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Kraven the Hunter Is a Bunch of Weird Guys in Search of A Movie
The origin story of a Spider-Man antagonist that, for contractual reasons, will not mention Spider-Man.
That’s a lot of weirdness, and yet, I’d argue, none of it matches what Ariana DeBose is doing as Calypso, who as a kid gives Kraven the potion that activates whatever his deal is and as an adult stalks around a London law firm in intense geometric jewelry and assertive shoulder pads and is incapable of delivering a single sentence in a normal cadence — the way she says “moTHAfuckAAA” will haunt me forever. Kraven the Hunter was directed by J. C. Chandor, who’s made a career out of handsome, genre-adjacent dramas like Margin Call and Triple Frontier, and who’s capable of turning out a decently lit shot, even if the CGI animals look egregious and the editing of the action isn’t always coherent. This is a movie about an extremely silly antihero who lives in a glass geodesic dome in Siberia, kills a bunch of people using a tooth he extracts from a head-on leopard-skin rug, and secures the respect of wild animals by flashing yellow eyes at them.
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