When I watched the first Ne Zha movie in the summer of 2019, I frowned at the panda-eyed demon boy. His crooked, cynical ...

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Greg Mottola’s coming-of-age comedy turns the standard plot of boys worrying about their virginity status into a madcap chaos machine. Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse star as ...