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Review: 'The Hunt' arrives after months of controversy, but the toothless satire loses its way

The best thing that ever happened to the underwhelming genre exercise that is "The Hunt" was Universal's decision to cancel its planned September 2019 release in the face of protests about its putative "elites hunt down deplorables" plotline.

For one thing the delay until now gave the studio's publicity team the opportunity to craft a crackerjack marketing campaign with the tagline "The Most Talked About Movie of the Year Is One That No

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