Spenser Confidential is both ideal for Netflix and also the embodiment of everything wrong with what a Netflix movie can be.
Sure, the streamer backs auteurs like Martin Scorsese and Noah Baumbach, but Peter Berg’s new movie isn’t designed to be watched as much as it’s supposed to play in the background while you screw around on your phone.
There’s nothing special about this story or how it’s executed.
No one in 2020 has ever thought, “Man, if only there were a movie where Mark Wahlberg plays a tough cop/criminal,” (in this movie, he’…
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