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A still from ‘Cherry’ on Apple TV+
The Russo Brothers can’t quite recreate their ‘Avengers: Endgame’ magic in this dreary adaptation of Nico Walker’s novel
One can feel every one of the 141 minutes of the grim drugs and crime drama,
Cherry, ticking by excruciatingly slowly. Earlier offerings by the Russo Brothers, Anthony and Joe, —
Captain America: Civil War (147 minutes),
Avengers: Infinity War (149 minutes) and
Avenger: Endgame at a bottom-numbing 181 minutes zipped by merrily, immersed as we were in a click of Thanos’ fingers and its disastrous consequences.
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Apple Original Films presents a film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and written by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg. Rated R (for graphic drug abuse, disturbing and violent images, pervasive language, and sexual content). Running time: 140 minutes. Opens Friday at Landmark Century Centre and March 12 on AppleTV+.
Early on, we get the sense Tom Holland’s Cherry is … an
unusual guy, with a Holden Caulfield-esque way of looking at the world. “I grew up around here,” he says as he walks his Cleveland neighborhood. “The trees are nice. I don’t understand them but I like them. I think I like them all. It would have to be a pretty f---ed up tree for me not to like it.”