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 Kaufman’s ’70s remake is funnier and a lot more self-informed. When the original movie was (based on who you suspect) an assessment of both McCarthyist conformity or encroaching communism, the remake takes factors into weirder, far more oblique territory, lampooning the fallout in the ’60s excellent with its lentils-and-beansprouts nature f