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'Attack the Block' director Joe Cornish delivers a contemporary twist on the King Arthur legend full of retro-1980s family-film ingredients

A likable enough, Amblin-esque update to the classic Arthurian legend, "The Kid Who Would Be King" is hardly the first time a group of adolescents have saved England from supernatural harm in a Joe Cornish movie. That said, much of the attitude and originality that drew fans to the irreverent writer-director's inner-city alien-invasion debut, "Attack the Block" - wherein underdog heroes faced off against fluorescent-fanged beasties from outer space - has gone missing from his eight-years-later second feature, which skews considerably younger and safer than that 2011 cult favorite. [...]

di Peter Debruge, articolo completo (6011 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Variety 12 gennaio 2019