'barbershop: The Next Cut' Review: Third 'barbershop' Film Has Sharp Dialogue, Dull Plot

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South Central's Ice Cube and Brooklyn's Spike Lee hail from opposite coasts, but lately they've found common ground in a city almost equidistant: Chicago. Lee's wild satire "Chi-Raq," a gangster-ized version of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" from last year, addressed the ongoing violence on the city's South Side. In a less erudite fashion, Cube's new comedy, "Barbershop: The Next Cut," does the same.

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