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Golden Exits SHARE BUTTON With its middle class New York milieu and a jazz inflected score by Keegan DeWitt, Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits may draw simplistic comparisons with Woody Allen, but the film- maker whose work it evokes most is Alan Rudolph. In Ru- dolph’s best films - Welcome to NJ STAGE - ISSUE 44 by Eric Hillis L.A.; Remember My Name; Trou- ble in Mind; Choose Me - the intersecting lives of a group of people are thrown into turmoil by the arrival of an outsider. In Perry’s film the outsider is Naomi (Emily Browning), a 25-year-old Australian who moves to Brooklyn for a few INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 64