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Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Even though the company spends billions each year on big-name content backed by sizeable budgets and A-list stars, international originals have regularly tended to outperform their Hollywood counterparts on Netflix in terms of both quality and popularity, with Danish romantic drama A Beautiful Life merely the latest in a long line of examples. Despite being predictable and formulaic to a fault, the saccharine tale of a young fisherman with a singing voice capable of propelling him…

via Entertainment Film Distributors Having cut his teeth as the writer of several hard-boiled thrillers that feature bullets, body counts, and bloodlust, it was no surprise when Academy Award-winning The Departed scribe William Monahan opted to pull double duty and make his directorial debut on street-level gangster caper London Boulevard. However, the end result was more akin to his screenplays for undercooked pair Body of Lies and Edge of Darkness than Martin Scorsese’s modern classic, with a 38 percent…