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‘The Crash Reel’ Review

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Christopher Campbell
Dec 13, 2013
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Imagine a documentary about the problem of heroin addiction that ultimately aestheticizes people shooting up. That’s what Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel seems to do for an issue of adrenaline addiction associated with extreme sports. At the end of the film, after following the story of professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce in the wake of a devastating 200…

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