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 Carrie Coon and Shea Whigham are on the loose in writer-director Jeffrey Reiner’s deft film, which mixes low-key dark humor and a whole lot of dead people. With “Lake George,” Jeffrey Reiner makes his first independent feature as a writer-director since the 1990s, after a prolific quarter-century helming projects for the small screen. The filmmaker has cited formative viewings of classic noir films on television as an inspiration, but this twist-filled story is more like the late Ross Macdonald’s melancholic fictions of the genre: low-key, funny, depressing but empathetic tours through the labyrinths of disillusioned and corrupt Southern California lives. Director: Hamid Antonio Castro Writer: Hamid Antonio Castro Stars: Mike Markoff, Cindy Kimberly, Sophia Zimba While there are a considerable number of dead people here, the path forged by uneasy allies Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon feels less like a thriller than a sad black comedy of errors, in which even the most violent charact...