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Campaign ad film reviews: McKenna's 'Hair Today' is no 'Blue Velvet'

Jonathan Miller has been the Eight Forty-Eight film critic since 1998.‚ So naturally, he’s got chops. And he can review anything. In fact, he has some reviews for the best campaign commercials this primary season.You’ve got Andy McKenna’s hair commercial, some great Hynes/Quinn back and forth and a couple instant classics in the Cook County board race. Here’s the final installment of the bunch #4 : A David Lynch-esque ad entitled “Hair Today.” Mr. Miller - the box-office is now open: If you’d like to see them all, they are available after the jump...

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