Tag: Heart Of Stone
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‘Heart of Stone’s 9 Best Characters, Ranked by Likability
The new Netflix action movie Heart of Stone thrives on the diversity and depth of its characters, each portrayed with a commitment that brings them to life on the screen. From Rachel’s (Gal Gadot) moral dilemmas to Keya’s (Alia Bhatt) transformation and Parker’s (Jamie Dornan) vendetta, the performances left the audiences invested in the characters’…
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‘Who Is Erin Carter?’ & ‘The Monkey King’ Dominate Netflix’s Top 10 Charts
This week was different for Netflix, as the world started to move on from the release of titles such as Heart of Stone. Who Is Erin Carter? turned out to be the production that gained the most attention this week when it came to the platform’s catalog. The new limited thriller series about a British…
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‘Heart of Stone’ and ‘Painkiller’ Lead Netlix’s Top 10 Charts
Heart of Stone earned plenty of attention from audiences when it made its debut over the past weekend, as Variety reports that the action thriller starring Gal Gadot managed to score over 30 million views during the past few days. Netflix’s latest attempt at putting a popular star in front of an action franchise is…
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‘Heart Of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot’s Dull, Disposable Netflix Actioner Has No Heart, Soul Or Identity
The easy-to-apply criticism of Netflix is that they make big-budget films with massive global stars— “Red Notice” with Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson, “The Gray Man” with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling—the streaming service touts the first weekend numbers (“most streamed ever!!”), and then the films are never heard from again after that…
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‘Heart of Stone’ Ending Explained: What’s the Weapon Gal Gadot Is Protecting?
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for ‘Heart of Stone.’After the success of Red Notice, Netflix is counting on Gal Gadot to kick off another action franchise for the streamer with Heart of Stone, a spy thriller inspired by James Bond and Mission: Impossible. As such, Heart of Stone is filled with wondrous technology, sudden…
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‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot Plays a Rogue Agent in a Joyless Thriller That’s All Rote Logistics
We all know what a MacGuffin is: an object or event that the plot of a thriller hinges on, and which everyone onscreen keeps talking about, yet it has no intrinsic interest apart from how it serves the structure of the movie. The term was mythologized by Hitchcock, and as shorthand for the way a…
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Heart Of Stone Review: A Glib, Soulless Copy Of A Spy Thriller
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn’t exist.Though the summer of 2023 has long since become the summer of “Barbenheimer,” it’s also the summer offering the best action film of the year, “Mission: Impossible –…
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Heart of Stone review – Netflix’s Mission: Impossible-esque thriller is rock solid
Gal Gadot leads the streamer’s latest ambitious franchise-starter that delivers just about enough dumb summer fun to have us curious for moreThere were some impossible calculations made this summer in the making and marketing of Tom Cruise’s seventh mission as Ethan Hunt, the gambit of a gargantuan almost $300m budget yet to prove a decision…
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‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot Fights to Escape Netflix Oblivion
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.Following movies like Red Notice, Extraction 2, and The Mother raking in millions of hours on the global streaming service since their respective debuts, Netflix is looking…