BrightBurn

Brightburn imagines if a young Superman didn't come in peace

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Brightburn doesn't ask if you want blood, but you've damn-well got it in this nastily gruesome superhero hack-n-slash that's a nightmare for parents everywhere.

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The gore and the scares work pretty well.

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A superhero’s origin tale gets a gory upgrade in this snappy, and mostly entertaining, antidote to superhero fatigue

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Brightburn doesn't live up to its "Superman as bad seed" premise

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"What if Superman was a serial killer?" sounds like an automatic elevator pitch.

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An adolescent boy discovers he has superpowers in this James Gunn-produced horror movie variation on the superhero origin genre.

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A 'bad seed' arrives from outer space in this pedestrian mix of superhero and evil-child-horror conventions.

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A great premise gets seriously squandered in this ridiculous superhero/horror movie mash-up

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An origin-of-evil story cribbed from a famed superhero’s mythos amounts to little more than a collection of uninspired horror tropes

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"Brightburn" is a body-count-style horror movie, only featuring a killer Superma—I mean young Clark Ke—I mean pre-teen alien who closely resembles a certain super-duper-hero who can't seem to catch a break in recent films.

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The way the film shuttles through its 90 minutes, it’s as if it’s been stripped of its most crucial narrative parts.

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