‘Spring Breakers’: One messy, beautiful nightmare

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“Spring Breakers” swings between moments of enchantment and tedium with more regularity than any film in recent memory. For better or worse, it also happens to be entirely unforgettable.

Some will call it art. Others will call it trash. Being a Harmony Korine (“Gummo” and “Trash Humpers”) film, such labels are futile, since he never tries to distinguish between the two.

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