Kurt Loder Reviews Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Big Bad Wolves

A
torture-porn comedy about a murderous child molester sounds like an
appallingly bad idea. But, says Kurt Loder, the Israeli
film Big Bad Wolves is disturbing in a complex
way, and it doesn’t exploit its hideous subject for sicko laughs
(the humor is generally unrelated to the atrocities, and tucked in
around the edges of the story). On the other hand, Jack Ryan:
Shadow Recruit is a Bourne movie without the
showpiece action scenes, the quirky characters, or the carefully
layered narrative.

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