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  "title": "Dust Bunny (Brian Fuller, 2025)⭐⭐⭐⭐",
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              "plaintext": "Anyone hoping for a retread or continuation of Hannibal - Brian Fuller's previous collaboration with Mads Mikkelsen - will be disappointed at the dearth of artfully-flayed corpses and Turner Prize-baiting murder scenes, but Dust Bunny does share Fuller's distinctive eye for a captivating image and the subject matter is, on the face if it, quite grim."
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              "plaintext": "Mikkelsen plays an unnamed hitman (referred to as 'Resident 5B'), who shares an apartment building with 10-year-old Aurora (Sophie Sloan). Aurora spots him taking down a 'monster' - in reality, a team of Chinatown assassins in a Dragon costume - and realises he is the ideal hire to take down the monster under her bed, which she is convinced ate her parents."
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              "plaintext": "5B decides that the girl's parents were killed by assassins who were seeking him. His handler (a gleefully amoral Sigourney Weaver) decides that Aurora is a witness who ought to be disposed of and a team of killers (led by an excellent David Dastalmachian)really is after 5B. Meanwhile, something is moving under Aurora's apartment and staying off the floor is a really good idea."
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              "plaintext": "What follows is a bizarre concoction that mixes Luc Besson's Léon, a sinister take on My Neighbour Totoro, the cruelty of Roald Dahl, the woozy camera of Jeunet & Caro's City of Lost Children and the set design of Wes Anderson. Some of the early effects work seems a little rushed or low-budget (there are some CGI scenery elements that feel like they have been chromakeyed in from the 1980s) but once the action in the apartment kicks off, things take a turn for the stylish and the film is visually inventive and constantly surprising."
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              "plaintext": "Mikkelsen and Sloan have an odd chemistry but the film downplays their growing relationship and avoids moments of gushing emotion in favour of subtle glances and inner revelation."
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              "plaintext": "Dust Bunny will not be for everyone but if it connects with you I think it will become a favourite. I loved it."
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