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The culture-clash comedy does its job of providing a fun escape. Why is that so hard to buy?

Comedy stars Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in an unfunny Netflix comedy about an interracial relationship

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny co-star in a movie that strains for satire and provocation

It’s not quite peanut butter meeting jelly, but the idea of Kenya Barris and Jonah HIll getting together to make a movie is pretty appealing.

This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh albums from Sam Smith and Elle King, the return of Jennifer Lopez in the rom-com “Shotgun Wedding,” and the TV show “Poker Face,” starring Natasha Lyonne as a wise-cracking, friendly drifter who has an uncanny ability to immediately know if someone is lying

Heavy-handed Netflix comedy puts Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill and other greats into conversations that lack any nuance.

LOS ANGELES — On a recent morning, while making what I prayed would be a quick run to Target, I received a call from the assistant of Phil Stutz, letting me know that the doctor would be able to see me at 4 p.m. that afternoon.

Besides all the follow-ups and reboots, this year will bring original stories of Barbie, Leonard Bernstein, Enzo Ferrari, the father of the A-bomb, Dracula’s lackey and a coked-up bear.