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Granted, Huston adapted the film’s screenplay himself, but there’s no denying how snugly the movie fits into its director’s oeuvre, even though Aronofsky didn’t pen the script.

For a franchise where Nielsen once said, “Blowing away a fleeing suspect with my .44 magnum used to be everything to me,” the updated punchline fits snugly with what came before.

Set up your double boiler: you want a medium-sized pot or saucepan with about an inch or two of water, and then a heat-proof bowl which fits snugly atop the pot.

But now, with three parallel decades of Allen’s increased creative laziness and Burns’ own comfortable mediocrity, the label fits more snugly.

And while the series itself has the edge needed to fit snugly into the Christmas action movie subgenre, the omnipresent glow of lights supplies a Kubrick-ian, “Eyes Wide Shut” touch.