Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Something to watch tonight: Monday 4 September

A Man Called Otto (Forster, 2022) is streaming on Neon and Prime Video

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Dan Slevin
Sep 04, 2023
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Moving this week from digital rental to subscriber streaming on Neon and Prime Video1, the Tom Hanks vehicle A Man Called Otto starts out by undermining Hanks’ nice guy persona but eventually – and satisfyingly – confirms it.

For a long period, I had thought that Hanks had been miscast. Not because it was too obvious that “the nicest man in Hollywood” cou…

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