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<p>Send it back: Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx in ‘Back in Action’</p>

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Back in Action on Netflix is a new low for Hollywood creativity

Cameron Diaz’s dismal new movie with Jamie Foxx – and Diaz’s first film in more than a decade – is proof that style and craft have completely dropped out of a particular kind of action comedy, writes Adam White. Remember when even the most conventional of blockbusters used to be made with care?

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