has been ravaged by addiction and desperately needs help.Until then, though, these scripts will keep getting churned out, and we’ll keep tuning out.
The latest is “Cherry,” an overlong adaptation of Nico Walker’s popular autobiographical novel about a Cleveland man’s descent from student and Army medic to heroin-addict criminal.Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo of “Avengers: Endgame” fame, the well-worn drama gets high marks for style and proficiency, but you don’t have to be Nostradamus to know exactly where it’s going every step of the way.
At the movies, stories like this one are a dime bag a dozen.“Cherry” starts with a bank robbery, and promises to inform us how our cherubic leading man fell into armed thievery. “Enticing!” you think..
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