‘Ray Gunn’ Review: Brad Bird’s Latest Animated Feature Is a Giddy Retro-Futurist Noir With More Energy Than Charm
“Welcome to the future,” we hear several times in “Ray Gunn” — not that the brave new world it presents is all that welcoming.
Variety reports: “Welcome to the future,” we hear several times in “Ray Gunn” — not that the brave new world it presents is all that welcoming.
Or, for that matter, particularly brave or new. The good news is we finally have flying cars and superpowered jetpacks; in other respects, though, we haven’t come a long way at.
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