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“Everything Must Go,” debuting director Dan Rush's adaptation of Raymond Carver's six-page short story "Why Don't You Dance?," doesn't quite lift Carver's hauntingly minimalist tone from the page. By creating a back-story for its vague central figure—a solemnly drunk man inexplicably selling his belongings out of his backyard—he's inevitably extracted some of the dark ambiguity of Carver's prose. ... more >