fall for each other between two renderings of her song “Shallow,” with its line “We’re far from the shallow now.” They’re definitely “off the deep end” of love, but the movie they’re in isn’t as deep as it wants us to believe.

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