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Project Power (15)
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Netflix’s latest attempt to muscle in on the superhero genre may riff on familiar comic book tropes, but it does so with more entertaining and focussed results than The Old Guard managed recently. The film imagines a world in which a super power inducing drug has hit the streets, leading to a spike in crime that the authorities are struggling to combat. Like all drugs, though, the effects are temporary and unpredictable: it might make users invincible; it might make them explode, hence the illicit trials among the addicts of present day New Orleans, where a teenage dealer (Dominique Fishback) is torn between her loyalty to a rogue cop (Joseph Gordon-levitt) using the drug to level the playing field in his fight against the city’s criminal element and an ex-soldier (Jamie Foxx) intent on tracking down the drug’s source. Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (the team behind Catfish) aren’t breaking any new ground here, but their slick approach gives Project Power a freshness in an age of bloated blockbusters.
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My Rembrandt (N/A)
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Following a very exclusive group of people wealthy enough to own their own Rembrandts, this documentary initially plays as a nose-pressedagainst-the-glass glimpse into the world of the one-percent (among them the Duke of Buccleuch) and the relationship they have with the art they covet, but it takes a more intriguing turn with an unfolding saga of possible betrayal involving two newly discovered paintings by the 17th century Dutch master. ■