Coney Island has lured New Yorkers with promises of cheap thrills for well over a century.

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The soul-sapping boredom of it all is reflected in its urgent spawning of ever-more-extreme cheap thrills.

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If there's something crassly opportunistic about exploiting a real life disaster on the scale of Chernobyl for cheap thrills, that's part and parcel of the film's cynicism.

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