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    Beautiful Losers: ‘Drillbit Taylor,’ ‘Days of Darkness,’ ‘Paranoid Park’

    Anti-heroes of various hues hit the multiplex this Easter weekend. Owen Wilson sneaks back into high school in Drillbit Taylor, another gene-splicing experiment on Hollywood formula from the Judd Apatow lab. Quebec’s Denys Arcand explores, and embraces, failure in Days of Darkness. And Gus Van Sant continues his low-fi romance with lovely, alienated youth in Paranoid Park. I haven’t seen the the Van Sant film since first screening it last May in Cannes, where it won a prize. To read what I thought about Paranoid Park at the time, click on Fellini Goes Skateboarding.