Netflix's "Remarkably Bright Creatures" Receives Positive Reviews
The Netflix film "Remarkably Bright Creatures," featuring Sally Field, has garnered positive critical reception for its heartwarming story about a woman bonding with an octopus. This release is among several new streaming titles receiving reviews, including "Man on Fire" and "M.I.A."
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Remarkably Bright Creatures review – Sally Field bonds with octopus in gentle Netflix charmer
Shelby Van Pelt’s best-selling book is adapted into an easily digestible, sweet-natured afternoon watch Every now and then, a strange forgotten chapter of life during Covid will interrupt my thoughts. Remember when we used to fake happy hour merriment on the Houseparty app? Or when Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor made an unwatchably awful film about stealing diamonds from Harrods during lockdown? Or how about when people developed an unhealthy obsession with a Netflix documentary about a ...
By Benjamin Lee
Read full article →‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Sally Field and Lewis Pullman Help Each Other Heal in a Melodrama of Distinctly Average Intelligence
Are people still firing up “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix? The viral success of that documentary felt like a peak-pandemic phenomenon, when some of us were sufficiently starved for connection with both the natural world and our fellow humans that its thin anthropomorphic musings rang true. If it has a place in anyone’s heart today, […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Sally Field and Lewis Pullman Sparkle in Netflix’s Warmly Funny, Tearfully Touching Drama
Alfred Molina supplies voiceover narration as an octopus who sets out to fix the loneliness he senses in the aquarium's night janitors in this drama adapted from the novel by Shelby Van Pelt.
By Angie Han
Read full article →‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Sally Field And Lewis Pullman Bond Over A Cranky Octopus In Funny, Wise And Moving Book Adaptation
Netflix is back in the octopus business. After winning the Best Documentary Feature Oscar for 2020’s My Octopus Teacher, the streamer has now gone the narrative route with a screen adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel Remarkably Bright Creatures. Only this time the remarkably bright sea creature with nine brains, three hearts and 360-degree […]
By Pete Hammond
Read full article →Netflix’s ‘Man on Fire’ has no heat
A bloated, cliché-ridden adaptation buries Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s charisma under a meandering plot that never ignites
By Eyaaz
Read full article →Remarkably Bright Creatures Cast: These A-List Actors Make A Splash In Netflix’s Movie Adaptation
Netflix's Remarkably Bright Creatures brings a magical story of to life, and these are the A-list actors who play the lovable characters.
By Dani Kessel Odom
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