The Mask at 25: How critics in 1994 slammed the film's
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The Mask at 25: How critics in 1994 slammed the film's 'astonishingly lazy' comedy, but praised Jim Carrey's 'antic energy', The Independent
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The Mask at 25: How critics in 1994 slammed the film's 'astonishingly lazy' comedy, but praised Jim Carrey's 'antic energy', The Independent
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