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Ben Affleck’s Animals follows a mayoral candidate whose son’s kidnapping exposes the dangerous cost of ambition, family loyalty, and power.
We have now gotten two remakes of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” and yet not a single new rendition of “Stray Dog.”
A thriller with Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington sounds like a recipe for success at first glance, but Animals? That's more of a bland cake that needs a lot of sugar.