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The Hunt by Jonny Numb
Path of Least Resistance The Hunt is the umpteenth retelling of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” ostensibly updated for the Trump era. This repurposing of Connell’s timeless tale would make for interesting, compelling storytelling…if it weren’t so base-level. To get it out of the way, and acknowledging that “controversy” is in the eye of the…
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The Ranger by Jonny Numb
The Ranger: Authority and Anarchy Jenn Wexler’s feature directorial debut, The Ranger, is less interesting in its modest shake-up of bloody genre tropes than in its shakedown of the ideological contradictions of authority and anarchy. The ostensible “heroes” of the piece are teenage punks, full of anti-establishment vitriol wrapped up in a guise of…
