Monday, March 21, 2022

Leave it in the desert

Little on the slow-moving side, but thankfully Mark Rylance, who is almost in every frame, delivers a performance that keeps it together. Johnny Depp and Robert Pattison step in when things get ugly, but pale in comparison to Rylance. Set in a colonial magistrate in an unnamed empire.

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More twists than a barrel of pretzels

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