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Mr. & Mrs. Smith review: Donald Glover has the Midas touch

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I always think it’s a good sign when I leave a piece of TV or film thinking “I really hope they had fun making that.” It’s a simple but effective barometer, when you enjoy watching something so much the only thing that could possibly detract from that experience is finding out that the people on set didn’t have a nice time making it. It would be too incongruous, feel too much like you had been lied to, even though acting is exactly that.

This is how I, the new reboot of the 2005 film starring and , which is itself a reboot of the 1996 TV series of the same name. Most people have forgotten about the TV series, and the only lasting cultural impact of the film is that it broke up Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And for what? For nought, that’s what. Brad and Ange are dead in the water.

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