You Just Made the List

Bill Arceneaux
Aug 27, 2017 · 4 min read

Giving Death Note credit and some just desserts.

Coming straight out of a Hot Topic apparel shop from the early 2000s, with only few hints at this being set in modern day, Adam Wingard’s Death Note adaptation for Netflix isn’t so much a fall from grace for teens or young adults to absorb, but a piece of franchise fandom that is more cursory visage than complete vision. The film bothers not with establishing character…

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Bill Arceneaux

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Independent film critic & writer. Big Easy Magazine + Freelance. Member of SEFCA, Rotten Tomatoes approved.

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