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“Certified Copy” is no copy at all. Everything about it is real. Recent films such as the fantastic “Blue Valentine” and the exceptional “The Freebie” have captured painstaking romances in decline in such pristine detail that viewers are left in awe by film’s end. “Certified Copy” encompasses more of the same, but in an entirely different fashion. To say the film is one of the best in recent years to take a snapshot of a relationship in flux would be a near-perfect description, but it all comes down to how one conceives its structure. Like a painting, “Certified Copy” can...