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<em>Aquaman </em>Has No Business Being This Good

Jason Momoa reigns in this dense, nerdy, and sublimely silly film, in which discussions of oceanic parliamentary law exist alongside a giant octopus playing the drums.
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Far be it from me to judge other nations, but there’s something rotten at the core of Atlantis, the underwater setting of the new DC Comics blockbuster . The realm’s monarchical system of primogeniture has handed the throne to a warmongering maniac named Orm (played by Patrick Wilson). Relationships with the crab people of the Brine kingdom and the spiky monsters of the underwater trenches are at all-time lows. And the nation’s only plan to combat global warming is to try to invade

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