‘King of Staten Island’ review: Pete Davidson triumphs in blissful comedy

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borrows a lot of heavy realities from the “Saturday Night Live” star’s own life: his character Scott lost his firefighter father at age 7; he still lives on Staten Island with his mom; and he makes more brow-raising choices than Kanye.And, also like the real-life Davidson, there is nary a moment where Scott isn’t the most likable person on the damn planet.That’s director Judd Apatow’s signature move: taking a talent we love — Davidson, Steve Carell, Amy Schumer, tenderizing them with a cinematic meat mallet and delivering an emotional wallop of a film we didn’t know they were capable of.“The King of Staten Island,” which is co-written by Davidson, Apatow and Dave Sirus, is a grounded fantasy of what the actor’s life might’ve turned out to.

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