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SHARE BUTTON By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com SHARE BUTTON FILM REVIEW: Maps To The Stars By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com It’s now 26 years since David Cronenberg made his last horror movie, Dead Ringers. In the intervening years he’s moved further away from that genre, and as a result his best work is fading into the past. Maps to the Stars isn’t a return to the horror New Jersey Stage genre, though its characters are as horrific as they come, but it is a return to form as the Canadian director’s best work since that 1988 film. It won’t win any awards for originality. Hollywood has been satirising itself for most of its Article Index Next Article 80