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Death Note

Cast

Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley View All

Crew

Adam Wingard (Director), Charley Parlapanides (Screenplay), Vlas Parlapanides (Screenplay), Jeremy Slater (Screenplay) View All

Release: Aug. 25th, 2017

Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes

A young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the Death Note, that grants him the power to kill any person simply by writing down their name on the pages. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals and change the world, but an enigmatic detective attempts to track him down and end his reign of terror.

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TheUsualSuspect
Death Note is an odd film that will have trouble converting new people to the source material and turns old fans away from anything new.

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Iroquois
This year's Ghost in the Shell was another Western adaptation of an acclaimed Japanese property; while that film's whitewashing ultimately compromised its source's complex transhumanist themes for the sake of generic blockbuster antics, Death Note actually offers a distinctive enough variation on it....