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Argylle is a disaster for all involved – but especially Henry Cavill

Source: Universal/Apple

Rarely do duds come as glaring and obvious as . The blockbuster movie, about a spy novelist (Bryce Dallas Howard) who’s sucked into a real-life web of murder and espionage, had . Was it the gaudy, laugh-repellent trailer that proved its undoing? The nebulous premise, which seemed to think there was something interesting about the question of “Who is the Agent Argylle?” The recent insipid output of director (; )? Maybe all of the above. Just how damagingly the film.

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