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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 30 Aug 2017

Netflix's Death Note fails Asian-Americans in the more mundane way that most Hollywood releases continue to…

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By Zach Budgor (3) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 Aug 2017

Wingard’s Death Note moves like a bullet and doles out practical gore and overheated melodrama in equal measure…

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By Shyama Krishna Kumar (30) for Gulf News (UAE) (167) on 30 Aug 2017

[Death Note] whitewashes a cast that's originally entirely Japanese. The result, as you'd expect, is soulless and nonsensical…

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By Alistair Ryder (351) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 29 Aug 2017

Death Note has plenty of faults, but watched with the brain firmly in the off position, it becomes easy to enjoy…

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By Boon Chan (86) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 29 Aug 2017

As far as Hollywood remakes go, this version of Death Note will not leave you itching to scribble director Adam Wingard's name into any tome…

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By Renee Schonfeld (431) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 29 Aug 2017

Illogical horror film with graphic violence, cursing…

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By Betty Jo Tucker (725) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 28 Aug 2017

The first half promises so much -- but last half loses the right touch. Scary in parts, I must admit. So some horror fans might like it…

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By Elena Lazic (92) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 28 Aug 2017

A project that feels both overdetermined and underdeveloped…

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By Jon Lyus (167) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 28 Aug 2017

Everything from the style to the substance is spot on here and Wingard shepherds in his very different vision of the manga beautifully, it's…

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By Ben Robins (8) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 28 Aug 2017

Everything from the style to the substance is spot on here and Wingard shepherds in his very different vision of the manga beautifully, it's…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for SciFiNow (378) on 27 Aug 2017

The premise of Death Note is both killer and deliriously daft, and Wingard is deft in his handling of both these aspects, expertly offsetting…

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By Clio Chang (3) for The New Republic (897) on 27 Aug 2017

Director Adam Wingard has robbed Death Note of its identity, messing up nearly everything that made the original series so compelling…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Pajiba (523) on 25 Aug 2017

Death Note is a whitewashed, hasty, and vapid adaptation that offers one great performance, few thrills, and lots of missed opportunities…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 25 Aug 2017

In adapting Death Note for a presumably American audience, Wingard loses the whole of its identity, and never finds a different one with which…

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By Jamie Broadnax (55) for Black Girl Nerds (256) on 24 Aug 2017

The ending is one of those kinds of endings that try to be ambiguous but instead is so uneventful that we could care less how the story actually…

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By Dominick Mayer (133) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 24 Aug 2017

Death Note carries a weirdly perfunctory air about itself throughout, even as the bodies begin to fall closer and closer to its main duo…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 24 Aug 2017

This is a fine beginning to Netflix's dark franchise, but with a little more playtime for Light and his book, Death Note could have been more…

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By Justin Charity (6) for The Ringer (285) on 24 Aug 2017

Essentially, Death Note is a serialized detective drama in which two strange wise guys face off to prove their superior wits. It's not that deep…

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By Christopher Lawrence (234) for Las Vegas Review-Journal (433) on 24 Aug 2017

Death Note ... feels like it should break through with mainstream audiences - even those who think manga is a type of fruit…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 24 Aug 2017

Not without problems, but also not as bad as you've heard…

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