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Movies: A Man Called Otto

Movies: A Man Called Otto

2022’s Sony Pictures/Playtone remake stars Tom Hanks as an aging curmudgeon

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Scott Holleran
Dec 29, 2022
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This picture’s steeped in grayness coated with pleasantness. This is the conclusion I’ve come to after thinking about A Man Called Otto for weeks. I asked the movie studio, Sony Pictures, which kindly granted the request, for admission to an advance screening after seeing the trailer. I attended the screening in mid-city Los Angeles on a cold and memorable evening. I left the theater feeling slightly disturbed.

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