Movie Review: 'Orion and the Dark' loses itself in the leap from children's book to animated film
by Mark Kennedy
Jan 31, 2024
3 minutes
To say the hero of Netflix's new animated movie “Orion and the Dark” is fearful is an understatement.
Orion, 11, is scared of clogging up the school toilet, murderous gutter clowns, cell phones giving him cancer, mosquito bites getting infected, falling off skyscrapers, bees, dogs, haircuts, mispronouncing good morning and the ocean. Among other things.
“It’s OK to be nervous — more than OK, in fact. It’s normal," his mom tells him, helpfully. "Sometimes you just
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