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Death Note

2017

Adam Wingard

Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham ...

3.5

9,825

Thriller. Mystery. Fantasy Light, a bright student who stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous FBI criminal profiler known only by the alias L.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"A too-tentative effort (...) The potentially problematic Ryuk character succeeds largely due to clever casting (...) The outcome is more deliberate than inspired."	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[The script] is a snarl of loose ends and half-explained devices, but Wingard executes it with style"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A whitewashed waste of time (...) Wingard doesn’t really seem to know what he’s hoping to accomplish here. Specifics are a major problem"	NEG
United States	Gary Garrison The Playlist	"Thoughtless and incoherent (...) Wingard falls prey to excess (...) The 'Death Note' we get is unmoored and tedious if you look past the glossy first page."	NEG
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"At his best, director Adam Wingard has an enviable ability to express his characters' intensifying feelings through the connection between image and soundtrack (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Inkoo Kang The Wrap	"[It] aims for suspense, horror, romance and achieves none (...) Instead of thoughtful ideas or plausible characters, we get lawyerly calculations"	NEG

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