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<em>Logan Lucky</em> Is a Welcome Return to Movies for Steven Soderbergh

Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, and Riley Keough star in a charming caper film set at a NASCAR race.
Source: Bleecker Street Films

Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), a one-armed bartender in a small West Virginia town, is convinced his family is cursed. And he’s got plenty of reason to think so: He lost his arm to a roadside mine on his way home from his second tour in Iraq, and his brother Jimmy (Channing Tatum) can’t keep a job because of a lingering leg injury (or, as his apologetic boss puts it, a preexisting condition). Clyde looks

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