What’s worth your time in TV and movies this weekend?
), an ex-con who she represented during her days as a public defender.
For them both, it’s flirty antagonism at first sight, a tale as old as rom-com time.
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Actually, this first season appears to betwoorigin stories for one character a new record!
We meet Cassian Andor as a directionless thief living in the rough mine systems.
So our hero has a mysterious past and a revolutionary future.
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He shouldn’t be boring, and Luna’s never not charming.
But four episodes into a 12-part season, Andor’s an oddly passive protagonist.
Actually, creator Tony Gilroy has more fun with the bureaucratic grind of this space-opera universe.
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Conversely, this week’s episode brought Cassian together with a crew of proto-rebels planning a suicidal payroll heist.
Sounds cool, right?
But here (and often)Andorfalls victim to Very Long Movie stall tactics.
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and the slow unraveling that follows.
(He alludes vaguely to some time spent in Australia, and leaves it at that.)
As an acting showcase,Creaturesis more than admirable; as a tourism ad for Ireland, untenable.
As a movie experience, alas, it’s both intriguing and teasingly incomplete.Grade: BLeah Greenblatt
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