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That intensity is, not surprisingly, alive and well and this rare “outside” episode is a fun romp through sibling rivalry and the other characters’ views of teamwork and competition.

“Expensive Basketball” is an encyclopedic romp through hoops history, footnotes strewn throughout like so many perimeter ball screens, threads blissfully unconnected.

The square is quiet, no garlic wreaths, no romping crowd, no fiesta.

The alternative is Mr. Mamdani, the socialist who romped to victory in the race for mayor on Tuesday after pledging free buses and child care and freezing rents.

Halfway between an endurance test and a mad romp, “Dracula” is still proof he’s cinema’s brainiest, raunchiest crank: Eastern European’s own X-rated Monty Python.