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'I Used to Go Here': Film Review

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For Kate Conklin, the fretful-but-smiling protagonist of I Used to Go Here, a visit to her old college campus, 15 years after graduation, is a step into a comforting cocoon — they don't call it alma mater for nothing.

But that return to less complicated times is also mined with defeat, humiliation and pot-infused gummies, the catalysts of awakening in Kris Rey's low-key cringe comedy.

As the story veers between well-observed discomfort, deadpan absurdity and unconvincing broad strokes, the Chicago filmmaker taps into a specific type of 30-something tween-ness, a moment of having arrived as a grown-up but not really.

What might have been a victory lap for Kate — she's a first-time novelist, invited to give a reading — is more a slow drift.

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